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The political alchemy of Birtherism
American Thinker ^ | 07-29-09 | By Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 07/28/2009 10:22:30 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

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To: Frantzie
They only attack threats and the BC issue is a threat.

Do you honestly believe Obama feels threatened for a second by the BC issue? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

101 posted on 07/29/2009 9:34:24 AM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity

Unfortunately, I think they were very effective against Bush, especially in relation to the politics of personal destruction.

The “no blood for oil” meme was something I started to hear even from [misinformed] Republicans.

We lost the senate and the house and then the oval office so I think they did pretty well with memes and mantras of paranoia and division.

I know lots of otherwise sane and rational people who *still* believe that “9/11 was an inside job” crap.

I wish it weren’t so but now here we sit with an Alinsky disciple ruling the country.


102 posted on 07/29/2009 9:40:22 AM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: curiosity

Keep compromising. You seem to be pretty good at it.


103 posted on 07/29/2009 9:47:46 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero!)
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To: GOP_Lady
Just another thrown smoke screen from yesterday, proving that they are scared to death of us!

Our Constitution means more to me than a sliding GOP and the sinking of the RATS!!

Are we to cave in like the rest of them, including Rinos and the judicial system, HELL NO!!!

And finally, I think our U.S. Armed Forces are listening closely???

104 posted on 07/29/2009 10:10:50 AM PDT by danamco
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To: GOP_Lady
From an article in the Wash Compost:

By Joel B. Pollak

Teaching Arabic and Propaganda

My class watched three movies this semester, all with political themes. One was "West Beirut," which cast Christians as the prime bad guys in Lebanon's civil war (though, to be fair, there was plenty of hatred all around). Another was "The Tale of Three Jewels," an allegorical film about Palestinian nationalism that portrayed Israeli soldiers as bloodthirsty child-killers.

The third movie, "Destiny," told the story of the great medieval Islamic philosopher Averroes and his struggles against Islamic religious fundamentalism. It was a bit more nuanced than the first two. But the film omitted the fact that it was only through the Hebrew transcription of Averroes's writings by Jewish scholars in Egypt that his works were preserved for posterity.

105 posted on 07/29/2009 10:23:27 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Windflier

William Buckley???


106 posted on 07/29/2009 10:26:39 AM PDT by danamco
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To: trumandogz
A resounding YES, translated spineless and treason !!!

Any questions???

107 posted on 07/29/2009 10:30:41 AM PDT by danamco
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To: trumandogz
He travelled to Pakistan using his U.S. Passport.

If he was registered as foreign student (???) Question is, how did he get a U.S. Passport???

108 posted on 07/29/2009 10:34:55 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Frantzie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_J8hwxh0Y

Lou Dobbs’ response


109 posted on 07/29/2009 10:52:35 AM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco
If he was registered as foreign student (???)

At what, pray tell, makes you think he was "registered as foreign student" (whatever that means)?

110 posted on 07/29/2009 11:11:28 AM PDT by curiosity
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To: Salamander
Unfortunately, I think they were very effective against Bush, especially in relation to the politics of personal destruction.

Pure BS.

The “no blood for oil” meme was something I started to hear even from [misinformed] Republicans.

Talk about behind the curve! That was the left's slogan in the first gulf war. It was barely even used during the second.

We lost the senate and the house and then the oval office so I think they did pretty well with memes and mantras of paranoia and division.

The left mouthed mantras of paranoia since 2000. It did them no good in the 2002 and 2004 elections. We lost Congress in the 2006 election because the Iraq war was going badly. We lost the presidency in 2008 because of the financial crisis and recession.

If you think the left's paranoid mantras convinced any voter who was not already a die-hard leftist, then you are an idiot.

I know lots of otherwise sane and rational people who *still* believe that “9/11 was an inside job” crap.

Yeah, and I'll wager that every single one of them is either a die-hard lefty who will never vote Republican in his life, or an ideological purist with a habit of wasting his vote on third party candidates.

I wish it weren’t so but now here we sit with an Alinsky disciple ruling the country.

Every conspiracy theorist needs a boogeyman. Alinsky seems to the the one of choice for birthers.

111 posted on 07/29/2009 11:20:19 AM PDT by curiosity
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To: danamco
William Buckley???

Junior now runs National Review. He's the demon seed of the old man.

112 posted on 07/29/2009 11:57:38 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Deagle
May be a bit behind on this issue...but,
Do we have a Hospital where he was delivered and the name of the Doctor?

Two possible Hawaiian hospitals have been publicly mentioned, but I have seen no official documentation that confirms either as the birth hospital. I have seen no names, officially confirmed or unofficially speculated, for the doctor or midwife who delivered him.

To my knowledge it is not known why this basic information has not been released to the public.

We do not know whether or not the primary source document behind his released Certification of Live Birth (assuming it is legitimate) was a long form Certificate of Live Birth, a Certificate of Delayed Birth, or something else. Nor are we certain that such a primary document still exists.

You may be a bit behind on this issue, but at least you are starting to ask the right questions.

113 posted on 07/29/2009 3:32:15 PM PDT by TChad
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To: curiosity

For what other reasons would seal these school records???


114 posted on 07/29/2009 4:14:49 PM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco
For what other reasons would seal these school records???

You can't be serious. Someone really lacks imagination, I see. Off the top of my head, I can think of several highly plausible reasons:

1) Bad grades.
2) Disciplinary problems that could embarass him.
3) Evidence he was a beneficiary of affirmative action.
4) By keeping them sealed, he encourages idiot conspiracy theorists like you, who then make the entire opposition look stupid.

115 posted on 07/29/2009 4:42:28 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: TChad
Two possible Hawaiian hospitals have been publicly mentioned,

Neither he nor any member of his family has mentioned any hospital other Kapiolani.

We do not know whether or not the primary source document behind his released Certification of Live Birth (assuming it is legitimate) was a long form Certificate of Live Birth, a Certificate of Delayed Birth, or something else.

Yes we do. Certificates of delayed birth are only issued if applied for one year or more after the fact. The information on his COLB clearly shows his certificate was filed with the registrar within 4 days of his birth. Therefore, a long-form certificate of live birth must be the source document.

116 posted on 07/29/2009 4:46:24 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: GOP_Lady

btt


117 posted on 07/29/2009 7:48:07 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: danamco
If he was registered as foreign student (???) Question is, how did he get a U.S. Passport???

Except for that April Fool's Day e-mail that so many fell for, there is no evidence whatsoever that Obama ever registered as a foreign student and there in no evidence that he has used anything except for a U.S. Passport.

118 posted on 07/29/2009 8:34:06 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Salamander

I agree with you...and just recently, I have been confused by Coulter’s response, as I have been a real fan of hers. But, in times like these, I can’t help but question whether these hard times are not “FUEL” for those who only wish to write and sell books-——knowwhadimean? We’re all glued to the FoxNews tube and, honestly, much of what they “hawk” is books written by other “conservatives” that they have on their shows. I’m beginning to think that THEY are using the ‘crisis” to make money, as well, with little concern for the damage that is being done to the regular Joe that no publishing company would publish, if, indeed, he wanted to publish a conservative book.
Google publishers Regency (sp? Coulter’s and Malkin’s and other conservative writers’ publishers) and you’ll find that they won’t publish anyone who doesn’t have an already recognizable “name” OR agent.
Keep up the “birther” fight-—there’s something there that EVERYONE wants hidden, until the time is ripe.....for THEM!!! The rest of us that believe that there is info being hidden on purpose, will not stop, until true transparency is seen.


119 posted on 07/29/2009 9:00:25 PM PDT by Mortrey (Piss off a liberal...tell them the truth!)
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To: curiosity

They won big. This is why they tell lies. Of course we will tell only the truth about them ~ those filthy child molesting pigs,


120 posted on 07/29/2009 9:31:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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