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Breakthrough on eligibility story
WND ^ | May 17, 2012 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 05/19/2012 9:29:10 AM PDT by James Thomas

Congratulations to Breitbart.com for reporting a story the site clearly didn’t care to publish. It seems that in 1991, Barack Obama was indeed representing himself to his literary agency as “born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: naturalborncitizen; obama; obamaborninkenya; obamaliteraryagents
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To: Tublecane
My very first post on this thread said out loud and in front of God’s creation that this is not a smoking gun, and birthers do themselves a disservice by pretending it is.
Who is saying that it is the smoking gun?
The only one I even see implying such a thing is you.


It seems to me you can't recognize when a glass is "topped".

Here ya go...

121 posted on 05/19/2012 1:33:02 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Tublecane

Trolls and anti-trolls


122 posted on 05/19/2012 1:33:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: philman_36

“You scoff at everything, not just some things”

No, I don’t. I do have a history of scoffing at birthers in particular, but that’s because I think birtherism is wrong. I’ve sat through you scoffing at me an awful lot on this thread, and can assume you spend a lot of time shooting down Obama and his supporters. Am I free based on that to assume you scoff at everything, are undiscriminating, and therefore need not listen to you?

I see a pattern here. Everyone who disagrees with you is a dissembler if not outright liar, merely a scoffer, and worst of all an undiscriminating scoffer. It must get tiring, being the only one with an honest opinion and the only one who argues correctly.

“You are listless, having no rudder in the water, and you steer no course at all while urging others to drift about as aimlessly as you.”

Uh, what? You’ve already admitted I’m constitent. Consistently disengenuous, or something, but consistent nonetheless. Before I was secret anti-birther who buries the lead (all the while explicitly going after birthers, making it plain as day I disagree with them, and never denying but outright admitting the lead I supposedly buried is in fact what I’m getting at). Now I’m not a secret anything, I guess, but a wandering arguer tied to no position, attacking birthers for four years as the result of a game of chance decided by a random number generator, or something.


123 posted on 05/19/2012 1:40:51 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
You’ve already admitted I’m constitent. Consistently disengenuous, or something, but consistent nonetheless.

A sailboat with no wind or rudder is a consistent thing. Consistently adrift.

You can't lie to the crew that there's wind in the sail when they can see for themselves that the sails are slack.

124 posted on 05/19/2012 1:47:18 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

“Who is saying that it is the smoking gun?”

Finally, at long last, we get to what I originally bothered posting about. No more concerning my ineligibility to post based on being a crypto-anti-birther troll.

Well, to begin with, editor-surveyor, who on this very thread said, “When it comes to Obama’s birth fraud, every thing is a smoking gun Troll.” But nevermind. I realize you don’t actually think it is the smoking gun, just that birthers tend to act that way. It’s an exaggeration on my part, but not by far. Merely referring to it as a “breaktrhrough,” though I realize is aimed at getting hits, is overdoing it. In a couple of days the new revelation gets added on the pile, to be of no greater significance than stonewalling in the courts, the 57 states thing, Bill Richardson speaking out of turn, etc.

But in the meantime it’s all hosannas and glory of glories, now no one can deny us and we will carry the day! I heard someone say that about some random quote they dredged up from Tom Paine about how English common law doesn’t necessarily apply in America. Seriously, they literally said now no one will be able to ignore us, or somesuch thing.

Ask any outsider to a conspiracy club, and they’ll tell you this is one of the most annoying things about them. Heck, it doesn’t have to about conspiracy nuts; this applies to all insulated groups. They inevitably have a much higher opinion of things that may or may not confirm what they’re looking to be confirmed. What would you say to a Truther who said, upon hearing jet fuel may not burn hot enough on its own to turn steel into liquid, “Aha! That’s it! now no one can deny the Truth.”

It may be to their advantage, in that non-truthers have to explain it away. But it’s no smoking gun, and it no doubt could be explained away. Birthers likewise habitually overplay their hand, in my opinion. That was my point.

“The only one I even see implying such a thing is you.”

You’re not looking closely enough. Birthers veritably exploded when this “breakthrough” hit.

“It seems to me you can’t recognize when a glass is ‘topped’”

What topped it, this “breakthrough”? Ah, then it is the “smoking gun,” and you owe me a correction. If the cup already was overflowing, why would this be worth mentioning? Who cares, case closed, let’s go home. If the case isn’t closed, and the cup hasn’t been topped, why are you posting a picture of it? that sounds like premature declaration of victory, which is exactly what I originally posted to counteract.


125 posted on 05/19/2012 1:58:55 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Wurlitzer

... nor can you possibly explain away his Senatorial campaign claiming his Keynan birthplace.
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This is the first I have heard of this. Do you have a reference?


126 posted on 05/19/2012 1:59:06 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Tublecane

Mr. obama has brought this all upon himself by sealing ALL his records pal.
Why?
Is there a Ms. Warren past? Homosexuality? Why ALL the disassociation with his past?
There is something there he does not want us to see.
whether that be not eligable or whatever, there is something there he doesn’t want us to see.


127 posted on 05/19/2012 2:01:11 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: philman_36

“A sailboat with no wind or rudder is a consistent thing. Consistently adrift.”

That’s pure sophistry, and in my opinion beneath your dignity. Either I’ve been consistent or I’m adrift; you can’t have it both ways. If for four years I’ve been consistently anti-birther, your sailboat metaphor is inapt.

“You can’t lie to the crew that there’s wind in the sail when they can see for themselves that the sails are slack.”

Now you’re mixing metaphors. Before I had no rudder and was therefore adrift, now I’m without wind and lack impetus? It could very well be both, but why bring that up now? I might have thought you were building an argument, not just piling things on willy-nilly. What’s next, my hull is breached, the captain has scurvy, and a storm’s a brewin’? You’ve lost course yourself, it seems.


128 posted on 05/19/2012 2:05:18 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: philman_36

“Consistently adrift”

This bugs me so I’m gonna stay on it. If by arguing I have no rudder and am adrift you didn’t mean to apply I was inconsistent, what did it mean? What was the point of bringing it up? What are you getting at?


129 posted on 05/19/2012 2:09:12 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
Most of the media, Breitbart.com included, decided long ago, this was a story that was not worth covering – even while WND pursued it aggressively. The rest of the media put its feet in concrete and denied there were any more legitimate questions about Obama’s constitutional eligibility – Breitbart.com included.

So how does one break such devastating news when you find Obama previously described himself as “Kenyan-born”?

You do it by distancing yourself from some imaginary “birther” narrative and determining for your audience what it really means – Obama didn’t tell the truth to his literary agent.

Talk about burying the lead!

130 posted on 05/19/2012 2:11:07 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“I think about that CEO of what was it, some high flying California web firm, who got deposed because he had listed the wrong school in his resume?”

Companies usually have a policy, which they make plain to applicants, that lying on a resume or in interviews can be grounds for termination. There is no such policy for the U.S. saying that if at some point in the past you or your literary agent lied about your past to sell your memoirs, it is grounds for termination.


131 posted on 05/19/2012 2:12:25 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
Nixon lied to cover up a crime, which itself is a crime.

Link? Did Nixon lie under oath, to a grand jury, or on a college application (which would have been a crime for Nixon or for the one you keep defending)? Or did Nixon lie on television? Is that a crime? Or did Nixon lie when he met Elvis? I would, but I only met Elvis' uncle and Sam Phillips' son.

(Don't bother, I won't engage in an multi-hour back-and-forth with you.)

132 posted on 05/19/2012 2:12:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!

“Link? Did Nixon lie under oath, to a grand jury, or on a college application (which would have been a crime for Nixon or for the one you keep defending)? Or did Nixon lie on television? Is that a crime? Or did Nixon lie when he met Elvis? I would, but I only met Elvis’ uncle and Sam Phillips’ son.”

Alright, you got me, let’s say obstructing justice, rather than lying persay. He was guilty of obstructing justice, I think you must agree. That’s why he resigned, and that’s why he was pardoned. Not that other presidents haven’t been guilty of the same thing, but he was.


133 posted on 05/19/2012 2:15:57 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: TXnMA

Pigs and chickens are “raised”.

Humans (at least, civilized ones) are “REARED”.

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It’s VERY possible that Obama has been “REARED” in multiple continents.


134 posted on 05/19/2012 2:27:11 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Tublecane

[fingers in ears] “La, la la, I can’t hear you, la, la, la...”
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Nurse....Nurse....We need a sedative over here!


135 posted on 05/19/2012 2:30:26 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Tublecane

Tublecane ,you need to get your head out obamies ass ,so you can see the real world


136 posted on 05/19/2012 2:37:32 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: Tublecane

You are ignoring that it was a ginned up public uproar that got the CEO booted. Not the company now having doubts about his competency.


137 posted on 05/19/2012 2:54:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: Tublecane; James Thomas; DuncanWaring; philman_36; hoosiermama; .30Carbine; blueunicorn6; ...
It’s another thing to trumpet each and every new story as THE breakthrough that finally PROVES Obama can’t be president. It got old long ago.

Tubledude, are you new to the internet? Headline News crawls? Drudge sirens? "Breaking News" sidebar?

Um, every new story is famous for 15 minutes in the 21st century, not just BO BC stories. fyi.

138 posted on 05/19/2012 3:07:13 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Saw that...Have you read LS’s book. Lot on insight and patterns on how the OBOT’s treat those they are trying to discredit.


139 posted on 05/19/2012 4:24:58 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: InterceptPoint

It was all over the web and on AP’s site for the longest time. About 3 months ago I did a search for it and only found one AP reference. Sadly that is gone. However, doing a search today shows a bunch of hits for how this scum of the earth got Ryan to drop out of the race using sealed court records about his divorce. I guess a hit piece on Ryan was more important to the AP than their own coverage of his Kenyan birth.

I know for a fact that I saw an interview on one of the alphabet networks during his campaign highlighting his meteoric rise in the dumbocrap party and his Kenyan birth. I doubt that network would make that interview available.

Given how the media is free to just not report things or take them down when it does not serve their communist agenda it is hard to know what it true. I have more faith that we live in the Matrix than I do in our media outlets version of things.


140 posted on 05/20/2012 6:30:58 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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