Re-birth of the Birthers

Re-birth of the Birthers

When a grinning Barack Hussein Obama finally produced his long form Hawaiian birth certificate on April 27, 2011–following years of questions fueled by strong suspicions he was born in Kenya–he felt certain all doubts that he was constitutionally-qualified to hold the office of the presidency had been laid to rest.

They hadn’t.

Principal contributing factors for the qustions related to the inexplicably inordinate delays in providing the Long Form certificate and the million or so dollars the Obama camp spent to avoid the minimalist task of simply displaying a piece of paper. Neither the delay nor the money expended made any sense.

Testimony to the lingering doubts, Arizona’s Sherrif Joe Arpaio recently launched a privately-funded 6 month investigation into the matter of exactly who and what our president was, Kenyan or American?

As he announced at a press conference, no major media source had investigated the controversy so his cold case posse of volunteers would look into the issue in order to resolve it once and for all.

Arpaio said after receiving the posse report, ”We believe probable cause exists indicating that forgery and fraud may have been committed, not only in President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, but more disturbing evidence suggests that another fraud may have been committed regarding his selected service registration card. Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic.” (http://abcn.ws/zrMUTU)

Although Arpaio was convinced that both Obama’s birth certificate and draft card were forgeries, he isn’t prepared to accuse the president, yet. The investigation is continuing.

Left unmentioned by the sheriff is the issue of Obama’s Social Security card number which was originally issued to a French immigrant born in 1890 and re-issued to Obama in the state of Connecticut in 1977. The 15 year old Barry was residing in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents at the time and never resided in the Nutmeg State.

At least one blogger has suggested the grandparents’ connection with well-connected Connecticut socialite, Helen Canfield, helped grease the skids to secure a SSN for Obama since he lacked an American birth certificate.

On the other hand, Snopes.com, long an avid Obama defender, alleged the SSN was valid. Snopes termed the brouhaha “fantastical.” As “proof,” Snopes said Jean Paul Ludwig’s SSN was different and offered for verification a link to the Social Security Death Index which turned out to be useless and referred searchers to Ancestry.com.

Personally, I’m dubious as to all the birther allegations despite their potent arguments that Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the United States of America and thus ineligible to serve as president–and subject to prosecution as a liar and usurper.

Perhaps due to my septuagenarian naiveté, I find it difficult to accept that America’s mainstream media would not have reported those damning facts.

However, a composite, 11 minute video of the president’s statements . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=17584.)

The Mystery that Is Barack Hussein Obama

The Mystery that Is Barack Hussein Obama

Thanks to possible Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump questioning Barack Hussein Obama’s place of birth, so-called “Birthers” have gotten a new lease on life but they and Trump are probably barking up the wrong conspiracy tree and ignoring other mystery trees in Obama’s life.

Most people love a good mystery but not when it surrounds a president of the United States and there are more mysteries involving America’s 44th chief executive than Agatha Christie ever conjured up. Well, almost, and Hawaii’s sole Republican state senator has raised a new one.

State Sen. Sam Slom, who knew the Obama family well, believes Obama was “probably” born in the U.S.A. but has doubts as to who his father was.

As Slom said in a radio interview with Aaron Klein on WABC 770 AM, ”My particular point of view–and why I haven’t identified myself as a ‘birther,’ per se–is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what’s on the birth certificate. It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the father. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4232)

Obama's Birth Certificate and College Transcripts Theories

Obama's Birth Certificate and College Transcript Theories

It’s far too early to tell how history will regard the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, although there are clear indices it will be as an abject failure, but we already know he will go down as the most secretive and controversial president since Richard Nixon. The controversies over two issues, his birth certificate and his college transcripts, continue to swirl and cloud his office and that swirling and clouding are Obama’s own doing.

These may or not be new news concerning those documents to many readers but they’re relatively new theories to me. Since Obama has adamantly refused to release either a valid birth certificate or his transcripts–or his medical records–and since both theories make a great deal of sense and are entirely feasible, I’m sharing them.

THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE QUESTIONS: Even after so-called “Birthers” have been dismissed for years as fruitcakes by the MSM, they have very much in the news lately thanks largely to Donald Trump, a quasi-birther. True birthers express very serious reservations concerning Obama’s origins–Kenya or Hawaii. The Donald simply says he doesn’t know.

He cites the millions Obama has spent to suppress the information, the silliness of his offering a useless Hawaiian “certificate of live birth,” the inability of the Democrat governor and friend of the Obama family to locate a real birth certificate, and his hope that it doesn’t become an issue in the 2012 election when Trump may be the Republican nominee.

That last is as likely as Dennis Kucinich being the Dem nominee but the issues Trump raises are all valid and amount to the same question Birthers have: Is Obama constitutionally qualified to serve as President of the United States?

THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE THEORY: Obama was, probably, born in the United States which raises the question that, if he were, why all the subterfuge and evasion? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4115)

President The Donald?

President The Donald?

Just who is Donald John Trump, Sr., aka The Donald, aka obnoxious multi-millionaire television personality, aka a business-hotel magnate, aka a maggot to those who despise him? Trump is many things to many people but, right now, he’s an unannounced candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012, which means he’s also a lib target.

He has as much chance of achieving the presidency as I do. Ok, maybe a somewhat better chance but not by much. On the other hand, he carries a helluva lot more baggage than I do, so who knows?

Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, compliments of his late father, Fred, the 65 year old Trump has had a chequred personal and financial life but it’s his fortune and political conservatism that will do him in, mainly with liberals who can’t stand the scent of either success or conservatives.

The Donald, as he likes to be called, has been sending out feelers to gauge the sentiment of the electorate and, true to form, his feelers aren’t your average feelers. Most recently, he’s been saying what he thinks about pirates and birth certificates. Also true to form, he doesn’t pull any punches.

We usually think Johnny Depp when we think of pirates. History buffs may think Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Wars when Jefferson defeated the Muslims of North Africa on the high seas and on “the shores of Tripoli.” There’s more conflict in and near Tripoli today but Trump directed his attention a little south and west to Somali pirates preying on American and international shipping.

The Donald is blunt about it all: He would obliterate them.

As he said, “Give me one good admiral and a few ships, and I will wipe them out so fast. Can you believe that these guys are taking tankers that are a thousand feet long and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and just taking them with rowboats? It’s hard to believe. One good admiral, that’s all I want.”

That’s all it would need. His frank addition to that resolve is what makes you love him: “It’s a total lack of respect for this country:” http://bit.ly/h540yV

Our current president seems to lack resolve when it comes to anything, least of all respect for our country.

Trump entered much more turbulent waters than the Indian Ocean when he dared sail into ABC’s ”The View,” where pirates are not an issue but where vicious sharks in the persons of Whoopi and Barbara Walters lay in wait. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3960)

No Sex, But Lies and Audiotape

No Sex, But Lies and Audiotape

In a remarkable instance of forgetfulness, a close friend of Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie retracted his previous statements concerning a conversation he had with the governor concerning the increasingly-concerning issue of President Barack “Barry” Hussein Obama’s birth certificate and location of his birth.

So-called “Birthers” have been derided as partisan freaks for two years now by the White House and Democrat minions such as Abercrombie and “celebrity journalist” Mike Evans sought to clear the air last week on Minnesota’s KQRS radio. At that time, good buddy Evans “said he’d been told by the governor himself that Obama’s birth certificate was nowhere to be found.”

Speaking without an audioprompter, Evans specifically said on January 20th: “Yesterday, talking to Neil’s office. Neil says that he searched everywhere using his powers as governor . . . there is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii. Absolutely no proof at all that he was born in Hawaii.”

Listen to that blockbuster revelation here: http://tiny.cc/xbtzy

Less than six days later, Evans went public with his retraction. He was truly sorry for telling that whopper, if indeed it was a whopper, and was “remorseful and embarrassed that he appeared to have given the impression that he had discussed the search for Obama’s birth certificate with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie:” http://tiny.cc/3ptm4

Appeared to give the impression? Evans had forthrightly and unequivocably stated he had called Abercrombie, “an Obama-lover,” as Evans described him, and the governor had admitted no such certificate existed.

With no suggestion of intimidation by either Abercrombie’s office or the White House, the celebrity reporter now says he misspoke, which is either a euphemism for having told a baldfaced lie, a CYA moment, backtracking to conceal the truth which neither the governor nor the president want revealed, or all of the above.

It’s odd, amusing, and pathetic how this inept administration keeps getting deeper and deeper into the Birther hole.

Another lie related to the administration is in process of being outed although the presidency isn’t immediately at stake in this one, just the president’s and Congress’ credibility.

Despite pledges that Obamacare would be administered fairly and equitably, in fact, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3502)

Update: Neil Abercrombie and the Birthers

Update: Neil Abercrombie and the Birthers

. . . As Abercrombie averred last week, “What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons. Maybe I’m the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, ‘I was here when that baby was born.’ “

Maybe. What bothers me is that the governor, at 72 the oldest governor in the country, seems a bit addled, not as much by his advancing years as by his blind allegiance toward Barack Obama, his ideological background, and his own “political reasons.”

There seems no doubt that the Marxist Abercrombie was a jazz-listening, beer-swilling intimate of the president’s Marxist parents at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa but where he says he was when the world was blessed by the arrival of Barack Junior is inconsequential. The governor is as unreliable a witness as Obama is a real American, no matter where he was born.

It’s now been revealed, thanks to the organization’s official literature, that Abercrombie was a member of the Marxist-radical Democratic Socialists of America, members of which include the failed mayor of New York City, David Dinkins, the radical Ruth Messinger, openly socialist Ron Dellums, black reparations advocate John Conyers, and other riffraff: http://tiny.cc/uez9v

Guilt by association is repugnant and I wouldn’t dare suggest that the estimable governor would dare prevaricate in order to bolster the citizenship credentials of a like-minded, socialist soul and offspring of his fellow, deceased Marxist buddies. I wouldn’t suggest such a thing!

I’d assert that it’s a probability. Abercrombie would swear that he was in attendance when Karl Marx created the universe if it would help Barack Obama. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3240)

Bad Pennies, Bad Birthers?

Bad Pennies, Bad Birthers?

I don’t know the derivation of the idiom, “to turn up like a bad penny,” but if it means that certain nasty things keep recurring for a reason, lots of “bad pennies” keep turning up in America.

One very nasty penny is the one that was thrown into the political ring almost three years ago by so-called “birthers,” people not much interested in Sir Elton John’s surrogate baby but who are very much interested in just who the hell our president is, where he really came from, and whether he should be deposed and sent back to Kenya to let the Village Nitwit, VP Biden, rule us for the next two years.

Those weirdo birthers have been treated by the mainstream media as disgruntled losers since even before Barack Hussein Obama became president, ever since they raised the question as to where he was born and why, to this day, he still refuses to authorize release of the only concrete evidence that would certify his eligibility to serve as president of the United States, a valid birth certificate.

Considering what’s at stake, such a request hasn’t been all that much to ask, except to Obama and his MSM. Now, that penny, that worm, is turning and whether it ends up to be a bad penny or bad worm is entirely in Obama’s court.

When an old bud and schoolmate suggests the president clear the fetid air surrounding his presidency by authorizing release of an official, verifiable, long-form Hawaiian certificate of birth, it would seem incumbent on Obama to comply. When an allegedly objective television political commentator who has admittedly and unashamedly experienced thrills running up his legs in the presence of his idol demands that the idol produce the damned thing, Obama should take heed as if it were a biblical injunction . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3230)

A "Birther" Refuter

A "Birther" Refuter

A rapid, extended–and emphatic–refutation quickly followed the posting of my article, “Of Birthers and Truthers, Part One.”

Because of the rapidity, detailed–and forceful– response and at the risk of suggesting yet another conspiracy, one has to wonder whether the commenter, “granite,” who is otherwise unidentified, is a member of a presidential Rapid Response Team assigned to shoot down any speculation as to Barack Hussein Obama’s true birthplace and eligibility for the presidency.

Please note that in that article, I didn’t take a position on the validity of the Birthers’ claims and merely tried to show that the MSM has ignored most of their allegations.

Below is the notice of “granite’s” comment and that comment verbatim. The reader should also be aware that all the issues in the article aren’t addressed and that, of the six links provided by “granite” to substantiate his case, four are broken, (”Page not found,” etc.) Make of that what you will.

Refutations of this refuter, (which, by the way, is in fact a word unlike “refudiate”), are invited. . .
(Read "granite's" full comment at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1896)

Of Birthers and Truthers, Part One

Of Birthers and Truthers, Part One

So much has been written and said about so-called “Birthers,” those people who question Barack Hussein Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen,” and so-called “Truthers,” those who question the official account of the events on September 11th, 2001, that it’s nearly impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The wheat, that is, the truth, is there, somewhere buried deep beneath all the chaff, the baloney and propaganda, but unearthing that truth is no simple matter for someone who has never subscribed to either the Birther or Truther alleged conspiracies.

Let’s immediately dispel the most common slander employed against the Birthers namely that they’re racists who cooked up the whole Obama birth controversy out of their antagonism toward the first black president in America’s history.

There is no substantive proof of a racist motivation on the part of Birthers. That charge of racism has been used from the beginning of Obama’s candidacy to dismiss virtually all who speak ill of the man, his beliefs, or his policies.

It’s an excellent, if underhanded, ploy when you think about it, deftly tossing the racist card into the campaign mix whenever someone criticized Obama. Rarely tossed overtly, it was more often implicit and probably garnered a few million white votes cast by those who wanted desparately to assure themselves and others that they weren’t racists.

It’s also more than curious that the MSM fell all over itself dismissing and ridiculing Birthers with no real effort to investigate their contentions and standpoint, much like they did with interrelated rumors that Obama was really a Muslim and as they subsequently did with regard to the Tea Party Movement.

That failure alone is reason enough to give at least some credence to the Birthers.

(Incidentally, there’s no substantive proof, either, that Birthers are a disturbed product of a resurrection of Hillary Clinton’s “vast, right wing conspiracy.”)

As a non-Birther, I figured going directly to the source was the best bet toward determining just how valid a case the Birthers made for their view that Barack Hussein Obama was a poseur not constitutionally-entitled to the presidency no matter how many votes he received . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1894)