Forged Kenyan Document Splinters ‘Birther’ Movement (Free Republic Mentioned)

The Washington Independent ^ | Monday, August 3, 2009 | David Weigel

[kristinn]

I had a good talk with David Weigel today. I was quoted accurately in this article. A lot more ground was covered, of course. I told him we're just trying to get to the facts and that we're not afraid to look into subjects that our betters tut-tut over.

[kristinn]

Ping-a-ling.

[steve-b]

Gary Kreep, a California attorney

You just can't make this stuff up.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t feel fractured and I damned sure don’t play into the attempts of those who try to start fights among us.

[TomServo]

Dan Rather may have the last laugh...

[Guenevere]

Thanks kristinn!

[PowerPro]

Exactly right.

There’s nothing wrong in examining a document and getting to the truth.

And once we do, we have to be able to accept that truth whatever it may be...even when it doesn’t go in our favor, like this Kenyan thing from Taitz.

At the same time...the fight goes on regardless of how many roadblock the left puts up. Obama is hiding something and it’s our duty to find out what that is.

[Red Steel]

Weigel dingbat lefty.

[xzins]

I didn’t see any splintering. I saw a bunch of folks trying to figure out a puzzle that had popped up.

[Jeff Head]

This is a simple thing to put to rest. I have a passport and a birth certificate. I can produce them at my house in a matter of minutes. I have not spent a million dollars to either acquire them...or to hide them.

This is not a unreasonable thing to ask for since being a "natural born citizen" of the US is a constitutional requirement for the job of President. It's not hateful, and it's not racist.

Proving that you are should be an honor.

Yet Obama cannot and will not produce either. Why?

The following birth certificate pupports to be from Kenya, and to be Obama's. It's getting a lot of press. Though there are a number of problems with it that indicate it is probably not authenticate, yet it looks a whole lot more authenticate than the elctronic COLB Obama made available on his web site.

The point is, this supposed document is out there and is being analyzed to death and will ultimately be certified one way or the other by experts. Obama's long form birth certificate is not...it is getting no such review. The longer it is absent, the more insistent the demands for it will become. Obama cannot hide from meeting the constitutional qualification.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

[Eagles6]

"Taitz does not claim that her document is authentic, and instead asks for a “subpoena for deposition duces tecum” and “letters rogatory” to force American, Kenyan, and British authorities into releasing their records on Obama."

There it is. Again brings up "zero's" refusal to release any records; school, passport, medical, birth.

What was the outcome of the Selective Service thing? Was it a forgery or has the Selective Service authenticated?

[HereInTheHeartland]

A very sound strategy on their part, if indeed O does not have a legit birth certificate.

And these people have the time to do it. Most of them live in their parent’s basements collecting some type of government check.

[BGHater]

‘Obama’s part to cause such a division within the country when he could fix it all with being transparent. ‘

Divide and conquer. He might be an illegal; but he isn’t stupid.

[Dutch Boy]

One thing the pinheads at the DU forget is that the document in question is a hard copy. It does not matter what the web copies are, the hard copy is the one that matters. If that is legit, it’s game over for Obama. On the other hand, if this is as fake as the one posted on KOS and Obama’s website, it needs to be known.

[FewsOrange]

It really is childish on Obama's part to cause such a division within the country when he could fix it all with being transparent.

He could not fix it by being transparent. If he released his long form birth certificate the birthers would just move on to the Kenyan father/not "natural born" issue, or the Indonesian adoption issue or the travelled to Pakistan issue or some other reason why they think he is not eligible

[bvw]

A FreeRepublic poster named Harry McDougland (sic), who went by the handle “Buckhead,”

Harry McDoug-from-Upland.

[Fresh Wind]

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the government of Kenya went after the person or persons who have been forging their documents!

Forging a US government document is a crime here, no doubt forging a Kenyan document is a crime there. But they probably don’t have the resources or interest to go after some pimply freak living in his parent’s basement in the States.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Was it a forgery or has the Selective Service authenticated?

CAN the SS authenticate anything from that era? My oldest son is the same age as Obama. Although the draft was over when he turned 18, I sent him down to the P.O. to register for SS because that was the law. He borrowed my car.

Then, a year later he got an official notice that he was in violation of the statute because he had never registered and would be under penalty of some sort. I think he had a receipt of some sort, so he went down and showed it to them and argued with them. They apologized and we never heard anything more about it.

My point is that they were pretty sloppy about their record keeping in 1979.

[Politicalmom]

Hey!! FReepers don’t HAVE “betters”!!!