Posts Tagged ‘ Obama Birthers ’

The Birther distraction only benefits Obama

June 3, 2012
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The Liberty Papers
by Stephen Littau  

"This is precisely the kind of issue President Obama wants to be a part of this campaign. If the media and the people are talking about the birther question, they are not talking about his failed economic policies, his continued assaults on free market capitalism, ObamaCare, signing extensions to the Patriot Act, signing the NDAA, Fast and Furious, his drug war hypocrisy, his foreign policy befitting that of a warlord, his very Orwellian change in the definition of the term 'civilian' to make his statistics for killings of innocent people in foreign lands not look so bad to the casual news consumer, and etc. In other words, Obama’s record as president!" (05/31/12)

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AZ: Idiot pols climb back on board Arpaio’s birther bandwagon

March 15, 2012
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Fox Latino    

"Arizona officials have jumped back into the debunked birther controversy over President Barack Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility to hold office, endorsing a proposal that requires presidential candidates to swear that they meet the qualifications of the nation's highest office. ... The widely-disproved notion that the president was born abroad rather than in Hawaii, as state officials have repeatedly confirmed, comes up regularly in Arizona. Most recently, the man known as 'America's Toughest Sheriff' released a report from a volunteer posse challenging the authenticity of the president's birth certificate." (03/15/12)

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The states have the power to prevent ineligible candidates from becoming “president”

February 22, 2012
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The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade  

[editor's note: Because it draws so heavily on vivid imagination and convoluted conspiracy theory, "Obama Birther" material is difficult to excerpt concisely. This piece is yet another of those peeks into an alternate universe where Barack Obama is not a "natural-born citizen" - TLK] (02/20/12)

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/2012/02/20/greenslade.html  

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I can do it, you can’t

January 31, 2012
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Strike the Root
by Paul Hein  

"President Obama was served with a subpoena to appear in an Atlanta court on January 26, to offer proof of his eligibility to be on the ballot in Georgia in the upcoming presidential election. Georgia law, as I understand it, requires that all candidates for federal office be qualified to hold the office to which they aspire." (01/30/12)

http://www.strike-the-root.com/i-can-do-it-you-cant  

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AL: Judge tosses frivolous “birther” suit to keep Obama off ballot

January 9, 2012
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Washington Post    

"A state judge agreed with Democrats on Monday and dismissed a lawsuit aimed at keeping President Barack Obama off the ballot in Alabama this year, joining other jurists who have thrown out cases arguing Obama isn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen and can’t legally hold the office." (01/09/12)

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Birtherism is dead. Long live otherism.

May 19, 2011
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Mother Jones
by David Corn  

"Birtherism is (was?) fundamentally about delegitimizing Barack Obama — proving him a complete fraud. (It's been hard not to assume there was a racial component to the endeavor.) Yet the birthers, dependent on conspiracy theories, were easily done in by basic facts. Seen as reality-denying extremists, the birthers became a drag upon the GOP; only Donald Trump would embrace them fully — and that hardly turned out well. Yet otherism continues and thrives. This line of attack is far more in sync with routine political practices." (05/19/11)

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Birthers and the politics of the shameless

May 2, 2011
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The San Francisco Chronicle
by Deepak Chopra  

"Are the birthers dangerous, wacky, or simply distracting? President Obama has chosen the third option. His press conference in which he released his long form birth certificate was an exercise in tut-tutting. Acting the part of adult-in-chief, he reproached the press for indulging in the 'silliness' of promoting the birther issue over serious challenges like the national debt and dealing with entitlements. No doubt he realizes that the lecture was futile. ... But there may be a serious undertone to raising the ceiling on shamelessness." (05/02/11)

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The Great Presidential Pseudo Certificate Circus

May 2, 2011
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Garry Reed Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed  

"Some people, known as Birthers, are excruciatingly serious about the Obama birth certificate scandal/conspiracy/unconstitutionality. Some people have been studiously ignoring the whole Obirther hoo-ha. And then there are those who think the whole thing is a hoot." (05/01/11)

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Why birtherism is here to stay

May 2, 2011
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Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman  

"On Oct. 22, 1844, thousands of followers of American evangelist William Miller woke up expecting Jesus Christ to make his triumphant return that day, as they had been told. That night, they went to bed, surprised and disappointed. But Miller's movement endured. It was too much to expect that birthers, presented with President Barack Obama's birth certificate, would say: 'What surprising and wonderful news! We'll have to reassess our entire opinion of him.' When it comes to matters of blind faith, cherished beliefs have a way of overriding facts." (05/02/11)

http://reason.com/archives/2011/05/02/why-birtherism-is-here-to-stay  

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Ending the birther debate

May 1, 2011
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Reason Reason
by Michael C. Moynihan  

"Because of the mainstreaming of this exceptionally boring conspiracy theory, an increasing number of Americans were willing to believe that President Obama might have been born in Kenya, or that his book was actually written by a not-particularly-clever ex-member of the Weather Underground (something Sarah Palin also intimated in recent interviews). But was it enough of a groundswell to matter; to effect Obama’s chances at serving a second term? Well, no. And if it were, why not wait until election time, drawing more and more mainstream Republicans into the patently idiotic Kenyan conspiracy, and then dropping the 'long form' certificate when it would have a bigger political impact?" (04/29/11)

http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/29/ending-the-birther-debate  

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Birtherism is dead. Long live birtherism.

April 28, 2011
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Slate
by David Weigel  

"President Obama did not end the 'birther' movement today. ... He did end one era of conspiracy theories about him — the fifth era, by my count. And maybe all he did was make sure the sixth era got started with as loud and embarrassing a bang as possible." (04/27/11)

http://www.slate.com/id/2292306/  

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Obama to birthers: Here’s the long form, now shut up and take your thorazine

April 27, 2011
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USA Today    

"President Obama, [maximizing his advantage from] a persistent and distracting controversy over whether he was born in the United States, on Wednesday released the official long-form birth certificate that skeptics had demanded." (4/27/11)

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Why did Obama take on the birthers?

April 27, 2011
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Mother Jones
by David Corn  

"Why did Obama finally play the ultimate card? In his statement, Obama did not refer to celebrity developer Donald Trump, who in recent weeks has made birtherism a core component of his presidential campaign flirtation. But the president did refer to 'sideshows and carnival barkers.' And records released by the White House show that it was not until last week that a lawyer for the president sent an official request to the Hawaii Department of Health requesting that the department make an exception and release to the White House a copy of the long-form certificate registering Obama's birth." (04/27/11)

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/why-obama-took-on-birthers  

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AZ: Brewer vetoes “birther” bill

April 18, 2011
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BBC News [UK]    

"The governor of Arizona has vetoed a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove US citizenship in order to get on the state's election ballot. Republican Jan Brewer said the bill would have allowed officials to judge who is eligible to run for office. A lingering 'birther' conspiracy theory asserts US President Barack Obama was not born in the US and is thus ineligible to hold the office. But the bill's Republican backers insisted it was not aimed at Mr Obama. The Arizona legislature was the first to pass such a law." (04/18/11)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13125337  

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A whole new day for birthers and CPAC

April 18, 2011
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Slate
by David Weigel  

"The director of CPAC, Lisa DePasquale, is moving on from the American Conservative Union after planning five of the monster-sized movement events. And with her, coincidentally but ironically, goes a hands-off ACU/CPAC policy towards 'birtherism.' ... One of the groups in the American Conservative Union is robocalling people on the ACU's list as part of a campaign to investigative/impeach President Obama over the birth certificate controversy." (04/18/11)

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AZ: Bill requires candidates to prove birth in US

April 17, 2011
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Associated Press    

"Arizona, which has shown little reluctance in bucking the federal government, is again plowing controversial ground, this time as its Legislature passed a bill to require President Obama and other presidential candidates to prove they were born in the United States before their names can appear on the state’s ballot. If Governor Jan Brewer signs the proposal into law, Arizona would be the first state to pass such a requirement — potentially forcing a court to decide whether the president’s birth certificate is enough to prove he can legally run for reelection. Hawaii officials have certified Obama was born in that state, but so-called birthers have demanded more proof." (04/17/11)

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Trump extends, revises barmy “birther” babble

March 28, 2011
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CNN    

"He off-handedly questioned President Obama's birthplace last week -- a comment that drew strong rebukes from some quarters -- but now business mogul Donald Trump says he's more concerned than ever that the president was, in fact, not born in the United States." (03/28/11)

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Poll: 51% of GOP primary voters believe Obama born abroad

February 16, 2011
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Politico    

"In a shocking finding, more than half of GOP primary voters believe President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new poll. Fifty-one percent of 400 Republican primary voters surveyed nationwide by Public Policy Polling said they ascribe to the controversial birther conspiracy theory — despite the fact that the state of Hawaii has posted Obama’s certificate of live birth." (02/15/11)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49554.html  

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