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To: GBA
Irrelevant?

I will say it again. To conclude that Obama was born in Kenya (as birther fans do), one has to really want to believe it because that conclusion is not compelled by the evidence.

Why might someone want to believe in such an unlikely conclusion? I think that there were some people who believed (or pretended to believe) in the birther theory in order to sell books and DVDs to unwitting victims and in order to raise funds from unwitting victims who believed in the theory for political reasons. I think for a period, there were people who believed in the birther theory for political reasons - they unrealistically believed that the theory might be used to remove Obama from office.

Since Obama will be leaving office soon anyway, it will soon become unnecessary to remove him from office and at that point, it will not be relevant to people who believed in it for political reasons. Thus, the word irrelevant.

I don't dispute that there will be some people who continue to be birthers after Obama is gone much as there remain people who continue to believe that the gold in Fort Knox is secretly concealed in Roosevelt's grave. We haven't come up with good answers for that type of belief.

As to the interpretation of the "natural born citizen" clause, there remains disagreement. I don't think that the courts want to get involved. In fact, I believe that the courts want (per the Constitution) to leave to the electors the job of selecting presidents who have the constitutional qualifications. That's what the electors have been doing for more than two centuries.

174 posted on 08/05/2016 10:09:12 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

To conclude that Obama was born in Kenya (as birther fans do)


A very small subset of “birthers”.

So you think “his” “autobiography” is factual truth, then?


176 posted on 08/05/2016 10:27:22 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Tau Food
Lol! Thanks. That time I couldn't stop myself from laughing.

I'm not understanding you. From the beginning, obama, himself, claimed he was born in Kenya, not me.

I'm just agreeing with him and his book cover instead of the fake BCs.

Those fake BCs were just some obvious show and tell to keep the rubes happy.

As to the rest, we've come back around to the start of the ride and I'm getting off to go have some lunch.

Do yourself an eternal favor and set your distractions aside and please reconsider what I'm actually saying to you.

Reading the signs to figure out where we are and what is coming is worth some serious and immediate study.

177 posted on 08/05/2016 10:27:53 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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