On some levels the charge of conspiracy theorist is true… but that doesn’t make them crazy.
What makes them persist are the contradictions that keep popping up. For example: relatives who claim he was born in Kenya, and different sources citing different hospitals where Obama was born.
Now, there’s a new one. It seems that the DNC signed TWO versions of Obama’s candidacy certification… one claiming he met the Constitutional qualifications for office and one without that statement. You guessed it, they actually filed (in all states but Hawaii) the one WITHOUT the statement. For comparison, the GOP’s filings ALL asserted McCain met Constitutional requirements to hold office.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15127
The Obama camp had been using the defense that the DNC had properly vetted and certified Obama’s eligibility for months. Judge after judge had used that claim and the fact that Obama’s COLB (Certification of Live Birth) had been “Snoped – FactChecked – blogged and twittered” as “legal proof” that Obama was eligible for office, despite the very real fact that Obama has never released any authenticated proof on the subject.
Then we find out that the DNC did NOT certify Obama as eligible under Article II – Section I of the Constitution, in 49 of 50 states. The DNC had only filed such certification in the state of Hawaii, Obama’s alleged birth place. The other 49 states received a Certification of Nomination which did NOT certify Obama as constitutionally eligible for office.
Come on, guys. How can you complain that people don’t believe you when you do such stupid things? Each time you show some indication that the Birthers have a point, you fuel speculation.
Why on EARTH would a supposedly major political party NOT include the “constitutionally qualified” language on their candidate certification? This just proves to the Birthers that even the DNC doesn’t believe Obama is a natural-born citizen.
So stop complaining about the Birthers… you brought ALL this on yourself.
Adjusting the aluminum foil, its all really part of the plan, you see. Create an elaborate back story so that any opposition will grab at the shiny thing and easily discredited as a conspiracy loon. The Manchurians are quite good at these things.
ReplyDeleteDoffing the foil, there's plenty of real issues (e.g. crony capitalism, in or out in Afghanistan, buy now pay later government etc) to deal with. This issue needs to fade into the general zoning=Agenda 21, Amero, chemtrails, lizard people conspiracy fringe.
Re: "Why on EARTH would a supposedly major political party NOT include the “constitutionally qualified” language on their candidate certification?"
ReplyDeleteAnd what did the Republican party say about McCain? Did they say anything at all?
And, what did the Republican party say about McCain?
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that the papers filed by the GOP stated that their candidate was constitutionally qualified.
ReplyDeleteIt's only common sense, you know?
The questions raised here are interesting, though hardly conclusive. Why were two versions of the papers signed by DNC bigwigs? Why was the version WITHOUT the constitutionally qualified clause the one submitted to the states?
I'm not a birther, by any stretch of the imagination. My point with this post was to point out that a lot of the reason the Birther movement thrives is because of stupidity on the party of Obama and the Democrats. With so many contradictions and things like the issue I blogged about here, is it any WONDER that people have doubts?