David Weigel, Born in Wilmington, DE and educated in England
Posted on 07/17/2009 8:58:53 AM PDT by steve-b
Kris Kobach is a law professor with degrees from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and a veteran of George W. Bush's administration who, after Sept. 11, helped craft the policy on domestic registration of foreign visitors to the United States. In May, he announced a run for Kansas secretary of state, campaigning for photo ID requirements at the voting booth. He's considered a clear front-runner for the job. But over the weekend, Kobach spoke at a Republican Party barbecue and committed a minor gaffe. According to the Lawrence Journal-World, Kobach "asked what President Obama and God had in common, with the punchline being neither has a birth certificate."...
...The joke was not his. One month earlier, Rush Limbaugh made the same remark on his radio show. "Barack Obama has one thing in common with God," Limbaugh said. "Know what it is? God does not have a birth certificate either." And Limbaugh may not have been writing his own material, either. At Patriot Depot, a conservative web site that sells books by Glenn Beck and signs designed for anti-tax Tea Parties, buyers can pay $10 to get two bumper stickers that read: "Obama & God Have ONLY ONE THING in Common: NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE! The Difference Is God Doesn't Think He's Obama!" According to a salesman for Patriot Depot, the company has sold "hundreds" of this and another birth certificate sticker since advertising them with the conservative opinion sites GOPUSA.com and Townhall.com.
Six months into Obama's presidency, after scores of embarrassing legal defeats, and even after tussles between the attoneys who've turned frivolous lawsuits about the president's citizenship into full-time jobs, the cottage industry of conspiracy theories about the president's birth shows no signs of disappearing...
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“Dogs” Republicans? I’m pretty sure the GOP has copies of their birth certificate available for public inspection ...
No kidding. Was it a conspiracy theory that forced John McCain to show his and even led the senate to deal with it?
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is about Mr. Transparency, and why he can’t even disclose his birth certificate. There is nothing crazy about wanting proof of meeting the only Consitutional requirement of being qualified for the job.
Oh, puh-leeze. If I could cause my opponents to run around looking like idiots by keeping my hairstyle secret, I’d have a hat surgically bolted to my head.
Birther Movement? Yea right. How about Constitutionalists dogs republicans then. It is an insult to be calling people who want to see our Consitution upheld a birther movement.
I don’t consider that a gaffe except he didn’t credit Rush but what he said is TRUE!
Make sure that dog doesn’t get lost.
You mean I can make this a full time job?
My children had to produce a Birth Certificate to get in the kindergarten door. Two of my kids are foreign born and both have certificates of live birth issued frm the state.
Of course the certificate lists “China” as their place of live birth.
If this is such a non-issue, why not release the documents (birth and college papers) instead of hiring an attorney to guard them. Why? Because something stinks, that’s for sure.
Haven't the legal defeats basically come down to either no standing or judges not wanting to rock the boat?
Any cases actually been heard yet to defeat? /crickets
It is Obama who is the butt of the jokes. It is Obama who is looking like a hypocrite.
All that points out is that Kobach can’t tell a joke and has little or no sense of humor. And having met the man I can attest to that.
No crime in repeating the same joke. Now if it were plagiarism, well you would have to ask the empty suit Biden to get your answer.
So Steve, it must be getting hotter at DNC headquarters just to keep covering up for Obama.
David Weigel, Born in Wilmington, DE and educated in England
One thing will and it runs about twelve bucks and change.
What does it say about a US President who, under your scenario, could easily spend $12 to make this whole issue go away, but instead declines to do so and spends $900k to squelch inquiries just to drive his "adversaries" crazy?
You can bet that if Obama was in a position to deliver a legal document to put the whole controversy to rest -- which would silence and perhaps humiliate his adversaries -- he would do so in a heartbeat.
The fact that he can't do it is evidence of consciousness of guilt. That in itself is enough to justify closer scrutiny of his birth status.
It Takes an Agenda
Conservatives cannot live by Hillary-hate alone.
By David Weigel
It’s a balmy, beer-drinking evening in the middle of August, and the conservatives trickling in to a meeting of the Robert A. Taft Club can’t enjoy it. They’re mostly under-30 Washington professionals, and they’re fed up with the Republican Party. They think George W. Bush’s bumbling and ideological hat-trading have reduced the conservative movement to a pitiable, piddling state. If Karl Rove stepped inside, he’d come out looking like Oscar de la Hoya after a bout gone wrong.
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