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Just Who Made Obama's Birth Certificate an Issue?
American Thinker.com ^ | May 28, 2021 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 05/28/2021 4:48:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

In his controversial new book on the 2020 election, Battle For The Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump. Edward-Isaac Dovere repeats a canard that has become something of a staple of Democratic mythology.

According to Dovere, in November 2020, then-president Barack Obama had a hard time making sense out of Hillary Clinton's loss "to a man he thought of as a moronic carnival barker." Dovere traced Obama's grudge against Donald Trump to the birth certificate issue.

Obama, writes Dovere, "would never forgive [Trump] for turning a fringe obsession with his birth certificate into an issue he'd had to address from the White House briefing room in 2011."

Dovere errs on several counts. Trump was not the one who turned the birth certificate into an issue. Obama was. Nor did Obama have to address the issue from the White House. He could have easily settled it in his attorney's office three years earlier. More importantly, perhaps, it was not the birth certificate that provoked Obama's wrath. It was Trump's ability to see Obama the same way Obama saw himself — as a fraud.

In the way of background, a week prior to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, attorney Philip Berg filed a federal suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania challenging Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president. A Democrat and former deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Berg expected to be taken seriously. He wasn't. The media expressed zero interest in his suit.

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To: Susquehanna Patriot
he put up an unauthenticated reproduction of a document that some experts have challenged as not original

The reproduction, from a partial OCR layering followed by flattening was deliberately done by the WH. Obama's hands are clean of course just like the rest of his clean and articulate life. But someone did the processing of the scan then released paper and digital copies and the "experts" went to work making themselves look stupid. That includes our resident "expert" Polarik.

It was all a giant waste of time, just as intended.

41 posted on 05/28/2021 6:41:06 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: sketchboy
I downloaded it and examined it in Illustrator where I could see the layers of how it was constructed and it was bizarre. No way that was a real birth certificate from 1961.

There was a real document sent from HI, not cooked up anywhere else. It was contemporary based on data on file. That real document was shown to some people in the press (all happened to be dumbasses). They saw the embossing, etc and there are pictures of them holding it and it is real.

Next they scanned the document, did partial OCR creating a couple layers and then flattened it. Then wrote out the file. That's what you saw, not the original JPEG from the scan. Nobody has that.

42 posted on 05/28/2021 6:46:12 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: ctdonath2

43 posted on 05/28/2021 6:47:42 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: rlmorel; Texas Fossil
Canada and not Kenya is just another sideshow. Another complete waste of time.
44 posted on 05/28/2021 6:47:55 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Kaslin

It was Hillary, right? (Confess that I didn’t read the article.)


45 posted on 05/28/2021 6:48:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s when Obama wrote that he was born in Kenya that caused people to think he was born in Kenya. Oops. He should have written. “Born in a lie, ostensibly to a visiting African student, but really to an older black communist pornographer, and an underage white slut in Hawaii, Barry Soetoro grew up insecure about his identity and bitter about his mixed heritage, and abandonment by his supposed father. Thus he felt a need to ride the choom bus and write alternative histories of his life. So buy my autobiography.”


46 posted on 05/28/2021 6:48:26 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: palmer

That sure sounds a lot like bullshiite to me. Where were you when we came up with the Certifigate keyword in 2007?


47 posted on 05/28/2021 6:50:54 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: 3RIVRS
He was reluctant because the first COLB was a hacked forgery, signed in one layer by 'hayiba4gery'.

The Kenyan bc was real.

48 posted on 05/28/2021 6:56:03 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: palmer

Cashill early analyzed this.

His is the most credible for a number of reasons. Proximity and travel expense included.

This is an old battle, but we did fight it out here. The media buried it in the noise. They are expert at doing that.


49 posted on 05/28/2021 6:56:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: palmer

Regardless of which, Canada or Kenya, the point is the same-and anyone that glosses it over by accepting blindly that Barack Obama was constitutionally a valid choice for President in the absence of any proof (which a birth certificate would have done, and a requirement for a valid birth certificate would do in the future) is doing the work to pave the way for someone like Kamala Harris to step right in, who is clearly not valid.

And we all know what a Republic, which is defined as the Rule of Law, not the rule of people, becomes when the laws that define it are openly meaningless and commonly disregarded.

The Republic becomes a Banana Republic.

As I said, this discussion is not going to overturn anything, but the recognition of the point as a valid point is exactly the same as recognizing that there were illegal activities in the last election in 2020. What we find is not going to overturn that, and anyone who thinks it will is a fool.

But that doesn’t make the discussion of it a waste of time.


50 posted on 05/28/2021 6:58:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Kaslin

later


51 posted on 05/28/2021 7:00:02 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: cnsmom

Obama’\s real father was Frank Marshal Davis of Chicago, the idiot liberal who mentored Obama into Chicago politics. Davis admitted as much in his book. Obama’s “Granny” was friends with Davis, and made up the Obama birth story to cover the fact that Obama’s under-age single mother conceived with a married man. It was statutory rape. “Granny” could not have had the foresight to know that her lie would disqualify Obama from the presidency.


52 posted on 05/28/2021 7:02:49 AM PDT by nagant
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To: 3RIVRS

No, the Republicans used McCain to take attention away from Obama’s ineligibility.
McCain was born in Panama, the country, not the Canal Zone.
He never released his birth certificate.
He was the perfect foil for Obama, get everyone arguing about McCain, son of an Admiral.


53 posted on 05/28/2021 7:06:33 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kevmo
You were a big promoter of polarik's crap: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2136816/posts?page=20#20

I wrote about it: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2132879/posts My fears were unfounded in restropect. The new blood coming into FR was a net positive and I didn't recognize that the threads, although mostly stupid and a waste of time, were also a good source of new ideas and strategies.

54 posted on 05/28/2021 7:24:34 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Eagle Forgotten
Sorry, what is FMD?

I presume it stands for Frank Marshall Davis... one of Obama's self-proclaimed mentors as a child. He was alleged to be a registered Communist Party member

55 posted on 05/28/2021 7:25:12 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Texas Fossil
Most of the battle here was noise. Polarik was 99% noise.
56 posted on 05/28/2021 7:25:23 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: rlmorel
You are correct that the discussion over qualifications, among other issues is not a waste of time. But the endless discussions of how to photoshop a BC were a complete waste of time.

And we are a banana republic now, not because of an alleged photoshop but because of an attack by China and subsequent theft of an election by the dems.

57 posted on 05/28/2021 7:28:09 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: teeman8r

So is oblammy.
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58 posted on 05/28/2021 7:34:56 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: Kaslin

Hillary made Obama’s birth certificate an issue.

Trump knew that Hillary knew about the fraud.

Obama did not want Hillary to win in 2016. His revenge on her is complete.

Obama did not want Trump to win in 2020. His revenge on Trump is complete.


59 posted on 05/28/2021 7:35:55 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: 3RIVRS
And the Dems started this with McCain’s birth in the Canal Zone Navy Hospital.

The problem with that story is he was born in town, not the Navy Hospital. You might remember when this sense of the Senate bill included Obama, he was later dropped because they knew it was problematic. Sense of the Senate bills make no law or regulation just that they like something.

60 posted on 05/28/2021 7:39:33 AM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans a secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Bongino says.)
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