Right-wing fringe claims Obama ineligible for presidency
By Virginie Montet (AFP)
WASHINGTON — A small group of fringe conservatives, many fundamentally opposed to the notion of an African-American as president, are challenging President Barack Obama's eligibility for the US presidency.
On blogs and even before US courts, the so-called "Birthers" are using the Constitution, with its stipulation that presidents be US natural born citizens, to argue Obama should not be in the White House.
Despite proof that Obama was born in the US state of Hawaii, including a birth certificate affirming that fact, rumors continue to spread, fueled by a group that critics say includes right-wing militants, racists and Holocaust deniers.
[EXCUSE ME? WHAT PROOF?]
"These are people who are fundamentally either racist or extreme right-wingers. That's where the whole movement is coming from," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies extremist groups.
[REALLY? IS THAT RIGHT?]
The movement is composed of "people who very much do not want Barack Obama to be president, largely because he is black, certainly because he is liberal," he added.
[AND HOW DID YOU COME TO THIS CONCLUSION? CAN YOU SITE YOUR SOURCES? WHO SAID THAT WE "WANT HIM OUT BECAUSE HE'S BLACK"? GO BACK TO FRANCE...YOU INTERFERING FRENCH BIMBO!]
On sites like WorldNetDaily.com, where a petition questioning Obama's place of birth has attracted more than 400,000 electronic "signatories," the so-called Birthers are daily raising "new doubts about the story of Obama's birth."
One of them has already tried in vain three times to sell on Ebay a birth certificate purporting to show that Obama was born in Kenya.
They are also taking their cause before US courts, where several lawsuits claiming that Obama was not born on US soil have been dismissed, including by the Supreme Court, which refused to hear argument on the issue.
At the beginning of the week, authorities in the state of Hawaii were forced for the second time since the senator from Illinois became president to certify that Barack Hussein Obama was in fact born in the Kapiolani maternity ward in Honolulu on August 4, 1961 at 7:24 pm local time.
[IS THAT RIGHT?...YOU MORON]
The US House of Representatives on Monday passed a non-legally-binding text on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's entry in the United States, affirming that "the 44th president of the United States was born in Hawaii."
[WOW and so that makes it true?]
"In America there is a history of conspiracy thinking that... is part of a tradition of dissent," said Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, which studies right-wing movements.
Berlet said a small percentage of the population believes the government has been taken over by a "secret elite" that includes "freemasons, the Catholics, Jewish bankers" and others.
He noted that former president Bill Clinton was also the subject of conspiracy theories that claimed he was seeking the help of the United Nations to confiscate all weapons on American soil.
While the movement has an audience of several hundreds of thousands of sympathizers, their theories are also being broadcast by media figures such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and radio host Rush Limbaugh.
"So you have this right-wing social movement, relatively small but angry, and then you have these major public figures, inflaming them with rhetoric and conspiracy allegations on national television," Berlet told AFP.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 926 racist groups in the United States in 2008, compared to 602 in 2000 -- a rise of 54 percent.
"I think that's very significant, and the numbers continue to rise," said Potok. "Very likely the white supremacist world has been energized by the election of a black man into the White House."
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In November 2008, our country elected as its president, a man who not only had no verifiable qualifications for the job, but was also constitutionally ineligible to hold it. The only proof he offered the public was an image that was thoroughly debunked as a computer-generated abstract that was not what it was purported to be.
In the time since that election, a groundswell of Americans asked for nothing more than an independent investigation into a document that nobody had any empirical evidence even existed, and were stonewalled at each step.
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On April 27, 2011, Barack Obama released to the nation yet another computer-manipulated image that he proclaimed was the document that, previously, the American people were told could not be obtained, while he also directed a veritable fortune to be spent to keep from revealing it. Once again, forensic document experts weighed in on the authenticity of that image, and handily dismissed it as a forgery as well. The release of that image also produced another valid question. If that were the "real" birth certificate, why would he have fought so expensively to obfuscate it, since there was little additional information included on it that the first image lacked?
Very possibly, the reason that the obvious forgeries were foisted on the American people was to keep public discourse away from the constitutional issue that plagues Barack Obama—that, according to the historic definition of "natural born Citizen," he is not constitutionally eligible to be president because his father was never a citizen of the United States, let alone at the time that Obama, Jr. was born.
To the repeated demands of the people over this constitutional calamity, and the subsequent crimes committed to veil the truth, our leaders in Washington have responded with outright deception, and continue to provide cover in an attempt designed to prevent any action on their parts to uphold their oaths of office to support and defend the Constitution.
Additionally, LTC Terry Lakin, an 18-year honorable Army flight surgeon who could not, in good conscience, deploy to a foreign war until he had confirmation that Barack Obama was a legitimate Commander-in-Chief (something that the April 27, 2011 document would have purportedly answered), LTC Terry Lakin was stripped of his military career and sentenced to prison in Leavenworth (www.terrylakinactionfund.com).
Having been ignored by their leaders for far too long, the American people are demanding to be heard. Out of those demands was born the Birther Summit, an event presently being planned for the voice of the people to be united into a single unavoidable chorus requiring our officials to do the jobs for which they were elected, and fully investigate Barack Obama's eligibility, based upon the sparse documentation he has provided.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
As a writer for this blog, I could care less the race,creed or sex of a President. Under a free and honest election, majority rules, so be it.
ReplyDeleteWe are a nation under law,the Supreme Law of the Land of this country is the Constitution, the whole Constitution, not this part or that part. As long as Obama Usurps it I will speak out.
Steve
Virginie Montet say's...One of them has already tried in vain three times to sell on Ebay a birth certificate purporting to show that Obama was born in Kenya.
ReplyDeleteJUST WHO IS THIS PERSON? WILL YOU PLEASE REVEAL HIS IDENTITY AND HOW YOU KNOW HE/SHE IS ONE OF "US?"
Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates says..."that former president Bill Clinton was also the subject of conspiracy theories." WELL HE CERTAINLY SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH CONSPIRACY THEORIES - HE AND WIFEY COINED THE PHRASE IN REAGARD TO EVERY CONSERVATIVE UNDER THE SUN."
You ninnies mean to tell us that the Secret Service has been protecting an 'illegal alien' in the White House without doing a background check? Really? And that the Obama family back in 1961 conspired to make sure they put two different birth announcements out there to fool the masses decades later so Barack could become the president? Bah hahahahahahaha! Seems the neocon white race has a total IQ of 14 combined. You people are completely stupid.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Barack's father is also named, "Barack Hussein Obama", was born in Kenya, and any birth certificate there would be his father's......not our presidents! Oh, but that won't stop you morons from continuing to spread lies, huh?
Kay in Maine...I strongly suggest that you read the recent posting yesterday...a letter to Bill O'Reilly. It clearly knocks down your mindless arguments. And by the way..what proof do you have that "Obama's" biological father was in fact a man named Barack Hussein Obama. That information would be on his long form birth certificate. Have you seen it? Do you believe "Obama"? He lies like a dog. Personally, I want to see all the documents he is hiding. BTW the Secret Service don't screen the "elected president" you ninnie. You're the one who is stupid!
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