Obama and ‘birther’ politics
Is the ‘Obama birth certificate’ conspiracy theory becoming a threat to Obama? Or to the Republican Party?
President Barack Obama: Born in the USA?
(Reuters/Corbis/Kevin Lamarque)
The odd “right-wing obsession” with President Obama’s birth certificate is spreading, said Joe Garofoli in the San Francisco Chronicle. First, Rep. Mike Castle (R, Del.) had to fend off an angry “birther” at a town hall meeting (watch video), then “border-obsessed” CNN host Lou Dobbs jumped on the “birther” train. Thankfully, Rep. John Campbell (R, Calif.) got “a beat-down” from Hardball’s Chris Matthews for pandering to the GOP’s “wacko wing.” (watch video)
The “birthers” are both “a fringe movement and something greater,” said Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic. No “important Republicans” believe this “extremely thoroughly debunked” conspiracy theory (although Rush Limbaugh is flirting with it), but some local lawmakers and an unknown number of GOP voters do. As midterm elections approach, Republicans have a tough choice: alienate the “birthers” or reveal the “narrowness of their base.”
Given the “momentum conservatives are building against ObamaCare,” this “blather” about the birth certificate is foolish, said Allahpundit in Hot Air. It also obscures an important point: “the natural-born requirement is probably the single dumbest operative provision in the Constitution.” Perhaps after Obama leaves office we can finally abolish it.
Look, this isn’t “just some conspiracy theory along the lines of 9/11 truthers and alien cover-ups,” said Larry Amon in Examiner.com, and it isn’t going away until Obama produces his long-form birth certificate. Personally, I’ve let this “very important” issue go, but only because Obama will never release the information, so we’ll never know.
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Posted by Bloomsday, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 8:30 am The thing is, even if Obama were to produce the birth certificate, there would still be a mountain of ignorant people out there claiming it's fake or that he's lying. It's not going to end. For people who don't want Obama as President, nothing is going to convince them that they're wrong.
Posted by Church Lady, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:07 am I saw a closeup of the Barack Hussein Obama's birth certificate from the Hawaii Dept. of Health. Check it out for yourself....The Certificate Number is: 151 1961 010641 Now pay attention here.151 1961 010641 12753 Now add up the individual digits....1 2 7 5 3 18 You know what that means?18 6 6 6 Do I have to spell it out for you? 666 people!!!!! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!Lord Jesus, COME QUICKLY!
Posted by Bob, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:14 am Perhaps that's true, Bloomsday but Obama not showing it in the first place close to a year ago perpetuated the issue. Had he come out right away and said, Here it is, it would have silenced the extreme right, and they would have latched onto some other wacky idea that would justify their disapproval of the President. To Obama's credit, he has and has had more pressing matters to address. Yet, if it was me, I would have presented it long before it snowballed into a 'conspiracy'.
Posted by Donaldd, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:42 am I've seen McCain's Birth Certificate online from the Republic of Panama in a city that has never been within the Canal Zone. John McCain is a Natural born citizen of Panama. Why then was he allowed to run for President?
Posted by Dr. Ron Polarik, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:46 am My 200page analysis of a 2 kB jpeg file containing a screenshot of a webpage showing a photo of a newspaper article about Obama's birth certificate proves that it's a forgery: the tachyon particles in it show conclusively that it was fabricated by a drunken robot at O'Zorgnax's pub in year 3001 and beamed back to the present day, which obviously means that Obama was born in Kenya. There can be no other explanation.Dr. Ron Polarik, Ph.D., Ms.C., MSG, STD, KGB, Esteemed Document Forensics Specialist
Posted by Dr. Ron Polarik, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:48 am My 200page analysis of a 2 kB jpeg file containing a screenshot of a webpage showing a photo of a newspaper article about Obama's birth certificate proves that it's a forgery: the tachyon particles in it show conclusively that it was fabricated by a drunken robot at O'Zorgnax's pub in year 3001 and beamed back to the present day, which obviously means that Obama was born in Kenya. There can be no other explanation.Dr. Ron Polarik, Ph.D., Ms.C., MSG, STD, KGB, Esteemed Document Forensics Specialist
Posted by james, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 10:01 am Why not show the long form hospital birth certificate ????What is he hinding ???????
Posted by Solitude, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 10:51 am Rightwing obsession? This thing was started by Democrat party grass roots supporters of Hillary Clinton during the early primaries.Who knew that Hillary supporters were so Rightwing?Or that The Week Don't need no stinking fact checkers.
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