How Can You Be Shocked? This is the Guy Who Was Sure I Was Born In Kenya

Obama to GOP at a fundraiser last week:

Obama Speaks on His Released Original Birth Certificate April 27

The laughable, ego maniacal Trump claims credit for Obama releasing his original birth certificate, but this will NOT stop the birthers. They will still believe because their hatred of Obama is based on bigotry, whether they acknowledge that or not. It's a sad shame that POTUS had to even mention his birth certificate -- ever -- because it says America is full of dummies, clowns and fools. Obama said he released his certificate because it's become a distraction. It seems he released it for the media as much as anyone else. Our media is most interested in controversy and has acted irresponsibly on behalf of the public. Our media has promoted birthers to such an extent that Obama had to make a statement on his birth. Pitiful nation. Low moment.

Here is Obama's original birth certificate for the ignorant who don't believe in facts even in the face of facts, so essentially, this is pointless. Mind you, contrary to what birthers have promoted in the media, this birth certificate doesn't prove anything more than the birth certificate Obama released in 2008. Though it may stop the media from reporting on this issue and spreading more ignorance. Just in time to save birthers from disgrace, original birther Jerome Corsi has a new book out on May 17 called "Where's the Birth Certificate?"

Birtherism is racism. Is it conscious racism? For some yes, others no:

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All You Need to Know About Obama's Birth Certificate

Update April 27: Congratulations America! Obama released his original birth certificate. See his remarks here.

Obama has a birth certificate. Obama has shown his birth certificate. FactCheck held it, photographed it and validated its authenticity in 2008. Recently, FactCheck debunked birthers once again. Obama has an original birth certificate on file. No other kind of birth certificate is needed. Birthers invented the "long form" birth certificate to suggest that Obama didn't have the magical kind of birth certificate. Obama is eligible to be President of the United States, otherwise known as POTUS. Obama is POTUS. Obama has a dog. Obama's dog is named Bo. Bo was born in the U.S. Texas to be precise. Bo is a good dog.

Hawaiian Official Calls Birther Claims Ludicrous

Birthers mask their racism (conscious or not) by claiming Obama is an illegitimate president. Only when they come to terms with their bigotry will they come to see truth. Otherwise, they'll claim, as they've done in the past, that Hawaii is part of the conspiracy. As far as the media is concerned it's time to start acknowledging birthers for what they are and stop playing along.

The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue.

"It’s kind of ludicrous at this point," Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii's Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC.
Fukino, sounding both exasperated and amused, spoke to a reporter in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements on the NBC Today show last week questioning whether Obama has a legitimate birth certificate. NBC

Fukino said Obama's so-called long form birth certificate exists, which she has asserted in the past on a few occasions:

The first is that the original so-called "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" — absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health. Fukimo said she has personally inspected it — twice.

Furthermore, her boss at the time was backing John McCain when she first checked the authenticity of the birth certificate:

"It is real, and no amount of saying it is not, is going to change that," Fukino said. Moreover, she added, her boss at the time, Lingle — who was backing John McCain for president — would presumably have to be in on any cover up since Fukino made her public comment at the governor's office's request. "Why would a Republican governor — who was stumping for the other guy — hold out on a big secret?" she asked.

Trump and Palin earn four Pinocchios for their claims.

FactCheck Fires Trump for Incompetency

He claims the president’s grandmother says Obama was born in Kenya. In fact, the recording to which he refers shows Sarah Obama repeatedly saying through a translator: "He was born in America." 

He claims that no hospital in Hawaii has a record of Obama’s birth. Hospital records are confidential under federal law, but Honolulu’s Kapi’olani Medical Center has published a letter from Obama calling it "the place of my birth," thus publicly confirming it as his birthplace. 

He insists that the official "Certification of Live Birth" that Obama produced in 2008 is "not a birth certificate." That’s wrong. The U.S. Department of State uses "birth certificate" as a generic term to include the official Hawaii document, which satisfies legal requirements for proving citizenship and obtaining a passport. 

He claims that there’s no signature or certification number on the document released by Obama. Wrong again. Photos of the document, which we posted in 2008, clearly show those details. 

He says newspaper announcements of Obama’s birth that appeared in Hawaii newspapers in 1961 "probably" were placed there fraudulently by his now-deceased American grandparents. Actually, a state health department official and a former managing editor of one of the newspapers said the information came straight from the state health department. 

He claims "nobody knew" Obama when he was growing up and "nobody ever comes forward" who knew him as a child. "If I ever decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten," Trump said. Well, two retired kindergarten teachers in a 2009 news story fondly recall teaching a young Barack Obama. Loads more facts, proof, evidence on this here. 

Media Finally Gets Around to Fact Checking Trump

After letting Trump ride on lunacy for a few weeks, the media finally decides to fact check Trump. Make no mistake, birtherism is veiled racism. Birtherism was invented by people who have yet to reckon with the fact that a black person can be president. Some birthers may not even feel the least bit racist, which is exactly why birtherism was invented, so that birthers could claim that Obama is an illegitimate president without acknowledging bigotry in their heart. It's Psych 101 folks. The media shamefully has played along.

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States Addressing Birther Madness Instead of Jobs

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Hawaii Gov. Abercrombie Wasting Time on Birthers

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to set the birthers straight. But facts mean nothing to birthers. Birthers are cowardly, too cowardly to admit that they fear Obama because he is black. Their claim that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore an illegitimate president was concocted so that they could make sense of the changing world around them. In their world, there are no black presidents. Birthers are small and narrow minded people. No amount of evidence to the contrary could change their beliefs. Birther faith is cult-like. As sincere as Abercrombie's efforts are, they're wasted on the birthers:

HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks.
But he is so incensed over “birthers” — the conspiracy theorists who assert that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and was thus not eligible to become president — that he is seeking ways to change state policy to allow him to release additional proof that the president was born in Honolulu in 1961.
“It’s an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father; they were my friends, and I have an emotional interest in that,” Governor Abercrombie said in a telephone interview late Thursday. “It’s an emotional insult. It is disrespectful to the president; it is disrespectful to the office.”
The governor, a Democrat and former congressman, said he has initiated conversations with the state’s attorney general and the chief of its Health Department about how he can release more explicit documentation of Mr. Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital. Read more at msnbc

Birther Reporter Makes Arse of Himself Again at Press Briefing

Just last week, the birther reporter from World Net Daily, which is like that alien gossip paper, Weekly World News, told Robert Gibbs he wasn't sure Obama was born in the U.S. The fact that Les Kinsolving is in the White House briefing room at all is a wonder to me.

For reasons clear only to himself, conservative radio correspondent Lester Kinsolving -- who has questioned President Obama’s birth certificate -- applauded heartily when Vice President Joe Biden arrived and departed the briefing room.

Clapping is a major no-no for reporters -- although Kinsolving plays by his own rules. read the rest at Politico.

White House Press Briefing June 10

Birther Reporter Challenges Gibbs on Obama's Social Security Number

World Net Daily is like the Weekly World News, the one with Bat Boy on the cover. It's a piece of crap fringe publication. Their latest story says a clerk from Kentucky says Obama doesn't have a birth certificate. WWD is fringey-er than Human Events. I don't know how one of its reporters gets in the White House press room. But he's usually entertaining when he gets to ask a question. I can't wait to see the video (just posted here).

In the last question of the day, Kinsolving asked Gibbs "why the president is using a Social Security Number reserved for Connecticut applicants" – alluding to a popular conspiracy theory among some who question the president's citizenship.

Gibbs began to reply, saying he was "amazed" by the question, before interrupting himself to ask directly: "Do you think the president was born here, Lester? Do you think the president was born in the United States?"

"I don't know," the conservative correspondent answered, adding he wants to see Obama's birth certificate.

More at Politico

In other birther news, a few soldier birthers are refusing to serve saying Obama isn't the president. Birther Terrence Lakin is set for court martial.

Nine People Accused of Searching Obama's Records

These people could be birthers, who say that Obama hasn't disclosed his birth certificate, and that he's kept his private records private, and is therefore withholding evidence that supports their delusion.

Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.

The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport. More at the AP

Birther Rally May 29

Update: Birther rally canceled. Birthers decided they needed to barbeque. Read the comments section at the cancelation post. It's pretty funny. Sad too. Seems some birthers aren't very bright.

Such a hapless lot of hopeless people.
If you haven't heard of the birthers, they are a fringe group who believe that Obama was born in Kenya or elsewhere, and therefore ineligible to be president. They say Obama's birth certificate isn't his real birth certificate.

They thrive on fear and hate.

Birthers were Sarah Palin followers (when she was vp candidate) and now are tea partiers (but not all tea partiers are birthers). I believe Politico was the first media outlet to write in depth about the birthers. David Weigel has a good understanding of birthers. He talks to NPR's Terry Gross here.

Without a doubt, birthers are merely bigots.

Birthers believe that Obama is Muslim with an anti-America agenda, which tells you what they think about Muslims. Some think Obama's the anti-Christ. I kid you not. I, unfortunately, am personally familiar with birthers. I have a relative who believes Obama is Muslim (and therefore a bad man).

Birthers believe Obama is an affront to "white culture."

There are actually birthers in Congress. Michele Bachmann is a birther. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Aaron Schock, Tim Murphy and Charles Boustany are on video supporting birthers as opposed to denouncing them.

I believe Palin is a birther. Birthers often hang out at freerepublic.com, wnd.com and humanevents.com. They are led by Philip Berg and Orly Taitz.

There are also military birthers. Many birthers are older people.

Here is the birthers promo for their rally. Notice the especially racist, hateful frame at the very end:

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Army Birther Could be Court Martialed for Refusing to Deploy

Birthers should be heaved out of the military with a dishonorable discharge. Birthers like Terry Lakin in the military could be a danger. Questioning Obama's birthplace with all the evidence to the contrary is irrational and could be a sign of mental illness.

In this regard, I think the republican party is partly responsible for these rumors reaching the levels they have. With a few exceptions, republicans have always been coy when answering questions about Obama's birthplace and they've always used it for fear mongering.

I suspect Lakin has other problems, perhaps some mental issues. Read what Lakin wrote in American Thinker here. He set up a website where he's collecting money for his defense here. What a waste.

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The Birth of a Tea Party Nation

I'm afraid that the political scene is going to get worse before it gets better. With the liberals throwing out the moderate democrats and the right pushing out their moderates, there will only be pure ideology on either side. Where does that leave most Americans? We're becoming a country ruled by the minority. What decent person in their right mind would want to be a politician anymore? With Bayh's retirement, the republicans now have a shot at majority in the Senate and even John McCain is rivaled by someone more conservative than he is. And the ideology on the right is not a pretty sight. The tea party can call themselves whatever they want, but what they are is the party of fear:

Local Tea Party groups are often loosely affiliated with one of several competing national Tea Party organizations. In the background, offering advice and organizational muscle, are an array of conservative lobbying groups, most notably FreedomWorks. Further complicating matters, Tea Party events have become a magnet for other groups and causes — including gun rights activists, anti-tax crusaders, libertarians, militia organizers, the “birthers” who doubt President Obama’s citizenship, Lyndon LaRouche supporters and proponents of the sovereign states movement.

It is a sprawling rebellion, but running through it is a narrative of impending tyranny. This narrative permeates Tea Party Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds and YouTube videos. It is a prominent theme of their favored media outlets and commentators, and it connects the disparate issues that preoccupy many Tea Party supporters — from the concern that the community organization Acorn is stealing elections to the belief that Mr. Obama is trying to control the Internet and restrict gun ownership.

WorldNetDaily.com trumpets “exclusives” reporting that the Army is seeking “Internment/Resettlement” specialists. On ResistNet.com, bloggers warn that Mr. Obama is trying to convert Interpol, the international police organization, into his personal police force. They call on “fellow Patriots” to “grab their guns.”NYT

The NYT article seems to suggest that the tea partiers became concerned when the recession took hold. I question whether the tea party is about people worried about the recession. Who started the recession? People who bought homes they couldn't afford. People way in over their heads in debt. Wall Street in their greed took advantage of our greed. For tea partiers, talk about the recession and fiscal conservatism is a cover for an even deeper fear of a black president and what that means to them. How else could they let someone like Glenn Beck into their minds? Who would want to be associated with that kind of hate?

They are frequently led by political neophytes who prize independence and tell strikingly similar stories of having been awakened by the recession. Their families upended by lost jobs, foreclosed homes and depleted retirement funds, they said they wanted to know why it happened and whom to blame.

That is often the point when Tea Party supporters say they began listening to Glenn Beck. With his guidance, they explored the Federalist Papers, exposés on the Federal Reserve, the work of Ayn Rand and George Orwell. Some went to constitutional seminars. Online, they discovered radical critiques of Washington on Web sites like ResistNet.com (“Home of the Patriotic Resistance”) and Infowars.com (“Because there is a war on for your mind.”).

Many describe emerging from their research as if reborn to a new reality. Some have gone so far as to stock up on ammunition, gold and survival food in anticipation of the worst. For others, though, transformation seems to amount to trying on a new ideological outfit — embracing the rhetoric and buying the books. NYT

I normally loathe Keith Olbermann's derision of moderates and his usual partisan babble, but he's spot on about what the tea party is about. It has dredged up fear among Americans who hadn't even been aware of their prejudices. Fear is a good word. White Americans are scared out of their wits by the change in this country. They feel that others, "foreigners," have taken over and made their lives worse, which has led to all this anti-government speak. We wouldn't know of the tea party if there was a white democrat as president. None of us want to think the tea party is about racism. We want to think that there's more to it. But there's not.

Obama Speaks at Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4 Video

Obama spoke in Washington at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. He calls for civility. Obama slams birthers for questioning his birthplace rather than his policies. People laugh, but Obama is dead serious.

President Obama on Thursday strongly criticized controversial anti-homosexuality legislation being considered by Uganda's legislature.It is "unconscionable to target gays or lesbians for who they are," Obama said during an appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast.
The measure being considered in Uganda is "odious," he added.
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The organization which sponsors the breakfast, the Fellowship Foundation, has been associated with efforts to pass the bill, according to the ethics group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The measure would punish sexual activity between persons of the same sex with long jail terms or death.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also criticized the bill during an appearance at the breakfast.
CREW had protested Obama's appearance at the breakfast, claiming in a statement that the event "designed to appear as if government-sanctioned, actually serves as a meeting and recruiting event for the shadowy Fellowship Foundation," also known as "The Foundation" and "The Family."
A Ugandan legislator who introduced the bill -- which has been roundly condemned by human rights groups -- was scheduled to attend the breakfast before his invitation was revoked, CREW claimed. CNN

McCain Challenger a Birther

Obviously, this fool doesn't know that Obama has already shown his birth certificate. He has that Michele Bachmann look. Good grief. Is this all we can dredge up for leadership? Politics attracts so few decent people, I'm afraid.

Sarah Palin is a Birther

Sarah Palin outs herself as a birther on a wingnut radio show, which isn't surprising. Most of her followers are birthers:

Wingnuts Disappointed in Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs, who's seeking to become a politician, now appears to support amnesty for illegal immigrants. No one is cured from being a hater so quickly. Dobbs, also a birther, is an idiot for thinking we're all that stupid.

Wingnuts are also disappointed in Lou, especially Alipac. Alipac's William Gheen's desperate twitter:

We would like your opinion on this Shocking Lou Dobbs Video! ASAP http://bit.ly/8lrTlB illegal immigration #toct

I'm hoping that Dobbs makes a run for office, along with Beck and Sarah. That way they'll all get to see "real America" and realize that tea partiers are a sliver of America, not the majority. We need immigration reform but we don't need haters who scapegoat Hispanics leading the way on reform.

In an interview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo gaining attention Wednesday, Dobbs told interviewer Maria Celeste he is one of the Latino community's "greatest friends" and appeared willing to embrace a form of amnesty he spent years criticizing.

"What isn't working is a penalty to those who are in this country illegally for whom we can both be building a bridge to the future in which there is legalization and at the same time constructing an environment in which everyone is clear and unequivocal about the need for boarder security and a regulated flow of immigration," Dobbs said. CNN

Dealer Billboard Suggests Obama is a Jihadist

Conservatives/tea partiers don't like Islam.
They don't distinguish between Islam and radical Islam, which is why Palin is okay with profiling. Conservatives believe that Obama is here to take down the country because they believe he is Muslim. I used to think only a few of them thought that, but now I think it's prevalent and conservatives in congress are being emboldened by the tea party types.
Such small mindedness is so revolting. Call Wolf Interstate Leasing and Sales at 720-898-9019, and don't don't buy cars there or at any of Wolf dealerships.

A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.

The sign, completed Friday by artist David Lee, shows a grinning, cartoonish Obama and bears the words "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?"

Underneath the president's image is a big yellow square with the phrase, "BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!"
The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD" appear at the bottom of the billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing and Sales, about seven miles west of Denver. The sign is visible from Interstate 70. Read the rest