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tzikehSometimes I love Chris Matthews, and sometimes I loathe Chris Matthews. The thing is, on any given day, I don't know which one it will be, so I can't bring myself to tune in. I figure anything I want to see will turn up on one of the various political blogs I follow.
The birth certificate and the "Birther Bill"
It's a very short video clip, but if you don't want to watch it, here's a summary:
Tweety: Obama born in America--true or false?
Rep. John Campbell (R-CA): Constitution! Natural-born Citizen! Requirement!
Tweety (holds up Obama's birth certificate to the camera): Obama born in America--true or false?
Rep. John Campbell (R-CA): Birther Bill nothing to do with Obama! Can't see certificate from here!
Tweety (reads Obama's birth certificate aloud): Obama born in America--true or false?
Rep. John Campbell (R-CA): It doesn't matter what I think!
Tweety: YOU ARE FEEDING THE CRAZY PEOPLE A BREAKFAST OF DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS CRAZYFLAKES HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY SIR YOUR THOUGHTS: OBAMA BORN IN AMERICA Y/Y?
Rep. John Campbell (R-CA): Y.
Tweety:
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Date: 2009-07-22 02:04 pm (UTC)Yes, there are nuts putting doubt on Obama's eligibility to be president (really stupid ones, I think. It's not up to the Dems to prove he was born in the US - we have the proof. It's up to the doubters to prove otherwise - where are the records of Stanley Ann Dunham's trip to Kenya and back?
But here's the real kicker - *McCain* really was born outside US territory. Birth on a US installation doesn't count.
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Date: 2009-07-22 02:30 pm (UTC)Which is why my oldest brother, born in a US Airforce base in Japan, was "officially" born in a post office in San Francisco.
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Date: 2009-07-22 04:45 pm (UTC)(I had no idea that US military bases on foreign soil were not considered "United States" for birth purposes. Now my mind is trying to wrap itself around the US base at Guantanimo, which should violate the "Ignore Cuba Until It Goes Away" Act but which seems to be "United States" enough for purposes of incarceration.)
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Date: 2009-07-22 02:21 pm (UTC)My idiot cousin's a birther. *facepalm*
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Date: 2009-07-22 03:03 pm (UTC)I mean, wow. This is like, mental-ward psychosis.
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Date: 2009-07-22 11:47 pm (UTC)And none of those idiots can ever explain how astronomers can still measure the distance between here and the moon, to within an inch, with the reflector array Armstrong and Aldrin left up there.
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Date: 2009-07-22 03:59 pm (UTC)Oh, right that last part was SNL.
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Date: 2009-07-22 10:38 pm (UTC)It's so hard to tell the difference nowadays. *g*
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Date: 2009-07-22 08:35 pm (UTC)I guess they are in for a long wait then.
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Date: 2009-07-22 08:37 pm (UTC)And we're in for a long 4-8 years. But then we already knew that.
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Date: 2009-07-22 11:24 pm (UTC)Oh, they are -- maybe you don't have the whole birth certificate, uh, "story." See, he was born in Kenya, and the birth certificate from Hawai'i is a fake. Or, possibly, he is Malcolm X's illegitimate son and was born in Canada when his white mother went into hiding so Malcolm X's Muslim followers wouldn't murder her.
"Proof" that the birth certificate is a fraud.
"Proof" that Obama was born in Kenya.
"Proof" that Obama's mother was in Seattle when Obama was "born" in Hawai'i, and therefore he is the illegitimate son of Malcolm X.
And on and on.
Oh - and another "Kenya" vote --
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Date: 2009-07-22 07:16 pm (UTC)So true. He's such a pompous ass. But just when you think he's way more trouble than he's worth he'll say something quite perceptive, and he's quite good at hammering idiots into the ground -- and not by name calling, he just dismembers every stupid point they try to make.
No point in trying to educate "birther" people. They're not interested in evidence, facts, or logic. I think they simply can't bear the thought of having a black man in the White House, and this fantasy makes them more comfortable with their own racism.
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Date: 2009-07-22 07:39 pm (UTC)Also
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Date: 2009-07-22 08:01 pm (UTC)HOW MUCH BETTER IS THAT? (for them)
I know, I know. He's white.
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Date: 2009-07-22 11:25 pm (UTC)I think you could put one of the wolves Sarah Palin *shot* up against McCain and people would vote for the dead wolf.
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