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Anti-Obama books abound at CPAC

Business Insider reports:

A quick spin around the CPAC book store reveals a range of narratives about the President, indicating that the market for Obama conspiracy theories is still thriving, even in his second term.

Sigh.

Photo of Obama's eyes

Orly was there too, cornering such notables as Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese (who was not indicted in the Iraq – Jordan Pipeline scandal), former Senator Jim DeMint, and Republican Congressmen to whom she showed her exhibits that document that President Obama has a social-security number from the series assigned to Connecticut (Connecticut apparently not in the United States of Birthistan).

Orly Taitz shows papers to Edwin Meese

The Great Debate–kibitzer’s edition Part 4

This is the 4th and final edition of the Great Debate Kibitzer’s Editions. This topic is for discussion of The Great Debate.

As I set forth in the original article, the debate will continue as long as the participants have comments. I intend to make my final comments later this week, and Bob Gard has the option of replying, and then the debate will conclude.

Previous Kibitzer’s Editions:

Note: If you buy Bob Gard’s DVD, I strongly suggest you convert it to PDF. The PDF version is like 45 MB. I used Acrobat Standard and it created a beautiful PDF file that opens in a second, and can even run on a Kindle Fire HD, opening in a couple of seconds. Using Microsoft Word to output the file as a PDF didn’t work well for me.

The Great Debate–kibitzer’s edition, Part 3

Continuation thread to The Great Debate–kibitzer’s edition and The Great Debate—kibitzer’s edition, Part 2 comments on The Great Debate.

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The Great Debate–kibitzer’s edition, Part 2

Continuation thread to The Great Debate–kibitzer’s edition comments on The Great Debate.

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The same indifference on his part, added to, perhaps, an even greater indifference on the part of his servant, Zakhar, caused the study, when contemplated with attention, to strike the beholder with an impression of all-prevailing carelessness and neglect. On the walls and around the pictures there bung cobwebs coated with dust; the mirrors, instead of reflecting, would more usefully have served as tablets for recording memoranda ; every mat was freely spotted with stains; on the sofa there lay a forgotten towel, and on the table (as on most mornings) a plate, a salt-cellar, a half-eaten crust of bread, and some scattered crumbs—all of which had failed to be cleared away after last night’s supper. Indeed, were it not for the plate, for a recently smoked pipe that was propped against the bed, and for the recumbent form of Oblomov himself, one might have imagined that the place contained not a single living soul, so dusty & discoloured did everything look, and so lacking were any active traces of the presence of a human being. True, on the whatnots there were two or three open books, while a newspaper was tossing about, and the bureau
bore on its top an inkstand’ and a few pens ; but the pages at which the books were lying open were covered with dust and beginning to turn yellow (thus proving that they had long been tossed aside), the date of the newspaper belonged’ to the previous year, and from the inkstand, whenever a pen happened to be dipped therein, there arose, with a frightened buzz, only a derelict fly.

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

The Great Debate

imageThe DVD-R arrived this afternoon, containing all 1721 pages of Bob Gard’s “ON GARD, OBAMA, YOU ARE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN, WHICH I SHALL PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.” The original mention of Bob’s book here drew 815 comments before I closed comments, one of the largest for an article on the site. I usually shut comments down before that many accumulate.  (This one had the most.)

A discussion with lots of people making lots of comments and going off in many directions is hard to follow, so I have created a controlled-comment article (this one) so that Bob and I can talk about his book, one-on-one. I’m calling it a “debate,” but it not a debate in any formal sense.

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The Great Debate – kibitzer’s edition

This is the companion article to “The Great Debate”, where comments on the debate, or continuation of the discussion from Bob Gard: Proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” may be made.

Bob Gard: Proof “beyond a reasonable doubt”

Last year, independent researcher Bob Gard published a massive 1722-page book titled: “ON GARD, OBAMA, YOU ARE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN, WHICH I SHALL PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.”

Bob came by this blog to plug his book and comment on the topic, and I thought that rather that stress the open thread, which will close soon anyway, I decided to open this up and move those comments from the open thread over here.

I found a used copy of the book at Amazon and ordered it (to arrive Thursday). Obviously we can’t debate a 1722-page book in this forum but I expect that I will have some questions from looking at the book, and perhaps get a sense of why Bob went one way and all the authorities went the other way.