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Here’s a pretty good video of a liberal stalking GOP members of Congress around the Hill and asking them, straight up, if they believe Barack Obama is a natural-born American citizen. Only one will say yes. Jesus. These people, because of all the frothy mouth-breathers back home, declaring that they do not know if the President of the United States is constitutionally eligible to hold office.
Perhaps they should all introduce a bill “demanding proof,” if that’s the case? No really, do it! Every member of Congress should vote yes. Bring this to a head, for maximum comedic effect — Obama can sign this bill in a big Rose Garden ceremony, hold it up, stare into the camera — primetime — and say, “This is what the United States Congress just made me sign. This. This is what they produced, during work hours.”
(Then he will be deported, of course.)
Know Your Birthers [Firedoglake]
They would need a vacation first though.
To be fair, Price is a dildo.
Own it, Wingfucks. Up or down vote if he’s a citizen or not.
this is really a no-brainer, everybody knows the only people actually born in this great and god-fearing nation are caucasian males, all the others, white wimmins included, being imports.
My LOL moment was the report asking one congressman who was running (or at least trying to) run away “Is this as fast as you can go?”
I have to point out to the Birth-tards yet again. If there was a serious problem with Barry’s birth certificate and story, the FBI guys wouldn’t have given him a Top Secret Clearance. So how the fuck would a bunch of fuckwitted mentally damaged dipshits from Pigfucker (insert the goober state of choice) do a better job know the preznit’s birth certificate than a bunch of professionals from the FBI?
Hey, if that homeless guy’s piece of cardboard says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, that’s good enough for me.
These morans are ready to throw their full support behind Sarah and declare her queen.
God, are they desperate for something, anything, to dislodge the black man in the White house.
That video was really funny til I watched it.
100 years from now, people will look back and say “Good thing these brave Republicans ran away from the truth, literally, otherwise our country would be in much worse shape.” They’ll be saying this in Chinese, of course.
‘Cardboard Zeke’, the “He was born in Mombasa Kenya” guy is going to be a meme. He’s going to pop up everywhere; I can feel it.
I can say with absolute certainty that I would not respond to any questions about any subject from anyone I didn’t know who shoved a microphone and a camera in my face. Retarded.
I want them to pass legislation demanding that NASA prove the earth is round.
ManchuCandidate: the FBI’s in on it. it’s all part of the trilateral-illuminati-masonic-rosicrucian-zionistic-socialist-communist-atheist-facsist network of conspiracy (it’s a huge conspiratorialish network, as you can tell from its name, which leaves out any reference to the smart-hawaiian-guys-from-chicago cabal, also known as the shgfcc, a particularly skillful core group of the timrzscaf. you can look it up, it’s on the web, itself an entangling component of the vast conspiracy. oh fuck, i think my brain just exploded, what a mess.)
This is outstanding! Running away like frightened little girls afraid to offend their base of dumb, angry bigots. HA!
SlouchingTowardsWasilla: Respect the privacy of Public officials!!
Birthers and Birther-sympathizers deserve far worse.
Aren’t these the same people who believe that the moon landing was fake, the world is only 6,000 years old, the holocaust never happened, the gummit is coming for your guns, & Obama is a Muslim? Heck, everybody knows Obama is one of the Lizard People from Titan! The Lizard People are not Muslim. Get a grip!
McCotter, of course, is focused on health care issues, AND forcing Obama to apologize to St. Crowley of Cambridge.
slappypaddy: That will be the next post of Redstate Gary.
kapish: He’s a Reptiloid. They are the ones that had one of theirs tempt Eve into sin. This is why Barry is so skinny and has such a hypnotizing stare, also.
Bypartizoa: Yeah, I hadn’t seen so many doughy white lumps move that fast since the Domino’s guy drove off a cliff with a load of breadsticks.
So, can we start referring to all these congressbirthers as “Replacentatives?”
SayItWithWookies: If it weren’t for affirmative action, that fine, white homeless man WOULD BE PRESIDENT GODDAMNIT. Or at least a billionaire.
Um, this is stupid. (sorry, best I got)
*President* Obama needs to provide proof he isn’t a clone of the *real* Obama.
Damn, Jane Hamsher is a honey.
kapish: to be fair, a coleague of mine doubts the moon landing and he is a proud libtard. Our favorite ( woohoo, I’ve mastered the American spelling — I think only now, I deserve the sacrifices of our troops) lunch time activity is goading the wingnut birther lunch counter lady - in New York folks.
0:57 Oh the look on that poor page-boy’s face!
“It’s my turn to be the pitcher today!”
facehead: You’ve captured my sentiments entirely.
Can we mail these dudes some afterbirth? Seems fitting.
Also, Meghan is going to cream over Aaron’s pink tie.
There must be a short bus that brings these morans over from C street.
If you’d asked these guys if African-Americans are human beings, at least half would’ve found a way to avoid answering…
Todd Mecklem: I think it’s unfair to say “Half”.
I think “3/5″ is more like it.
slappypaddy: the FBI’s in on it. it’s all part of the trilateral-illuminati-masonic-rosicrucian-zionistic-socialist-communist-atheist-facsist network of conspiracy (it’s a huge conspiratorialish network,…
I think it is also on the dreaded Gay Agenda. That’s how far-reaching it is. The Vatican may be involved. also.
If I were a Birther I would kidnap Paris Hilton and make her rob a bank to raise funds for our cause. I would stick with the Birther thing right up until I saw the national guard guys handing each other real bullets when the commander is looking away. More seriously, I hope the country doesn’t dissolve into street fighting over this until after the US Open tennis tournament.
Uh, this bill kinda-sorta exists already.
I would laugh heartily at all this but the idea that a decorated Vietnam War Veteran awarded three purple hearts would get his medals by lying was also pretty funny up until the moment John Kerry had to release all his records to the press to prove that he actually got shot. In other words, how long will it take before Jake Tapper and Chip Reid start peppering Robert Gibbs for photos of Obama emerging from his mother’s vagina to prove that he really is who he says he is?
psilage: *President* Obama needs to provide proof he isn’t a clone of the *real* Obama.
He is not a clone. He is a cleverly constructed teleprompter in human guise, his robotic interior concealed by a lifelike “skin,” probably consisting of some kind of human/animal hybrid pelt.
I wish at least one would hold up a sign during the interview that reads “PLEASE CALL THE POLICE MY CRAZY BIRTHER BASE IS HOLDING ME HOSTAGE AND FORCING ME TO BE A COMPLETE ASSCLOWN.”
I asked this over the weekend, but I’ll ask again: doesn’t being born with one American parent who has resided in the United States for at least five years qualify one as being an American citizen? McCain was born in Panama, no? To American parents, but in Panama.
Todd Mecklem: No, seriously. That reporter should have followed up the Barry question with “Are white men inherently superior to blacks?”
Also, isn’t it treasonous to suggest that your Commander-in-Chief is not, in fact, your Commander-in-Chief? Just wondering. I thought it was.
The sad thing is that no proof will ever be enough. Obama has already shown evidence to the US State Dept. (to get a passport), to various news orgainzations, to all states to get on the ballots, to the FBI for security clearance, etc. Every judge who has heard any of the cases has been satisfied that no action is warranted.
You could go live with the entire Supreme Court, and still the birthers would scream conspiracy.
Humpback: It’s like arguing about religion. You can’t really reason with the pathologically delusioned.
AnnieGetYourFun: My understanding too.
Funny though that the tell-tale proof is reports in two Hawaii newspapers, not the certificate itself.
Since I don’t subject my brain to the slobberings of wingnut radio personalities, just what IS their rationale?
qwerty42: Yes, the gays and the Vatican. Almost goes without saying. I mean, you ever get a load of the shoes the Pope wears. And those hats! Please.
AnnieGetYourFun: You! You with your logic demons! Begone! This would all go away if only Hawaii would release the birth certificate it doesn’t have that is actually from Kenya.
Can’t we hang these douchebags for Treason? what a fun party that would be.
I think is gonna have a major orgasm over this video.
AnnieGetYourFun: I think it’s a constitutional interpretation thing. Some don’t consider being born abroad (despite being born to a citizen mother) “natural born.” And personally, it will be a cold day in hell before I recognize Hawaii as a state.
Bypartizoa: I know. If I were a Republican, it would be quitting time for me. I would rather go home and take up a favorite hobby than be a rep for such awful people. You are who you represent.
I guess no one told the birthers that the American side of Obama comes from 17 century white Maryland settlers. A lot of English being spoken in his house for a long time now.
AnnieGetYourFun: I think the law (at the time, unless it was already obsolete, in which case the birfers don’t care) stated that you had to live in the US for five years after the age of 18, or something odd like that.
Not that it’s relevant. The whole Obama-was-born-in-Kenya thing comes from an interview of Obama’s grandmother by none other than Jerome Corsi. Through a translator, Corsi got that she said she saw Obama’s birth, there in Kenya — but after a few minutes, the grandmother made it clear that the translator had gotten lost during the back-and-forth and that she hadn’t observed his birth at all. The second part of this exchange is helpfully omitted by the birfers.
FMA: Yes, the gays and the Vatican….
yeah. The Vatican only pretends to object to teh gheyz. very tricksy.
SayItWithWookies: Thanks for the clarification. Good to know there is such a reliable source, also known as WALNUTS 2:
http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/jerome_corsi.jpg
Can we demand to see all of these congressmen’s burf certificates too? Real Americans ALWAYS carry their’s around in plastic bags, right next to a chunk of government cheese and Spam.
Nice to know that with the country in a recession, personal and small business bankruptcies increasing, a boom in home foreclosures going on, rising unemployment, and the breakdown of unemployment insurance and health care services, these marvellous statesmen are keeping their eye on the ball.
SayItWithWookies: That’s what this is based on? For reals? I… wow.
It actually is sort of sad that these congressmen don’t have the balls to tell the wingnuts to stuff it. You know, something along the lines of “We’d like to fight these reforms on the basis of the fact that we don’t believe that everyone deserves health care, not because of some weird xenophobic bullshit that 5% of our base is yapping about. Shut up, so we can get back to ensuring that your offspring, or possibly their offspring, go bankrupt due to one hospitalization from swine flu.”
OBAMA is not born in KENYA. I repeast OBAMA is not born in KENYA. HE is not US citizen, he is born in HAWAII. I ask you what side of civil war was HAWAII on? ANswer: no side!! NOT LIKE REAL AMERICAN STATE THAT WAS ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER. OBAMA IS HAWAIIAN ROYALIST, CLEAR AND SIMPLE. HE IS HERE TO INSTALL HAWIIAN ROYAL FAMILY AS ABSOLUT MONARCHY OF THE UNITED STATES. WHY DO YOU FAIL TO SEE IT. GO TO WIKIPEDIA YOU WILL SEE AS I DO.
AnnieGetYourFun: “It actually is sort of sad that these congressmen don’t have the balls” Actually the POTUS was unable to suggest in the kindest way that when checking a crazy old guy’s identity in the crazy old guy’s house and the situation escalates into an arrest involving a large group of cops it was stupid. But this is all beside the point because OMABA IS HAWAIIN MONARCHIST< IT IS OBVIOUS SEE WIKIPEDIA. HAWAII IS MONARCHY NOT US STATE.
Much as I agree that the Repubs are assholes for even indulging in any speculation about Obama’s birthplace, I still think the guy in this video is as douchey as that guy who does the on-camera ambushes for O’Reilly. I simply do not care for on-camera ambushes being called journalism, no matter who is doing it.
“Also, isn’t it treasonous to suggest that your Commander-in-Chief is not, in fact, your Commander-in-Chief? Just wondering. I thought it was.”
Umm … no.
And … umm … First Amendment.
And … umm … all the other amendments.
And … ummm … he’s not “your Commander in Chief” unless you are a soldier.
Obviously the healthcare in Hawaii was so poor that it was cheaper and safer for the pregnant mother to fly to Kenya, except she was afraid to admit it so she faked his BC.
Aquannissiwamissoo: well how “seditious”
United States
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There have been 24 attempts in the United States to regulate speech that has been deemed seditious. In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts, the fourth of which, the Sedition Act or “An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States” set out punishments of up to two years’ imprisonment for “opposing or resisting any law of the United States” or writing or publishing “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the President or Congress (but specifically not the Vice-President). The act was allowed to expire in 1801 after the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency. He was Vice President at the time of the Act’s passage.
Under the Espionage Act of 1917, section 3 made it a crime, punishable by 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000, to wilfully spread false news of the US military with an intent to disrupt their operations, to foment mutiny in the ranks, or obstruct recruiting. The act was amended in 1918 by the Sedition Act, which expanded the purview of the Espionage Act to any statement criticizing the government. The act was upheld in 1919 in Schenck v. United States, but was largely repealed in 1921, leaving laws forbidding espionage and allowing military censorship of sensitive material.
In 1940, the Alien Registration Act or Smith Act was passed, which made it a crime to advocate or teach the desirability of overthrowing the United States Government, or to be a member of any organization which does the same. It was often used against Communist organizations. The act was invoked in three major trials, one of the Socialist Worker’s Party in Minneapolis in 1941, resulting in 23 convictions, and again in 1944 in what became known as “The Great Sedition Trial”, of pro-Nazi figures which ended in a mistrial. A series of trials of 140 leaders of the Communist Party USA was also predicated upon the Smith Act beginning in 1949, and lasting until 1957. Although the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of 11 CPUSA leaders in 1951, the court reversed itself in 1957 in Yates v. United States by ruling that teaching an ideal, no matter how harmful it may seem, does not equal advocating or planning its implementation. Although unused since at least 1961[citation needed], the Smith Act remains US law.
Laura Berg, a nurse at a United States Department of Veterans Affairs-run hospital in New Mexico was investigated for sedition in September 2005[13] after writing a letter[14][15] to the editor of a local newspaper, accusing several national leaders of criminal negligence. Though their action was later deemed unwarranted by the director of Veteran Affairs, local human resources personnel took it upon themselves to request an FBI investigation. Ms Berg was represented by the ACLU[16]. Charges were dropped in 2006[1].
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Sedition is a punishable offence under the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 94[17].
Dreamer: Ask to see his Illuminati membership card.
I must confess that when I’m baked, it can take me up to an hour to select a pen.
slappypaddy: AxmxZ: You must have read David Icke by now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#Reptilian_humanoids
On the other hand, I’ll bet that every one of the “birthers” believe that a rabble-rousing, itinerant mystic who allegedly lived two thousand years was born in a manger and his mother never had sex and his father was a new god of some sort. Where is Jesus’ fucking birth certificate? Long form or short, I’d like to see either.
It might look like the congresspeople are running away, but it’s just that the only way anyone knows what government looks like is from The West Wing, so all of Washington is a walk n’ talk. Thank God for our blogger press for taking our treasured birther Congresspeople for walks.
proudgrampa: And everyone knows they all spend August on the constellation Draco. You mean you don’t too?
SayItWithWookies:
exactly. I couldn’t exactly read what he had there, but Cardboardman sure looked to have a compelling statement to make. And as we all know, in a free democracy, everyone is as compelling as the next guy. That is the #1 ground rule.
The thing about this is, if this was a black reporter from BET chasing white Congresspeople around the streets of Washington, he would have been clobbered by D.C. cops, tasered repeatedly and beaten within an inch of his life.
Why am I trying to destroy America with comments like these??
germansteel:
Re: Jesus Goddam Birth Certificate
they say he was born in Betelhem in a manager, but if joseph and mary traveled their becuz of censsus WHERE ARE THE RECORDS?!?! I smell ACORN?!?!
Matthew mark luke john birth announcements obviously FAKE
HE WAS BORN IN KENYA DAMMIT!!! That’s why the Muslins honor him as profit, too!!!!!
I just don’t understand this. Maybe there should be a vote. Then the president can sign it and hold up his original type written birth certificate and say ‘here it is with Doctors name, hospital ect.’ Guaranteed second term.
Perhaps they should all introduce a bill requiring an IQ of 75 to live in the United States and then just deport all of these fat morons to France.
Johnny Zhivago:
Why do we have to keep reminding you? “Morons” do not live in France; morans live in the US of America.
Unless, of course, they’re mushrooms and do live in France, in which case they get eated up quicklike.
Make sense to you?
Me neither, also.
Damn and blast that unclosed HTML. Also.
Johnny Zhivago:
So eventually there’d be like 3 guys left and the rest of us would be French?
Paul Tardy: The “Hawaiin Monarchist” schtick was funny the first hundred times you said it, though the all-caps was never funny. The 101st time was the camel that broke the camel’s back, though. Stop it, already. You’re not funny.
Come back, Mollie Ivins, we need you more than ever!
Forgive me, Molly, I mis-typed in the heat of the moment.
ZOMG! Dave Reichert? As in DETECTIVE Dave Reichert, the guy who caught the Green River Killer? If there is anyone that can get to bottom of this conundrum, it is he. Just give him his usual two decades to collect the evidence.