LIDDY: You mentioned distractions. One of these distractions right now is these lawsuits that take the position that he is not constitutionally eligible to be president of the United States because he is not a naturally-born citizen. Now, he could clear that up in an instant by producing a genuine birth certificate. And yet he refuses to do it. He says he has one but he won’t do it. What is behind that? Hubris or what?

WOLFFE: Well, I’m going to differ with you on this one. This came up during the campaign. A copy of the birth certificate is out there. Anyone can see it. He was born in Hawaii. There are documents from the state of Hawaii that prove it. I don’t know what else you really expect me to do.

LIDDY: Well, here’s the thing. The document you speak of is a “certificate of live birth,” which is not a birth certificate. You can’t get a passport with that, you can’t even register your kids…

WOLFFE: Yes you can. That’s what I do. That’s what everyone does. The certificate of live birth is exactly what you get a passport with.

LIDDY: No, it’s a birth certificate.

WOLFFE: That’s — the copy of the birth certificate, everyone has copies of birth certificates. They use them all the time. Nobody hands out the one original document.

LIDDY: No, I wouldn’t expect them to.

WOLFFE: When you go to the DMV you take a copy with you. You don’t take the real… and it’s an official copy, it has to be embossed and stamped, it’s not just like a xerox. But that’s what it is, and it’s widely accepted.

LIDDY: Why is it redacted? Why is it redacted?

WOLFFE: I haven’t seen any redactions.

LIDDY: The one that’s on the internet, that’s the one that I’ve seen, and that one has the serial number redacted.

WOLFFE: I have no idea. I’ve seen one with serial numbers on it and everything. So I don’t know what the problem is here. Do you have an idea of where he was born if it wasn’t in Hawaii?

LIDDY: Yeah, there’s an affidavit from his grandmother that says that she observed the birth in Mombassa, Kenya.

WOLFFE: Yeah. You know, I just think that that is completely false.

Liddy conflates multiple conspiracy theories about Mombassa — Obama’s step-grandmother has never said anything like this. I’ll just clip what I wrote last year in Slate:

On Oct. 16, an Anabaptist minister named Ron McRae called Sarah Hussein Obama, the president-elect’s 86-year-old paternal step-grandmother, at her home in Kenya. Two translators were on the line when McRae asked if the elder Obama was “present” when the president-elect was born. One of the translators says “yes.” McRae contacted Berg and gave him a partial transcript of the call with a signed affidavit. He opted not to include the rest of the call, in which he asks the question more directly—”Was he born in Mombassa?”—and the translators, finally understanding him, tell him repeatedly that the president-elect was born in Hawaii.

That little nugget is the basis for multiple Kenya conspiracies.

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Larry Sinclair, a convicted felon who has made the leap from a credibility-challenged Obama accuser to an all-purpose Obama obsessive, is “glad that people have started standing up and fighting back when they are slandered and libel (sic) by anyone.”

As idiotic as all of this is, it’s noteworthy that President Obama’s conspiracy-minded foes are much, much weaker, and have much less punching power in the media, than President Clinton’s did at this point in his presidency.

Another man stood in the middle of the crowd after the rally shouting things such as: “And by the way, Obama, where’s your birth certificate?”

The pictures reveal a smallish crowd that’s nonetheless impressive—how often do you see these sorts of protests in the post-Ron Paul era?—until you realize that the event was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, the six-year-old small government group funded by energy interests and really quite skilled at displays of psuedo-populist activism. Remember the hot air balloon that floated around swing states last year, making the case against “global warming hysteria?”  That was them.

We do not have a President-elect that loves this country, or one that grew up in America, that cherishes the constitution, that plays it straight. The President elect is an internationalist, not an America firster.

Look, let’s leave aside the way Geller (accidentally?) accused herself of sympathizing with the Nazis in World War II. Her real worry is that President-elect Barack Obama is a left-wing radical who—according to some!—might be the love-child of Malcolm X. Back in October she posted a periphrastic “guest post” that argued this, before updating the post to clarify matters.

I posted it because the writer did a spectacular job documenting Obama’s many connections with the Far Left. The Malcolm X claim is one minor part of this story, and was of interest to me principally as part of the writer’s documentation that Stanley Ann Dunham could not have been where the Obama camp says she was at various times.

She? She’s perfectly reasonable. Apart from her demand that Obama release his birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii and that his father wasn’t Malcolm X.

Imagine if there is something on that birth certificate that disqualifies Obama from the office of the President.  What are you going to do? Start a civil war? There will be blood in the streets you try to enforce the rule of law.

Pictured above: Geller with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.

King Jr.’s birth certificate remains a family secret, but State Department records indicate that it was filed on April 12, 1934, in the name “Martin Luther King, Jr.” This indicates that King Jr.’s name was recorded officially when he was five years and three months old.

O. M. G. The implications are staggering. Not only can we not prove that King was born in 1929, we cannot prove that King was ever born at all. If only the brave Warriors of the Birth Certificate were around to hound King in the 1950s and 1960s, instead of the sad sacks at the FBI.

It’s classic Keyes: rambling, patronizing, fact-less (Obama hasn’t spent “more than $1 million” combating these kinds of frivolous lawsuits), and embarrassing to everyone but him.

Toward the end, Molotov asks Keyes: “Is there a line at which people take to the streets?” If Molotov wants to riot in the streets and inform revellers that he wants to yank the new president out of office, that’s his right. I’d suggest downtown D.C. on January 20. They’d love to hear it!

Some Obama “Birthers” squealed in pain. That was predictable.

Before they conduct that count, they must investigate whether Barack Obama is Constitutionally eligible to be president which means they must vett (sic) him to see if he is a natural born citizen.  This is the last backstop we the people have before we enter into a Constitutional crisis.

The Obama “birth” scam has been great traffic and fundraising bait for some far-right web sites. World Net Daily, the site that publishes Swift Boat author Jerome Corsi — who also wrote a controversial, factually-challenged book sliming Obama — is already looking past this final confirmation of the president-elect’s victory, and offering readers the chance to pay $10 to Fed Ex the Supreme Court about more anti-Obama junk lawsuits challenging his win.

Lucky for the Obama conspiracy theorists— “birthers,” as they hate to be called—supermarket tabloids haven’t gotten bored yet. The Globe tabloid has put the Obama conspiracies on its front page for the second time in a month. In its mid-December cover package, the American Media tabloid quoted two-time Obama opponent Alan Keyes (once in a U.S. Senate race, and in 2008 as a fringe presidential candidate) as an authority on Obama’s family history.

Particularly telling is the fact that not one single person has come forward—not a doctor, not a nurse, not a hospital administrator, nor anyone else—to state that he or she was present [during Obama's birth].

This week’s cover hooked an even smaller fish—Phil Berg, a notorious filer of junk lawsuits (two against the Bush administration for its “role” in 9/11), and whose multiple attempts to get the Supreme Court to nullify the election (based on phony evidence of document forgery and “witnesses” to Obama’s birth) have been laughed off.

What’s the Globe have to gain? Sales, obviously. The paper’s cover stories on Obama conspiracy theories are its most-linked and most-discussed. And the stories are written by staffers like Paul Bannister with weasel language (”the suits claim” … “outraged people claim”) that protect them from libel suits.

And it’s not like the Obama birthers are hard to string along. They spent New Years eve buzzing that Ed Hale, a host on far-right Plains Radio, was going to reveal a “divorce decree” for Obama parents that revealed, once and for all, that Obama’s 18-year-old mother had flown to Kenya to be with her husband’s unapproving family when her child was born. Hale made his announcement on December 30. The “proof” arrived on December 31. On January 1, Hale announced that his hard-won secret documents revealed… well, nothing. Not that people should stop listening to the Plains Radio roster of Obama conspiracy talk shows!

On the December 26 episode of The Lion’s Den, Hale told listeners that it would be “time to pick up guns” if Congress verified Obama’s victory, as it will do on January 6.