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Where Do Birthers Come From?
Well, in 2008, Hillary Clinton supporters first
challenged Obama's eligibility to serve as POTUS, but it probably started with "Dreams . . .."
In
the introduction, Obama acknowledged his use of pseudonyms, composite
characters, approximated dialogue and events out of chronological order.
"He was trying to be careful of people's feelings," said Deborah Baker,
the editor on the first paperback edition of the book. "The fact
is, it all had a sort of larger truth going on that you couldn't make
up." -- basically, Obama's
story as told by Obama, and a few others, has more than a few holes in
it -- and his relationships are extraordinary. In other words,
"Dreams..." is a fable.
Well, folks put that information away. Everybody
puffs up their resume -- no harm -- no foul.
Then along came that Muslim thing.
Obama's sister Maya was
quoted by the New York Times as saying,
"My whole family was Muslim."
Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on
Earth," in an interview with Nicholas Kristof,
published in The New York Times, reciting the
Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a
first-class [Arabic] accent."
The whole question of whether Obama was or wasn't a
Muslim began in the Obama camp -- then there was a whole series of
contradictory reports -- no! he isn't -- well, maybe he is -- well,
maybe he used to be -- no! absolutely not! -- he's a committed
Christian.
Yeah, but what kind of Christian -- he wasn't quite
what I was used to -- for 20 years, Obama was a member of
a huge black nationalist church, the
Trinity United Church of Christ
(TUCC) -- its pastor, Rev.
Jeremiah A. Wright,
a
former Muslim and black nationalist, unabashedly preached a "black" gospel"
and "liberation theory."
And people said -- hey! -- wait a minute! --WTF!
In 2008, when questions arose about the candidates'
eligibility, John McCain released his birth certificate.
Barack Obama did not, and then other issues
affecting his eligibility surfaced --
Obama's birthplace is not certain -- the birth certificate is
demonstrably counterfeit -- he admits he was a British subject at birth,
etc., etc., prompting The Obama
File to publish this list of missing documentation:
Obama has lived for almost 50 years without leaving any footprints -- none! There
is no Obama documentation -- no bona
fides -- no paper trail -- nothing.
Original,
vault copy birth certificate -- Not released (lawyers' fees greater than $2,800,000
~ birth certificate is $15) Certification of Live Birth -- Released --
Counterfeit
Certificate of Live Birth -- Released --
Counterfeit
Amended
Certification of Live Birth -- Released --
Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released (if one exists)
Obama/Dunham divorce --
Released but
incomplete (by
independent investigators) Obama Sr. INS file --
Released
Noelani Kindergarten records -- Records lost
(this is a big one -- read two
frames) Soetoro/Dunham
marriage license -- Not released
Anna Soetoro/Dunham passport records -- Released, but key years
are
missing Soetoro adoption records -- Not
released
Fransiskus Assisi School School
application -- Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School application --
Missing Punahou School records -- Not released
Noelani 3rd Grade records -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham
divorce --
Released (by independent investigators)
Selective Service Registration --
Released (by independent
investigators)
--
Under suspicion
Social Security Numbers --
Released (by
independent investigators) --
Under suspicion Occidental College records -- Not released
Financial Aid Records -- Not released
Passport -- Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama's
terrorism and intelligence
adviser Columbia College records -- Not released Columbia
thesis -- "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" -- Not released Harvard
College records -- Not released Harvard Law Review articles -- None
Illinois Bar Records -- Not released Baptism certificate -- None Medical records --
Not released -- nor is the source
of this
nasty scar Illinois State Senate records --
None Illinois State
Senate schedule -- Lost Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
White House Visitors list -- Incomplete
to the point of worthless
The Blagojevich Interview -- judge
denies access to the FBI report
The Osama bin Laden photos -- sealed by Obama
The Illinois State Archives
told Judicial Watch that they never received any request from Senator Obama
to archive any records in his possession. In 2007, Obama told Tim Russert
that his records were "not kept."
And there's less on the web every day. In time, the entire Obama body of knowledge will consist of 3 documents
--
"Dreams
From My Father" -- "The Audacity of Hope" -- and the latest -- "Change We Can Believe In"
--
all written by Barack Hussein Obama or his "ghost-writers."
Just an accident? I don't think so,
but the overriding question is what, and why? What is Obama hiding?
And, why is he using such extreme measures to hide it?
With his willing accomplices in the
ObamaMedia, Obama has succeeded in evading the eligibility issue and
seizing power.
And we still don't know who the hell he
is -- or where he comes from -- or who sent him.
This is the original
list -- it has been copied all over the Internet -- but this is the
original source.
The Illinois
State Archives told Judicial Watch that they never received any request
from Senator Obama to archive any records in his possession.
Being a "Birther" is not about the birth certificate.
The birth certificate isn't the answer. It's a
symbol for all the other stuff.
Hiding his bona fides and hiring an army of lawyers to
prevent their release, makes Obama suspect.
Be honest, you wouldn't hire with a guy with
no background, with no
CV, to mow your lawn.
Obama's complete disregard for the reasonable
expectations of the American people to know who and what their leaders
are created the Birthers -- and Obama can make them go away -- in a
heartbeat.
Obama -- release your bona fides. The American People have a right to
know who you are, and who sent you.
Poll Stories Of The Year -- Number 10 -- Rise of the
Birthers
Have you heard of the questions that have been raised by some that
Barack Obama should not be president because he has not provided a birth
certificate that proves he was born on American soil as the U.S.
Constitution requires? He claims to have been born in Hawaii,
while others cite records and statements that show he was born in Kenya.
The people demanding he prove his birth location have been tagged as
"Birthers," and those who consider these questions inconvenient have
tried to marginalize their opponents by ignoring them or ridiculing
them (see Rule 5,
here).
I hadn’t paid much attention to this issue myself, so I
was surprised when the results to a
WorldNetDaily/Wenzel
Strategies poll in June showed that 49% -- essentially half of all
American adults-- are not convinced that Obama meets the qualifications
for the presidency! Such a result wins this data point a spot at Number
10 on my Top Ten Countdown
List for 2009. It could easily be Number One
-- but Obama has so far been able to deflect calls for him to prove his
origins. Pending court action may change that in 2010.
The
polling data shows this is not just a Republican fetish. Even among
Democrats, almost one in every four -- 23% said they were either
troubled by these questions about Obama or that he should definitely
release all records about the circumstances of his birth, including his
long–form birth certificate -- if one exists -- to put this question to
rest once and for all. Even among independent voters, 52% said the same
thing.
Men were slightly more likely than women to say Obama
should produce his birth certificate, and people in Obama’s age cohort
--
those in their 40s and 50s -- were much more likely than those younger
and older to say the same thing.
When this question was asked
back in June, Obama was riding high in public opinion polls and this
issue was not much of a threat to Obama. But now, Obama’s
job approval rating is lower than any president has ever been at this
early point in his term, and he is facing little or no improvement in
the economy and is pushing an agenda that has proven quite unpopular
with the American people. In this circumstance, the Birthers have an
issue that could prove very powerful, and the White House denials to
produce definitive documentation proving his American birth only feed
the movement.
How Crazy Are Those Birthers?
OK, maybe "Birthers" are nuts! They have only asked for
a simple birth certificate, which any other legal American citizen with
nothing to hide would have released immediately upon request!
Maybe it is "crazy" that "Birthers" are only concerned with the missing
birth certificate at this late date?
Most American citizens have
a job, a bank account, a post office box, a driver's license, and some
even have high level security clearances. What was asked of you
before you can have any of these things?
Something more than a
simple birth certificate, yes?
Yet somehow, it isn't Obama who is
in trouble here, but rather those crazy "Birthers" who simply want to
know who in the hell this mystery messiah from Kenya is and why he is so
damned anti-American, and anything but transparent?
The US
citizen is becoming aware of the fact that they have an entire
administration of foxes guarding their hen house and they are growing
desperate in their attempts to seek peaceful redress in the courts,
which are supposed to be the unbiased defenders of the Constitution and
rule of law in this country.
It's clear that neither the
executive or legislative branches of the federal government represent
the will of the legal US taxpayer anymore. Before we commence to
"altering or abolishing" a government which has indeed become
"destructive" of the individual right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness, we must exhaust the peaceful means of redress established
in the courts.
But it appears that we may have already arrived at
this point in time, as NO court in the land believes that average
American citizens have the "proper standing" to ask who in the hell this
mystery man really is?
That being the case, I suppose all
peaceful means of redress have been exhausted and it is time to take
matters into our own hands while there is still a country left to save
and a Constitution around to uphold.
Before citizens allow people
who won't even disclose a birth certificate to control life and death by
way of nationalized medicine, they had better wake up and take a stand.
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness."
If it's true that NO American
court will allow the people access to peaceful redress of such a
fundamental concern, then I'm afraid we have indeed arrived at the
moment in history when the people are left to their own remedies.
I will NOT call for violent actions, but I sure have no hesitation
in predicting that violent action is the natural result of no access to
peaceful solutions. The people are tirelessly, relentlessly and
patiently hoping that some court somewhere will rise to the duty of
their oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and
domestic, before the people themselves have to rise in defense of their
beloved country.
If the courts continue to run interference of
Obama & Co., I predict it will be a grave error of enormous
proportions...
In the end, citizens of this country will demand
freedom and a constitutional government. They will seek peaceful
solutions first, but when all else fails, they will once again arise to
the call of duty, in defense of the greatest nation ever known to
mankind. For freedom to exist anywhere on earth, it must exist in
the United States of America.
I sincerely pray for wisdom in the
courts, before the people run out of patience.
The "Birthers"
aren't crazy. They're right! The Constitution either means
what it says or it means nothing at all. If it means nothing at
all, then the people are on their own and the time to alter or abolish
has arrived.
These are the
closing paragraphs of a longer article,
here, that addresses a lot of information presented in The Obama
File over the last two years. But there's a lot of good stuff at
the link, and it's worth the read.
Obama To Blame For Birthers
Tommy De Seno, recalling Ronald Reagan's
admonition, "Trust but verify,"
says it's good practice to take a person at his word until someone
shows you proof he is lying.
Barack Obama says he was born in
Hawaii, and since no one has shown any documented proof he was born in
Kenya or elsewhere, it's OK to conclude he was born in Hawaii.
Sure his grammar school records show that he was enrolled as an
Indonesian Muslim, but some people will say anything to get their kid in
the right school. It doesn't really answer the question.
It's OK
though for others not to use my deferential standard and continue to
question whether Obama was born in Hawaii. We aren't talking about
a 12-year-old qualifying to play Little League here. There is a
Constitutional mandate that the president be a natural-born citizen, and
if Obama is not one, he certainly will have committed the biggest fraud
since the White Sox threw the World Series.
The reason why people
still question Obama's citizen status is one-fold: Barack Obama has
refused to release any original documents on the matter. He can
end the controversy in a day by releasing original documents, but for
some inexplicable reason he refuses, and his love-struck media never
asks him why he won't. The ObamaMedia instead spends hell-bent
hours on making Birthers look like fringy, conspiracy-hungry kooks.
You have to admit though, even if you are a devout Obot, Obama's
refusal to release any original documents makes for a newsworthy story
by itself.
If he really wants the Birthers to shut up, he has the
power to do it by releasing the original documents. Why not just
do it then? It's a simple task. Why not get rid of a
conversation that has been with America since the campaign?
The
issue is the subject of several lawsuits, which only seek a peek at
original documents. Can anyone explain why it is smarter for Obama
to spend millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours
defending the suits when he can win the lawsuit for free by showing the
original documents?
By defending the lawsuits and not showing the
documents, Obama feeds the suspicion of those who already think he is
lying. That's why this issue has the power to linger, and that's
Obama's fault alone.
Here
is what Obama has given the American People as proof of his eligibility,
and what he keeps hidden . . .
The Bizarre "Birther" Intellectual Dance
William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical
Professor, Cornell Law School says there is a bizarre intellectual dance
taking place around the topic of Barack Obama's birthplace.
The
world has been artificially divided into "Birthers" and "anti-Birthers"
when in fact I suspect a large percentage or even majority of the
population is neither and simply wants all the evidence released so that
we can move beyond the issue. For most people, who have had to
show their own birth certificates at various points in their lives, the
notion that a presidential candidate should release his or her birth
certificate to prove qualification for office reflects neither pro- nor
anti-Obama sentiment, but a "what's the big deal?" attitude.
It
also seems that the supposed intellectual poles have been reversed.
People who supposedly are irrational and driven by hatred demand to
see the evidence. People who supposedly are rational and driven by
dispassionate intellect demand that the evidence not be seen.
Isn't this the exact opposite of what should take place? Or have
the labels been misapplied?
While I disagree with the McCain
assessment, this is pretty good. Read the whole thing
here . . .
Why Doesn't Obama Just Release The Birth
Certificate
Here it comes. The landscape is being prepared. The governor of
Hawaii is asking for its release -- coincidentally, the day after Obama
arrived in Hawaii. The most liberal of liberals are now asking for its
release -- coincidentally, the day after that. This is no accident.
However, if Obama's long-form birth
certificate should be released, how the document is released, and to
whom, is critical.
If released, it will undoubtedly be placed on
FactCheck.org, and no independent, qualified forensic document examiners
will ever get to examine the document.
This will not end the
controversy. The document must be
released to an independent panel of qualified, forensic document
examiners, because Obama has had two years to prepare a suitable
counterfeit.
And if Obama should release his long-form birth
certificate, he should release ALL of his
hidden bona fides. The
American People have a right to know, and a need to know who Obama is,
where he came from, and who sent him.
If Obama is who he says he
is, he should have no problem living up to his promise of transparency
and do a complete document dump.
But remember, it is irrelevant
where Obama was born, because by
his own admission, his alleged father was a British/Kenyan citizen
and consequently Obama is NOT a "natural
born" citizen and NOT
constitutionally eligible to be POTUS.
Birthers Aren't Crazy
Joseph Farah says despite what Chris Matthews,
Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck say, so-called "Birthers" aren't crazy.
In fact, they represent the
clear majority of
the American people -- not some fringe element of society.
It
wasn't that long ago that Matthews and O'Reilly were waiving copies of
Barack Obama's certification of live birth, claiming it was a birth
certificate that answered all the questions anyone needs to have
answered regarding his constitutional eligibility. They went even
further, ridiculing anyone who demanded to see actual detailed and
unquestionable documentation of Obama's birth in Hawaii in the form of
an actual birth certificate with a doctor's signature, name of
delivering hospital, etc.
Now that new Hawaii governor, Neil
Abercrombie, says he wants to release more documentation to answer the
festering doubts of the American people, some of the most die-hard
critics of "Birthers" are now calling on Obama to release his real birth
certificate.
Of course, they don't admit so-called "Birthers"
have been right all along in demanding to see actual documentation.
They apparently just think Americans should accept at face value
whatever public officials and TV personalities tell them without
question.
In other words, we now have two opposing camps on the
eligibility issue:
• the
so-called "Birthers," who
have steadfastly and consistently called for one thing from the
beginning -- the release of Obama's original, long-form birth
certificate so this issue can be settled once and for all; and
• "Gullibles,"
the self-proclaimed enemies of the "Birthers," like Matthews,
who now calls for Obama to release his original, long-form birth
certificate so this issue can be settled once and for all.
We now have consensus. Everyone agrees --
from Governor Abercrombie and Matthews, both Obama Kool-Aid drinkers, to
Jerome Corsi and Joseph Farah, both Obama critics: There's only one
thing Barack Obama can and should do -- release his original, long-form
birth certificate to the public.
Meanwhile, we have
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin
sitting in a prison cell for the next six months because Obama won't
lift a finger to provide what 58 percent of the American people clearly
want to see.
The Washington Times
says politics is a blood sport, and it's naive to think there won't
be some serious injuries when playing in the political big leagues.
Because the stakes are so high, people running for office put forth
enormous efforts to scrub their past and curricula vitae of any
information that could give the faintest whiff of scandal or
irregularity. This leads to many self-inflicted wounds.
Excessive fear of scrutiny breeds secrecy, which can inspire conspiracy
theories, as the current occupant of the White House has proven.
All of the question marks lurking around Obama's background could be
answered with a little transparency. Fair or not, refusing to make
college transcripts public makes a gossipy society curious about what
someone has to hide. When a public servant doesn't provide
clarity, the creative masses will fill in the blanks. As liberal
MSNBC host Chris Matthews frustratingly asked about the hullabaloo over
Obama's birth certificate, "Why doesn't the president just say, 'Send me
a copy right now?' Why doesn't [White House spokesman Robert L.]
Gibbs and [presidential Senior Adviser David M.] Axelrod say, 'Let's
just get this crappy story dead?' Why not do it? If it
exists, why not put it out?"
Democrats try to wave off the
Birther controversy as a right-wing tempest in a teapot, but Obama, his
own staff and backers are the rainmakers who have stirred the recent
storm. Even when conservative critics of this administration try
to ignore the numerous conspiracy theories flying around Obama,
Democrats like Matthews keep bringing the issues to the fore and thus
make the scandals more bipartisan and mainstream. Hawaii Democrat
Neil Abercrombie -- a left-winger who made his political debut in 1970
as a longhaired Vietnam war protester -- is another example. After
being elected governor in November, Abercrombie, an Obama supporter,
vowed to put the Birther issue to rest "as quick as we can" because it
could have implications for the 2012 presidential race. Now he's
backtracking and giving conflicting statements about what exists and
what doesn't. With friends like these, Obama hardly needs enemies.
The whole saga is tawdry. Like the constant drip of lurid
revelations about Bill Clinton's adulterous affairs, it'd be nice if the
smarminess all went away. There are enough substantive policy
issues to fight Obama over besides worrying about whether little Barry
was born in Honolulu or Hartford or Havana. (Free scoop to the
blogosphere: Check the Cuban archives.) The fact of the matter is
Obama gets treated with extra-sensitive kid gloves for fear of trampling
on pseudo-sacred politically correct ground. For instance, many
newspapers like this one typically use middle initials with names of
public officials but don't for Barack Obama. Even though the White
House's own website makes use of the "H," which is short for Hussein, I
don't on these pages to avoid distracting charges of Islamophobia or
racism or just being mean to the historic first mixed-race president of
the United States. Political correctness engenders
self-censorship, even here.
A lot of Obama's problems can be
chalked up to bad public-relations practices and incompetent crisis
management. From major mistakes such as America throwing Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak under the bus to more run-of-the mill stories
like the first family's constant expensive vacations on the taxpayers'
dime, Obama is being poorly served by his handlers. Check out the
contradictory statements about Cairo from the White House and the State
Department and it's hard to come to any conclusion other than that it's
amateur hour in this administration. Drama engulfs everything
these people do. At the end of the day, it's a head-scratcher: Why
does everything about this guy have to be so weird? Why can't
Barack be a little more normal?
The holdup is that this
particular politician is not a transparent person. As a candidate
and since, Obama has been so stage-managed that it's not easy to know
who the heck the guy really is, and his own aides get tangled up trying
to decide what's true and what's spin. "Deconstructing Obama," a
new book by Jack Cashill, pulls back the velvet curtain to give a
glimpse backstage. His purpose is to provide an expose on a
politician who has gone to great lengths to carefully manufacture a
narrative for his whole life that is appealing for public consumption.
There's often a difference between what's true and what sells, and Obama
is a salesman. The product he's peddling is himself, so there's a
need to know some of the other side of the story. "If the role of
the postmodern writer is to construct a reality, the role of the
postmodern critic is thus to 'deconstruct' it," the author explains.
The image of Obama is such an artificial construct that it's
necessary to deconstruct some of the artifice. That work is not
character assassination; it's how the game is played in the rough and
tumble of Washington.
State Secrecy Breeds Conspiracy Theories
Brett Decker
says politics is a blood sport, and it's naive to think there won't
be some serious injuries when playing in the political big leagues.
Because the stakes are so high, people running for office put forth
enormous efforts to scrub their past and curricula vitae of any
information that could give the faintest whiff of scandal or
irregularity. This leads to many self-inflicted wounds.
Excessive fear of scrutiny breeds secrecy, which can inspire conspiracy
theories, as the current occupant of the White House has proven.
All of the question marks lurking around Obama's background could be
answered with a little transparency. Fair or not, refusing to make
college transcripts and other
life documents public makes a gossipy society curious about what
someone has to hide. When a public servant doesn't provide
clarity, the creative masses will fill in the blanks. As liberal
MSNBC host Chris Matthews frustratingly asked about the hullabaloo over
Obama's birth certificate, "Why doesn't the president just say, 'Send me
a copy right now?' Why doesn't [White House spokesman Robert L.]
Gibbs and [presidential Senior Adviser David M.] Axelrod say, 'Let's
just get this crappy story dead?' Why not do it? If it
exists, why not put it out?"
Democrats try to wave off the
Birther controversy as a right-wing tempest in a teapot, but Obama, his
own staff and backers are the rainmakers who have stirred the recent
storm. Even when conservative critics of this administration try
to ignore the numerous conspiracy theories flying around Obama,
Democrats like Matthews keep bringing the issues to the fore and thus
make the scandals more bipartisan and mainstream. Hawaii Democrat
Neil Abercrombie -- a left-winger who made his political debut in 1970
as a longhaired Vietnam war protester -- is another example. After
being elected governor in November, Abercrombie, an Obama supporter,
vowed to put the Birther issue to rest "as quick as we can" because it
could have implications for the 2012 presidential race. Now he's
backtracking and giving
conflicting statements about what exists and what doesn't.
With friends like these, Obama hardly needs enemies.
The whole
saga is tawdry. Like the constant drip of lurid revelations about
Bill Clinton's adulterous affairs, it'd be nice if the smarminess all
went away. There are enough substantive policy issues to fight
this guy over besides worrying about whether little Barry was born in
Honolulu or Hartford or Havana. (Free scoop to the blogosphere:
Check the Cuban archives.) The fact of the matter is, Obama gets
treated with extra-sensitive kid gloves for fear of trampling on
pseudo-sacred politically correct ground. For instance, many
newspapers like this one typically use middle initials with names of
public officials but don't for Barack Obama. Even though the White
House's own website makes use of the "H," which is short for Hussein, I
don't on these pages to avoid distracting charges of Islamophobia or
racism or just being mean to the historic first mixed-race occupant of
the Oval Office.
Political correctness engenders self-censorship, even here.
A
lot of Obama's problems can be chalked up to bad public-relations
practices and incompetent crisis management. From major mistakes
such as America throwing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak under the bus
to more run-of-the mill stories like the first family's constant
expensive vacations on the taxpayers' dime, Obama is being poorly served
by his handlers. Check out the contradictory statements about
Cairo from the White House and the State Department and it's hard to
come to any conclusion other than that it's amateur hour in this
administration. Drama engulfs everything these people do. At
the end of the day, it's a head-scratcher: Why does everything about
this guy have to be so weird? Why can't Barack be a little more
normal?
The holdup is that this particular politician is not a
transparent person. As a candidate and since, Obama has been so
stage-managed that it's not easy to know who the heck the guy really is,
and his own aides get tangled up trying to decide what's true and what's
spin. "Deconstructing Obama," a new book by Jack Cashill, pulls
back the velvet curtain to give a glimpse backstage. His purpose
is to provide an expose on a politician who has gone to great lengths to
carefully manufacture a narrative for his whole life that is appealing
for public consumption. There's often a difference between what's
true and what sells, and Obama is a salesman. The product he's
peddling is himself, so there's a need to know some of the other side of
the story. "If the role of the postmodern writer is to construct a
reality, the role of the postmodern critic is thus to 'deconstruct' it,"
the author explains.
The image of Obama is such an artificial
construct that it's necessary to deconstruct some of the artifice.
That work is not character assassination; it's how the game is played in
the rough and tumble of Washington.
Sometime, conspiracies aren't a
theory, as demonstrated in the next item . . .
The Real Birther Conspiracy Theory
Jack Cashill
says, in the course of my inquiries into many of history’s more
recent controversies -- JFK, Waco, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Ron
Brown, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Obama’s birth, the authorship of Obama’s
books -- I have come to see that when there are actual conspiracies
afoot, they fall into two general categories, conspiracies of execution
and conspiracies of concealment.
Conspiracies of execution, at
least on any kind of scale, are rare in American history. The
nature of our national character and the openness of our political
culture war against them.
Conspiracies of concealment are another
matter. When officials fail in their duties and let, say, a
president get shot, a plane get blown out of the sky, or a hijacker fly
into a building, their first impulse is to conceal their mistakes.
Such is human nature.
To me, a "conspiracy theorist" is one who
sees a conspiracy of execution where none could logically exist or who
confuses a conspiracy of concealment with one of execution despite ample
evidence to the contrary.
Given this understanding, it is the
rare "Birther" who qualifies as a conspiracy theorist. Few have
conjured elaborate, impossible conspiracies on the scale Oliver Stone
did in JFK or the French leftist Theirry Meyssan and others did with
9/11.
Most Birthers simply want to know where and when their
president was born, a not unreasonable aspiration. Few insist that
they know the answer. Despite my ample research, I do not know.
All I do know is that the official story -- the one Barack Obama
trotted out in his memoir and both his convention speeches -- is false.
In my forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama,
I show in detail why this is so and what the alternatives might be.
If there are conspiracy theorists involved in the Birther issue it
is those cynical souls -- and they are many, left and right–who insist
that Obama and his operatives have purposefully dragged the birth
certificate in front of the baying hounds of the excitable right like a
red herring. In its simplest form, this theory at least sounds
plausible.
14th century philosopher William of Occam had a keen
eye for plausibility. We know his approach to problem solving by
the label "Occam's Razor," an axiom often stated in shorthand as, "The
simplest explanation is usually the best." The original Latin -- "Pluralitas
non est ponenda sine necessitate" -- adds some nuance. This
translates roughly, "One ought not posit multiple variables
unnecessarily."
The cynics' case weakens the more variables they
posit. In December, for instance, Hawaii’s Democrat governor Neil
Abercrombie went public with his desire to silence dissenters by proving
Obama’s citizenship. When the governor failed to find it, the
cynics insisted that he too had been enlisted in Obama’s conspiracy to
discredit the Birthers.
Andrew Walden made this very case in
American Thinker last week. Wrote Walden, "Abercrombie may act
like a dopey doofus, but it is just an act. He has spent a
lifetime in politics manipulating conservatives to unwittingly serve his
agenda -- and he’s proud of it."
As Walden sees it, Abercrombie
likely conspired with Obama to keep this story in the news, all the
better to embarrass the right. When Abercrombie pal, celebrity
journalist Mike Evans, claimed on air that Abercrombie had told him
there was no birth certificate -- and then later retracted–Walden and
others imagined him in the plot as well.
"The progressives know
they can get the Birthers to do anything they want," concluded Waden.
"They are having a ball, and they are discrediting Obama’s opponents in
the run-up to 2012."
In other words, Abercrombie’s failure to
find the promised records and Evan’s recantation of a story he
breathlessly told on more than thirty radio stations were part of a
clever and increasingly intricate plot to enhance Obama’s electoral
chances in 2012. Never mind that Abercrombie made himself look
foolish and Evans lost his credibility in the process. The plot
demanded sacrifice.
This, my friends, is conspiracy theorizing at
its purest, and it makes little sense for two obvious reasons.
First, there is no political advantage in attacking Birthers.
After two years of "having a ball" with them, the Democrats lost 63
seats in the House this past November.
The second is that Obama
does indeed have much to hide. Whether he was born in Hawaii or in
Washington State, or wherever -- we know that he did not spend the first
two years of his life in a happy, little multicultural home in Hawaii as
advertised. He ascended to the presidency on a fully fabricated
origins story.
The more these alleged conspirators talk about
Obama’s origins the more attention they focus on that story. This
attention is inspiring state legislatures to demand proof of citizenship
before it puts candidates on the ballot. Even if Obama does
eventually produce a birth certificate that squares with his origins
story, critics can credibly ask why did he not produce it years earlier.
That is, if he can produce a birth certificate that squares with his
origins story.
How To Answer The Birther Question
Joseph Farrah
recommends this politick answer
to questions about the mysterious circumstances of Barack Obama's birth:
"I don't know what the facts are regarding
Barack Obama's early life because he has made it a point to withhold
virtually all documentation that would be meaningful to support his
story. Obviously Obama has a very big credibility problem in
this area with the American people. Polls show most Americans
don't believe his story. A dozen states are working on
legislation to ensure we don't have questions of eligibility
plaguing the nation after the next election. But understand
this is not a problem of my creation. This is a problem of
Obama's creation. It's up to him to persuade the nation of his
story, not me."
It's not a healthy thing that most Americans
don't believe Obama's birth story? Even his good friend,
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, seems terribly frustrated that Obama
won't simply reveal the documentary evidence that might clear up all
these questions. So why don't you ask Obama why he isn't more
forthcoming? Don't we like it in America when our leaders are
open, honest and transparent? Isn't that the kind of
administration Obama promised?"
Only Obama can end this controversy, and only by
being forthcoming with the American People.
"I Was Born In Hawaii, What Can I Say?"
Extracted from the Politico blog: Obama's address to a group
of 152 Democratic donors at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The
walls were lined with enormous original oil portraits from the 16th
century and guests are seated around about 24 round tables.
Obama introduced Nancy Pelosi as, "someone who’s going to go down as one
of the greatest Speakers in our history," and continued:
"When
the rubble had cleared, when the dust had settled. This country
was going through as touch a time economically, as tough a time
financially, as any period since the 1930s."
"We had to make a
series of quick decisions, and often times unpopular decisions ... to
resort to the expedient. "That’s why when I say, Nancy is going to
go down as one of our finest speakers… I mean what I say."
"Not
only were we able to get this economy going again, that in the last 15
months we’ve seen the economy add jobs…but under Nancy’s leadership we
were able to achieve historic health care legislation that over the last
15, 20 years will end up benefiting millions of families across the
country."
Does this guy read
the newspapers? Does he ever turn the TV from the sports channel
to the news channel?
He ended by calling for
Democrats and Republicans to put fighting aside, and quiped:
"I was born in Hawaii, what can I say.
I can’t change those facts."
Obama seems confident he can
establish his Hawaiian birth -- but, again he wants you to watch his
Right hand, while it's his left that you should be watching. He
wants the discussion to be about citizenship. Obama does not want
the discussion to be about his eligibility. They are two separate
issues.
He's conflating his "native born" citizenship status with
the "natural Born" eligibility requirement of Article II, and the
ObamaMedia is supporting him.
Birthers may not rule, but they are
most certainly on Obama's mind, and the ObamaMedia is loaded with
anti-Birther propaganda and misinformation.
Eligibility is a
major issue for 2012, and it wouldn't be -- if only Obama released his
documentation -- what there is of it.
Vindication
Four Condemning And Irrefutable Birther Facts
What If The Birthers Are Right?
Susananne Hiller says that inside the political
vacuum, the headline story on Drudge was none other than Obama’s birth
certificate. It’s the story that just won’t go away -- and it
won’t go away until Obama himself releases the long-form birth document.
But with the release of Jerome Corsi’s "Where’s the Birth Certificate,"
continued questions will either be answered or remain inconclusive.
However, no matter what the media says about the issue, people are
curious as Corsi’s book hit the Amazon charts hard and fast yesterday.
While I won’t rehash all of the issues here, I will note, for the
record, that the Left started the Birther issue (and continually
attacked McCain) and Obama is also a McCain Birther as he co-sponsored
the Senate Resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen–clearly
understanding the difference between being a US citizen and being a
natural born US citizen and its importance.
Now that that’s out
of the way, I’ve been watching the brouhaha that Donald Trump is causing
and he is not backing down -- that’s obvious. But during these
interviews, it makes me wonder why the MSM so aggressively attacks
anyone who even dares come close to this issue -- even now -- after they
seemingly put it to rest. What are they afraid of -- what might
they find? And was Oprah wrong again?
Another question that
I’d like to float: Is Obama intentionally withholding his long-form
birth certificate to continue to perpetrate the notion that those who
question him are crazy giving the media more ammo against the Birthers
and the Right? It wouldn’t surprise me, but with Corsi’s evidence
that may not be the case.
Finally, has the ObamaMedia, out of its
allegiance to the Democrat party, missed the biggest story in the
history of this country? And one thing you can be assured, the
Left will dissect and fact check Corsi’s book until the pages fall out,
but will they be able to defend their position on the record? What
they do with the information in Corsi’s book will probably need an extra
large bucket of popcorn with butter, because dare I ask this: What
if the Birthers are right?
Despite releasing the long-form version of his
birth certificate last week, World Net Daily publisher Joe Farah
says questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to hold the office
of president are far from over.
The questions now focus on the
Constitutional issue of eligibility and what that really means, Farah
explained to talk radio host Bob Grant this weekend. And the
conclusions research done by Swift Boat author Jerome Corsi, published
in a forthcoming book from World Net Daily, conclude that Obama is not.
"The issue has never been, 'Was Obama born in the USA,'" Farrah
explained. "That's one of a dozen questions that we have to answer
before we can answer if Obama is constitutionally eligible [to hold the
office of the president]."
"I mean, we got a guy here who's got
two foreign fathers -- not one, but TWO foreign fathers!," Farrah
exclaimed.
"The Founding Fathers were very clear on what they
meant by 'natural born citizenship'," Farrah explained, "and they
certainly did not mean that if your father was a foreigner, that you
could be a natural born citizen! That's just as clear as a bell!
And so, you know, that's the kind of issues Corsi will be dealing with
in detail in his new book," Farah said, which he predicted will be a
"bombshell" that has the power to "bring an end to Obama's presidency."
Farah said Obama released the long form of his birth certificate as
a "counter attack" to news of the forthcoming Corsi book, not from
pressure put upon him by presumptive presidential candidate Donald
Trump.
"That couldn't be more clear," Farrah said, pointing to a
timetable published last week by the Washington Post that showed Obama
finally directed his attorneys to get the birth certificate the day
after the Drudge Report published a story about the Corsi book, which
rocketed to the top spot on Amazon.com's best sellers' list.
Farah is "absolutely convinced" that the long-form birth certificate
released last week by the White House is in fact a "doctored document,"
after doing "extensive forensics testing" on the document.
"The
document that the White House released was produced in such a way,
copied in such a way, that it shows two things for certain: number one,
complete forensics testing that can give you absolute assurance about
validity or non-validity is impossible in the way that they released it,
which is strange given how quickly the media were willing to accept it.
The second thing that they can tell us, is that there were alterations,"
Farah said.
"Now that to me, is pretty striking."
Farah
says the document released by the White House last week is different
from other birth documents he has seen in the same time period.
Citing the Nordyke twins, who were born in the same hospital one day
after Obama, Farah said they have different information, different form
of registration number, and "all kinds of anomalies" that have not been
explained.
Farrah also noted that the media accepted the birth
certificate "all too readily [...] as if it were the Holy Grail."
Obama’s Background Of Mirrors
Doug Hagmann
says the establishment media has
decided that the case is closed, hoping to send the "Birthers" back to
their world of kooky conspiracy theories of obviously racist origins.
Looking into the background of Barack Hussein Obama can be compared
to looking into a kaleidoscope. The difference is that instead of
seeing pleasingly colorful and symmetrical designs created by light and
mirrors, one sees both the mirrors and mechanisms that create the
illusion and the asymmetry of the resultant image caused by a deliberate
miscalibration of the mirrors. Turning the tube, or attempting to
discern the image, only causes more unpleasant distortion.
Conducting legitimate background investigations should never be like
looking into a kaleidoscope. It is a rather straightforward
process. I should know, as I’ve done background checks as an
investigator in the private sector for the last 26 years, mostly for
Fortune 500 companies, screening potential executives selected to sit on
boards of mega-corporations. Questions are asked and answered, and
all documentation requested of the selectees is willingly provided for
the vetting process.
As one would expect, the requisite
documentation includes but is not limited to actual hard copies of
certified long form birth certificates, social security cards and
passport records. No scanned images, no internet downloads, and
most of all, no legal resistance to the process. The reasons for
the former are obvious: digital documents are not suitable for
authentication. With reference to the latter, legal resistance is
a red flag of deception, either by commission or omission, and quickly
warrants the selectee to a position of immediate suspicion.
In my
years of conducting such background investigations, I’ve experienced
such scenarios on less than a handful of occasions. Following
through on each instance, I’ve uncovered evidence that the person under
consideration was either lying about their credentials or was
unqualified for the position due to fraudulent college and post-graduate
credentials. In one particularly memorable case, I found that the
selectee was actually a "plant" from a rival corporation, using an
entirely fraudulent identity. In all such cases in which I’ve been
involved, they’ve been dismissed or worse, subjected to criminal
charges.
This brings me to the issue of Barack Hussein Obama,
following the interestingly-timed release of his alleged long form
Certificate of Live Birth. Apparently, the establishment media has
decided that the case is closed, hoping to send the "Birthers" back to
their world of kooky conspiracy theories of obviously racist origins.
The media, complicit in the process, has also been caught in some
underhandedness regarding the book "Where’s the Birth Certificate" by
Dr. Jerome Corsi. Even the self-proclaimed conservative network
Fox News vapidly ambushed Dr. Corsi in an interview conducted by Greg
Jarrett immediately following the release of his book. We would
expect that kind of behavior from the left but not the administration’s
number one critic.
Despite what "Team Obama," the complicit
corporate media, and many ill-informed conservative pundits proclaim,
the case of the deliberately opaque background of Barack Hussein Obama
is far from closed. In fact, as Obama and the Obama White House
has given his imprimatur of the recently released document, he has
legally painted himself and others into a potential criminal corner.
Beyond the digital release of the Certificate of Live Birth,
however, lies yet another aspect of his background that suggests the
duplicitous use of his social security number. Lest anyone is
about to accuse me or my network of being late to the party, we have
been investigating this aspect of the background of the man seated in
the Oval Office for some time. Much like Ohio private investigator
Susan Daniels, investigator Neil Sankey and others have found,
irregularities exist with the issuance of Barack Hussein Obama’s social
security number. We have collected original proprietary database
reports and other documents that indicate that Obama obtained, under
possible fraudulent circumstances, an invalid social security number.
While much discussion involves the state of issuance of that number, our
investigation focuses on the circumstances surrounding that issuance.
Our soon-to-be-released findings will likely surprise you. It
will also give you a glimpse of the internal mechanisms of the broken
kaleidoscope. And be advised, we’ve found virtual "fingerprints"
on the deliberately miscalibrated mirrors.
What is not in the video, but that I noticed on the page is
another bogus artifact, "gramps and his floating hand."
Look at gramp's left shoulder -- his arm is by his side.
Now look at his left hand -- it is floating -- clearly
disconnected from his arm and floating in space!
Ooo-eeeee-ooooo!
But according to Obama, his Obots, and the ObamaMedia, it's
the Birthers who are engaged in a conspiracy.
Birthers Press On
Peter Lemiska
says that in a belated response
to the Birther movement, earlier this year the White House
released Barack Obama's "long form" birth certificate. Everyone
believed it would finally silence the Birthers; and it did --
for a while. But since then, various independent researchers, as
well as experts in graphics, computer software, and scanning
equipment, have examined the document and now allege that it
shows signs of tampering.
Since all of the countless
lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility have been rebuffed by
the courts, the Birthers have set out on a new strategy. Arguing
that Obama used fraudulent documents to establish his
eligibility for the presidency in 2008, they are attempting to
exclude his name from state election ballots for 2012.
Last Friday, Dr. Orly Taitz, a controversial attorney leading
the charge in this effort, appeared before the New Hampshire
Ballot Law Commission to argue her case. The predictable
decision came immediately. BLC Chairman, Brad Cook, proclaimed
that "Our jurisdiction is to decide if a candidate on the ballot
has properly filed and has been properly placed on the ballot."
Case closed, Obama's name remains on the ballot. With all due
respect to New Hampshire's BLC, we have to wonder if the state
really needs an entire commission just to determine if a ballot
was properly filed. Shouldn't it have the additional
responsibility of verifying the eligibility of a candidate,
especially when serious questions are raised about possible
fraud? At the very least, shouldn't the Attorney General or some
law enforcement agency be tasked to investigate the charges?
And there certainly are legitimate questions that would be
investigated if the accused were anyone but the president. Why,
as Taitz and others have reported, has Barack H. Obama
apparently used a Connecticut-issued Social Security number, if
he has never had ties to that state? Why are there several other
Social Security numbers associated with his name? Why has Obama
fought so strenuously to conceal the original birth certificate,
only to suddenly produce the document -- a document of
questionable veracity?
Critics of the Birthers love to
ridicule them as conspiracy nuts. While a few of them may be
absolutely convinced that Barack Obama was born in a remote
Kenyan village, many bright, honorable and reputable people do
share with them serious questions about Obama's birth
certificate, and his murky background.
At the other end
of the spectrum are those who instinctively reject even the most
compelling evidence of any scandal that might hurt Obama's
presidency. To cling to their unshakable belief, they also have
to reject some well-established facts. Document fraud and
identity theft are real problems in this country. The Center for
Immigration Studies suggests that as many as 75% of working-age
illegal aliens use fraudulent Social Security cards to obtain
employment. Those fierce Obama loyalists dismiss even the
suggestion that Obama's birth certificate may have been altered.
When they cannot explain away any supporting evidence, they
resort to ridicule. But it's not just a matter of defending
their belief system. The whole issue of constitutional
eligibility is simply inconsequential to them.
Yet for
others, the questions remain.
Considering the
availability of high-quality forged documents, is it at least
possible that Obama's birth certificate could have been altered?
In view of the absence of verification procedures by the various
election committees, is it possible that candidate Obama was not
properly vetted in 2008? And considering the power of the
president, and his doting press, would it not be possible to
conceal from the American people any skeletons that might be
rattling in Obama's closet?
The Birthers point to a
mountain of evidence to substantiate their claims. All of it has
been challenged by Obama supporters. And while those who take
the time to research the claims and rebuttals with an open mind
may not be convinced that Obama was born abroad, they might walk
away with an unsettling feeling, a nagging suspicion about his
past, his credentials, and even his eligibility, or at least
suitability, for the office he holds.
The president
wields tremendous power, and like Chairman Cook, none of the
politicians or judges beseeched by the Birthers has shown any
interest in pursuing their allegations, no matter how serious or
well-substantiated. In the end, we will likely never know what
is hidden in Obama's background. But his piecemeal release of
selected documents of questionable authenticity only casts more
doubt on his past and continues to fuel the Birther movement.
Considering his current standing in the polls, it's impact on
the 2012 elections could be decisive.
As for Cook's
dismissive response to the issue, New Hampshire might think
about a new state motto. Instead of "Live free or die," the
legislators might consider "Let sleeping dogs lie."
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