Usurp the Presidency: By Any Means Necessary!

by Karen Hatter | December 11, 2008 at 06:20 am
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How did the citizenship rumor get started? Ironically, it began when the Obama campaign tried to debunk some other conspiracies. After Obama locked up the nomination in early June, low-level talk radio and blog chatter peddled rumors that Obama's real middle name was Muhammad, that his father was not really Barack Obama, and that he was not really born in Hawaii. The campaign released a facsimile of Obama's certificate of live birth. Requested from the state in 2007, the certificate reported that Obama was, indeed, born in Honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961.



The certificate was a bullet that didn't put down the horse. Why, skeptics asked, release a new form from Hawaii instead of the original paper that Obama's parents got in 1961—the one that Obama found in a box of his dad's knickknacks in Dreams From My Father? They quickly came up with an explanation: The certificate was forged. Anonymous digital image experts with handles like Techdude and Polarik sprung from the woodwork to prove (shades of Rathergate!) that pixels, spacing, and indentation on the form indicated that the Obama campaign had created the certificate with Adobe Photoshop. The state of Hawaii's official statement that the certificate was legitimate didn't make a dent—after all, who is Registrar of Vital Statistics Alvin Onaka to argue with Techdude?



- From Slate.com



Apparently, those who are not satisfied with responses, or what are perceived by many challengers as insufficient responses to questions about President Elect Obama's citizenship and place of birth, are prepared to flood the courts throughout the United States of America with litigation, presumably until they are granted an outcome that meets with their approval. 



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dfaugust2k

`obviously Alfred E. Hussian Barak Obama is not a natural American citizen, or he would produce the physical evidence, and not leave it locked away. This is another scam, thrusted upon us by the sleaze-bags in the democRATic party. BTW, I just love all the political news coming out of Hussian's home state, and am equally glad that a Jackson is getting alot of air time as well.  :D

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dunkelberg

Truly, this is fine example of Republican Party rationale, reasoning and inclusiveness.

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dunkelberg

Who would have thought Southern California could provide a reality check?

[California elector Chris] Young welcomes the ceremonial role. She's looking forward to sharing with her children the historic moment when California casts its electoral votes for the nation's first black president.

What Young didn't bargain for was a stranger banging on her door and yelling at 10:30 p.m. Saturday night. With her firefighter husband away, she didn't answer. “It was a little scary,” she told me.

Early the next morning, when she was served court papers before Sunday breakfast, she learned why she was being pursued at such odd hours.

Along with the 54 other California electors, Young has been named in a lawsuit that seeks to bar Secretary of State Debra Bowen from certifying the state's electors “until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain.”

Young had been forewarned that something strange was afoot.

In a memo sent last month, the California Democratic Party cautioned that “some of you may have been served court papers called the 'Kreep Petition and Declaration.' Please do not be alarmed as this is nothing more than a frivolous lawsuit. Keep the papers for your records; however, everything is proceeding as planned and we will keep you abreast of any new developments.”

The plaintiffs in the anti-Obama lawsuit, filed in Sacramento, are well-known players in fringe politics: Alan Keyes, presidential candidate for the American Independent Party; Wiley S. Drake, Keyes' running mate; and Markham Robinson, chairman of the AIP.

One of the two attorneys representing the plaintiffs is Ramona-based Gary Kreep, a prominent legal champion of conservative causes.

Over the phone, I offered to Kreep that he's keeping some odd company this time out. At least one Obama citizenship denier reportedly believes the Bush administration master-minded Sept. 11.

“I'm not a big advocate of conspiracy theories,” Kreep said.

Oh, really?


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dfaugust2k

sure, dunkelburger, whenever even a suspicion of wrong doing is asserted against a conservative we must investigate thoroughly and demand immediate access to all records, but if a democRAT is caught with his hand in the cookie jar it is ignored and white washed over like Monica's stained dress.

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dunkelberg

It's "dunkelberg".  If you plan on making personal attacks, please show examples of where I have posted such comments.

If you can stop your whining long enough,  I would like to remind you of Rep. William Jefferson.  He certainly did not get a pass.  Did New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey get  a pass?

Well? 

Where have I argued that a Democrat accused of wrongdoing should get a pass?

Well?

Perhaps all you have to offer is bluster, lies and a feigned morality.


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lefty_liberated

Infideltiy shouldn't be a prosectuable offense at least not in relationship to public office. Misuse of public funding to make it happen is another story. 

Infidelity harmed a marriage...It didn't cause the deaths of well over 1 million innocent foriegners, thousands of American soldiers, it didn't bankrupt a nation, it didn't sweep criminal lending under the rug, it didn't write a new regulation excusing itself from prosecution for war crimes . It didn't let people rot in trailors that are emitting toxic fumes. It didn't bribe the american public with tax rebates or create an environment of paranoia, division, and fear while passing legislation to encroach upon civil liberites. 

Clinton gave us a surplus, he lowered unemployment, increased the minimum wage, established Americorps, talked about HIV for the first time, protected women's reproductive rights and so on...In reality a conservative sociopathically manipulates an environment to get away with whatever they want and then write legislation excusing themselves from punishment while leaving not only their own country but the entire world and world economy weaker.

Not unlike your tunnel vision that allows you to basically write graffiti anonymously on this topic while failing to see the bigger picture or having any regard for whoever else is participating here.  

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dfaugust2k

From NBC's Doug Adams
Remember William Jefferson, the Louisiana congressman who was indicted last year on bribery, racketeering and money laundering charges?Well, he's still in Congress, and he's likely to stay there for a while. 

NEW YORK – A former aide to New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey who claims he was sexually harassed by the governor says he won't sue, apparently eliminating the prospect of an embarrassing court fight. -no jail time yet served

Billy-Bob Clinton, our liberal-leftwing, mainstream media declared first Black President, got impeached for lying to congress, but off the hook for cattlegate, whitewater, Mena Ak. drug smuggling, Gennifer Flowers, Susan Coleman, Vincent Foster, Katherine Wiley, Chinese money laundering -OMG, the tip of the iceburg here, the Clinton's are so unbelievably corrupt it's sickening. -awaiting a post in Hussian's cabinet along with his "life-partner", or whatever she is; Hill.

- and I could go on with the attempts to steal the presidency in 2000 by Algore in Fla with his continual re-counts -of which he lost ALL even after denying a count of absentee ballots by our military overseas. and so on..

sorry about the name there, drunkel. Have a happy day.  :)


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dunkelberg

Once again, you are blowing smoke, aside from being rude.

You may thank the NowPublic masters for giving you the anonymity cowards so often crave.

I see.  You still haven't gotten over The Clintons and here they've gone and elected black man president.  How tragic for you.

Well?

Where are the specific examples that I said Democrats under investigation should get a pass?

Where are the specific examples that any Democratic Party official said officials, elected or otherwise, deserve a pass due to their affiliation? 

 Or, will we be treated to more of your adolescent lies and false charges?


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dfaugust2k

you are WRONG AGAIN, dunkle, the Clintons have not gone away, and we will have to suffer them even longer under the "new" administration of "Hope" and "Change", the "transparent" administration that is bringing virtually everyone back from past Billy-bob administrations as well as adding ex-Freddie-Mac/ Fannie-Mae snake-oil scam artists into the fray.

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dunkelberg

It is as I thought.  More adolescent ravings and childish insults.

How convenient there is a "(not verified)" status so cowards can vomit their drivel.

Hey, there, Charlie Brown, I'm holding the football for you!  Let's see you kick!



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lefty_liberated

Seek Therapy. 

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dfaugust2k

*punt* LOL

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Alida Antonia Cornelius

The whole rumour about Obama's birth certificate started at "The Israel Insider" where they did about 6 articles in a series about it. The person who supposedly started the rumour and claimed to have a copy of his birth certificate mysteriously vanished AFTER the series was completed.

Israel didn't want Obama to become president.

And all because of mis-information from their site, it has spread all around the world.

That is why I get so upset about posting mis-information on the 'net.

I saw the articles and the "birth certificate" they posted at The Israel Insider. Anyone who continues to believe a word they say, should also be reading "The National Enquirer."


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dfaugust2k

funny, cause it was "The National Enquirer" that broke the infidelity story on the sleaze-bag John Edwards. -all this Hussian had to do was produce his physical birth certificate, whats so hard about that? If anyone is to blame for this continued controversy, it's Alfred E Barak Hussian Obama, not the Israelis.

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lefty_liberated

John Edwards just did what he's biologically programmed to do. Your favored leaders might supress their instincts towards sexuality , but thats sure seems to lead to a megalomaniacal tendancy to try to rule the world just short of destroying it! If Bush could have raped this planet and taken off to another one he would. These are little boys...Our liberals are MEN who in the end choose to be accountable for their actions and the reprocutions of those actions on the world...And getting laid really does not count. Your worst assumption is that we're all using your esoteric moral compass, but unlike you some of us have evolved!

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dunkelberg

Your favored leaders might suppress their instincts towards sexuality ,

Rudy Giuliani, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Marvin Gorman, Jimmy Swaggert .  . . . Hey, not ALL of them do.  :)

[chuckle]

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lefty_liberated

: ) -- I personally could care less. Notice sex is all this guy has to paint liberals as bad guys. Notice also none of those guys rose to world leadership to rock the foundation of everything we trust. You either rise to the top, are a stuffy old conservative, you get your rocks off by trechery (iran contra, watergate, savings and loan scandals...and more... right on up to today)....Or you rise to the top and you're a human being with human impulses who still believes in a pre-apocalyptic world. 

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David74747

Not to defend these wingnuts, but these idiots have to write about something and their readers love conspiracies. Wingnut’s love talking about “connections” and allowing their readers to “draw the right conclusion” from whatever bile it is they’ve managed to cough up during the night.


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rightwinggoons

Not to defend these wingnuts, but these idiots have to write about something and their readers love conspiracies. Wingnut’s love talking about “connections” and allowing their readers to “draw the right conclusion” from whatever bile it is they’ve managed to cough up during the night.


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dfaugust2k

-LOL, just love it when the left-wing lunatics come off their hinges, sorry I utterly confused you idiots with actual facts.  :D

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lefty_liberated

You're a confused person who tries to spread it around, because you dont give a crap about other people. Thanks to you and your kind for showing your true colors....Hence our next president. (we're sick of sociopaths)

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dunkelberg

One to be pitied and not mocked.

Pray for him. 

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dfaugust2k

We've already seen how the media is covering up for Barack Obama to the extent of removing any information on the web that would show he met with Rod Blagojevich recently as chronicled by NewsBusters editor Tom Blumer. And now we have evidence that Jesse Jackson, Jr. "misspoke" when he claimed yesterday that the meeting he had with Monday Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was the first time the two had met in four years. It turns out that there is a video of a sobbing Jesse Jackson, Jr. embracing Blagojevich just last August at a breakfast of the Illinois delegation to the Democrat Nation Convention in Denver. Here is how the incredibly surreal hugfest was covered by the Chicago Tribune:

Let's hug it out

An emotional Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. touched off a surreal hugfest among bickering top Illinois Democrats meeting at a convention delegation breakfast, all in the name of party unity and Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid. Here's the tale of the tape:

*Jackson summons state Sen. Debbie Halvorson, who’s running for Congress. The two have feuded over control of a third airport in the south suburbs. They embrace.

*“Who else out here been mad at me I ain’t figured out yet?” Jackson asks. Without skipping a beat, Mayor Daley jumps out of his seat and hugs his critic who contemplated a run against him for mayor. In tears, Jackson says, “I’ve been trying to get to know Mayor Daley for 14 years.”

*But Jackson is “not going to be satisfied” until he sees Gov. Rod Blagojevich give House Speaker Michael Madigan a hug. The bad blood between the two is legendary and has ground state government to a halt.

*Sporting a smile from ear to ear, Madigan walks across the makeshift stage and hugs Blagojevich, who then turns and hugs Jackson.


-this scandal is turning out to be quite entertaining, LOL

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dfaugust2k

LOLOLOL

I don't know what Jackson's definition of "met" is but hugging someone sure does sound like he met Blagojevich. The Chicago Sun-Times also reported on the tear-filled hugfest:

With a jaw-dropping series of hugs, feuding Illinois Democrats sought to bury hatchets Wednesday in a surreal display of unity-gone-wild.

It culminated in a brief embrace between Gov. Blagojevich and his political nemesis, House Speaker Michael Madigan.

"I just wonder if it's the altitude," Blagojevich said. "We'll find out when we get home."

The hug at the breakfast of the Illinois delegation to the Democratic National Convention was not followed by announcements of progress on legislative roadblocks on issues such as school funding or a capital plan. But Blagojevich said the hug beats the lack of communication that preceded it.

"Whenever you hug a guy, you oughtta be upbeat about it," the governor said.

Blagojevich and Madigan huddled for about 20 minutes at a party Mayor Daley hosted Tuesday, and again Wednesday as they stood on the convention floor nominating Barack Obama.

The group hug started when U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sought to make peace with fellow South Side congressman Bobby Rush, who is recovering from cancer treatment.

"If there's anything we've ever done or I've ever done to offend you, I'm leaving it at this convention. You're my friend, and I appreciate you," Jackson said, jumping off the dais to give Rush a long hug to cheers from hundreds of delegates.

"All is forgiven," Rush said.

Jackson continued his redemption tour, calling state Sen. Debbie Halvorson over to apologize for the startling attacks he made on her as the Democratic candidate for the congressional seat next to his because he disagreed with her approach on the Peotone airport.

Then, Jackson asked, "Who else out here has been mad at me?"

Daley -- admitting later he felt sorry for Jackson -- surprised Jackson with a hug.

Jackson cried. He tried to speak but had to step away again, wiping his eyes.

Turning to the grudge match that has had the most consequences for Illinois, Jackson said, "I'm not going to be satisfied till I see Rod Blagojevich give Mike Madigan a hug."

The two rose and gave each other the briefest hug of the love fest.

Republicans ridiculed the pageant as "perverse."

"I don't think the guy who's out of work is excited about seeing these guys hug," said House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego).

According to the New Republic (remember, the NewsBusters Eye of Sauron is always upon you) the hugfest was initiated by Jackson's irritation that delegates at the breakfast were already getting up to snack on bagels and eggs:

At the Democratic convention in Denver, speaking on stage at one of the Chicago delegation's daily breakfasts, Jesse - in part irritated that delegates were already getting up to snack on eggs and bagels - began spontaneously demanding that Chicago's infamously fractious, backstabbing pols start physically hugging each other, for the sake of reconciling and coming together behind their native son's run. Crying and covering his face while the gaping delegates looked on, Jesse embraced his sometime adversaries Mayor Daley and Bobby Rush; looking around, he ordered Blagojevich to hug his enemy House Speaker Mike Madigan - and then clasped Blago himself.

It sure sounds like Jesse Jackson, Jr. was having himself a Rodney Dangerfield "I don't get no respect" moment which caused him to grandstand with his impromptu hugfest. So will the media cover up for Jackson just as they are currently doing for Obama? Your humble correspondent suspects not. Most likely they will toss Jesse Jackson, Jr. under the bus but continue to maintain that Obama never "inhaled" all that Chicago corruption surrounding him.

And whether or not Jesse Jackson, Jr. was involved in "pay for play" with Blagojevich over that vacant senate seat, his bizarre sobbing hugfest routine on that video alone should be enough to permanently disqualify him from ever holding higher office in the future.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

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