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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: Electric Graffiti

All 100% accurate. And any citizen who doesn’t possess a healthy amount of curiosity about the absence of those documents has to be either brain dead or bought off.


81 posted on 07/29/2009 3:52:33 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: struwwelpeter

Orly Taitz addressed that problem recently in a letter to a number of Congressmen. I doubt that they’ll look into it but at least they’ve been informed.


82 posted on 07/29/2009 3:54:45 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Salamander

(Cursed with Second Sight.)
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I am the second son of a second son, does that mean I have “second sight” or just that I will never be first in line for anything?


83 posted on 07/29/2009 5:28:47 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
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To: Frantzie
Conservatives who are tempted by the Birther theory should ask themselves why the mainstream media is now so interested in the story when they were so reluctant to give any attention to the allegations during the 2008 campaign (when, if true, they might have made a difference).


I asked myself this exact question. Why, at that particular moment was the media hyperventilating about Obama’s qualification for President?

I decided the timing was everything. When a judge gave Major Cook legal standing to force Obama to prove his natural born citizenship status, the DOD withdrew Cook's orders and Obama put a hit on his job... Cook is suing Obama under whistle blower protections and the media wants to discredit him and the case before that case comes to light.

So all this screeching is to cover up the man behind the curtain. The GOP has distanced themselves from the idea of their responsibility to verify qualifying documents so they don't have to worry about all these “kooks”, right? So why are they so damn worried?

84 posted on 07/29/2009 5:44:40 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: GOP_Lady

The article is spot on and I’m glad an arch-conservative publication like American Thinker has finally weighed on this.

Obama isn’t going to be removed from office via the “birth certificate” issue. It isn’t going to happen. It’s a done, finished issue. Let’s move on to things we can actually have an influence on.....like stopping ObamaCare and cap and trade.


85 posted on 07/29/2009 6:13:39 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: trumandogz
At the time all you needed was just any old passport and a $10 bill to get into Pakistan.

The problem is getting into the US. I've been thinking coming back through the Bahamas would have worked ~ with no passport at all.

86 posted on 07/29/2009 6:52:42 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Perchant
Good point. Democrats stood by silently while their Leftwingtard agents went crazy over a baby.

They fully understand the value of the "fringe stories".

87 posted on 07/29/2009 6:54:21 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: browardchad
Look, we all know he's not "normal" but he's also not very smart. He has "handlers".

So, rephrase it, why is he allowing folks to drag his ears, which he inherited from his mother, through the mud?

88 posted on 07/29/2009 6:59:08 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Only Leftwingtards ever refer to “ARCH” anything anymore.


89 posted on 07/29/2009 7:01:53 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GOP_Lady

People keep asking why BO hasn’t released the damn document and suppose it’s because there is something so damaging in it that he can’t afford to.

It’s articles like this and the responses to them in a gazillion threads on FR which provides a glimpse of another reason why.

He’s been able to force a wedge between the conservative right. Where those who don’t thing there’s any substance to the claims view the ‘birther’s’ as a crazy bunch dragging the right into the dead end of glassy eyed conspiracy theories whilst those who do believe the others have been bought off or have ‘jumped the shark’.

Don’t believe me? Things have taken a wierd turn when Anne Coulter or American Thinker are no longer trusted conservative sources on FR. I’d consider a million bucks as chump change if I cold sow the same chaos in the left.


90 posted on 07/29/2009 7:14:38 AM PDT by Natufian (The mesolithic wasn't so bad, was it?)
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To: Natufian

cold sow = could sow

(nothing to do with the temperature of a pig).


91 posted on 07/29/2009 7:16:11 AM PDT by Natufian (The mesolithic wasn't so bad, was it?)
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To: trumandogz; Frantzie
They are using Alinksy tactics to try to discredit.

Whenever there is this much flak even if its coming from both sides of the aisle - there's something there. The real facts are: There have only been 2 Presidents in the history of our nation who sealed all of their records from public view -- Obama and Chester Arthur. Chester Arthur was later found to be ineligible to have held the office and he knew he wasn't eligible -- thus he covered up as much information as he could and in some cases destroyed records, unfortunately he didn't burn all of them. With Obama not only has he sealed the circumstances of his birth, he's also sealed a whole lot more that are usually tradition to release -- not just the birth certificate -- everything. You have to explain that.

IMO: The 'conservatives' (and I now use that term loosely) who are jumping on the bandwagon against 'birthers' are in political 'cover up our butts' mode. They had the opportunity to vet this man just like the lib media did and failed, miserably. They also had the opportunity to demand in Congress that he prove his qualifications before certifying the election and failed, miserably.

Not ONE of these now proven to be fake conservatives stood up and issued a protest after the electoral college. So now they're going to go down along with the Messiah and naturally they don't want this covered, they want it suppressed. No surprise to me.

92 posted on 07/29/2009 7:25:17 AM PDT by conservativegramma (Palin has my vote: whoever the media hates I love)
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To: GOP_Lady

This birther stuff can only make conservatives look bad.

But, they have been warned.

Too bad.


93 posted on 07/29/2009 7:30:50 AM PDT by neoprene
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To: Electric Graffiti
You've left off Obama's SAT's and LSAT's. Obama would release birth certificates galore before he'd release those.

His non-Messianic scores would prove he had no business at Columbia, none at Harvard Law, Harvard Law Review was bogus, his Presidency of the HLR a gift, and this Magna Cum Laude at HLS beyond comprehension. So too would it be obvious that someone with modest SAT scores didn't write those books. The lack of any legal work, writings and scholarship would be explained. Obama would be exposed as the empty suit, a front man propelled along at every turn by cleverer lefties.

Once the birther army gets Obama to cough up the BC, the next target should be the SAT scores.

94 posted on 07/29/2009 7:34:58 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: neoprene
Then we must ask why the Hildabeast's campaign STARTED IT.

It's looking like some of you guys at the Obama "truther site" just don't get it ~ and BTW that's not surprising.

95 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:55 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SaraJohnson
Exactly. Major Cook and Judge Carter (Marine) who said the case will go forward has put a scare into them.

I still am not sure if the turncoat minor “conservative” pundits are acting like puppets for Obama due to fairness doctrine threats or GOP party RINOs worried about a race war because they know O is ineligible. A lot of smoke and fire for supposedly a dead story. Obama's goons are going mental to kill this. This nonsense that we should back off because it is hurting conservatives. So we will remain hostage to the liberal newsmedia and we will be their serfs. Screw them. Cancel your sat and cable TV. There is free web TV you can watch to repalce it. We have the power if we use it.

96 posted on 07/29/2009 7:43:49 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero!)
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To: conservativegramma
Sounds like a call for a PURGE.

I'd suggest we just leave the mambypambies alone for a bit though and keep our eye on the real object ~ the GD Democrats and their threat to murder every man woman and child in the country. That's definitely got to be stopped

97 posted on 07/29/2009 7:44:30 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Frantzie

Well, the establishment media is not holding anyone hostage as has been shown with conservative majority power in the recent past and in the public’s large self identification as conservative. For a lot of people when the media get so hysterical, they ask more questions and seek more information. Most people know the media is biased.

The establishment media “win” when they run a hysterical disinformation campaign while it lasts and then conservatives just move forward on radio, the internet and in life talking over their heads about facts and issues, unhindered by the spin and hate.


98 posted on 07/29/2009 7:57:27 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: muawiyah

Yep.


99 posted on 07/29/2009 8:01:28 AM PDT by conservativegramma (Palin has my vote: whoever the media hates I love)
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To: Salamander
Did the liberals not espouse patently baseless and nearly insane “Bush theories” for the last 8 years?

A lot of good it did them too. /sarcasm.

Well, turnabout is fair play.

I suppose, though in this case it doesn't seem very rational to copy a failed strategy formerly employed by our opponents.

100 posted on 07/29/2009 9:33:00 AM PDT by curiosity
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