A soldier doesn’t want to deploy to Afghanistan, because he believes President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Apparently, such folks are called “birthers.” Ridiculous. More from Media Matters for America and The Huffington Post.
UPDATE: 21 July 2009
Here is an update regarding more shenanigans from the birther movement. In addition to being unreasonably or obsessively anxious, these folks are completely blind, idiotic, and hypocritical. See Birthers Displeased With Reasonable Republican via Gawker and the video below. As one commenter on Gawker notes, “Birthers fall under the same category as moon landing hoax people (if we’re going to use a timely event). No matter how much information you provide them – including the announcements of two newspapers from the day after Obama’s birth – they refuse to admit anything.”
Chris Matthews on the issue:
UPDATE: 23 July 2009
Jon Stewart on the Birther movement:
On the Net:
Birth Certificate
FactCheck.org
PolitiFact
Snopes.com
Wikipedia
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If all of this so-called evidence is out there,then where can I see it. And,indeed,why does he refuse to release his college entrance papers,like every other politician has had to do? All of his “secrecy” is certainly hiding something, and it just may be something worse than his birth.
Look, it’s real simple. When the American people asked for proof that Obama was born on US soil, he provided a fraudulent birth document that has been examined by experts who all have concluded it is in fact a photoshop fake.
Only criminals and con artists use fake identification documents. Period. End of story.
And all the defenses of Obama pointing to internet sites like noFact.org as proof are in themselves ridiculous. In fact, the very birth certificate that noFact stands behind has already been proven by every expert who examined it to be a fake photoshop fraud. See the reports and documents for yourself at http://obamadocuments.wordpress.com/
CNN folks continually say the American people will never convinced, are purposely skirting the one and only single request we are asking for:
A legitimate, certified, COLB birth certificate. You know, like the ones we all have to provide when we get a drivers license?
The fact is that only criminals and con artists use fraudulent identification documents, and only news journalists who take the word of noFact.org over demanding the real document are not true news journalists themselves.
The issue over Barack Obama’s birth certificate is ridiculous. From the tea parties to the Judge Sotomayor shenanigans (e.g., Pat Buchanan) to the issue over Barack Obama’s birth certificate—there has been one big expulsion of hypocrisy, ignorance, racism, and unreasonable discontent, since the election of President Barack Obama.
Furthermore, I reckon the courts are involved in the “alleged conspiracy to conceal Obama’s true nationality” as well. There has been no credible evidence to show some type of conspiracy. In Berg v. Obama, 574 F.Supp.2d 509 (D.Pa. 2008), the district court held (emphasis added):
More from the National Post (emphasis added):
Below are two official emails that dispute the public version of Obama’s Birth and his mother’s marriage to BHO Sr.
From: pubrec@u.washington.edu [mailto:pubrec@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Subject: Re: Stanley “Ann” Dunham 1960 to 1970 class registration
Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham (BHO II’s mom) was enrolled at the University of Washington for:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962
The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University’s response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.
Madolyne Lawson
Office of Public Records
206-543-9180
From: Stuart Lau [mailto:stuartl@hawaii.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008
Subject: Re: Inquiry
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham:
Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 – Summer 1966
Fall 1972 – Fall 1974
Summer 1976
Spring 1978
Fall 1984 – Summer 1992
Degrees awarded:
BA – Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967)
MA – Anthropology, Fall 1983 (December 18, 1983)
PhD – Anthropology, Summer 1992 (August 9, 1992)
Sincerely, Stuart Lau
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Stuart Lau
University Registrar
Office of Admissions and Records
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph: (808) 956-8010
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Commentary on University Emails:
For the BHO II Hawaiian Aug 4 1961 COLB to be accurate the following improbable events needed to occur:
1 month after starting classes, Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack’s mom, at age 17, got pregnant by the only black African man on the entire chain of Hawaiian islands.
2 months after getting pregnant, she drops out of college.
3 months after getting pregnant, she marries BHO Sr.
10 months after her first day at the U of HI, she delivers BHO II and immediately leaves her parents, her new husband, and her home, to fly alone with a newborn 2800 miles to Seattle to start college at the U of W.
Stanley Ann Dunham does not return to Hawaii until AFTER BHO Sr left the islands for Harvard.
This is an implausible series of events made even more nefarious because Obama II in his 2 bio books never mentions his mom left Hawaii when she was married to BHO Sr, nor does he mention she was in Washington State during this time.
Simply ridiculous.
As for that woman in the audience, not to mention the people who cheered and agreed with her, well that’s just scary. People all round the world get scared when we see people like that.
(Keep up the good work Buck!)
Something of Interest, posted elsewhere on the Net:
“Discovery hearing re. Obama’s Kenyan BC, request for depositions of
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates scheduled for September 8th, 8am.
08/21/2009 44 MINUTES OF IN CHAMBERS ORDER by Judge David O. Carter:
ORDER SETTING SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 HEARING ONMOTIONS: (See document for
details.) In summary, the Court sets for hearing at 8:00 a.m. on
September 8, 2009, (1) the Discovery Motion, (2) the Service Notice,
and (3) the Ex Parte Application. All parties are ordered to be
present. The Clerk shall serve this minute order on all parties to the
action. (rla) (Entered: 08/21/2009)
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