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My Apologies To John Derbyshire

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This is the dumbest thing ever written.

To save you the pain of reading the several thousand words encompassing this startling case that will change everything you know forever, Atlas Shrugged thinks that Malcolm X is Barack Obama’s real father.  And he was born in Seattle.

Now, you might ask, wouldn’t Obama being born to his mother, an American citizen, and Malcom X, an American citizen, fundamentally destroy the entire case that conservative whackjobs have been building about Obama actually being a foreign citizen who’s ineligible to run for the presidency?

No, as Atlas Shrugged commenter flyingsongster tells us, because they have a backup theory

Of course they do.  Because the first thing they teach in Wingnut Night School is to always back up your work.

I now understand that at least half of the state attorney generals in the country will challenge Obama’s residency before certifying his nomination. Lawsuits will be filed to clarify Obama’s birth in the United States.

Until today I simply believed that Obama was born in Hawaii. After doing some research I found it is not so clear cut. Obama may have been born in Canada or even Kenya. The birth certificate he has provided as proof of live birth is flawed. The first one his election team provided had no certification seal. The second had the seal and fold marks.

There is also a “Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama” born on 23 August 1961 in Canada—which is where people are saying Obama was really born—not Hawaii.

The proof for this?  There is none.  Quite literally, none.  But it does proffer the perfect bookend to the greatest story ever told: Malcolm X had a love child with a University of Hawaii student who moved to Seattle and he then made go over the border to Canada to have a child whose parentage and name he then conspired to give to a Kenyan national still in Hawaii and then manufactured a fake birth certificate to hide the fact that the kid was born in Canada, despite the fact that he would have been born to two American parents and therefore an American citizen anyway. 

It’s like Look Who’s Talking, except that John Travolta gets shot in the end. 

UPDATE: I demand a DNA test be done between Barack Obama and Malcolm X’s closest living relative, Denzel Washington.

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 06:41 PM • Permalink

See, I just made that comment while you were posting this. Goddammit.

Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  10/30  at  08:21 PM

Gotta love the evidence that Malcolm X is his dad because they look (they all look alike, right) more alike than he looks like his dad. However, Obama looks even more amazingly like his maternal grandfather, from the pictures of his grandmother.

But then, what does that matter, because that would involve genetics, which is dangerously close to evolution.

And we’re supposed to believe that a young, educated black community organizer in Illinois would HIDE being Malcolm X’s son? Or that this wouldn’t turn up before now?

Bah.

Lymis  on  10/30  at  08:28 PM

Huh?

Notorious P.A.T.  on  10/30  at  08:36 PM

Oh, my sweet Lordy-Gordy.
How does somebody write this, and not realize, AS THEY’RE WRITING IT, that it’s fucking ridiculous?

Bill S  on  10/30  at  08:37 PM

Seattle?  Then I don’t think MalcolmX was St. Ann’s babydaddy.  No no.  That means that it was Jimi Hendrix!

Seriously, though, these guys have absolutely no clue how births are reported, recorded, and certified in vast areas of the United States.  I’ve worked with birth records.  I know about these things.  The whole “vault” birth certificate is a total joke.  There are no “vault” birth certificates in many US states - there are recording forms which get turned into a “record of live birth”.  In most cases this record is electronic, and is used to print out a “certificate of live birth” which verifies that the state has a record of the blessed event.

It isn’t a piece of paper that is photocopied because paper records are enormously space intensive to store, labor intensive to retrieve and return, and have a nasty habit of getting destroyed in fires, floods, etc.  The originals may be stored in hospitals, city halls, county clerk offices, etc. but they may also be destroyed.  Many states computerized their records going back as far as possible, and tossed the paper a long time ago.

Think about it: pull out paper, make photocopy, put back paper.  That worked when people had to make a ridiculous journey to the town of their birth to get one, or never left the town they were born in.  Vault certificate, indeed.  Chances are, there either never was one or, given his year of birth, it was tossed when Hawaii fully computerized their entire system (likely to have happened around 1970).

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  08:37 PM

I don’t know why this only occurred to me yesterday, but I’m curious to know:  do they think the US State Department is in on the conspiracy, or have they been duped?  After all, when Obama got his passport, he had to present a birth certificate (or certificate of live birth).  Was it forged so perfectly that the State Dept. just plumb forgot to cross-check it with Hawaii?

Not to mention the fraud perpetrated on the Social Security Administration.  Wily bastard.

Mnemosyne  on  10/30  at  08:51 PM

Malcolm X?  Pshaw!  Obama’s education proves that his father can only be Gordon from Sesame Street.

Mr. Hooper tried to warn us, but was silenced.

And Big Bird knows everything.  Why isn’t he talking?  Maybe George Snuffalupagus will tell us on Sunday, when a panel consisting of Oscar (R-Garbage Can), Elmo (L-Some Garish Nightmare) and Kermit (Sesame Street News reporter) will speak to that and other issues of the day.  Also, Ernie and Bert will speak out against California’s Proposition 8.

jon  on  10/30  at  08:53 PM

Speaking of Obama’s passport, I forgot that State Dept. contractors were fired for illegally accessing his records back in March.  You’d think the wingnuts would manage to work that into their story somehow, but I get a feeling they don’t know what a passport is or how you get one.

Mnemosyne  on  10/30  at  08:56 PM

Why oh why oh why did the Weekly World News have to die when it did.  They could do such an amazing job of getting to the bottom of all of this I’m sure!

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:01 PM

Obama may have been born in Canada

Guh, I wish.

Jade  on  10/30  at  09:04 PM

What I love (ahem) about this are the unspoken messages under all this fol-de-rol.

Message 1: We can’t beat this guy on a level playing field, and so have to keep him out of the game by claiming ineligibility.  (It’s a technique well known to little league sports fanatics.)

Message 2: This guy became head of the Harvard Law Review, and Illinois State Senator, a United States Senator and now is within a whisker of being President of the US of A.  He therefore can’t be from around here!  Everybody knows that our darkies just aren’t that smart!

seeker6079  on  10/30  at  09:08 PM

I’m not going over there to see when this was written

I now understand that at least half of the state attorney generals in the country will challenge Obama’s residency before certifying his nomination.

but, considering Obama is on the ballot in every state, and most states have already begun voting, then haven’t all the state attorney generals already certified his nomination? Further, a quick perusal of the list of state attorneys general at the National Association of Attorneys General website (http://www.naag.org) shows, there are 19 Republican AGs and 31 Democratic AGs. So is this idiot really thinking that at a minimum 6 Democratic AGs would challenge Obama’s residency?

Dweeze  on  10/30  at  09:21 PM

I now understand that at least half of the state attorney generals in the country will challenge Obama’s residency before certifying his nomination. Lawsuits will be filed to clarify Obama’s birth in the United States.

That’s such a sad little paragraph.  Do people actually believe that 25 state AGs are right now working on challenges like this?  I see this type of thing in every wingnut fantasy.  There’s always some sort of cavalry about to ride over the hill, someone with definitive proof and the power to make it known, and then in every case they keep coming up with increasingly absurd excuses why it never happens.

By tomorrow the working theory will be that Malcolm X, Barack Obama, Sr., Lolo Soetoro, Muhammed Ali, Ray Charles and Wilt Chamberlin all fathered Barack Hussein Abdullah Osama bin Mamajama Obama XIV, because everyone knows that only slutty white women get with black men.

Stephen Suh  on  10/30  at  09:24 PM

I thought you had to be kidding about the Malcolm X thing, but no, she really does think that.

Amanda Marcotte  on  10/30  at  09:26 PM

If this idea is so “crazy” then why is the Obama campaign refusing all requests for a DNA test to study the possible hereditary connection between Mr. X. and Barack Hussien?  They know full well that such information could decide this election and destroy the chances of your black messiah in The Heartland of the USA of America.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  09:27 PM

I don’t know why this only occurred to me yesterday, but I’m curious to know:  do they think the US State Department is in on the conspiracy, or have they been duped?

Of course they’re in on it. That prophet of modern neo-conservatism, Senator “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy, laid it all out in February of 1950:

In my opinion the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with communists.

I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card-carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy.

Yes, 57 cases—just like the varieties of Heinz food products ("Heinz" as in Teresa Heinz Kerry. Oh yes, you heard me right!). Those 57 Commie-Pinkos, not to mention their clones, didn’t just disappear from the State Dept.

Do you naive fools think that this plot started with Obama’s birth (assuming he was “born” in the conventional sense of the word), let alone 1950? Oh no, even now, two stories under the paving stones of Red Square, Lenin is slowly awakening from suspended animation, ready to join the Manchurian Candidate Obama in imposing the Dictatorship of the Negroteriat on the entire world!

[wait, was that Friday’s big GOP reveal? Judging from the Freepers, <a href ="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2111258/posts">could be</a>. If so, kindly add a SPOILERS! notice at the top of this comment]

Gracchus  on  10/30  at  09:29 PM

The shear depth and breadth of this stupidity is amazing. This so stinks of a desperation so great that they are past the grasping at straws and on to praying for a miracle. What’s saddest of all is that this will continue with even more baroque elaberation if Obama wins, these people will simply never except Obama as president.

Natasha Yar-Routh  on  10/30  at  09:30 PM

Does this mean that John McCain is actually the love child of Father Coughlin and Eleanor Roosevelt? That would explain why he failed to display the admiralty genes that had been dominant in his supposed family for generations, and why the Navy helped ER fight Robert Moses.

paul  on  10/30  at  09:31 PM

UPDATE: I demand a DNA test be done between Barack Obama and Malcolm X’s closest living relative, Denzel Washington.

Denzel also starred in ... [wait for it] ... the re-make of The Manchurian Candidate. Co-incidence? I think NOT!

Gracchus  on  10/30  at  09:31 PM

If this idea is so “crazy” then why is the Obama campaign refusing all requests for a DNA test to study the possible hereditary connection between Mr. X. and Barack Hussien? 

For the same reason they would refuse all requests for a DNA test to study the possible connection between Obama and Professor X; Racer X; and Popes John, Leo, Pius, and Benedict X - because the idea is so laughable on its face that the only people pushing it are A: People who know it’s laughable on its face but are desperate for anything that might derail Obama, and B: People who are total fucking idiots.* So which are you, Rugged?

*This of course means we will see a McCain aid pushing this idea no later than Sunday.

Dweeze  on  10/30  at  09:37 PM

Does this mean that John McCain is actually the love child of Father Coughlin and Eleanor Roosevelt?

We need to demand a DNA test! If he refuses, it means it’s true!

Dweeze  on  10/30  at  09:38 PM

Does this mean that John McCain is actually the love child of Father Coughlin and Eleanor Roosevelt?
That would give him ATHEIST GENES.

pepito  on  10/30  at  09:40 PM

I think Rugged is vying for Parody Troll of the Year!

Either that, or it’s a Springtime for Hitler situation.

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:41 PM

You mean Juan Micano?  Son of another admiral’s teenage daughter and her latino paramor, adopted by the McCain family as a grand cover up?

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:43 PM

Religious authorities of an earlier, more moral era, used what was know as “The Question” to establish whether someone was telling the truth or not.  It hardly seems out of line, given the importance of this election, to ask that a very important question be answered.  A small amount of blood can be taken very quickly, so it would hardly interfere with Mr. Obama’s schedule.  There is no legitimate reason to refuse an inquiry into his possible parentage by one of this country’s most notorious radicals.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  09:46 PM

Either that, or it’s a Springtime for Hitler situation.

You intellectual elitists like to toss out your indecipherable comments, don’t you? At any rate, that’s always been one of my favorite songs.  What bearing it has on this thread, is a mystery to me.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  09:51 PM

There is no legitimate reason to refuse an inquiry into his possible parentage by one of this country’s most notorious radicals.

So, Rugged, when the Jackbooted ATF thugs arrive and force you to give blood (not the usual way to genetic tests, btw) to determine whether or not you are related to Theodore Kacyznski, you will gladly comply?

I thought so.  There is no reason for you to refuse the investigation.

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:51 PM

One Question: why would it matter if Obama was Son of X or not?

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:52 PM

Rugged in Montana is definitely a parody troll, and quite a good one, too.  S/he had to up the rhetoric before we realized it, though.

Well done, sir! (or madam.)

Mnemosyne  on  10/30  at  09:55 PM

Hmmm ... could it be the demon BeezelBerube!

Ms Kate  on  10/30  at  09:57 PM

So when do we see Obama and McCain standing together, removing their skins, and revealing that one is Kodos and the other is Kang and it’s too late to make another choice...?

MikeEss  on  10/30  at  10:04 PM

So when do we see Obama and McCain standing together, removing their skins, and revealing that one is Kodos and the other is Kang and it’s too late to make another choice...?

Kodos is obviously a Muslim socialist who wasn’t born in the United States. Vote Kang!

Dweeze  on  10/30  at  10:07 PM

I have to say I figured it out at “I only have two books - the Bible and The Turner Diaries...” However, I’ll give credit where credit is due and admit that it only sent up a red-flag because someone else had mentioned The Turner Diaries just upthread.

Then again, that line made me literally laugh out loud, so bravo, Parody In Montana!

The Opoponax  on  10/30  at  10:08 PM

Seattle?

Suddenly, it’s all clear!!!!

Barack Obama killed Bruce Lee.

Pesto  on  10/30  at  10:09 PM

Rugged in Montana is a Parody Troll on loan from over at Sadly, No!  He’s a laugh a minute.

GumbyAnne  on  10/30  at  10:11 PM

to determine whether or not you are related to Theodore Kacyznski, you will gladly comply?

Ted is a distant cousin and the whole matter has already been thouroughly investigated and documented by several Federal agencies that happen to be run by Communist Fascists.  Anyway, as a citizen of the USA of America, I’m supposed to have “rights”.  This does not hold true for Obama as he holds dual citizenship with Indonesia and Kenya, not America.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  10:11 PM

Of course, this doesn’t explain how Hussein Obama X could have managed to fool large segments of the public into thinking he was secretly a foreign-born Muslim black separatist with socialist leanings, irrevocably damaging his chances for the Presidency, by planting so much overwhelming evidence to the contrary… including that fake birth certificate that shows him being born to an American citizen…

serena kitt  on  10/30  at  10:14 PM

including that fake birth certificate that shows him being born to an American citizen…

Two words: Reverse Psychology.

It may be politically incorrect for me to mention the obvious but...the negro race can be very devious.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  10:19 PM

I still do not understand WHY anyone cares where Obama was born.  His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.  Why are the conservatives basically going batshit over a complete non-issue?

And no, I’m not being rhetorical.  I really don’t get it.  There are plenty of other reasons that a conservative might get the twitches over Obama, so why fixate on this? 

As for the alleged resemblance to Malcolm X, I think Obama looks amazingly like his grandfather Stanley Dunham.  Or has this crazed Objectivist decided that all tall, slender, thin faced black men are related?

Ellid  on  10/30  at  10:20 PM

There are plenty of other reasons that a conservative might get the twitches over Obama, so why fixate on this?

It’s, as stated upthread, because they know they can’t win by playing the game, so their only hope at this point is that a miracle occurs and it turns out Obama wasn’t really eligible in the first place.  With a side of “he’s not really a real American” (not so much in the technical sense, but in the “one of us” sense), and “he’s not trustworthy” for dessert.

The Opoponax  on  10/30  at  10:26 PM

His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.

Or was she?  A former comptroller of the city of Chigago reportedly had obtained documents proving that Obama’s mother had terminated her American citizenship in order to enter into a traditional Kenyan polygamous marriage with Malcom X.  Shortly after mentioning the documents to Obama, the comptroller died a mysterous death which was ruled as a “heart-attack” by the county coroner, an Obama insider.

If these allegations are true, it raises serious doubt about the legitimacy of Obama’s pending claim to the presidency and should immediately be investigated by the Mukasey Justice Department.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  10:31 PM

Can I try this?
Sarah Palin is the lovechild of George W. Bush and Dan Quayle.

Wow, making stuff up is fun.

phinky  on  10/30  at  10:35 PM

Sarah Palin is the lovechild of George W. Bush and Dan Quayle.

That’s ridiculous.  She would have to be younger than she is.  Additionally, there are only a handful of documented births that can be attributed to anal sex.

Rugged in Montana  on  10/30  at  10:40 PM

*yawn* Tomorrow, they’ll be saying that Obama’s father was Patrice Lumumba. Is there anything more ridiculous (or racist) than the “reasoning” behind this post?

papa zita  on  10/30  at  11:10 PM

Oh noes. We’ve been Bamboozled, Hoodwinked, and Okie Doke’d!

Roxanne  on  10/30  at  11:19 PM

I still do not understand WHY anyone cares where Obama was born.  His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.  Why are the conservatives basically going batshit over a complete non-issue?

Doesn’t the president have to be born on US soil, though?  Or am I just making that up because I’m sleepy and those of us who are not whackadoodle insane have plenty of other shit to worry about?

LauraB  on  10/30  at  11:20 PM

First, you people are all nuts. Obviously Barack Obama is half Kenyan, and his father was Jomo Kenyatta, founding father of Kenya. This is why Obama makes such a promising candidate—he has leadership in his blood.

Second, I giggled at Jon’s 8:53 Sesame Street comment. C’mon, George Snuffleupagus? That’s comedy gold!

Orange  on  10/30  at  11:34 PM

No, Kang is obviously a Muslim socialist who wasn’t born in the United States. Vote Kodos!

seeker6079  on  10/30  at  11:49 PM

UPDATE: I demand a DNA test be done between Barack Obama and Malcolm X’s closest living relative, Denzel Washington.

Ha! Although obviously this conspiracy theory is fact because it’s clearly based in reality and not at all on nonsensical hallucinogenic ramblings. If Obama doesn’t make it to the White House, Malcolm X’s other secret love child will have to make a go at it. And I don’t know about you, but I really don’t think Kanye West would be good under presidential pressure.

I mean. Did you see the way he screamed at that little girl at that pumpkin judging contest?

brista  on  10/30  at  11:54 PM

Rugged in Montana is indeed a parody troll. He/she posts a lot at Sadly, No!

Bitter Scribe  on  10/31  at  12:13 AM

Sarah Palin is the lovechild of George W. Bush and Dan Quayle.

That’s ridiculous.  She would have to be younger than she is.  Additionally, there are only a handful of documented births that can be attributed to anal sex.

Rugged in Montana on 10/30 at 10:40 PM

It’s Dan Quayle and Phyllis Schlafly, in regulation missionary position, no less.  Note especially the hairstyle (genetically transmitted) and length of skirt.  After all we never have seen Dan’s knees.

phylosopher  on  10/31  at  12:17 AM

Doesn’t the president have to be born on US soil, though?  Or am I just making that up because I’m sleepy and those of us who are not whackadoodle insane have plenty of other shit to worry about?

There is some dispute about that, but the Republicans can’t push that aspect because John McCain was not born on American soil:  he was born in Panama while his father was stationed there with the Navy.  Which may be another of the multiple reasons the right wing is so laser-focused on “proving” Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

Mnemosyne  on  10/31  at  12:40 AM

Argh it’s called UH or University of Hawaii. Nobody says U of Hawaii.

banisteriopsis  on  10/31  at  01:23 AM

Obama can’t do the DNA test because he’s a distant relative of Dick Cheney, and Cheney has ordered all the DNA classified. Duh.

Phoebe Fay  on  10/31  at  01:26 AM

Damn. I *wish* Obama was Malcolm X’s son. Can you imagine Malcolm X’s son as President of the U.S.?

That would totally kick ass!

We should be so lucky.

O'Reilly  on  10/31  at  02:22 AM

amen O’Reilly , it’d be proof positive that we live in the most kick-ass country in the world.

redwards  on  10/31  at  02:35 AM

Denzel also starred in ... [wait for it] ... the re-make of The Manchurian Candidate. Co-incidence? I think NOT!

I say Gracchus wins!

Eric, Rejector of Memez  on  10/31  at  02:56 AM

I still do not understand WHY anyone cares where Obama was born.  His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.  Why are the conservatives basically going batshit over a complete non-issue?

Because after the last eight years, if you’re going batshit over substantive issues, you’re a liberal.

There is also a “Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama” born on 23 August 1961 in Canada

Ah, but there is a John Sidney McCain born in 1936 in Ireland*. Why does the McCain campaign refuse to prove his American citizenship?

*There must be, I’m sure

Andrew  on  10/31  at  03:51 AM

I saw a black guy on the street the other day; I assume it was Obama’s half-brother.

Lauren O  on  10/31  at  05:33 AM

RiM sez:

It may be politically incorrect for me to mention the obvious but...the negro race can be very devious.

Damn! Looks like I need to spend more time with the crackers out here—I thought the Asians were the devious ones and the negroes were shiftless.  Thanks for clearing that up!

JCfromNC  on  10/31  at  05:42 AM

“I still do not understand WHY anyone cares where Obama was born.  His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.”

Oh, come ON! You have got to be kidding.

All this making up of parentage is a lark and all, but if you are going to lower the discussion here to pretend that WOMEN matter at all, especially in matters of politics, or citizenship, then you’re taking things way too far into science fiction la-la-land.

Please.

Lymis  on  10/31  at  07:11 AM

It’s like Look Who’s Talking, except that John Travolta gets shot in the end. 
Sounds good to me.

Mike Nilsen  on  10/31  at  07:15 AM

I haven’t really read the thread yet just....my English grammar lobe is twitching.

AttorneyS general, people.  Attorneys general.

speedbudget  on  10/31  at  07:16 AM

Yes, a President does have to be born on American soil.

And yes, military bases are de facto American soil.  So McCain is still eligible. 

And, admit it.  So is Obama.

speedbudget  on  10/31  at  07:24 AM

Yes, a President does have to be born on American soil.

No, the president must merely be a natural born American citizen. This would include those born to American parents abroad. I believe that former Republican Senator from Connecticut Lowell Weicker was born in Switzerland, and while the legal issue was never put to the test, people pointed out that if he wanted to run for president, he was perfectly eligible.

Tyro  on  10/31  at  08:49 AM

...thought the Asians were the devious ones and the negroes were shiftless.

An Asian once told me that her people are all “inscrutable” and she maybe was joking but I couldn’t tell…

Bagelsan  on  10/31  at  10:13 AM

From the Wikipedia, natural-born citizen:

John McCain, who ran for the Republican party nomination in 2000 and is the Republican nominee in 2008, was born at the Coco Solo U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. parents. Although the Panama Canal Zone was not considered to be part of the United States,[7] federal law states: “Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States."[8] The law that conferred this status took effect on August 4, 1937, one year after John McCain was born — albeit with retroactive effect, resulting in McCain being declared a U.S. citizen.[9]

Jeezus Bald Headed Christ.....are these people serious?

Its pretty obvious is is going to be a lousy Christmas because all of the fruitcakes are over at Atlas Shrugged!!!

John Buchanan  on  10/31  at  11:28 AM

OOOrrrr..... will it be the Best Christmas EVER!?

Eric, Rejector of Memez  on  10/31  at  11:45 AM

There is no legitimate reason to refuse an inquiry into his possible parentage by one of this country’s most notorious radicals.

Wait...that means that Barack Obama’s father is James Dobson!

Slackajawea  on  10/31  at  12:55 PM

Malcolm X?  Pshaw!  Obama’s education proves that his father can only be Gordon from Sesame Street.

Mr. Hooper tried to warn us, but was silenced.

And Big Bird knows everything.  Why isn’t he talking?  Maybe George Snuffalupagus will tell us on Sunday, when a panel consisting of Oscar (R-Garbage Can), Elmo (L-Some Garish Nightmare) and Kermit (Sesame Street News reporter) will speak to that and other issues of the day.  Also, Ernie and Bert will speak out against California’s Proposition 8.

I hereby declare that jon has won the Internet. Please come to the clearing house to collect your winnings!

Karalora  on  10/31  at  01:36 PM

I still do not understand WHY anyone cares where Obama was born.  His mother was an American citizen, which made him an American citizen by ius sanguinis.

Not exactly. If a child’s parents are not married, and the child is born outside the U.S., then the child is not automatically a U.S. citizen.  The law applicable where the mother is a U.S. citizen is as follows (from http://travel.state.gov/law/info/info_609.html):

Birth Abroad Out-of-Wedlock to a U.S. Citizen Mother: A child born abroad out-of-wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother may acquire U.S. citizenship under Section 301(g) INA, as made applicable by Section 309(c) INA if the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the child’s birth, and if the mother had previously been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year.

Frederick  on  10/31  at  02:51 PM

Sweet, presidential fanfic.

Jake  on  10/31  at  02:51 PM

It occurs to me that it’s not clear whether a child born to a mother who is married, albeit to someone other than the biological father of the child, is deemed “A child born abroad out-of-wedlock.” No doubt there is law on this.  I know in some states there is a very strong presumption, irrebuttable after a certain amount of time, that the mother’s husband is the child’s father. (There was a Supreme Court case about 20 years ago challenging California’s law on this. A child had been born to a married woman, but had been conceived while she was separated from her husband, with whom she later reunited. The Supreme Court held that, the statutory period having expired, her former lover, whom DNA tests established was almost surely the biological father of the child, had no parental rights.) Dunno what federal law is on this. (Disclaimer:  I’m of course not giving any credence to the wingnuts’ crazy theories.  I’m just saying that if their premises/fantasies that Obama was born abroad, and his biological parents weren’t married to each other, could be established, they might, in theory, be on to something.)

Frederick  on  10/31  at  03:08 PM

A sample sentence:

There’s a problem here, folks.  The first day of spring in the northern hemisphere is determined by the vernal equinox, and never occurs earlier than toward the end of March. February 2 ain’t spring—anywhere in the US.

This person lives in the fantasy world where great conspiracies lurk waiting to be unraveled by Encyclopedia Brown trivia.

Brian Will  on  10/31  at  04:44 PM

“This person lives in the fantasy world where great conspiracies lurk waiting to be unraveled by Encyclopedia Brown trivia.”

She’s like Sherlock Holmes in The Seven Percent Solution, except with box wine instead of cocaine.

a concerned citizen  on  10/31  at  06:15 PM

This is such great news—now Obama can run for the leadership of our Liberal party!

CathiefromCanada  on  10/31  at  10:56 PM

It occurs to me that it’s not clear whether a child born to a mother who is married, albeit to someone other than the biological father of the child, is deemed “A child born abroad out-of-wedlock.”

IIRC, it’s kind of a weird situation where an American citizen mother who has a baby out of wedlock has a very easy time getting her child recognized as an American citizen because everyone knows for sure who the mother of the baby is.  The problem comes when the mother is a non-citizen and the father is an American citizen—it gets into all kinds of ugly.

I remember it being a big issue that you had American fathers of children in Vietnam who weren’t allowed to bring their children to the US because there was no “proof” that they were the real fathers.  It’s probably easier now with DNA testing, but it’s still a major pain in the ass for an American citizen father to get his out-of-wedlock children born overseas recognized as American citizens.

Mnemosyne  on  11/01  at  01:22 AM

“I hereby declare that jon has won the Internet. Please come to the clearing house to collect your winnings!"-- Karalora

What the hell would I want that for?  I have enough crap on my computer as it is.

jon  on  11/01  at  12:27 PM

The process of becoming a Randroid apparently destroys the victim’s reasoning ability. Such a stew of factoids will never cohere, no matter how long it simmers.

As one point: One can enroll for a college term and not show up on the first day. This makes more sense than Barack’s gestation lasting more than six months.

“Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals.

A neat trick considering Alinsky died in 1972.

The unnaturally born citizen in the Presidential race is clearly Juan Noriega McCain, whose parents received a new birth certificate after they adopted him. Even if Juan Noriega had been born to oil wildcatter daughter Roberta Wright, and even had the Wright-McCain marriage been valid at the time (we have yet to see their executed marriage license), the hospital in which Juan Noriega McCain was purportedly born was not built till 1941, when McCain was seven years old.

The fact that most undercuts Juan Noriega’s pretense of natural born citizenship was that Panama was granted sovereignty over the Canal Zone by the US statute that created it. Because Juan Noriega McCain was purportedly born in the Canal Zone, even had it been on a US base, Panama’s adoption of ius soli made him a natural born Panamanian, and as such, unfit to be President of the US.

Hector B.  on  11/01  at  01:08 PM

Whoops! This makes more sense than Barack’s gestation lasting more than TWELVE months.

Hector B.  on  11/01  at  01:14 PM

But you have to admit that the idea of an unremarkable, obscure, middle-class young woman from Kansas getting involved, in 1960, in a conspiracy to produce a half-black U.S. president born in 3 different countries, is quite compelling.  If you look back at the time, most obscure young women were doing that in those days.

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