I am not impressed with this silly birth certificate business. There is absolutely no reason to think that Obama was born somewhere besides Hawaii, or that he was not born a US citizen.
If he is going to be stopped, he will have to be defeated on the issues. There is no point in distracting people with this kind of questionable, probably made-up eligibility BS.
I felt that way too until his response was to post a facsimile of his birth certificate on Kos and the Stop the Smears website. When this turned out to be a fake based on his sisters I suddenly felt like there was too much smoke there not to be a fire.
Now I could not agree that there is “absolutely no reason”. The reason is quite that he has used forged documents to debunk an easily debunked rumor.
Just as Kerry’s lying about his willingness to fully open his service records to public scruiteny told me that he was covering up events in Vietnam, I am now thinking that Obama has something to hide.
I do not consider the issue of his citizenship trivial. I am forced by the FedGov to follow laws on every aspect of my life. I am forced to report every dollar I make each year. I am forced to sign under threat of penalty that I am telling the truth. I am forced to contribute 1/2 my income to supporting the government.
Given all this I feel FULLY JUSTIFIED IN INSISTING THAT PERSONS WISHING TO RUN THIS GIANT MACHINE FULLY COMPLY WITH THE LAW, AND AFFIRMATIVELY PROVE THEY MEET THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE JOB THEY ARE SEEKING.
This seems the essence of conservative thinking to me.
But, I can appreciate that this is something that reasonable people can disagee with. I do understand the “it’s a distraction” argument.
I got a seatbelt ticket. It can not possibly be the case that I can be fined for not wearing a seatbelt, but the wanna-be POTUS doesn’t have to even cough up the papers proving he is eligible to run?
We really do have two Americas. Serfs, who are expected to work, follow the rules, and will be swiftly punished for the most minor technical infraction, and MASTERS ala Edwards, Kerry, Obama, the Clintons who can lie, steal, denigrate people who point it out, lie more, create elaborate coverups, and get away with it all.
For once I’d just like to see the high and mighty follow the damned rules. I’d like to see the media do their jobs and actually follow up instead of covering up.
And I would like a groundswell of Conservatives to insist on one set of rules for us all, and a reasonable standard be applied to the high and mighty.
I paid my ticket. Obama can damned well provide his birth certificate to me, Free Republic, the AP and anyone else who wants PROOF of his citizenship.
Again, that is my opinion, but I do understand and respect yours.
“I am not impressed with this silly birth certificate business. There is absolutely no reason to think that Obama was born somewhere besides Hawaii, or that he was not born a US citizen.
If he is going to be stopped, he will have to be defeated on the issues. There is no point in distracting people with this kind of questionable, probably made-up eligibility BS.”
Well, at the very least, we have the issue of him posting a forgery on his official web site. I’m probably not the only voter that might find this interesting. He’d sound pretty dumb if he tried to say he didn’t know the COLB was on his own website.
The COLB is now fully blogger-documented by TechDude, and independently re-documented by KG, as being a forgery. His sister Maya’s name is clearly visible through the forensic procedures applied.
I’ve waded through the images posted by TechDude, and read a lot of discussions of them by other bloggers, and you’ll be convinced if you do the same. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/techdude-challenge-all-the-images-i-have-so-far/