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		<title>By: RedGraham</title>
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		<dc:creator>RedGraham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Having been a British citizen at birth, Obama was therefore a natural born subject of Great Britain until he was adopted in Indonesia anyway.</description>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From &lt;a href=&quot;http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c4716da39&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Hahn&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Publisher, &lt;a href=&quot;http://StatePaper.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatePaper.com&lt;/a&gt; &quot; August 5, 2009.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://StatePaper.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatePaper.com&lt;/a&gt;, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as &quot;racist,&quot; &quot;birther,&quot; or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being &quot;too liberal&quot; or an &quot;Obama lover&quot; by some of our most prolific critics.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, here is the issue:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The President&#039;s campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a &quot;Certificate of Live Birth.&quot; We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, this &quot;Certificate of Live Birth&quot; is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call &quot;Evidence.&quot; One of the core tenets of American law is the &quot;best evidence rule&quot; which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That&#039;s the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the &quot;Best Evidence Rule&quot; and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of &quot;Best Evidence&quot; is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the &quot;best evidence&quot; (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And now we&#039;ve got a &quot;Liberal&quot; Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate. &quot;Not dead,&quot; Mr. Weigel? I&#039;d say instead &quot;heating up.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If Barry &lt;u&gt;can&lt;/u&gt; cough up a birth certificate that wasn&#039;t completed in the Maternity Ward of Coast Provincial General Hospital in exotic Mombasa, Zanzibar (now Kenya). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Everybody ready to hear our TelePrompTer-in-Chief reading the Fifth Amendment?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c4716da39" rel="nofollow">David Hahn</a>, &#8220;Publisher, <a href="http://StatePaper.com" rel="nofollow">StatePaper.com</a> &#8221; August 5, 2009.</p>
<p><b>Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate</b></p>
<p><i>At <a href="http://StatePaper.com" rel="nofollow">StatePaper.com</a>, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;birther,&#8221; or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being &#8220;too liberal&#8221; or an &#8220;Obama lover&#8221; by some of our most prolific critics.</p>
<p>But, here is the issue:</p>
<p>The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.</p>
<p>The President&#39;s campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a &#8220;Certificate of Live Birth.&#8221; We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.</p>
<p>But, this &#8220;Certificate of Live Birth&#8221; is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.</p>
<p>Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call &#8220;Evidence.&#8221; One of the core tenets of American law is the &#8220;best evidence rule&#8221; which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.</p>
<p>The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That&#39;s the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.</p>
<p>Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the &#8220;Best Evidence Rule&#8221; and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of &#8220;Best Evidence&#8221; is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the &#8220;best evidence&#8221; (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.</p>
<p>The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.</i></p>
<p>And now we&#39;ve got a &#8220;Liberal&#8221; Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate. &#8220;Not dead,&#8221; Mr. Weigel? I&#39;d say instead &#8220;heating up.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Barry <u>can</u> cough up a birth certificate that wasn&#39;t completed in the Maternity Ward of Coast Provincial General Hospital in exotic Mombasa, Zanzibar (now Kenya). </p>
<p>Everybody ready to hear our TelePrompTer-in-Chief reading the Fifth Amendment?</p>
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		<title>By: FemmeKat</title>
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		<dc:creator>FemmeKat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So let me get this straight...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You are saying despite the fact that is was COMMON KNOWLEDGE that President Obama&#039;s father was a Kenyan, he somehow &quot;hood-winked&quot; EVERYONE to overlook THAT FACT, including Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Congress, prominent pundits, conservative analysts, constitutional scholars, and the American public, along with Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, not to mention the entire Republican Party.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please stop being so gullible.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just because someone writes something and puts it on the internet, doesn&#039;t make it true.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So let me get this straight&#8230;</p>
<p>You are saying despite the fact that is was COMMON KNOWLEDGE that President Obama&#39;s father was a Kenyan, he somehow &#8220;hood-winked&#8221; EVERYONE to overlook THAT FACT, including Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Congress, prominent pundits, conservative analysts, constitutional scholars, and the American public, along with Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, not to mention the entire Republican Party.</p>
<p>Please stop being so gullible.</p>
<p>Just because someone writes something and puts it on the internet, doesn&#39;t make it true.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Forget the birth certificate. The real issue is that regardless of where he was born, Obama is ineligible simply because he possessed Kenyan/British citizenship at birth thru his father. Read what Vattel said in &quot;The Law of Nations.&quot; Vattel was very influential in the early United States, and he makes clear that if someone&#039;s father is not a citizen then the child cannot be natural born. Also see the U.S. Supreme Court discussions in The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 289 (1814) and also Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 21 Wall. 167-168 (1874). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This isn&#039;t a matter of conspiracy or speculation; it&#039;s simply a matter of historical legal fact.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Attorneys Leo Donofrio and Mario Apuzzo are good sources on this particular argument.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget the birth certificate. The real issue is that regardless of where he was born, Obama is ineligible simply because he possessed Kenyan/British citizenship at birth thru his father. Read what Vattel said in &#8220;The Law of Nations.&#8221; Vattel was very influential in the early United States, and he makes clear that if someone&#39;s father is not a citizen then the child cannot be natural born. Also see the U.S. Supreme Court discussions in The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 289 (1814) and also Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 21 Wall. 167-168 (1874). </p>
<p>This isn&#39;t a matter of conspiracy or speculation; it&#39;s simply a matter of historical legal fact.</p>
<p>Attorneys Leo Donofrio and Mario Apuzzo are good sources on this particular argument.</p>
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		<title>By: OldAtlantic</title>
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		<dc:creator>OldAtlantic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama was a Constitutional Law lecturer for over 10 years at University of Chicago Law School and was President of Harvard Law Review.  Obama knows what is in all the records he didn&#039;t release.  Based on his careful analysis of his own eligibility as a Constitutional Law lecturer at University of Chicago, Obama decided to keep all of his records sealed.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Facts like the above from Glenn Flowers that very few know are ones that Obama long ago studied.  Based on that, Obama concluded that if people saw all of his records at the same time, and researched the law, that they would conclude Obama was not eligible.  So he has kept his records sealed.  Will they be kept from his own Presidential Library?  His Obama the only president who will withhold his own long form birth certificate from his own Obama Presidential Library?  As well as all the other sealed records.  Does any other presidential library not have the birth certificate, kindergarten records, etc?  What sort of person seals his kindergarten records?  A person who taught Constitutional Law at University of Chicago and knows what is in his kindergarten records.  Will Obama withhold his own kindergarten records from his own presidential library?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama was a Constitutional Law lecturer for over 10 years at University of Chicago Law School and was President of Harvard Law Review.  Obama knows what is in all the records he didn&#39;t release.  Based on his careful analysis of his own eligibility as a Constitutional Law lecturer at University of Chicago, Obama decided to keep all of his records sealed.  </p>
<p>Facts like the above from Glenn Flowers that very few know are ones that Obama long ago studied.  Based on that, Obama concluded that if people saw all of his records at the same time, and researched the law, that they would conclude Obama was not eligible.  So he has kept his records sealed.  Will they be kept from his own Presidential Library?  His Obama the only president who will withhold his own long form birth certificate from his own Obama Presidential Library?  As well as all the other sealed records.  Does any other presidential library not have the birth certificate, kindergarten records, etc?  What sort of person seals his kindergarten records?  A person who taught Constitutional Law at University of Chicago and knows what is in his kindergarten records.  Will Obama withhold his own kindergarten records from his own presidential library?</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama&#039;s Eligibility to be President&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Use of the term &quot;birthers&quot; to describe those who doubt and challenge Obama&#039;s eligibility mimics a common childhood tactic: calling your opponent names to win an argument in the absence of facts. The facts: 1) Obama&#039;s true long form birth certificate has not been provided for examination; 2) the DNC during the election campaign posted on its website an image of a computer-generated Hawaii certificate of live birth - which proves nothing even if it were authentic, and it has been exposed by experts as fraudulent; 3) transcripts and official records from his college days (which could shed light on whether he was registered as a U.S citizen) have never been released; 4) several lawsuits have been filed to obtain his records; some cases have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court; others have been dismissed for plaintiff &quot;lack of standing&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Framers of the U.S. Constitution, to insure loyalty, required Presidents to be natural born citizens. Laws in effect at Obama&#039;s birth in 1961 specified that if a child was not born in the U.S. or its territories, at least one parent had to be an American citizen for five years after turning 14; Obama&#039;s mother was 18 at his birth, too young to confer his citizenship. Obama in his book states that he was born in Hawaii (a U.S. Territory in 1961), yet there is ample evidence that he was not - evidence that he was born in Kenya.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Critics of &quot;birthers&quot; ridicule the movement as conspiracy theories. One should ask, instead, about whether there is a conspiracy among Obama&#039;s administration, his adoring media, and politically correct politicians and judges, to stonewall the public by sitting on the story and reporting nothing about it. Until very recently the silence has been deafening!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why won&#039;t Obama just release his true long form birth certificate and his college records for examination - so we can all see that this has just been a silly misunderstanding? Isn&#039;t that what a legitimate candidate and U.S. President would do?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The problem with not releasing these documents is that Obama is seen by growing numbers of Americans as hiding evidence that he is not Constitutionally eligible to be President. This feeling progresses to doubts that anything Obama says is true. Doubts are increasing about his loyalty to the U.S., based on his statements to, and treatment of our adversaries versus our traditional allies, and his apparent trashing of our Constitution and turning our system away from market-driven to socialism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Enough talk about &quot;birthers&quot;! Let&#039;s see Obama&#039;s true long form birth certificate (if it exists) and his college transcripts. Obama, pick up your phone and make that happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama&#39;s Eligibility to be President</p>
<p>Use of the term &#8220;birthers&#8221; to describe those who doubt and challenge Obama&#39;s eligibility mimics a common childhood tactic: calling your opponent names to win an argument in the absence of facts. The facts: 1) Obama&#39;s true long form birth certificate has not been provided for examination; 2) the DNC during the election campaign posted on its website an image of a computer-generated Hawaii certificate of live birth &#8211; which proves nothing even if it were authentic, and it has been exposed by experts as fraudulent; 3) transcripts and official records from his college days (which could shed light on whether he was registered as a U.S citizen) have never been released; 4) several lawsuits have been filed to obtain his records; some cases have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court; others have been dismissed for plaintiff &#8220;lack of standing&#8221;.</p>
<p>Framers of the U.S. Constitution, to insure loyalty, required Presidents to be natural born citizens. Laws in effect at Obama&#39;s birth in 1961 specified that if a child was not born in the U.S. or its territories, at least one parent had to be an American citizen for five years after turning 14; Obama&#39;s mother was 18 at his birth, too young to confer his citizenship. Obama in his book states that he was born in Hawaii (a U.S. Territory in 1961), yet there is ample evidence that he was not &#8211; evidence that he was born in Kenya.</p>
<p>Critics of &#8220;birthers&#8221; ridicule the movement as conspiracy theories. One should ask, instead, about whether there is a conspiracy among Obama&#39;s administration, his adoring media, and politically correct politicians and judges, to stonewall the public by sitting on the story and reporting nothing about it. Until very recently the silence has been deafening!</p>
<p>Why won&#39;t Obama just release his true long form birth certificate and his college records for examination &#8211; so we can all see that this has just been a silly misunderstanding? Isn&#39;t that what a legitimate candidate and U.S. President would do?</p>
<p>The problem with not releasing these documents is that Obama is seen by growing numbers of Americans as hiding evidence that he is not Constitutionally eligible to be President. This feeling progresses to doubts that anything Obama says is true. Doubts are increasing about his loyalty to the U.S., based on his statements to, and treatment of our adversaries versus our traditional allies, and his apparent trashing of our Constitution and turning our system away from market-driven to socialism.</p>
<p>Enough talk about &#8220;birthers&#8221;! Let&#39;s see Obama&#39;s true long form birth certificate (if it exists) and his college transcripts. Obama, pick up your phone and make that happen.</p>
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		<title>By: TomDegan</title>
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		<dc:creator>TomDegan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in the state of Hawaii. That was the week the Berlin Wall went up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Coincidence? I wonder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This evil, subversive plot has been in the making for damned near forty-eight years! By all evidence, since the moment of Obama&#039;s birth! Here is a question that all good and decent Americans should demand an immediate answer to: Was the newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser, in on the scheme when they printed little Barack&#039;s bogus birth announcement on August 9, 1961? Just where the hell does that paper lean editorially? To the hard Left, I strongly suspect. Wouldn&#039;t that just figure!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The NAACP, in coercion with the American Communist Party, Democracy NOW and Ed Asner, concocted this evil plot deep in the basement of Norm Chomskey&#039;s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the midst of a week-long peyote mushroom binge. The elevation of this dangerous and subversive man to the highest office in this grand and glorious land of ours is only the first step in their dastardly plan. Their next objective will be to force our daughters - our little personifications of patriotism and purity - to court and co-mingle with NEGROES.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before very long our children - your children - will be physically forced to memorize whole chapters of James Baldwin&#039;s &quot;Native Son&quot; and &quot;The Autobiography Of Malcolm X&quot;. Trust me, it&#039;s only a matter of time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They must be stopped. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the country that we all hold so dear to our freedom-loving hearts. America is falling; victimized by forces who would put a foreign-born A-Rab in the seat that was once held by the sainted Ronald Reagan - RONALD REAGAN, I TELL YOU!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My friends, now is not the time for the faint-of-heart. It a time for boldness and stoutness of mind and spirit. Only our collective intestinal fortitude will defeat the Liberal cabal - those nattering nabobs of negativism - who would burn our beloved country down. The time has come to give America back to the real Americans. My fellow citizens, you ignore me at your own peril....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And one more thing we must never ever forget: Barack and Michelle Obama named their two daughters, &quot;Sasha&quot; and &quot;Malia&quot;. What&#039;s that all about?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course, what you just read is meant as satire. Only a complete and utter fool could possibly take any of it seriously. The really disturbing thing, however, is the fact that there are millions of people out there who would read those last eight paragraphs and wouldn&#039;t even come close to getting the joke. While there is plenty of satirical gold to be siphoned from the bottomless mine that these lunatics have provided us with, they have created a dangerous atmosphere that is enabling the nuttiest angels of the American nature. That is something that would do us all well to think about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.tomdegan.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Tom Degan&lt;br&gt;Goshen, NY</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in the state of Hawaii. That was the week the Berlin Wall went up.</p>
<p>Coincidence? I wonder.</p>
<p>This evil, subversive plot has been in the making for damned near forty-eight years! By all evidence, since the moment of Obama&#39;s birth! Here is a question that all good and decent Americans should demand an immediate answer to: Was the newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser, in on the scheme when they printed little Barack&#39;s bogus birth announcement on August 9, 1961? Just where the hell does that paper lean editorially? To the hard Left, I strongly suspect. Wouldn&#39;t that just figure!</p>
<p>The NAACP, in coercion with the American Communist Party, Democracy NOW and Ed Asner, concocted this evil plot deep in the basement of Norm Chomskey&#39;s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the midst of a week-long peyote mushroom binge. The elevation of this dangerous and subversive man to the highest office in this grand and glorious land of ours is only the first step in their dastardly plan. Their next objective will be to force our daughters &#8211; our little personifications of patriotism and purity &#8211; to court and co-mingle with NEGROES.</p>
<p>Before very long our children &#8211; your children &#8211; will be physically forced to memorize whole chapters of James Baldwin&#39;s &#8220;Native Son&#8221; and &#8220;The Autobiography Of Malcolm X&#8221;. Trust me, it&#39;s only a matter of time.</p>
<p>They must be stopped. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the country that we all hold so dear to our freedom-loving hearts. America is falling; victimized by forces who would put a foreign-born A-Rab in the seat that was once held by the sainted Ronald Reagan &#8211; RONALD REAGAN, I TELL YOU!</p>
<p>My friends, now is not the time for the faint-of-heart. It a time for boldness and stoutness of mind and spirit. Only our collective intestinal fortitude will defeat the Liberal cabal &#8211; those nattering nabobs of negativism &#8211; who would burn our beloved country down. The time has come to give America back to the real Americans. My fellow citizens, you ignore me at your own peril&#8230;.</p>
<p>And one more thing we must never ever forget: Barack and Michelle Obama named their two daughters, &#8220;Sasha&#8221; and &#8220;Malia&#8221;. What&#39;s that all about?</p>
<p>Of course, what you just read is meant as satire. Only a complete and utter fool could possibly take any of it seriously. The really disturbing thing, however, is the fact that there are millions of people out there who would read those last eight paragraphs and wouldn&#39;t even come close to getting the joke. While there is plenty of satirical gold to be siphoned from the bottomless mine that these lunatics have provided us with, they have created a dangerous atmosphere that is enabling the nuttiest angels of the American nature. That is something that would do us all well to think about.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com</a> </p>
<p>Tom Degan<br />Goshen, NY</p>
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		<title>By: noldaker</title>
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		<dc:creator>noldaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To date - one of the Supreme Justices announced it takes 4 Justices to allow the Birther case to be heard. Currently 3 agree and just one more is needed. In my opinion - President Obama would not be spending hundred&#039;s of thousands of dollars to block every attempt for the courts to review his documents - which adds fuel to the fire of whether or not he is &quot;legally&quot; qualified to be President. If he has nothing to hide - then why is he going to such extremes to block the hearings. If he is who he claims to be - then he should provide the documents to the courts and allow the proceedings to take place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To date &#8211; one of the Supreme Justices announced it takes 4 Justices to allow the Birther case to be heard. Currently 3 agree and just one more is needed. In my opinion &#8211; President Obama would not be spending hundred&#39;s of thousands of dollars to block every attempt for the courts to review his documents &#8211; which adds fuel to the fire of whether or not he is &#8220;legally&#8221; qualified to be President. If he has nothing to hide &#8211; then why is he going to such extremes to block the hearings. If he is who he claims to be &#8211; then he should provide the documents to the courts and allow the proceedings to take place.</p>
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		<title>By: simkatu</title>
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		<dc:creator>simkatu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He doesn&#039;t have to show you any long form birth certificate, if it even exists.  No other president in the history of the United States has been required to.    I know that in Missouri, where I was born, the only form you can get from the state is the &quot;Certification of Live Birth&quot;.  If you ask for a photocopy of the long form, they will tell you, &quot;We only provide the COLB&quot; it is impossible for you to get a copy of the long form.  I&#039;m pretty sure this is common (maybe not universal) throughout the United States.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He doesn&#39;t have to show you any long form birth certificate, if it even exists.  No other president in the history of the United States has been required to.    I know that in Missouri, where I was born, the only form you can get from the state is the &#8220;Certification of Live Birth&#8221;.  If you ask for a photocopy of the long form, they will tell you, &#8220;We only provide the COLB&#8221; it is impossible for you to get a copy of the long form.  I&#39;m pretty sure this is common (maybe not universal) throughout the United States.</p>
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		<title>By: simkatu</title>
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		<dc:creator>simkatu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;In each and every case dismissed by the SCOTUS challenging Obama&#039;s eligibility the reason for dismissal had nothing to do with the merits of the plaintiff&#039;s claim.&quot;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Who cares?  There is not a single shred of evidence that Obama was born outside the country.   The state of Hawaii says that they recorded his Hawaiian birth 50 years ago and they provided certification of his birth in Hawaii.  States are responsible for recording the vital records of births.  There isn&#039;t a national birth database, so all we have is Hawaii saying he was born there, and 2 newspapers 50 years ago confirming it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The tin-foil-hat crowd has nothing but a debunked mistranslated quote from his step-grandmother who was confirming the birth of Obama, Sr in Kenya, not his son, who she knew was born in Hawaii and as can be heard on tape immediately after the confusing Q&amp;A, the entire family in Kenya confirmed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;In each and every case dismissed by the SCOTUS challenging Obama&#39;s eligibility the reason for dismissal had nothing to do with the merits of the plaintiff&#39;s claim.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Who cares?  There is not a single shred of evidence that Obama was born outside the country.   The state of Hawaii says that they recorded his Hawaiian birth 50 years ago and they provided certification of his birth in Hawaii.  States are responsible for recording the vital records of births.  There isn&#39;t a national birth database, so all we have is Hawaii saying he was born there, and 2 newspapers 50 years ago confirming it.</p>
<p>The tin-foil-hat crowd has nothing but a debunked mistranslated quote from his step-grandmother who was confirming the birth of Obama, Sr in Kenya, not his son, who she knew was born in Hawaii and as can be heard on tape immediately after the confusing Q&#038;A, the entire family in Kenya confirmed.</p>
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