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The Obama Birth Certificate Issue is a Dangerous Distraction for Republicans

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It hard to know where to even begin with your pack of lies Jerr. I could not find a single thing in your post that is true. For example, Executive Order 13489 deals with records created during a President's term in office, not in his life before that. President Obama's birth certificate is not covered by this executive order.
The claim that H.R. 1388 was passed "behind our backs" is false, and the bill had nothing to do with Palestinian refugees. H.R. 1388 actually expands AmeriCorps and other federal public service programs, more than tripling the total number of positions to 250,000. Any bill that passes Congress is reported on extensively in the Congressional record. Also this bill was signed into law on March 31, not "yesterday."
Further, if it was a house bill, it can not be an Executive Order or and Executive Memorandum. Jeez, I learned that on Saturday Morning TV years ago. Pres. Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum (No. 2009-15) allocating $20.3 million from the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees. There is specifically no money to be spent on migration of refugees. Also, the funding is not limited to Hamas supporters. It is for any Palestinian refugees.
If you insist on spouting off lies, could you at least do better than a cut-and-paste job that FactCheck disproved months ago.

Paul of MD 4:41PM July 29, 2009

We the majority of the people use to point and laugh at you, all of you who have fallen for this farce that Obama was not a natural born citizen. Your stupidity (not ignorance) is turning many away from the Republican Party because believe it or not, there are SOME Republicans who are intelligent enough to face facts and not wanting to be part of this farce hide in shame for you idiots who are destroying our party. Go ahead, keep following the road to stupidity and show everyone how stupid our party is. Your next stupid move will be to say it is the Democrats who have paid to have this propaganda started in order to make the Republicans look bad. I can see it all now, more stupidity to hide your stupidity!
Look dummy, there are issues at hand that need to be addressed. Try to stay focussed on the REAL issues and stop your stupid barking at a blank wall. You embarrass the heck out of us! STOP the stupidity!

Caila of OR 1:51PM July 29, 2009

HR 1388 Passed...
Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know
this....
Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You
may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by
on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the
USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines...
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of
$20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza.
The "presidential determination," which allows hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed
on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a
free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have
displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions
since his inauguration:
His first day in office he signed Executive Order 13489 prohibiting the unauthroized release of any of his personal documents (birth certificate, etc.) w/o his permission.
His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was
with Al Arabia television.
His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here
within the U. S., but within the world, using U. S. tax payer funds..
He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees
halted.
He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the
"terror attack" on 9/11.
Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
refugees to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding
bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.
Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
PLEASE PASS THIS ON... ALL AMERICANS NEEDS TO KNOW

jerr of LA 10:55AM July 29, 2009

If you do some research into the court cases that have been filed then you would be brought up to speed. I can't believe that reporters won't investigate, but take other reporters points of view. Obama could spend $20 and get an actual birth certificate and put an end to all the speculation.

Steve Rogers of ID 10:55AM July 29, 2009

This explains it from the investigators view.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2697

DWB of TN 10:33AM July 29, 2009

Mr. Roff, you think this issue "matters little" to most Americans?
I've got a wake up call for you. It matters to a whole lot of people I've been talking to coast to coast, many of them who would even describe themselves as liberal.
As a matter of fact, I even believe Mr. Obama is not being truthful and I volunteered to help his campaign early on when people said he had no chance.
It's his actions -- his unwillingness to clear this up in a proper matter -- which has led people like me to this conclusion. And clearly, when all the evidence is weighed, the photocopy smacks of a Photoshop fraud. And Obama's Selective Service record is also dubious.
In the words of an old Spanish saying: if there's a rumble in the water, there must be stones.

Bruce of CA 5:21PM July 28, 2009

Would you believe me and buy this sack if I said...
"I have a diamond in this paper sack. It is a real diamond. It is in fact the Hope diamond! I have seen it with my own eyes. I am a qualified government expert on diamond identification. And I can assure you that there is a real diamond in this sack. Look at this it is a paper I prepared that says the diamond is real...but...
No I will not show you the diamond... you have to take my word for it...it is really a diamond in my sack!"

Attorney at law of HI 4:35PM July 28, 2009

So you have changed your first article where you stated that proving Obama a non-citizen "might be enough" of a reason to remove him from office. Of course the idiocy of that comment showed the despicable state US journalism has fallen into.
Now you changed one despicable statement for this one "The proper time to have raised this issue, IF IT NEEDED TO BE RAISED AT ALL", was during the primaries". We, your readers rely on news magazines such as US News to present the details and frankly you didn't during the primaries. I have only now understood, after voting for Obama, that he is not a 'natural born' citizen regardless of where he was born due to his mothers age and dad's citizenship per the US constitutiona nd statutes on the books when he was born. Now there is talk that his real father is an American communist figure from the 60's and is not Obama and that is why this is not being released.
Finally the newest scandal is that Obama received student aid for foreign students as he was not signed up for the Selective service which he was required to do if he wanted to be even eligible for student aid (a check of his social security number 2 years ago revealed nobody with that number had registered). Last year suddenly his name appeared on their website. Give me a break. Americans are not dumb and this story is not going away. This is a complete coverup. I have now regrettably accepted that US journalists have become complete shills for the powers that be. This country will fall apart in the next 5 years as the banking and derivative crisis unfolds, as banks suck all profit out of our economy by cashing in on the over quadrillion of derivatives they have written between themselves and for which Obamas buddies are making the American people pay up for as defaults or downgrades make them come due. This country will break up over the lies and coverups that are going on and because journalists such as yourself are staying as mere shills of the banks.
The US dollar is a private currency of the 'Federal' Reserve, which is a private banking company. Our banks simply create debt without limit to the people of this country, creating debt obligations our of thin air. From every dollar of deposit, they can create 20 to 40 dollars of debt money to lend at interest!!! And how much debt has the US citizen now being put in hock to? Go to USDebtclock.org to find out. Over 200K per man, woman, child. A baby born today owes this growing sum of money to the debt holders(it doesnt matter who they are . This willl collapse. I read your magazine for years and never once had this explained to me. The information that banks for all practical purposes "conterfit money", inflate, then foreclos by deflation must be told.
Do this country a favor and start writing honestly about our situation before anarchy starts.

steve smith of FL 3:45PM July 28, 2009

These same kooks never questioned the birth certificate of Jesus Christ. Do we assume he was born a Jew in Bethlehem?
Don't start on that slippery slope to alien origins or intelligent design for evidence.

Morton Kurzweil of FL 2:44PM July 28, 2009

Congratulations James Allen of FL, you are an even bigger nut than Marie Devine of MO!
I can't imagine how much time you spent creating your sad little theory (all the while ignoring evidence that will shoot you down, even though its EVERYWHERE).
Yeah right, you and your few fellow wingnuts are right and the rest of the world is wrong. Uh-huh, riiiiiiiight....

Martin M. Maciej of MI 1:39PM July 28, 2009