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Culture of conspiracy: The Birthers (mainstream decides to cover)
Politico ^ | 3-1-09 | Ben Smith

Posted on 03/01/2009 8:22:44 AM PST by STARWISE

Bill Clinton had the Vince Foster "murder." George W. Bush had 9/11 Truth. And the new administration has brought with it a new culture of conspiracy: The Birthers.

Out of the gaze of the mainstream and even the conservative media is a flourishing culture of advocates, theorists and lawyers, all devoted to proving that Barack Obama isn't eligible to be president of the United States.

Viewed as irrelevant by the White House, and as embarrassing by much of the Republican Party, the subculture still thrives from the conservative website WorldNetDaily, which claims that some 300,000 people have signed a petition demanding more information on Obama's birth, to Cullman, Alabama, where Sen. Richard Shelby took a question on the subject at a town hall meeting last week.

Their confinement to the fringe hasn't cooled the passion of believers; the obscure New York preacher James Manning turned up at a National Press Club session in December to declare the president "the most notorious criminal in the history not just of America, but of this entire planet."

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; conspiracytheory; eligibility; obama; obamatruthfile; wnd
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To: Islander7
"What she actually said was, ‘there is birth certificate on file and she had seen it.’ Short on detail.

Short on detail? The Hawaiian privacy laws are very specific about what personal information government officials can disclose about it's citizens, not unlike HIPPA.

I'm not sure what additional "details" you need other than 1)There's a birth certificate and 2) She's seen it with her own eyes.

61 posted on 03/01/2009 9:38:52 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

Do you have a link to that statement by the Governor?


62 posted on 03/01/2009 9:40:32 AM PST by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: Big_Monkey

I heard right.

your obfuscation of the issue is obviously intentional.

Post your sister’s BC if you are so sure it looks the same.

And btw the one posted on the website was INVALID due to it being altered by having parts blacked out. Alterations invalidate the document, and that doc was altered.


63 posted on 03/01/2009 9:42:04 AM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: STARWISE

What a shock. starunwise posts trash from politico.

Not grounded in evidence?

The Kenyan has failed to produce any evidence in a court of law of his birth.

Such stupidity.


64 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:30 AM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: STARWISE
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65 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:31 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: curiosity

Well, if you bother to look into the known facts (which do not include any of Obama’s actual records, since he is concealing virtually all of them), then you would know that this article is filled with lies.

The COLB on the internet is a clear fake.

The Hawaiian officials who have commented on the matter, whose official statements are available on line, have NOT said that Obama was born in Hawaii, only that they have his original birth certificate and that no one is allowed access to it without Obama’s permission.

As for Vincent Foster, anyone who believes he committed suicide clearly has not looked into the matter. Who murdered him, and where, is an open question, but he didn’t get into Fort Marcy Park on his own steam, he didn’t have a gun when he was first discovered, he didn’t bleed as would be expected on the ground where he was found, and his shoes showed no traces of his having walked there.

Also, all the x-rays (like Ron Brown’s) somehow disappeared out of a safe. And the “suicide note” was completely unconvincing.

Bush lied? I think not.

In other words, this whole article is a series of lies from one end to another.

Do we KNOW all the circumstances of Obama’s birth and citizenship? No, because he refuses to release his birth certificate, passports, college records, or anything else that might throw some light on the real facts. But we do know that he is a serial liar. There’s plenty of evidence of that.


66 posted on 03/01/2009 9:46:08 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Canedawg
The one posted online also said “date filed by registrar”, not “date accepted by registrar”.
67 posted on 03/01/2009 9:47:06 AM PST by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: SERE_DOC
"the one posted is nothing like a BC from that era

Let's apply a little common sense. In Haiwaii, when you need a copy of your birth certificate, there isn't a person that goes into a dark basement file room and pulls your BC and phsycially makes a copy. To save money and to be more expedient, those days are long, long over.

Instead, information is pulled from a central server and a laser-printed, standardized BC is issued. My sister was born in the late '70's, but her BC COPY looks exactly like someone's who was born in '32 or '02.

And for the record I'm not stoned nor stupid. If you have concerns about ACORN or systemic voter fraud, fine. So do I. But this issue is akin to Bigfoot, UFO's, Nessie and "who killed Kennedy". It doesn't advance anyone's legitimate concerns about Obama's policies, media bias or voter fraud.

68 posted on 03/01/2009 9:47:27 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Canedawg
"I heard right.

When the aliens come and visit you in the middle of the night, is there "probing" that takes place?

69 posted on 03/01/2009 9:48:45 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Earthdweller

Sigh.

The bottom line is this: no court, including SCotUS is going to rule that a sitting President with a natural-born citizen mother is ineligble to serve. We may not be happy with that reality, but a reality it is.

Instead of beating our heads against this particular wall for the next four (or more) years, trying to play a losing game of “gotcha,” conservatives should be spending that energy on making long term change to institutions like the media and schools which created a culture that allowed this cretin to get in.


70 posted on 03/01/2009 9:50:17 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Big_Monkey
McCain produced his long form original birth certificate for all to see. Why doesn't Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro do the same?

Where are his college records? Sealed
Where are his student loan records? Sealed
Where are his passport records? Sealed
Where are his selective service records? Produced one, but the form used at the time was different than the one used at the time BO would have filed his selective service form.
Where are his health records? Unavailable

WHY????

71 posted on 03/01/2009 9:53:09 AM PST by seekthetruth
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To: Big_Monkey

you’d be more at home at DU with the other tards.


72 posted on 03/01/2009 9:56:16 AM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: Earthdweller
"Why don't you take your little commie technique of crushing free thought through insults and go join the other mindless people in the Dem sheep pen. If you have no more freedom of thought than that then you must love commie fascism".

To paraphrase a line from a Freeper on a different thread: If I wanted to be among a group of drama queens (see above) then I would have become Democrat.

73 posted on 03/01/2009 9:56:49 AM PST by neocon1984
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To: Canedawg
"you’d be more at home at DU with the other tards."

Brother, if anyone's retarded here, it's you. Get some help.

74 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:12 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: STARWISE

present


75 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:27 AM PST by gunnyg
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To: Big_Monkey
My little sister was born in HI. She's now a pilot in the US Armed Forces. She had to get a copy of her Birth Certificate when she applied for a commission. It looks EXACTLY the same as Barry's. If it's good enough for the DOD, it's good enough for me.

I'll bet that your sister's birth certificate, though it may be computer generated, at least bears the proper authentication (clerk's certification stamp/seal). If Obama's had been authenticated, this topic would not still be simmering.

I'm sure it *could* simply be a coincidence that the vital records office slipped-up and failed to authenticate the copy of a birth certificate requested by a presidential candidate. Yeah, that's the ticket.

76 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:30 AM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: curiosity

reality check.

the founders of the country thought this such a serious issue, that it is defined in article 2 of the Constitution.

next, most presidential candidates have long careers and had been vetted along the way. 0bama has not.

the potential for crisis if this were true DEMANDS that we verify that the potential for a Constitutional crisis does not exist.

and lastly... it’s only a birth certificate. john mccain was asked the same question and provided the details immediately. 0bama provided his attorneys card.

it would take less then one day to resolve the issue, yet it continues to be obstructed.

the more this is fought, the more guilty he looks.

if you don’t understand that, then sit down and stay out of the way.


77 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:49 AM PST by sten
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To: Big_Monkey

I aint your brother, mister october ‘08 signup date.

You are transparent, and obviously ignorant of the law.


78 posted on 03/01/2009 9:59:09 AM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: Cicero

RE:Also, all the x-rays (like Ron Brown’s) somehow disappeared out of a safe. And the “suicide note” was completely unconvincing.”

The accident investigation was cancelled on the order of president Clinton. I think that is the only recoverable crash of a USAF plane in which no investigation was conducted. (occurred in Turkey, a friendly country at the time). What information did come out, including the suppression of testimony by Turkish tower personnel, weather at the time, etc., all strongly suggest that the “official” cause, weather and pilot error was a red herring.


79 posted on 03/01/2009 9:59:44 AM PST by LoneStarC
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To: STARWISE
The conservative talk show host Michael Medved recently referred to the movement's leaders as "crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy conservative imposters" who are "the worst enemy of the conservative movement."
When Medved thinks you're nuts, you probably are.
80 posted on 03/01/2009 9:59:47 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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