Happy Presidents Day
Given that this web site is all about a certain US President, Barack Obama, it is fitting that we take this opportunity to honor all of our presidents, especially those who were unfairly maligned by their political opponents, like George Washington, and those about whom conspiracy theories as to their eligibility were spun, like Chester A. Arthur.
Happy Presidents Day!
Doc.
Kerchner’s “don’t ask don’t tell” ad
I must admit that this is a catchy title for an ad in the February 8 Washington Times, described by Charles Kerchner at the Apuzzo “Right Answers” blog. The ad takes an interesting departure from the usual “legal” approach taken in trying to make Obama ineligible by changing the legal definitions underlying the requirements in the US Constitution.
Kerchner denies that the requirements to be president are a matter of the Constitution, common law, legislation or court decisions, but rather that being president relies on the laws of nature.
While this approach may work personally for Charles Kerchner, it’s not likely to convince anyone that matters, unless it be voters in 2012.
Orly Taitz talks about the Tea Party movement
From the Tea Party convention in Nashville, TN.
Democrats seize the birther issue
We’ve discussed the Democrats’ attack on Scott Brown in Massachusetts in his tight race with Martha Coakley. They claimed Brown was a “birther” based on a comment he made in televised debate, about the possibility that the President’s parents might not have been married. We’ve also talked about recent comments by the Lt. Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey.
Now the Democratic party in South Carolina is going against Joe (“you lie!”) Wilson, calling him a “birther” too. This letter came from Jay Parmley, the Executive Director of the SC Democratic Party:
The news broke on the morning of the State of the Union: Joe Wilson is a birther. He won’t say if the President he’s already publicly disrespected was born in the United States or not. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
In just 48 hours, over 1000 of you signed our petition to ask Joe to publicly clarify if he believes the President is a U.S. Citizen. We delivered it to his office this week, and so far, he hasn’t responded. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
Joe is either a member of the lunatic fringe of American politics, or he’s too afraid of them to do his job. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
Mr. Parmler didn’t say in this letter why he thinks Wilson is a birther, but it may stem from a comment Wilson made on a radio call-in show where he said:
“I was an election commissioner and so I always take seriously that when people file, that’s where that should have been brought up,” Wilson told the Kevin Cohen Show on December 21. “And it should have been brought up when he filed for president in the first state wherever it was and whichever had a primary where he should file. So that is a legal issue that should have been brought up at that time.”
This quotation, without further context, doesn’t prove Wilson is a birther. I might have said the same thing, and I have no doubts whatever where President Obama was born.
Meanwhile, on February 6, 2010 the WorldNetDaily web site published a list of what it calls “lawmakers … questioning eligibility of [the] president,” listing Ramsey, but not Wilson.
Massive birther identity theft attempt?
Batshirt crazy
We deal with a lot of things on this web site that have a questionable rational basis, but this is really totally wacko.
I received an email from Phil J. Berg, Obama denialist litigant, and confirmed that it’s the same as what appears on his web site, ObamaCrimes.com. Berg is planning a “Birth Certificate March on Washington.” That in and of itself is in my opinion silly, but what is totally wacko is this:
Berg is requesting all citizens of the United States to email, fax or mail a “copy” of their Birth Certificate that will be presented to Obama demanding that Obama resign because he has failed to produce his long form [vault] Birth Certificate to show he is “Constitutionally eligible” to be President.
Now think for a moment. You call up your bank and they want to verify that you are who you say you are. They ask you a “security question.” The question is something like “what’s your mother’s maiden name?” or “what’s your father’s middle name?” or “what is the city where you born?” or “what’s the name of the street where you lived as a child?”. Well DUH! All of that information could be found on your birth certificate! In some places, a birth certificate gives you enough information to show you are entitled to a real state-issued certified copy of a birth certificate, which along with a fake social security card will get you a driver’s license and then a passport, and then a way to get around that pesky terrorist watch list at the airport.
I bet the scam artists are already casing Berg’s office for the robbery of all that juicy personal information.
I don’t who is more out of their mind, the person who would ask for something like that, or the person who would send their personal information to a fax number or an email address they found on the Internet.
Dr. Conspiracy, a liar and a fraud? (Updated)
Dr. Conspiracy you are telling damned lies!.
It was a slow news day as the Obama Conspiracy Theories odometer rolled passed 29,000 comments, so I hit Google for inspiration and stumbled on the article above. (They didn’t provide a link to my page, which is Birthers Trash McCain in case you’re interested.) This sparked my curiosity (especially after the recent comments by Linda over at The Right Side of Life) who else might be calling me names. The items below may be comments left on the web site, not necessarily the position of the site itself (especially the last one!)
- Hillary and Me: Dr. Conspiracy, Sorry, there’s no polite way to say this. I’m not sure, but I think your comment ranks up there with one of the two or three dumbest comments I’ve ever read.
- Birthers.org: Dr. Conspiracy you are telling damned lies
- NiggerObama.com: Theres [sic] this guy named Dr. Conspiracy at obamaconspiracytheories.com [sic] … What a Dumb ass. [The writer had a point this time.]
- The Volokh Conspiracy: Clearly Dr. Conspiracy cannot research or make proper arguments.
- RosettaSister: Me thinks Dr. Conspiracy is suffering from delusions of grandeur!
- The Betrayal (link no longer working): If anyone is foolish enough to believe that Dr. Conspiracy (or his site) is a reputable or informed site as opposed to being part of the Flying Monkey crowd, I’ve got news for you … tain’t so.
- Constitutionally Speaking: [Dr. Conspiracy's blog, www.obamaconspiracy.org] present themselves as objective purveyors of truth, but they are Goebbels-style propagandists.
- ObamaConspiracy.org: “So-CAlled Dr of All Obama Conspiracy Theory Busters EXPOSED as a FRAUD!”
- Politico.com: Doc, stop being fraudulent.
And the winner is:
- ObamaConspiracy.org: @#$% you, Dr. QUEER Russian Conspiracy, you’re a below no life piece of @#$% old line Marxist and I have connections that can have your wrinkled old ass indicted and convicted for treason and deported from this country – REGARDLESS OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP STATUS or IMMIGRATION STATUS or YOUR “CONNECTIONS”. I know more about you than your own family does, you @#$%ing old fool.
Well, either I’m better liked than I thought, or my searches missed a lot.
Comment changes
Managing comments in WordPress is a challenge. In order to reduce page load times, I have divided comments into pages. The problem is that the nice Recent Comments widgets break when the recent comment is not on the most recent page. This is a most vexing limitation. There are Recent Comment widgets that work, but they are limited to only 15 comments.
So, as an experiment, I have turned off paging. Now you’ll get ALL the comments on one page. I think that makes things more readable, but some of the pages returned will now be HUGE.
Let me know what you think.
