It turns out Barack Obama is . . . is . . . a citizen. The White House has released President Obama’s long-form birth certificate to put the growing controversy to rest over his birth. Many of us have been critical of the birther conspiracy theories. However, I am not sure why the White House did not do this earlier since it addresses the allegations fully. It will be interesting to see that, now that Obama has produced the certificate, if the movement for state ballot laws declines. While it has been repeatedly stated that the laws are not about Obama, but we will see.
The long-form clearly states the date and other information. It also includes the name of Obama’s father — a focus of recent suggestions that the reason for withholding the document was the name of a different man or the inclusion of Muslim for religion.
Donald Trump immediately took credit for the disclosure stating, “Today, I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish,” Trump told reporters. “Why he didn’t do it when everybody else was asking for it, I don’t know. But I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue.”
I am not sure why the White House held on to the document. One theory could be that they knew it would blow up in the faces of Obama’s critics. However, it has served to rally critics for years. Those critics are not likely to register with the DNC now. They are likely to move on to other claims against Obama.
Perhaps now that he clearly was born in Hawaii, they will now claim that his is part of the Hawaiian royalty and thus making him ineligible as the holder of a foreign ennoblement.
Here are the two pages: Obama_birth_certificate and birth-certificate-long-form
Jonathan Turley
Bryan Michael Nixon
Speaking of Nixon, Nixon thought releasing a few tapes would solve his dilema. It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up 🙂
Hang on Help is on it’s way!!!!
Drudge Report
SF CHRONICLE: WH LYING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978&tsp=1
With Drudge Report’s Help, Birthers Latch Onto Phony Forgery Theory
Benjy Sarlin | April 29, 201
TPMDC
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/with-drudge-reports-help-birthers-latch-onto-phony-forgery-theory.php?ref=fpb
Excerpt:
In a predictable turn, conspiracy theorists are now rallying behind a bogus claim that President Obama’s long form birth certificate is a Photoshopped forgery — with a huge helping hand from one of conservative media’s biggest names.
The fringe theory’s rapid spread within hours of the certificate’s release presents almost a perfect example of one of the White House’s justifications for taking on the birther issue — namely, that thanks to the internet, conspiracy theories can migrate quickly from the fringe and into the mainstream if left unchecked.
In this case, it took only hours. The forgery claim appeared to have first started as an offbeat blog post from an Atlanta-based art director at an ad firm, Bryan Michael Nixon, less than two hours after Obama’s statement. By the end of the day it had become a headline on Drudge Report, one of the single most trafficked news sites on the internet. The debunked forgery revelation drew thousands of comments on messageboards, migrated to birther and truther conspiracy guru Alex Jones’ site, while a video explanation was viewed over 160,000 times on YouTube.
Ms. Blouise have you heard about the lonesome loser? He gets beatin by the queen of hearts every time.:)
OS,
My buddy tells me that the stuff on the internet is the problem … too generalized … intentionally … my curiosity is satisfied.
For your listening pleasure. It’s a long way there, A long way to where I’m goin.
Elaine M.
1, April 29, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Bdaman
April 29, 2011 at 5:32 pm
It has come to my attention that a guest poster has been providing IP addresses of posters to other commenters on this blog.
Please be advise !!!!!!!
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Really? Who brought it to your attention? I take offense at your comment.
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Bda,
Ditto … I thoroughly enjoy the articles presented by our guest bloggers and I would be very disappointed if any one of them decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
Frum dat day on, Eyes’a gone sum where, I WAS RUNNING 🙂
AY,
You have a good heart 🙂
Bdaman
April 29, 2011 at 5:32 pm
It has come to my attention that a guest poster has been providing IP addresses of posters to other commenters on this blog.
Please be advise !!!!!!!
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Really? Who brought it to your attention? I take offense at your comment.
OS,
Thanks … that’s how I did it … I just called it my modem program.
BTW, to find the command prompt in Windows7 and Vista, Click the Start icon, type: cmd into the search bar.
You should see cmd.exe at the top. click on that and then type ipconfig at the prompt. Hit Enter and your IP will show following “IP{v4 address.”
WordPress deleted what I put in brackets. Type: ipconfig into your C: prompt.
Blouise, to find your true IP, open the command prompt (C:) and type . It will give you your IP and some other information as well.
Kris,
Now who are the Tax Payers…. Would that be money that the Federal Government has in “Trust” for the needs of the individual states…. what about title IX funding…. would that not be the same source of money? Help me with this, I am confused with the distinction… Are the moneys from different sources….please explain this to me… I do not want to be some liberal that you claim is dumb…if I can be educated…I will….learn….what is the distinction of the sources of the funds…..there has to be a difference or Perry wouldn’t be asking for it….or is this election cycle for Obama and Perry wants to make Obama look bad… hell son last cycle he did not take Texas it seems kind of spurious at best….but hey… How about last election cycle for Perry…was that campaign theatrics…Please do educate me….
So what part of Texas are you from Kris….I wanna know…
I just ran a little test on my IP address … I know it ’cause I can get it off my modem program. Then I ran it through the program for my internet provider and it shows an address in an entirely different city. So I ran it through another IP identifier and a completely different address in another city popped up.
Some poor, unsuspecting person will answer their door to a teabagging advocate yelling “Blouise is a lilly-livered-liberal!”
It’ll be like that poor judge in Broward County on Easter.
I have a buddy who is a Captain at the agency one County over from mine that is tasked with identifying child porno internet users. I’m … going to call him and ask him how they pinpoint IP’s ’cause now I’m curious.
Buddha: “If you don’t like the answer, don’t ask the question.”
Raff was posting here when I arrived.
He has always been the perfect gentleman even when he has had reason to be otherwise.
For example, in the face of unfounded allegations.
Agree that raff is the most gentlemanly on this blog. Those nuns trained him well.