"You talkin' to me?
Are you talkin' to ME?"
Posted on 07/31/2009 10:39:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The whole birth certificate issue gets weirder still:
"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."
But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom I believe entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as a citizen to take public officials on trust. They are not to be trusted, whoever they are. It is our job to demand all the evidence we want or need. I know the electronic record is legit. I have no doubt that Obama has every constitutional right to be president. I think the Birthers are nuts. But there is no reason on earth that the original cannot be retrieved and shown. Jon Klein and CNN were wrong, and I retract my apology of yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
Heh, heh. Are we now?
I may or may not be nuts but I'm enjoying the hell out of watching you left-wing wackos being driven nuts by the whole birth certificate dealio.
But the topic is interesting, even though I'm agnostic on it.
This is the feller who thinks (still) that Trig isn’t Sarah’s son, so we all have to make the same allowances for Sullivan that he pretends to make for the birthers. Nevertheless, he’s picking up on the salient point - why is everyone so eager to ridicule the birthers when the disproof is yet to be produced?
This might be something of a blogosphere tipping point.
At least most of us aren’t gargling someone’s nuts, like andy.
Then you must be nuts too, because all the so called "birthers" want is to see the original certificate as well, which Obama has made into an issue because of his refusal to comply with the law and show it, and because he has spent so much money refusing to provide it.
"You talkin' to me?
Are you talkin' to ME?"
Oh no you di’in’t.
Ridicule is one of Alinsky’s KEY tactics.
Try explaining this reasoning to some of our FRiends who take the word of Dr. Fukino as proof positive of Obama's birth on American soil and his eligibility to be President.
I think the “money amount” thing is probably a spurious meme, whether quoted at half a mil or whatever, because it would be so hard to be privy to that.
But I think the liberals are now taking him and the good Hawaiian doctor at face value, and asking him please publish the durn thing and get this growing crowd of scoffers off our backs.
How could Obama’s handlers have let him get painted into a corner like this?
Um, Andrew? If you want to see the original record, you ARE a birther. That is the primary birther demand.
At this point, the only way to prove birthers are nuts is to provide a certified copy of Obama's long form birth certificate.
Anyone can be bought and paid for to say they 'witnessed' seeing it, which brings another question to add to the gerowing list of others. Why was this person able to see it? Did he break the law in doing so? Was he ORDERED to viwew it? By who? HAHAHAHA! These leftist moonbats keep digging deeper and deeper in their conspiracy to foist an illigitamate Usurper upon the nation, who's every action is null and void, even if he does serve a full term, and it is later found everything he did was illegal because he was not legal.
Preach it, Brother (or Sister)!!!
;)
There can be one one logical reason. Obama is a fraud.
Birthers, broadly, come in various closely related flavors. It depends on their personal understanding of the law and their personal suspicions. Not all would be satisfied with the same level of demonstration. I believe they should be careful not to destroy each other while watching to see what Obama will actually do.
My suspicion is that he is talking about the COLB, not the original long form birth certificate, as that was the only document in question in 2008.
They are playing word games, but being careful not to entrap themselves, and maintaining plausible deniability.
If the statement by the Hawaiian doctor had been sooner (and a bit more specific) I believe most would have given Obama a pass who are vocally doubting him today.
I think we are watching the first successful counter-Alinsky maneuver unfold, while Orly Taitz has been as single minded and hard headed as a woodpecker, and it is beautiful. Hammer, hammer, hammer in the question until the wood splits.
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