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Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
 
One stop shopping for the fake citizen of your choice: Get your own authentic Kenyan birth certificate guaranteed just as authentic as those used by Birthers around the country.


Mine was quite well done.
 
Posted by AchillesHeel (Member # 11736) on :
 
I assume that will hit the desk of Fox News about this time, and tomorrow they might even apoligize for falsely reporting that they had saying they had his "real" birth certificate.
 
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
 
Tomorrow they will report that some Democratic Birther had been pushing the fake birth certificate.
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
I'm confused. Since this makes you exactly 0% Kenyan, and you're saying this makes you "as Kenyan as the Pres", doesn't that make the President 0% Kenyan?
 
Posted by xtownaga (Member # 7187) on :
 
Well, citizenship wise, yes, it does imply that the president is 0% Kenyan.
 
Posted by DarkKnight (Member # 7536) on :
 
Wasn't Dan Rather the one guilty of reporting on false documents?
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by DarkKnight:
Wasn't Dan Rather the one guilty of reporting on false documents?

There's a rule that there can only be one at a time?
 
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Javert:
quote:
Originally posted by DarkKnight:
Wasn't Dan Rather the one guilty of reporting on false documents?

There's a rule that there can only be one at a time?
The rulebook according to Republicans reads pretty much like Calvinball. Whatever best suites your position at any given moment becomes the rule- that in itself being the only sacred principle.

Not that I think dems are the polar opposite, they're just nowhere near as practiced at baldfaced deceit. That's an unqualified assertion on my part, ymmv.
 
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
 
The story of where this Kenyan Birth Certificate came from I thought was well known.

Snopes has a good story on it
 
Posted by BlueWizard (Member # 9389) on :
 
I have a friend who was born in Zaire, Congo, Africa; he is eligible to be President of the United States as he is a 'natural born Citizen'.

Regardless of the country he was born it, he was born to an American Citizen, and that makes him an American.

So, it is somewhat irrelevant that Obama may or may not have been born in Kenya. At best that simply qualifies him for Dual Citizenship. But his mother, at least, was an American Citizen, and that automatically makes him an American Citizen, assuming at the time his mother had not renouced her own citizenship.

Still, the fake Kenya Birth Certificate is funny in a sad social commentary sort of way.

Steve/bluewizard
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Steve, the issue in Obama's case is that our definition of "natural-born citizen" has changed since his birth. When Obama was born, to be considered a natural-born citizen you had to either be born on American soil, born to two parents with American citizenship, or born to one parent with American citizenship who had lived in America for ten years, five of which had to be after the age of 16.

Obama's mother was only 18, and his father wasn't a citizen. Therefore, by the law at the time, Obama would not be a "natural-born citizen" if he were not born on American soil.
 
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
 
hmm, I would make one, but then when I drink Powerthirst (warning: language) I'd be that much more likely to be sent to Kenya
 
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
 
After the age of 14, Tom.

I have a little hobby watching these guys spin their tales, with their forays into de Vattel and Wong v. Ark and Danny Bickel and the etceteras. They are an interesting lot. They are united in purpose but not in method.

Wingnut watching is an odd hobby, but it takes my mind off the weather.

(I thought about making a landmark post for this 626th post. It's my birthdate and my favorite number, and it seemed momentous that it was finally here after all these years of near-lurking. But maybe it's appropriate to use it to make a silly correction to birther minutiae instead, and it stands landmarkily in my mind anyway.)
 
Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Marek:
hmm, I would make one, but then when I drink Powerthirst (warning: language) I'd be that much more likely to be sent to Kenya

I love that commercial.
 


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