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Las Vegas Guardian Express Goes There: Evidence Supporting Obama BC Questionable
Birther Report
7/29/2013
Excerpt:
Obama Birth Certificate Gets a Curious Mention in Al Sharpton Speech
By Graham Noble @ Las Vegas Guardian Express
The so-called “Birther” movement was used as a major distraction, during the 2008 Presidential campaign and throughout the early months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Over the past couple of years, the issue has been largely forgotten. It is curious, then, that Al Sharpton chose to mention the President’s birth certificate during a recent speech in Newark, NJ.
Whilst the speculation surrounding Obama’s birthplace has been widely attributed to some imagined lunatic right-wing fringe element, it was actually given birth to – pun intended – by supporters of Obama’s main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
According to a report in British newspaper The Telegraph, the rumor began in earnest when an anonymous email was circulated, which stated “Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy,” it said. “She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth.” A copy of what has been claimed is Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate surfaced, which was instantly branded a “crude” forgery – ironically, by the same people who laugh at the idea that the “long form” US birth certificate eventually released by the White House may be forged. How is it known that this email was circulated by Clinton’s supporters or, possibly, by her campaign? Because, the Telegraph report points out, it just happened to emerge at the height of a bitter fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. It is no secret that there was no love lost between Obama and the Clintons. Former President Bill Clinton was known to have made some very harsh remarks about Obama. An interesting side note is that neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton were ever branded racist, as every right-wing Obama critic is. - (bold and color emphasis added)
Evidence that the President’s Hawaiian birth certificate is a forgery is sketchy. At the same time, evidence supporting its authenticity is also questionable.
On the one hand, it has been claimed that the document – which has only ever been made available in electronic format – has “layers”, which supposedly proves that it was created on a computer, as opposed to being a scan of an original paper document. The well-known myth-debunking website, snopes, lays out the case for the document being genuine, although that case is actually as flimsy as the case for it being fake; both sides in the argument cite “expert” testimony to support their claims. The problem with this, of course, is that even “experts” have personal political opinions, which will, inevitably, influence their assertions.
Testimony from Hawaiian officials, regarding the authenticity of the birth certificate can be immediately discounted; Quite apart from the Pacific islands state being deep blue territory is the fact that – were it ever proven that Obama was not, in fact, born there, the repercussions for Hawaii, for the hospital in which Obama was reportedly born and for the Democratic Party, as a whole, would be truly devastating. The vested interest of Hawaiian officials, therefore – both at the State government level and the hospital in question – is too enormous to regard any testimony from them as objective. [...] Continued at Guardian Express.
Hat tip Free Republic.
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...oes-there.html
Birther Report
7/29/2013
Excerpt:
Obama Birth Certificate Gets a Curious Mention in Al Sharpton Speech
By Graham Noble @ Las Vegas Guardian Express
The so-called “Birther” movement was used as a major distraction, during the 2008 Presidential campaign and throughout the early months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Over the past couple of years, the issue has been largely forgotten. It is curious, then, that Al Sharpton chose to mention the President’s birth certificate during a recent speech in Newark, NJ.
Whilst the speculation surrounding Obama’s birthplace has been widely attributed to some imagined lunatic right-wing fringe element, it was actually given birth to – pun intended – by supporters of Obama’s main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
According to a report in British newspaper The Telegraph, the rumor began in earnest when an anonymous email was circulated, which stated “Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy,” it said. “She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth.” A copy of what has been claimed is Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate surfaced, which was instantly branded a “crude” forgery – ironically, by the same people who laugh at the idea that the “long form” US birth certificate eventually released by the White House may be forged. How is it known that this email was circulated by Clinton’s supporters or, possibly, by her campaign? Because, the Telegraph report points out, it just happened to emerge at the height of a bitter fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. It is no secret that there was no love lost between Obama and the Clintons. Former President Bill Clinton was known to have made some very harsh remarks about Obama. An interesting side note is that neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton were ever branded racist, as every right-wing Obama critic is. - (bold and color emphasis added)
Evidence that the President’s Hawaiian birth certificate is a forgery is sketchy. At the same time, evidence supporting its authenticity is also questionable.
On the one hand, it has been claimed that the document – which has only ever been made available in electronic format – has “layers”, which supposedly proves that it was created on a computer, as opposed to being a scan of an original paper document. The well-known myth-debunking website, snopes, lays out the case for the document being genuine, although that case is actually as flimsy as the case for it being fake; both sides in the argument cite “expert” testimony to support their claims. The problem with this, of course, is that even “experts” have personal political opinions, which will, inevitably, influence their assertions.
Testimony from Hawaiian officials, regarding the authenticity of the birth certificate can be immediately discounted; Quite apart from the Pacific islands state being deep blue territory is the fact that – were it ever proven that Obama was not, in fact, born there, the repercussions for Hawaii, for the hospital in which Obama was reportedly born and for the Democratic Party, as a whole, would be truly devastating. The vested interest of Hawaiian officials, therefore – both at the State government level and the hospital in question – is too enormous to regard any testimony from them as objective. [...] Continued at Guardian Express.
Hat tip Free Republic.
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...oes-there.html
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