Reminds you of a McCain-Palin campaign event, doesn’t it?
A woman gets up, holding a baggie containing her birth certificate, and unleashes a rambling, minute-long tirade tirade about how the president is a “citizen of Kenya.” The crowd hoots and cheers when she’s done. Castle responds, diplomatically: “Well I don’t know what comment that invites. If you’re referring to the president, then he is a citizen of the United States.” That elicits roars and boos from the crowd, so Castle presses on. “You can boo, but he is a citizen of the United States.”
Every day Obama’s in the White House, the GOP’s rabid base gets scarier. And he’s only been in office 6 months.
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Wow. Just wow.
Yeah, those folks in exotic Hawaii set up a conspiracy all those years ago. They just KNEW that that Obama feller was going to try something real mean like run for President so they had plan for it.
It’s a corn-spiracy Ma!
What the fuck is wrong with those people?
These right wingers remind me of spoiled children who turn into bullies. They didn’t get their way so they boo and cry and talk about bullets instead of ballots. Grow up please.
Rove once bragged that they created reality. These morons have created their own reality in an alternate universe.
The most ironic part of this is that John McCain was born in Panama. But if he was president there would be no “birther” movement.
hardliners look at the history of germany and how hitler took over the country
it is the black thing that is driving them nuts
five blacks in the white house is making them go overboard.
and a black mother in law
there is a god there is a god to do that
ie karma doing its thing for americans
It is all they hear. They don’t either read neutral sources or, if they do, they totally discount them.
I’ve heard someone tell a clerk at a local store that Obama was going to MAKE every service member swear an oath to him and not the Constitution. I don’t normally get into politics where I live, because it is clearly Wingnuttia Land, but I couldn’t let this pass. I explained that the Air Force Times ran an article debunking the whole thing not long before. His wife was happy to hear the truth, but he clearly wasn’t. I just didn’t want others in the room to believe that garbage.
Great, just great. Another American proving to the rest of the world that there is a part of our society who are batshit crazy stupid insane!
OK, haven’t been following this story since O’s birth certificate was posted online (during the election fercrissakes). Under what pretenses have they rejected the birth certificate?
You are so true. I just finished reading Andrei Cherny’s “The Candy Bombers, the Untold Story of the Berlin Wall” and am reading William L. Shirer’s “Berlin Diary”. Wow, it has been a powerful reminder how close we came to the brink during the Bush years.
Another book that really struck home was “First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin” by H.W. Brands. It is no surprise that someone like Franklin, who put money in an account that would make a final payout of several million dollars for two states and two cities 200 years down the road, would detail just the issues we have put up with for the last eight years. We would be very pleased with Firedoglake and its defense of our freedoms and not surprised, but disappointed, with the current Republican party.
Wouldn’t it just make more sense if they stood up and truthfully said “I will not accept a black man as my president!” – at least they’d only look half crazy instead of all the way gone.
[birther]
It’s a conspiracy where the folks in Kenya and Hawaii conspired in 1961 to pretend this guy Obama was born in Hawaii (actually before it became a state so they post dated everything by two years.) And the conspiracy includes the Honolulu Advertiser and Star Bulletin, who published the bogus birth announcement two years after Obama was really born in Kenya.
And that’s why he was able to do so well in school since he is actually two years older than he claims.
[/birther]
It has nothing to do with Obama being black. It has everything to do with the marixts Obama surrounding himself with left wing radical socialists. Obama and his staff are so far out of the mainstream that it is almost unbelievable. The only reason I can believe it is that majority of the american people don’t have the first damn clue about politics and what the democrats are really about as the dems have the media running interference for them.
I would love to see Alan Keyes in the white house. I suppose you libs would not celebrate an ALL black president though. Instead other blacks would call him an Uncle Tom.
Since Obama hasn’t done that, it obviously means that it has everything to do with him being black.
They don’t reject it so much as they just claim that it has been concealed. Objective reality is not very popular with these people.
The NRA is feeding a lot of these lunatics. My horse shoer solemnly informs me that Obama has realized that he can’t seize all the guns, so he’s going to make it illegal to sell ammunition. Or maybe require that each round of ammunition have a serial number, and force gun stores to register each sale with the government.
I’ve seen the flyers. They hand them out at gun shows and shooting competitions, along with broadsides declaring the Obama is not a citizen.
Hawaii is just so….foreign! It’s way out there in the ocean, after all.
Oh, that makes sense. One can tell by listening to O speak that he is of inferior intelligence./s
Where were these birther theorists when Bush’s military records went missing?
I heard all that ammo stuff last December. Very crafty of Obama to move so slowly on that. He will probably sneak it in once he whips everyone up into a bigger frenzy over the birth certificate.
It’s ironic these Nut Bags targeted Castle as he’s a Republican, although a somewhat moderate one. Of all the Rovian games being played by conservatives I find the ‘Birthers” the most pathetic.
Don’t tell them, but the real birth certificate is hidden with Bush’s real military records.
Yeah, online is a great place to conceal something. Heehee.
Citizen Frederic:
Just how IS the weather on the side of the moon you live on, Brother fred? Aren’tchu glad that you live in a country where you can stop takin’ your meds and not be compassionately restrained and sent to treatment? Back under the bridge, brother, it ain’t gunna get better for you out in the sun too long.
Really? So when are we going to get all this socialism you right wing extremists keep talking about? I want my damn socialism! And I have yet to see him, or anybody else, make good on taking away all of your guns, like you people keep claiming he’s going to do. I for one am highly disappointed in Obama, you right wingers promised me a hard line socialist, so far all we’ve gotten is a bipartisan obsessed centrist.
Citizen frederic:
No dear, all us “libs” would call Alan Keyes what he is: a crypto-Nazi.
In ‘64, birthers could have gone after Goldwater since he was born in AZ before it was a state. Oh wait, he was a Republic. They never do wrong.
They are all certifiably Fucking Crazy Racist PIGS!
They are all too Dumb to wipe their owns asses!
But but it was on an American military base!! So fucking what!! He is a furner!
Waaahhh….Cwybaby in aisle #14. It is just so mean of marxist libs and George Soros who surround Obama to make Freddy sad…sad…sad. Stupid lefty are so far out of the mainstream too. And the stupid American people just DO NOT CARE! Stupid Voters! Stupid Democrats! Stupid Bloggers who disagree with the truth that Freddy knows and everyone else does not!
And, birther’s could have gone after George Romney (Willard’s father) in ‘68, because he was born in Mexico…except he also was a Republic. Hey, maybe Willard’s not a citizen.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO.
See, I’ve been blogging about this phenomenon for a while. It is a monster deliberately created by Dick Armey and Roger Ailes in the mistaken belief that they can control it.
And it has a name. Representative Castle, meet The Teabag Terror!
Control it? All Ailes wants to do is fan it, film it, and put it in heavy rotation on the Fox News Channel.
Wasn’t it Napoleon who said “Don’t interrupt your enemy when he is making a fool of himself.”?
Anyone notice that like the Republican fembot politician wives, the loony republican rally ladies look kinda the same? They’re all wearing red or red white and blue tee-shirts, etc.
Barack Hussein Obama’s father’s name is Barack Hussein Obama. Isn’t that neat? *rolling eyes*
Anyway, on my blog I’ve told the Birthers that NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, because if Americans were able to…..they would lose them! This is why WE ONLY GET A COPY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Trying to explain this simple fact to the Birther Morons is like trying to add more IQ to a cannonball!
People like this you must simply take with a grain of salt. They are set in their ways, as ridiculous as they may be. Simply put: a pity. The frightening underbelly of backwards ideologies. What’s worse, if truly confronted with an engaging question as to why they would refute the evidence of a birth certificate, you would hear something similar to the sound of crickets… quickly followed by a loud stream of words (see video example above) that should be completely ignored.
For fun, you could respond: “Oooooh, silver medal try, but the answer we were looking for is ‘I haven’t educated myself enough on the subject to share a credible opinion’. Better luck next time!”
But of Course Rupert is a cared carring Member of the ReichWing! Oh wait he is not a citizen is he!! iirc he an Aussie… Why the fuck should we let some Furnerer own a major media outlet in Our Contry! There ought to be a law against it …. oh yeah the FCC is loaded with those same Card carriers… We be FUCKED!!! Please Obam throw those Bums off the FCC board!!
Ooh, and if they can put RFID IN the bullets,that COULD prove VEDDY interesting,indeed,especially when they show up in our alleged enemies’ weaponry.
Alan Keyes? The one who is stoking the Birthers with lies? That Alan Keyes?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..h-cer.html
I think Alan needs to prove he’s an American citizen, because I think his last name of “Keyes” is just a cover-up of the fact he was born in Kenya. See? His real name is Alan From Kenya and not Alan Keyes!
Per his wiki, Murdoch became a US citizen in 1986 in order to be able to buy US televisions stations
Edit: It seems that at least at one time, we had laws banning non US citizens from owning TV stations/networks
Hmmh, if Sarah Palin’s secessionist husband had his way,her children and grandchild(ren)would be furriners,too!
What about Texas,wasn’t Governor “Good Hair” Rick Perry floating that recently?
I havedone a lot of shooting and most bullets that have been fired were pretty much totally deformed by impact especially if they hit something even close to solid like bones or even flesh!! So RFID would be pretty much toast… good theory but it sure doesn’t hold much water.
http://www.castle.house.gov/Biography/
“Mike Castle is also a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, which he co-founded in 1998 to promote thoughtful leadership in the Republican Party . . . “
Incurable optimist? Don Quixote?
Still, gotta admire someone who tries.
Well then Revoke his Citizenship!!
From what I’ve read, this stupidity is spreading. Now Hannity’s on it so it’s going to get worse.
Once again those pulling the strings have found something to incite the morons and they’re going to run with it.
I just shudder when I think about having had one of these idjits representing the entire USofA for the last 8 years!!!
THAT was SO embarrassing. It’s enough of a tragedy that we have to live along side of these people, but to have had one of them seated as POTUS was unbelievably mortifying. A national travesty, on the international stage being universally offensive in galactic proportions!
Hawaii has been mostly Asian (predominantly Japanese within the group) since before Pearl Harbor. From the 2000 census:
George Romney (father of Mitt) ran for president in 1968 and lost out to Nixon. He was born in Mexico in a Mormon colony established to avoid laws passed against polygamy in the US but they retained citizenship. Here’s a discussion of whether or not he was ‘a natural born citizen’ and whether he was eligible to be president or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…..ligibility
What siri said (:>((
Details like that matter little during a birther frenzy.
One way to answer them is to remind them about background checks before anybody can get a security clearance. The FBI would never have given him a security clearance without checking his citizenship and that of his family. I know it’s hopeless to try and convince them, but it is spreading and it could get out of hand.
We sent people to the moon. You think we wouldn’t know enough to check someone’s birth certificate?
Please.
I’m reasonably sure that some of our nation’s rethugbots also reject the moon landing as a liberal conspiracy
I would like to point out that Rep. Castle did refute the claims – more than once. In fact, he sounded a mite bewildered.
Looked him up = his website home page doesn’t mention that he’s a Repu blican, but he is in 9th term. So, he was there before Newt’s Contract on America brought in the nutjobs. Perhaps he’s an undercover
reasonable personmoderate Repub.I’m not sure that Eric Cantor or Jim deMint would be as straightforward.
Palin, after all, didn’t stop them.
If she had slammed down this craziness when it erupted at her rallies, it might (I stress might) not have spread this far. But that would have required her to consider the good of the country instead of her own benefit.
@44 nahant
It was satire-or at least meant to be…..
Wow, what a fucked up country. That woman sounded like an 8 year old. And all those folks are armed to the teeth. And that’s how they treat one of their own wingnuts. Be afraid.
ROFLMAO!
The original Republican Contract with America contained a typo.
It is evident,after the past eight years in particular,that the document was actually entitled the Republican “Contract ON America”.
If you’re referring to my post – read again and you’ll see that that’s exactly what I called it.
Might as well finish the truth of Ailes’ strategy. He wants one of these whack jobs killing the President. That’s what his inciting is all about. To politely tiptoe around this depraved and treasonous goal is underestimating the evil in control of the thug party.
After the prior eight years, do you really think it is beyond them? I’m hoping the secret service and the sheriffs dept. take their threat seriously and move to incarcerate those guilty of inciting criminal activity.
Sorry, but Alan Keyes is visibly unbalanced mentally. This post is surely a joke?
But I thought the liberals and the Democrats were angry?
Jeebus, the great unhinging continues.
We are ready to have another violent rightwing wacko run amok again.
-G
By the way, that ranting lunatic woman looked like the daughter of the kookie lady who told John McCain she was afraid of the foreign born Obama in the campaign.
-G
Looking for Dan Rather’s birth certificate.
They claim that it isn’t the original certificate – they want the actual physical one issued when he was born, not the official one that the state provides, even though that official copy is the only one that anyone ever gets. Idjits.
Some of them get all het up because it says ‘certificate of live birth’ instead of ‘birth certificate’. (There’s also certificates of stillbirth, but he wouldn’t have one of those.) Idjits.
Some of them are absolutely certain that he was born in Kenya, even though the certificate is from Hawai’i and there’s at least two newspaper announcements of his birth from Hawai’ian papers. Idjits.
The problem of Obama’s birth certificate has been solved. All he needs to do is stuff it in a baggie and attach a flag. Then the birthers will all know that he’s an American citizen. That baggie is obviously the missing link in proving legality.
For the record, Hawaii became a state in 1959.
Perhaps ”control” is the wrong word. The conservative movement wants to ”harness” the fringe to their purposes — is that better?
More like, the thugs are pouring the gasoline on the White House and supplying the lighters to any misanthrope (they call them patriots) that wants to step forward. If they accomplish their goal, they won’t have to do the actual deed personally.
Just imagine what is going to happen when the economy starts to improve, healthcare reform is passed, etc. Sheer apoplexy.
It’s truthiness carried to its inevitable conclusion. What they want to believe is what’s true.