This what a Hawaiin Long Form Birth Certificate looks like:
Posted on 05/12/2010 8:47:16 AM PDT by curiosity
The origin of modern myths and legends is a side interest of mine, the birther myths among them.
Now I understand why Obama being born in Kenya made it into your belief system, despite it being physically impluasible (requiring around 5 days and five flights, most on propeller planes) and financially impossible (it would have cost about a year of her parents' combined salaries) for Stanley Ann & Obama Sr. to travel there for her to give birth. After all, Obama's Father was from Kenya, so if you are going to make up a myth about Obama being born abroad, what better place than Kenya?
Implausibilty, and even impossiblilty doesn't deter the making of myths if there is a strong emotional reason to believe them, as in this case.
What I don't understand is, of all possible places in Kenya, why make Mombassa the birthplace in your myth? If you look at the map of Kenya, it's on the other end of the country from Obama Sr.'s village, 762 miles away, which would make it a minimum 2 day train ride. Probably longer, since Kenyan trains were very fast in 1961.
I suppose you could argue that there were no hospitals in Obama's village, so they had to travel to a major city. But Nairobi was closer, and more modern.
So why Mombassa? Not only is it completely implausible; I don't see the emotional appeal. Why Mombasssa rather than his father's village? Or why Mombassa rather than Nairobi?
Help me out here, birthers. Why do you reserve this special place for Mombassa in your belief system?
It isn’t causing division anymore than Clinton’s daliences. It is just part of the overall picture and I think many of us are arguing on all fronts about policy from the WH and Congress.
Pure intellectual exercise starts at the source. Perhaps you should try contacting the WH for his birth certificate and Soros, Frank, and Dodd for the bubble information.
Thx!
There once was a guy named Obama.
Who stars in this big panorama.
The Birfers heap scorn
On his “Hawaiian Born”
While the ruder ones yell “Oh, Yo Momma!”
FWIW, Urban Dictionary defines, “Yo Momma! as “One way to insult someone is by telling something false of their mother, as a form of negative comment.”
parsy, the purist
A Patrick Hitler, who was a nephew of Adolf Hitler served in the US Navy in WW2. He was wounded in action and lived out his life in the USA. The truth stranger than fiction.
Impossible? No.
I asked already and you will not be receiving your answer.
He has no real information just a sense that we are totally wrong and only his opinion matters.
So, out of curiosity, do YOU have a a legit birth certificate for this straw man of a claim?
The information you are missing is a point by point rebuttal or even your own theory.
You just “feel this way”
and there have been many times since. Recently the governor said what hospital he was born in.
Yet Stanley was in Seattle for college classes and Vancouver/Mercer Island to visit only weeks after the Holy Hawaiian Birth of the Obama Legend.
The state of Hawaii says he was born in Hawaii. That's good enough for me, as well as any court and any Federal agency. Why does it not satistfy you?
He is a bastard.....
Rebuttal of what?
or even your own theory.
The state of Hawaii says he was born in Hawaii. Since that's good enough in any court and in any Federal avency, it's good enough for me.
But that's really beside the point. I see most birthers wouldn't be convinced no matter what Obama did. If he released a long form today, it woudn't take 5 minutes for internet hacks with phony Ph.D.'s (I'm looking at you, Polland) to declare them forgeries.
That's why I think I'm shifting my focus and treating birthers more as an anthropological phenomenon.
let’s test the conviction of their statement and have them declare by affidavit and provide proof for their claim.
Who is Polland?
LOL. Good one.
Another one of your Con jobs? LOL Clever.
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