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Birth of a nation: Too many Americans buy crank theory on Obama's citizenship
New York Daily News ^ | Saturday, August 1st 2009

Posted on 08/01/2009 1:38:58 PM PDT by presidio9

There's Red America, Blue America and Tinfoil Helmet America. And it looks like the third camp is enormously larger than anyone feared.

A new poll, commissioned by the liberal Web site Daily Kos found that fully 11% of Americans think that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States. And another 12% said that they are unsure.

The doubters are heavily concentrated in the Republican Party, according to pollsters. An amazing 58% of the surveyed Republicans questioned whether Obama, in fact, entered the world in Hawaii.

What this means: Millions of Americans suspect or are convinced that Obama, son of a Kenyan father, is not a citizen and thus cannot legitimately serve as President. And no Hawaiian birth certificate or newspaper announcement from the time will convince them otherwise.

Who are these people? They're the ones whose feet are not planted on U.S. soil - or any soil.


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President Obama is my president. I watched him take the oath of office. For me, the citizen ship sailed when the Reverend Wright ship sailed. Or when the Bill Ayers ship sailed. I sympathisize with people who continue to cling to thing to the hope that he will leave office, but I've moved on. I do, however, resent the left's idea that everyone who believes things like this is a right wing extremesit.

Remember the two Bush IQ hoaxes? What do you suppose the percentage of liberals are who are convinced that Bush's score is below 100? Based on my interactions with them, I suppose that it is more than half. And I beleve 95% of all American's would not suspect that his SAT Scores put him in the "Moderately Gifted" group betwen 130 and 144.

1 posted on 08/01/2009 1:38:59 PM PDT by presidio9
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he won’t be removed from office, but I think that the public has a right to see his records...now that he is “our” president.


2 posted on 08/01/2009 1:40:41 PM PDT by Americanwolf ("How could they not tell they had a friggin 70 foot whale hanging off their bow?" ---Tijeras_slim)
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To: presidio9
full scale marginalization hasn't worked. Be interesting to see what's next.

*tih is agnostic on the BC issue, but not on the manipulative machinations of the media.

3 posted on 08/01/2009 1:40:45 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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To: presidio9

Another BS article.


4 posted on 08/01/2009 1:41:52 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: presidio9
Big part of it is the scapegoat buyout that 'sumpin's not right', they don't know what it is, but they'll hang their collective hat on that for right now.

Like the used car salesman, you don't know 'zactly what he's lyn'bout, but you know 'sumpins' not right.

5 posted on 08/01/2009 1:42:38 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: presidio9

Show me the long form!


6 posted on 08/01/2009 1:44:02 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
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To: Americanwolf

he won’t be removed from office, but I think that the public has a right to see his records...now that he is “our” president.”

Why do you think that he has spent over $1 million dollars out of his campaign donations monies to keep this document from surfacing?

Not logical in any sense.

WHEN it shown that he is/was/will never be eligible, the Supreme Court and Congress MUST remove him or abdicate from the Constitution!!


7 posted on 08/01/2009 1:44:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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$950,000 in legal fees is enough reason for me to think he’s hiding something.


8 posted on 08/01/2009 1:44:48 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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Obama, son of a Kenyan father, is not a citizen

By his own admission..and the laws existing at that time....

9 posted on 08/01/2009 1:45:14 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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You said — President Obama is my president. I watched him take the oath of office. For me, the citizen ship sailed when the Reverend Wright ship sailed. Or when the Bill Ayers ship sailed. I sympathisize with people who continue to cling to thing to the hope that he will leave office, but I’ve moved on. I do, however, resent the left’s idea that everyone who believes things like this is a right wing extremesit.

I just say to do the normal and sane and practical thing and get a state law passed that requires a candidate to produce his birth certificate or else he cannot be placed on the ballot.

I don’t know why so many here argue against that solution (and they do... )... LOL...

See this thread for someone who *gets the right idea*... :-)

(Vanity Post) We Need One State To Challenge Obambi’s Status
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305746/posts


10 posted on 08/01/2009 1:45:14 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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The ‘unsure’ number will continue going up.


11 posted on 08/01/2009 1:45:14 PM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (veritas odium parit)
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Like the used car salesman, you don’t know ‘zactly what he’s lyn’bout, but you know ‘sumpins’ not right.”

At least with a used car- you can demand “Car Fax” data about the car- from it’s birth!!


12 posted on 08/01/2009 1:45:48 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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If I were a public official, and you sued me asking only to see a document that you believed should be public, and rather than spend a couple of bucks to obtain and release it, I spent > a million bucks fighting you, would you suspect I was hiding something?

I believe this is what has set off the radar of millions of people. The MSM, of course, is incapable of acknowledging any reasonable basis for their concern.

I, for one, have always been skeptical that he was born outside the U.S. But I nonetheless have to wonder what the big secret is with the long form.


13 posted on 08/01/2009 1:45:52 PM PDT by freespirited (The Surgeon General has determined that Harry and Louise are dangerous to your health.)
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You are KIDDING....right??

People SAID that Bush had an IQ of 100

Obama has NOT produced his Long Form Birth Certificate.....

Oh, yeah....same EXACT thing! /sarc

14 posted on 08/01/2009 1:46:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: freekitty

You said — Another BS article.

Actually the BS is with those who say that we don’t need a state law to get Obama to show his birth certificate. They are the ones who are deranged about “reality”...

See this thread for someone who *gets the right idea*... :-)

(Vanity Post) We Need One State To Challenge Obambi’s Status
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305746/posts


15 posted on 08/01/2009 1:46:38 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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obama lied about being patriotic
obama lied about not raising taxes on the middle class
obama lied about being post-racial
obama lied about abortion
obama lied about gun control
obama lied about spending responsibly
and those who are sceptical on his citizenship claims wear “tinfoil hats”?


16 posted on 08/01/2009 1:47:22 PM PDT by TurtleUp (So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
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I, for one, have always been skeptical that he was born outside the U.S. But I nonetheless have to wonder what the big secret is with the long form

Who's his daddy?

17 posted on 08/01/2009 1:47:24 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Mikey_1962

You said — Show me the long form!

Then make a state law saying so... LOL...

See this thread for someone who *gets the right idea*... :-)

(Vanity Post) We Need One State To Challenge Obambi’s Status
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305746/posts


18 posted on 08/01/2009 1:47:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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Here is New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson saying in Spanish that Obama is an "immigrant." (So he understands understands "immigrant" issues.)The context suggests that by "immigrant" bill richardson means "illegal immigrant"

19 posted on 08/01/2009 1:48:06 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: the invisib1e hand

You said — full scale marginalization hasn’t worked. Be interesting to see what’s next.

Well one might try the sane and rational thing... LOL...

See this thread for someone who *gets the right idea*... :-)

(Vanity Post) We Need One State To Challenge Obambi’s Status
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305746/posts


20 posted on 08/01/2009 1:48:35 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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