Posted on 01/07/2010 5:49:05 AM PST by Sophia777
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/secret-service-targeting-birthers
Over the past year, Secret Service agents charged with protecting President Obama seem to have taken a keen interest in the Birther movement, the committed group of anti-Obama activists around the country who claim the president was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and is thus ineligible to serve. The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked (see FactCheck.org's thorough takedown here), but that hasn't stopped Birthers from doggedly making their case in American courtrooms, to US attorneys, and even to a rural county grand jury, in the hopes that a judge will rule in their favor and Obama might eventually be removed from office. Those efforts have failed spectacularly, but they seem to have succeeded in placing the Birthers on the radar of the Secret Service.
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Exactly. Not everyone is hastily making the "He's a Kenyan!" accusation.
LOL!
Factcheck.org is part and parcel of the Annenberg Foundation. Factcheck was also chosen by the Obama campaign as the arbitrar of whether Obamas birth certificate, which purportedly proves hes a citizen of the United States, is authentic.
Bill Ayers, a former member of the violent Vietnam War era Weather Underground terrorist group, was a key founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
In 1995 Obama was appointed Board Chairman and President of the Annenberg Chicago Challenge, a branch of the Annenberg Foundation.
Yeah...I believe everything Factcheck.org has to say. LOL!
Oba Ma Jones.
Mother Jones is just another member of the ObamaLove Cadre. I noticed the Kool Aid tanker trucks pulling up to the editorial offices the other day.
The public now knows more about the passport and travels of the crotch bomber than we do about our President.
That's my take on it too. If obama wants to claim "transparency" in his administration, well, start from the top. obama needs to quit spending millions (literally) to keep his birth certificate, school records, etc. private.
Personally, I give it a 20% chance obama's long-form BC would show his is an illegal President (ie. Kenyan born). I think it is more likely it would be part of a chain of evidence that would show obama is not his real legal name or some other extremely damaging information. Not sure if that would make him an illegal President - being sworn in under a name that was not his legal name, or what.
What I do know, 100% certain, is that where there is smoke, there's almost always fire. There is no valid reason for obama to waste millions hiding something unless it really needs to be hidden. There is something very, very wrong (legally) with obama's Presidency. People in and around his administration (who should know) have made contradictory claims "I've seen his long form BC" ... "obama has his long form BC" ... and " no long form BC exist, they were all destoried..." etc. Someone is lying about this, has to be. (probably more than one) Congress has shown a remarkable lack of interest in this. I'd say Congress is failing their due diligence responsibility.
Not really. It's up to the Executive branch to do such things. Our problem is that the Framers never envisioned court challeges to usurpers. (See Federalist #28 beginning at "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents ...")
ML/NJ
So sue her, prosecute her .... something!
Ah-ha! Who says they are not working together.
Proving what? Did that change his place of birth or citizenship?
Proving what? Did that change his place of birth or citizenship?
What this Administration has done is to show that a written constitution is no more valuable than an unwritten one. The have driven through the American Constitution with a tank, then backed up over it repeatedly in case they missed something the first time through. The Tea Party movement is more important than most people realise. It is time that a parallel movement sprung up to challenge the illegalities in court - I am thinking of Judicial Watch on MEGASTEROIDS. Ignore the media they have just rolled over.
This is bad. Folks need to focus on the abuse of federal power against dissenting citizens rather than the birth certificate in this case. The abuse of power against dissenters by the Clintons spread throughout the government in ways that would have made JFK/LBJ/Nixon era feds jealous.
They learned from their experiences abusing power in the ‘90s.
Why not try to post the same thing this morning and see what happens.
Many of us are capable of focusing on more than one issue at a time. We are multi-taskers, if you will.
If the focus is on his ineligibility and it is proved he is the usurper many of us believe him to be, then he would be removed from office along with his abuse of federal power. Therefore, killing two birds with one stone, as it were.
Do you notice if it’s with a particular type of story you are commenting on?
Whith me, I was commenting on the terrorist attack planned for NY on 9/11/09 and how BO was not going to stop the attack untile he got tipped off by the Brits.
see post #28
I think it has to do with the story that is being commented on.
If the secret service visit doesn’t work to dissuade these individuals from investigating 0bama, perhaps a nighttime call by interpol will do the trick. Follow that with an invasive IRS audit and we can all rest easy knowing that out Dear Leader is being properly protected.
“They tried to dissuade me from what I was doing, but I wasn’t going to have anything to do with that “
Oh yes, the power of persuasion. Or would that be the persuasion of power. Oh, I don’t know what’s the difference in Amerika today.
BTW, FDR played little tricks like this with the owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer when FDR became a little peeved with the paper’s criticism. An IRS audit was ordered and by golly, the owner was found to be in violation of the law, fined and imprisoned.
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