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The Birthers Strike Out Again
By Jeff Fecke | August 3, 2009
There are plenty of nations in the world with a strong, ethical civil service. Kenya is not one of them. Kenya isn’t the most corrupt nation on Earth (depending on who you ask, that’s Bangladesh, Chad, Iraq, or Myanmar), but it’s certainly in the top twenty-five, and at least one source has them tied for tenth. Long story short, it’s a country where getting the things you need requires a lot of well-placed bribes. The good news is that if you want something special — like, say, a faked birth certificate — a few well-placed bribes can get you that, too.
So I’m not surprised that Attorneydontistor Orly Taitz has come across something that purports to be the proof that Barack Hussein Super-Allah Obama is in fact a dirty Mooslim from Kenya. After all, that’s the sort of thing one can get in Kenya, which is why sane people pretty much assume that a Certificate of Live Birth from Hawai’i is more legitimate than one from Kenya. Still, I did sigh, because while I was quite certain the document was obtained through questionable channels, I thought it possible that this was something that actually came from someone in Kenya with a few thousand dollars more in his or her pocket than they had last week.
Well, maybe it did, but if it did, they hid enough Easter eggs in the document to pretty thoroughly destroy any possibility that anyone outside the birther fringe could take it seriously. To explain, I’ll turn to a commenter at Free Republic. No, really:
However, the bottom line is that it’s another BOGUS BIRTH DOCUMENT. It’s not a birth certificate at all.
Here are a few findings by the members of the group and from other contacts:
I am amazed at the cluelessness of many people in this forum about the above obvious fake document. For instance: Kenya didn’t become a republic until December 1964; E.F Lavender is a common detergent in Kenya & the certificate# 44 0 47 is laughable: 47 = he’s the 44th US President, O = Obama & 47 = his age. Are all these coincidental you lunatics.
Above all, Kenya is one of the most corrupt nations in the world & any body can obtain a forged document in minutes. The person who made this document was a person who wanted to make some few quick & easy dollars from brain-dead birther lunatics.
Rallying around such blatant forgeries only helps to discredit ‘birther’ lunatics. BTW, thanks for giving unemployed Kenyan guys more $$$ to continue feeding you guys with blatant forgeries! Grow up guys!
And this:
In 1961, hospitals in Kenya did issue birth certificates. Starting in 1964,so did the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Civil Registration Department, the National Registration Bureau, Immigration Department, Registrar General, National Social Security Fund, and the National Hospital Insurance Fund.
The document below purports to be a GOVERNMENTAL birth registry from 1961. It most definitely is not. It is a fake and a poor one at that, starting with the wrong title of the document; the wrong official name of the country; wrong name of the province, etc..
Consider these 3 historical facts which the forger got dead wrong:
1. Kenyan official documents did NOT bear the name “REPUBLIC of Kenya” until 1964, if only because the Republic of Kenya was proclaimed in December
1963.2. In 1961, Mombassa was in ZANZIBAR, not in Kenya.
3. In 1961, the hospital was called “Coast PROVINCIAL General Hospital”.
And this:
An intelligence contact with Israeli connections says this: “We checked all the hospitals in Kenya, starting in early 2008. There is no such birth certificate. This is another fake. It is also a very bad fake, by the way, very amateurish, as anyone who has seen the real items would immediately discern.”
Incidentally, the person who posted that calls Obama’s COLB “bogus,” so it’s not like this is someone unsympathetic to the birthers.
The truth, of course, is that every shred of actual evidence we have indicates that Barack Obama was born exactly where he said he was, exactly when he said he was. Hawai’i has certified that fact and Hawai’ian civil servants have averred that the birth certificate is valid and legitimate. The COLB is sufficient to prove citizenship to obtain a passport, vote, join the military, gain employment, or do anything else one would want. Obama has provided it. Any sane person would say we’re done here, and indeed, outside of white Southerners, that’s exactly what the country appears to have done.
Of course, the white Southerners haven’t bought that Obama is a “real” American. I’m sure it’s totally coincidental that they feel that way about our nation’s first African-American president.
But white Southerners are the GOP’s base now, and that’s a problem for them. Really, the birthers are no less crazy than the 9/11 truthers, who still pop up from time to time on liberal websites, claiming George W. Bush blew up the World Trade Center because…um…something. But mainstream Democrats have, since 9/11/01, been steadfast in saying that the truthers are a bunch of goofball conspiracy theorists. The GOP can’t, not without alienating their base. And so they take half-measures, trying hard not to offend the birthers while still backing away slowly. Because the birthers are goofballs, too. But given how few people are Republican these days, they’re pretty much all the GOP has to work with.
Topics: Barack Obama, National GOP | 9 Comments »
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I give you the brith deal if you give me 3 buildings in NYC were wired for demolition…come on OB can’t screw it up any worse than GW.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
“Of course, the white southerners haven’t bought that Obama is a ‘real’ American.” Way too much of an over generalization, and I resent it. Many white southerners (and I am one) supported Obama from the get go.
Please apologize to us white southerners who do believe that Obama is a real American.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Charles is among the white southerners who attended college. Jeff is referring to the less-educated ones that make up the GOP base. I’m fine with the overgeneralization as I understand it doesn’t pertain to me.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away their rights) and that’s who they need to focus on if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
In the same vein, to all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true, if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess he fooled them too?
August 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
The left has more conspiracy theories than you can shake a stick at (watch mike moore’s 911 debacle, or listen to any ‘tower 7 was blown up’ theories for a -very- small snip-it) and more seem to pop up every day. And yet, you, Jeff castigate the entire conservative population as a nut because there are a few lonley theorists on the right side of the isle. Please: take the stake out of your own eye before you try and remove the splinter from ours.
I for one think he was most likely born in Hawaii, and would much rather argue the issues than the locale of obama’s birth. Still, as Obama refuses to release all the documentation one has to wonder if the reason he will not is to encourage this very type of conspiracy
August 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
What fuels this and separate it from left conspiracies is that Members of Congress are trying to play up to these racist lunatics.
Tell us Franklin, why can’t they just say this is crazy? Even you tried to play it too cute by half. The President released his birth certificate last year.
You guys are weak and dying and lies are all you have.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
David – you see he did not release the original document the “Certificate of Live Birth” Made at the time of his birth. what he released was a “Certification of Live Birth” which was created in 2007.
I am not playing it cute. I am asking the question as someone who believes he was born in Hawaii “Why won’t he just release the document?” The only answer I can come up with is that he really wants to drum up these conspiracies, so he can seem above them. Or the original documentation is actually missing – A possibility I suppose, but he has always contended that it exists.
In any case you don’t see any Major Network news anchors running Exposés on this like you did with Bush. and you guys would be screaming to the heavens if the same were true about about Bush (and probably condenting that it was the oil execs that faked the documents through their contacts in Enron and Haliburton and all covered up by FOX News)
August 12th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Is it the blogger’s position that a white Southerner must have supported Obama, not to be racist?
August 12th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
King Alex,
I can’t speak for Jeff, but my own though is that white southerners who actively oppose Obama should do so for concrete, solid reasons. People who make up crap like “He’s not native born” or “he’s taking our country away” may very well be motivated by some element of racism.
Now I ask you, is it your position that no white Southerner could possibly be influenced by racism?