Right Wing US Conspiracists Question Obama's Birth Certificate

Telegraph(UK) ^ | July 25th 2009

[Steelfish]

Right Wing US conspiracists question Obama's birth certificate

On the fringes of the American right, a growing conspiracy claims that Barack Obama is hiding a Kenyan birth certifcate, making him ineligible to serve as president.

Leonard Doyle in Washington 25 Jul 2009

An undated photograph of US president Barack Obama who was born on the 4th of August 1961 [Pic in URL]

Congress is wrestling with historic health care reforms, soldiers are dying in far off lands and President Barack Obama is fighting to keep the economic recovery on track.

But on the wilder shores of the American Right, the question that refuses to die is whether Mr Obama was genuinely born on US soil. If not, he would be ineligible to be President.

Conspiracy theorists and far right wingers, who have begun to call themselves "birthers", maintain that Mr Obama is not entitled to be President of the US because he is "foreign born".

The White House has published copies of Mr Obama's official birth certificate - a printed summary of his birth details, including the name of the medical centre in Honululu, Hawaii, where he was born. But the conspiracists maintain there is something suspicious in the absence of a photocopy of his original birth record, known as the "long form".

This would have been prepared by doctors or hospital officials involved in his birth and would contain fuller details - including the address of his parents.

They dismiss as a distraction a birth announcement for Mr Obama that appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser on August 13, 1961 - nine days after he was born.

[MeekOneGOP]

And HERE is an EASY copy/paste of all the email addys I sent this to!

360@cnn.com; andrea.koppel@turner.com; bill.schneider@turner.com; bruce.morton@turner.com; candy.crowley@turner.com; carol.lin@turner.com; crossfire@cnn.com; daryn.kagan@turner.com; david.ensor@turner.com; daybreak@cnn.com; kurtzh@washpost.com; inthemoney@cnn.com; insidepoliticts@cnn.com; crossfire@cnn.com; jeanne.meserve@turner.com; jeff.greenfield@cnn.com; jim.walton@turner.com; deirdre.walsh@turner.com; kelly.wallace@turner.com; kyra.phillips@turner.com; live@cnn.com; livefrom@cnn.com; livetoday@cnn.com; miles.obrien@turner.com; moneyline@cnn.com; newsnight@cnn.com; crossfire@cnn.com; paulazahnnow@cnn.com; paula.zahn@turner.com; paulazahn@cnn.com; rick.davis@turner.com; robert.novak@turner.com; tom.hannon@cnn.com; crossfire@cnn.com; wam@cnn.com; wolf@cnn.com; wolf@cnn.com;

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank YOU !!!!

[MeekOneGOP]

I sent my message to that CNN mail form AND ALL of the email addy’s you posted in #33 as well.

See above note for my easy copy/paste of those emails as well.

Thanks a million.

I HOPE this doesn’t fall of deaf ears and more coverage of this issue will be forthcoming very soon...

[Polarik]

CNN has attempted to distance itself from the doubts of Mr Dobbs and the beliefs of the conspiracy theorists, displaying Mr Obama's "short" birth certificate on air. "To a large and vocal group of Americans, this paper (birth certificate) that I just showed you might as well be bathroom tissue," said Rick Sanchez, one of the station's news anchormen. But their claim, he added, was "a completely unfounded story".

At least I can wipe my ass with bathroom tissue. Can't do a damn thing with a photo of a forgery. What an A-hole isSanchez.

[Ann Archy]

Freeper David Farrar showed a picture of “CERTIFICATE of LIVE BIRTH” and a “CERTIFICATION of LIVE BIRTH” ........HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!

[Polarik]

On the fringes of the American right, a growing conspiracy claims that Barack Obama is hiding a Kenyan birth certifcate, making him ineligible to serve as president.

That's what happens when the media whores are just now getting out of bed to listen to the story and screw it up, as usual. "Dual citizenship?" Never heard of it. "Forged birth certificate?" What's that?

[LucyT]

Thanks, MeekOneGOP. Good job.

~ See #121 for easy copy and paste.~

[thecodont]

He’s on my prayer list too.

[thecodont]

Nice analysis.

[thecodont]

The silence on his background is the greenish-yellow sky and dying down of the wind before a tornado.

[culpeper]

What birth certificate ?

[rodguy911]

scarborough and mudved have the same problems they are radio wannabees and tv failures.