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Born in the USA, or: The Obama Birther Story Explained
Chicago Tribune ^ | 8/11/09 | Mark Bazer

Posted on 08/11/2009 5:51:35 PM PDT by steve-b

You've probably heard of the Obama "birther" story.

If not, it goes like this. It turns out there are people in this country with a tenuous grip on reality but an insatiable desire for publicity.

Now, ideally, you'd hope a person with that combination of traits would do the responsible thing and have octuplets via in-vitro fertilization while on welfare.

But the birthers aren't so benign. Their mission is twofold: 1) to spread the notion that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and thus not eligible for the presidency and 2) to appear on cable news.

The birthers argue that Obama has never provided an American birth certificate and that they have a copy of his actual birth certificate from the "Republic of Kenya."

These are, let's face it, compelling arguments, and would be even more compelling if Obama hadn't already provided his American birth certificate and if the Republic of Kenya had existed at the time of Obama's birth.

Also, the Kenyan certificate is signed by registrar E.F. Lavender, which is the name of a dishwasher detergent.

The problem, though, is not the birthers. Having already successfully proven that 9/11 was an inside job, they've got to do something with their time....

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; conspiracytheory
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1 posted on 08/11/2009 5:51:36 PM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b

Pathetic, even by your Media Matters standards.


2 posted on 08/11/2009 5:53:13 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: steve-b

this needed a BARF BARF BARF alert!!!

a person who seeks the truth in a land of lies is ridiculed. Makes sense to me.


3 posted on 08/11/2009 5:53:42 PM PDT by bareford101 (Give me liberty, or give me death!)
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To: steve-b

Needs a projectile vomit alert...


4 posted on 08/11/2009 5:54:36 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: steve-b

“and would be even more compelling if Obama hadn’t already provided his American birth certificate”

but he did not so I guess the fake kenyan BC is all we have to go with.


5 posted on 08/11/2009 5:55:53 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: steve-b
Losers. Absolute propaganda. I was going to post something on the Trib’s site in response, but really, why bother?
6 posted on 08/11/2009 5:57:05 PM PDT by GBA
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To: bareford101
a person who seeks the truth in a land of lies is ridiculed.

I'm sure the 9/11 truthers agree with that statement too.

7 posted on 08/11/2009 5:57:41 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: steve-b
These are, let's face it, compelling arguments, and would be even more compelling if Obama hadn't already provided his American birth certificate

A certification of live birth is a different document than a birth certificate. Even some liberal rags have finally admitted this fact.

8 posted on 08/11/2009 5:58:21 PM PDT by Always Right (The Brown Shirt Media © is coming!)
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To: GoldStandard
I'm sure the 9/11 truthers agree with that statement too

The base birther argument that Obama has not produced a birth certificate is an absolute fact, unlike any of the 911 truthers arguements. Most of the stuff used to ridicule birthers is not what most birthers believe. Hell, i would bet most birthers believe that Obama was born in the US, they just want the official document that proves it. Hardly no one bought into the Kenya birth certificate.

9 posted on 08/11/2009 6:01:50 PM PDT by Always Right (The Brown Shirt Media © is coming!)
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To: steve-b
“and would be even more compelling if Obama hadn’t already provided his American birth certificate”

Other than to draw attention to yourself, what would be the purpose of posting false informations like this?

10 posted on 08/11/2009 6:04:24 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: nufsed

They know its a lie. It has been pointed out by too many people, too many times.

The only thing that makes sense is that they have secretly realized that there is something on the long form that Obama dare not allow to be seen, so they are in lockstep to prevent him from being forced to release it.


11 posted on 08/11/2009 6:06:37 PM PDT by Ronin (Nemo me impune lacesset)
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To: steve-b
>"These are, let's face it, compelling arguments, and would be even more compelling if Obama hadn't already provided his American birth certificate"

Which proven FAKE non birth certificate not denoting place of birth would that be?
The smears doc, or the other one? Both fraudulent, and not actual BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

Try to be patient with dummycrats,as they have glaringly blatant reading disabilities. For some reason they cannot read the second word in NAZI.

It's SOCIALIST !


A Certificate/Certification of Live Birth is NOT a Birth Certificate! You couldn't even get to coach a little league team with that for ID.

12 posted on 08/11/2009 6:06:45 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
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To: steve-b

Burfer Derangement Syndrome


13 posted on 08/11/2009 6:07:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Always Right

Did either or both Barry Sotero or Barak Obama register for the draft? Was that not required when he turned 18 in 1979? How hard would it be to get that - if it exists? Seems more accessible that some birth certificate from Hawaii or Kenya? If the question has been asked before, I missed it.


14 posted on 08/11/2009 6:09:09 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: nufsed
scenario :

Mrs Obama , realizes she screwed up by boinking this angry african sex machine and comes up preggo

now what ! better get him US benefits at least

Mrs Obama hears about the fast and easy way to get a BC from her mommy and daddy who happen live in Hawaii

Mrs obama walks in to the hospital in hawaii and says: Hello, My name is Mrs Obama, I just had a baby out on the highway, the car broke down I could not make it here for a few days. Could I get a birth certificate for him ?

Why sure Mrs Obama just fill out this form !, after all the state of Hawaii needs all the people it can claim right now since it just gained US statehood and wants as many senate reps as possible.

Obama gets the short form to show to hide the "place of birth...:unknown" or father...: unknown

If he wasn't hiding something he would have took it out and paraded it around in his typical narcissistic style.

instead of spending millions to keep it hid

15 posted on 08/11/2009 6:20:55 PM PDT by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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To: KTM rider

President Transparency


16 posted on 08/11/2009 6:22:10 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: steve-b
0bama’s hidden records Why are these off limits?

1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mothers
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records

All other Presidents have provided these personal documents, why is 0bama not held to the same standard?

17 posted on 08/11/2009 6:22:59 PM PDT by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Always Right

I just want to rattle OdumbO’s cage anyway I can, he gets testy when that happens and shows it.


18 posted on 08/11/2009 6:34:23 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: steve-b; All

I hope you’re submitting invoices to the 0bama team for posting all of this crap all the time, I’d hate to think you’re doing it for free.

My tagline says it all.


19 posted on 08/11/2009 6:37:35 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hey Comrade 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House!!!)
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To: Mogollon

EXCELLENT post!

Your post should be printed off, rolled into a fine tube and then rammed up the ass of any one of the lame, lazy and/or despicable cowards who sneer ‘birther’-this, or ‘birther’-that.

If the Dear Comrade didn’t have anything to hide, WHY hasn’t he released that list of records you’ve compiled?


20 posted on 08/11/2009 6:40:31 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hey Comrade 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House!!!)
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