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Barack Obama Turns 48: Birthers Give Him New Fake Birth Certificate
Celebrating his 48th birthday today, President Obama received yet another gift from that ragtag band of malcontents known as "birthers": A newly discovered copy of his own Kenyan birth certificate. You see, the birthers have been doing their best to prove that Obama was not born on U.S. soil, and is, therefore, not a U.S. citizen qualified to be president.Why is this good news for Obama? Because the document, like the birthers' central thesis, is so easily shown to be so much hot air.
Though one poll indicates that more than half the people in Virginia don't believe Obama was actually born in Hawaii, the birther movement is viewed as lunacy by a great many Republican strategists. The longer the unfounded rumors persist, the more Obama and the Democrats come off as sane, while the band of angry citizens that has been turning up at town-hall meetings or on cable news shows seems truly out to lunch. This is not the political binary system that the GOP needs at this time, and it perhaps explains the continuation of the party's woeful identification numbers.
So, yes, perhaps the president is smiling at news of this latest present from the birthers. True, he may have preferred getting better unemployment numbers, or passage of health care legislation. Then again, a phony birth certificate showing he was really born in Kenya might just be the gift that keeps on giving. Happy birthday, Mr. President.
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mayabelle1107
11:41AM Aug 4th 2009
I assure you, the lack of a birth certificate is way down on the list of why he is not qualified to be US President. There are many other more viable reasons.
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nael92
1:31PM Aug 4th 2009
oh really, like what?
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(2) Cory Dudley
10:23AM Oct 24th 2009
You are a bit vague, how about filling us in on your reasons. All I read into that you have posted is, "We are really upset because we lost."
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(1) giles chauvin
11:50AM Aug 4th 2009
yeah, well mayabell, seeing as how you people have been wrong about every last thing,
the rest of us take comfort in your latest statement.
the rest of us take comfort in your latest statement.
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(-4) rnsuitcase
11:51AM Aug 4th 2009
HERE'S WHAT I THINK HAPPENED, OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA, HIS GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER HEAR OF HIS BIRTH AND RUN AN AD IN THE TWO HAWAII NEWS PAPERS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE MARRIAGE WILL NOT LAST, THEY ARE WHAT OBAMA CALLS AVERAGE WHITE'S PEOPLE. THE GRANDPARENTS WANT TO CLAIM HIM AS A U.S. CITIZEN, MAKES SENSE THEY WANT THEIR DAUGHTER TO LEAVE THIS BLACK MAN WHICH SHE DID. OBAMA KNOWS HE CAN NOT PROVE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS REAL SO HE HIDES THE TRUTH, THEN THE REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE SHOWS UP IN KENYA, NOW OBAMA IS IN A REAL FIX. WHAT DO YOU THINK? GOOGLE TO SEE HIS REAL BIRTH RECORDS. Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?
California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.
California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.
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(3) rblrdr
12:00PM Aug 4th 2009
Or maybe he was born in Hawaii? Or is that just too simple?
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(-4) sitokhan1
12:34PM Aug 4th 2009
John McCain wasn't born in America, he was born in Panama. So I guess you Limbaughcils want Hilary to be President.
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(-6) Hello Walter
12:36PM Aug 4th 2009
I THINK YOU NEED TO LOOK AT A DICTIONARY AND SEE THE MEANING OF THE VERB "PURPORTS." THEN ALL THE SO-CALLED BIRTHERS (BEFORE THEY HAVE A VICTORY DANCE); AND, ALONG WITH ORLY, SHOULD TAKE THAT FAKE-A$$ED PIECE OF PAPER AND DROP IT INTO THE NEAREST TOILET, BEFORE IT BEGINS TO STINK.
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(-3) mxoverdriv
12:50PM Aug 4th 2009
sitokhan1
12:34PM Aug 4th 2009
John McCain wasn't born in America, he was born in Panama. So I guess you Limbaughcils want Hilary to be President.-----------------Sorry sitokhan1, but when Democrats brought up McCain's eligibility, he immediately brought his birth records, military records, health records and those of his parents too before a Congressional committee, which after investigating the matter determined that McCain was indeed a natural born citizen. It's time for Obama to do the same. If there is no question of his eligibility, why on earth does he keep the question open? Word is spreading, whether true or not, and his massive ego is no longer explaination enough for him to keep hidden his birth records, college records, law records, Ill. senate records, possible adoption, possible use of a foreign passport, and all the other possible's which should NEVER be in question when it comes to the president of the United States!
12:34PM Aug 4th 2009
John McCain wasn't born in America, he was born in Panama. So I guess you Limbaughcils want Hilary to be President.-----------------Sorry sitokhan1, but when Democrats brought up McCain's eligibility, he immediately brought his birth records, military records, health records and those of his parents too before a Congressional committee, which after investigating the matter determined that McCain was indeed a natural born citizen. It's time for Obama to do the same. If there is no question of his eligibility, why on earth does he keep the question open? Word is spreading, whether true or not, and his massive ego is no longer explaination enough for him to keep hidden his birth records, college records, law records, Ill. senate records, possible adoption, possible use of a foreign passport, and all the other possible's which should NEVER be in question when it comes to the president of the United States!
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(3) susanna
1:14PM Aug 4th 2009
I haven't seen anything that his parents were married. How about a certificate for that.
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(5) susan1hanson1
3:52PM Aug 4th 2009
It's not just the hiding of the "long-form" Hawaiian birth certificate. It's primarily about "President" Obama hiding ALL of his records: his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his University of Chicago articles, his passport, his medical records, his Illinois State Senator files, his Illinois Bar Association records, his baptism records, and his adoption records. . . .John McCain had to validate his eligibility to serve as President by undergoing hearings in front of a congressional committee, where he produced extensive documentation. It isn't just the "birthers" who find this secrecy unsettling. Why is Obama getting such a "free pass" from the media?
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(3) Sharynn
6:33PM Aug 4th 2009
Obamas mother WAS NOT Married to the dad. He never got a divorce from his African first wife, who he went back to
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(-1) Cory
10:22AM Oct 24th 2009
Sure, and the first thing the astronauts did when they landed on the moon was make a big green cheese sandwich. By any chance are you living in Virginia?
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(-1) knappag1
12:02PM Aug 4th 2009
Lets see if Dobbs can take a joke.
Lets offer anyione from Mars 1 billion NRA bucks if they firebomb Dobbs' house.
Get it dim witted conservatives the person has to be from MARS so it is a joke
Lets offer anyione from Mars 1 billion NRA bucks if they firebomb Dobbs' house.
Get it dim witted conservatives the person has to be from MARS so it is a joke
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(-10) knappag1
12:04PM Aug 4th 2009
Glenn Beck the coke head Mormon called Obama a racist on national TV.
Lets see if Dobbs and Beck can take a joke and offer anyone from MARS a billion dollars if they burn crosses ontheir front laws.
Get it stupid Conservatives the person burning the cross must be from MARS
Lets see if Dobbs and Beck can take a joke and offer anyone from MARS a billion dollars if they burn crosses ontheir front laws.
Get it stupid Conservatives the person burning the cross must be from MARS
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(-5) donjordan3
7:34PM Aug 4th 2009
Its funny,knappag1, that you call Beck a coke head and knock that fact that he is a Mormon. What I don't understand, you liberal a**hole, why you do not bring up the fact that your great lying, corrupt, racist, American hating, bastard, President, admitted to having used cocain, and pot, and sat for 20 years being brain-washed by the Great Rev, Wright, and hearing how much he hates Israel and America. Why don't you bring up the following things he spoke about in a speach he gave in Illinois several years ago, his mentor, as he was growing up, was a communist. When he was in college, he looked for Instructors and students that followed the same ideas as his mentor. Yes, I can understand why you are against Dobbs and Beck and when you wake up one day and have to start speaking Arabic, and you go to the doctor for a heart condition and your told to come back in 6 or 7 months and he'll try to see you, provided your not over 65 years old, then you'll be told to go home and die. Yes, I understand your back Obama.
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(6) knappag1
12:06PM Aug 4th 2009
I watched an old movie of the Marx brothers.
The Marx brothers opposed everything , engaged in irrational behavior which made us all laugh
If we offer someone from MARS a billion NRA dollars to burn down the homes of Dobbs and Beck because they are racist. Palin will want to NUKE Mars
The Marx brothers opposed everything , engaged in irrational behavior which made us all laugh
If we offer someone from MARS a billion NRA dollars to burn down the homes of Dobbs and Beck because they are racist. Palin will want to NUKE Mars
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(-9) Trish
12:50AM Aug 5th 2009
HEY KNAPPAG1: TAKE THE NEEDLE OUT OF YOUR ARM.
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(2) brdbrns3
12:12PM Aug 4th 2009
why hasn't anyone mentioned this? the number on the top of the Kenyan certificate is 47,044. Obama is 47 years old (before his current birthday, and he is the 44th President. Get it 47,044? Do you seriously think if the paper was real, that he would actually coincidentally end up with those two numbers. But the prisonplanet.com crowd will tell you that the secret Illuminati government planned the whole thing before Obamas birth. Get a life, retards.
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(-10) stacknef
3:03PM Aug 4th 2009
You forgot to mention that the "Republic of Kenya" did not exist when Obama was born in 1961, so whoever was paid to forge this "certificate" is either dead or wishes he was.
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