Posted on 07/25/2009 11:40:30 AM PDT by pissant
Most political town hall meetings are pretty dull affairs. Not this one.
The YouTube clip of an irate woman waving her birth certificate in a plastic bag and telling Delaware congressman Mike Castle that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, has become an online sensation. Castle, a mild-mannered moderate, was booed when he insisted that our president is in fact a citizen. It's been on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh and just about every political website out there. The session was so embarrassing that a Castle staffer felt obliged to tell a local columnist that the hecklers were from out of state.
The birther controversy has a tight grip on rightwing opponents who argue that Obama is not the lawful president. FactCheck.org took a thorough look at the issue – and the birth certificate itself – and concluded: "It meets all of the requirements from the state department for proving US citizenship."
The website went further: "We suggest that those who choose to go down that path should first equip themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat." But the birthers seem immune to the lack of evidence. As Michael Tomasky points out: "He can't prove he's not a space alien either."
The nutty theories didn't end with the birth certificate. Members of the crowd told Castle that global warming is a hoax and just a theory like evolution. You can't tax carbon dioxide, he was told, because "trees need CO2 to make oxygen!"
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“He can’t prove he’s not a space alien either”
The idiots got this back-ass-wards too. The entire damn article is backward. I feel like I’m in some parallel universe where up is down, wrong is right, etc.
Don’t these people even read what they write or do they just pull words out of their ass and write’em down?
It is embarassing.
Should have been resolved before the elections.
MUCH much much bigger fish to fry right now.
Gee, people I know are embarrassed we have a President who chooses to seal all of his records, while demanding transparency from everyone else. And that includes some libs - so it’s not a partisan issue.
Start frying then
DEMAND THAT THAT ARROGANT BLUE LIPPED SPECIAL IN OUR OVAL OFFICE PRODUCE AN HONEST BIRTH CERTIFICATE, REFUND THE NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS HE HAS SPENT ON LAWYERS HE HAS SENT ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN ORDER TO STOP ALL INVESTIGATIONS ON HIS BIRTH INFORMATION (IF THOSE DOLLARS ARE TAX DOLLARS) AND BESIDES...
IF UHBAMA LOVED HIS NATION, HE WOULD HAVE PUT THIS TO REST MONTHS AGO....HE WOULD HAVE PRODUCED THE DOCUMENT, JUST LIKE JOHN MCCAIN DID HIS, IN ORDER TO PUT OUR MINDS AT REST. A GOOD MAN WOULD DO THAT. A CREEP WOULD PLAY A DIRTY GAME.
Standard hit piece from the guardian.
No, you guys have it all wrong. Remember the birth announcement in the Hawaiian paper? No way that any”political” person could foresee in 1961 that BO would have a chance back in 1961 to become a president. C’mon some little half black kid that no one knew would be smart or dumb, or prefer politics to farming.
BUT, if Satan himself was involved and had a hand in this, then BO could be the AntiChrist. Didn’t you see that movie “Omen”? Little Damien was raised from birth to be the AC.
Same with BO maybe? Who else but Satan could have arranged things to put that birth announcement in the paper back in 1961? Think about it.
BO is the AntiChrist.
parsy
the only ones enbarased are communist loving liberal Republicans!
So, this guy is saying that trees use CO2 and expel oxygen is a nutty theory. You just can’t make this stuff up. C’mon birthers keep stirring the pot. Cause the nuts sure are coming out of the woodwork. And they’re on the other side.
No Lorianne, this fish is plenty big to fry right here and now.
As for me, I’m not embarrassed in the least, I want to see the proof. I live in a world where if stopped by the police I must show all sorts of documentation from DL to insurance, registration, CHL. it must be current and accurate or charges can be levied; they can access my complete background over their radio/computer system. I’m filmed by their dashcam if they’re questioning me in front of the unit, Every word I speak is either on their digital recorder worn on their belt or transmitted back to the dashcam, my world is not exempt from ANYTHING.
When going into LE, thorough background investigation was conducted, neighbors personally interviewed, all educational data collected, past employment, wife interviewed, her friends interviewed, it went forever but somehow and I sure accept that. This man is exempt from the most cursory inquiry into this past.
No, there’s is so much hidden underneath the surface on this poseur, that when it breaks out, and it will, we will be amazed at how we’ve been had and THEN we’ll be embarrassed at how stupid we were...
My two cents is that proud grandparents had the announcement posted in the paper. Don’t know what’s up with the address though. Could be something as simple as they didn’t know the proper address and just made one up. Or they made a simple mistake.
Or, he could be the anti-christ and we’re all gonna die. I kinda like my theory better!
I have never seen a single mainstream news article addressing Obama’s lack of documentation. Only articles ridiculing the ‘birthers’.
But it won’t make a bit of difference because our whole economy and society will be gone by then.
Even if it is found that Obama is not a natural born citizen, it will have been a huge waste of time to pursue this at this juncture in history. The time to prove that was BEFORE the 2008 election. Now is too late and a waste of valuable resources.
We need to concentrate on winning in 2010 and 2012 ... not this.
In the meantime, pursueing this is losing independent voters and even disaffected Obama voters who could help a conservative win in 2010 and 2012.
You can win a battle and lose the war. Every military person understands this ... why don’t the birthers?
They never mention the FACT that he is throwing $$ and lawyers around to keep his real BC from view either
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull another RINO out of my ass!
No, for all these dominoes to fall in place there had to be intervention from the guy with hooves and horns. How you gonna list Satan on a birth certificate? How are you going to get all the pieces to fall into place. Harvard. Senator. President. All from some poor little kid.
No, Beelzebub has a hand in this. Wake up!
parsy.
“THEN we’ll be embarrassed at how stupid we were...”
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Then our eyes will be opened and we shall see how many congress critters were involved in the greatest fraud and cover-up in American politics.
And it will be shown that one political party did not outperform the other in trying to cover for the Great Imposter.
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