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'Birthers,' you've been punked
Rumors fly as phony website suggests 'Barry Soetoro' sits in White House
WND
Drew Zahn
6/9/2012
Excerpt:
"Concerns about Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility – and true identity – have fostered a cottage industry of rumors, speculation and pranks.
Screenshot from BarrySoetoro.com
One prank centers on Obama’s former name, Barry Soetoro, which, when typed into a browser with a dotcom suffix, leads to the official White House website.
However, the domain name BarrySoetoro.com is not under the control of Barack Obama or the White House. It belongs to Tharwat Abdul-Malik of Atlanta, Ga.
According to an Internet “WhoIs” search, Abdul-Malik was issued the BarrySoetoro.com address in April 2008.
WND contacted Abdul-Malik after the domain name first starting making waves in 2009. He explained then that he bought it and several others relating to Barack Obama, including amabokcarab, or Barack Obama spelled backwards.
For a while in 2008, the address was a redirect to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign website. Abdul-Malik figured people searching for the name Obama used as a child when his mother married an Indonesian should end up reading about the campaign of Obama’s opponent.
“Right now the redirect goes to the White House,” Abdul-Malik said, because after the campaign was over, “there didn’t seem to be anywhere else to redirect it.”
He told WND he is a registered Republican but hasn’t been active politically; he’s just a software engineer with an interest in domain names.
“That’s about it,” he said.
Barry Soetoro is the name used by Obama while he attended school in Indonesia and possibly later. It has been cited in a number of lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president, because records uncovered by the Associated Press show he was registered at Indonesian schools under that name as a child.
The president’s use of the name Soetoro as a child has raised the question of whether he was adopted by his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, and consequently lost his U.S. citizenship.
That is an issue because the U.S. Constitution bans anyone but a “natural born” citizen from being president. If Obama/Soetoro relinquished his U.S. citizenship at any point, or didn’t have it at birth, as some lawsuits have alleged, he then could be, at best, a “naturalized” citizen and, therefore, ineligible to be president.
Other scams
Several other rumors and pranks have flown around the Internet in an effort to send people genuinely inquisitive about Obama’s past on wild goose chases.
A popular email that has been widely circulated, for example, cites a purported Associated Press article reporting Obama’s lost records from his days at Occidental College. The article claims there is evidence Obama received financial aid as a foreign student.
The AP, however, has never released such an article, and its April 1 date suggests it was an April Fools joke. Obama’s records from Occidental remain undisclosed to the public.
The Internet also has been rife with fake Obama birth certificates, including a nearly convincing “Kenyan” document that was even submitted in court but that WND helped debunk in 2009.
Then in 2010, WND helped track down the real image behind a widely circulated photo purporting to show a sign declaring Kenya the “birthplace of Barack Obama.”
The image displays a green and white billboard with the message “Welcome to Kenya, Birthplace of Barack Obama.” It also features text in Arabic."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/birthers-...been-punked-2/
My Comment: I think it is interesting that Mr. Zahn states, "The Internet also has been rife with fake Obama birth certificates, including a nearly convincing "Kenyan" document ...". That document, the 'Bomford' Birth Certificate, is linked in the article. However, Mr. Zahn importantly and understandably chose NOT to specifically mention in this article covering 'deceptions', the widely distributed and authentic 'Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate'.
The talented and highly respected WND writer, Jerome R. Corsi, commented in several previous articles dating back to 2009 regarding his perception of the document's lack of authenticity.
To date, over 26 thousand high resolution copies of the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' have been viewed and/or downloaded from Mr. Smith's - http://www.WasObamaBornInKenya.com website. Many additional thousands of copies of this important historical document have been shared privately between individuals or publicly posted for mass audience viewing on Internet websites. Like the discredited 'Bomford' BC, the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' was also submitted by Attorney Orly Taitz to Judge David O. Carter's federal court in Santa Ana, California in September 2009. Copies of the document were also sent to over 535 members of the U.S. Congress, along with individually crafted, signed, and notarized cover letters, via USPS Certified Mail, from Mr. Smith as part of his monumental 'July 4, 2010 Letter to Congress' project.
-- but still, no mention of the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' by Mr. Zahn in this excellent, comprehensive article.
This puzzle seems somewhat analogous to the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story, 'Silver Blaze' concerning the 'curious incident of the dog in the night', or 'the dog that didn't bark' phenomenon, as it is more commonly known. There really wasn't much 'important new information' revealed in Mr. Zahn's article. - so, WHY did WND post this article? - WHY now? - and WHAT does the omission of any specific mention of the LDS document from the article mean, IF ANYTHING, concerning the Obama eligibility issue? Hmmmmm!
See also, 'A Tale of Two Elephants' - http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/I...-Two-Elephants
Mystery lovers, please take note!
Rumors fly as phony website suggests 'Barry Soetoro' sits in White House
WND
Drew Zahn
6/9/2012
Excerpt:
"Concerns about Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility – and true identity – have fostered a cottage industry of rumors, speculation and pranks.
Screenshot from BarrySoetoro.com
One prank centers on Obama’s former name, Barry Soetoro, which, when typed into a browser with a dotcom suffix, leads to the official White House website.
However, the domain name BarrySoetoro.com is not under the control of Barack Obama or the White House. It belongs to Tharwat Abdul-Malik of Atlanta, Ga.
According to an Internet “WhoIs” search, Abdul-Malik was issued the BarrySoetoro.com address in April 2008.
WND contacted Abdul-Malik after the domain name first starting making waves in 2009. He explained then that he bought it and several others relating to Barack Obama, including amabokcarab, or Barack Obama spelled backwards.
For a while in 2008, the address was a redirect to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign website. Abdul-Malik figured people searching for the name Obama used as a child when his mother married an Indonesian should end up reading about the campaign of Obama’s opponent.
“Right now the redirect goes to the White House,” Abdul-Malik said, because after the campaign was over, “there didn’t seem to be anywhere else to redirect it.”
He told WND he is a registered Republican but hasn’t been active politically; he’s just a software engineer with an interest in domain names.
“That’s about it,” he said.
Barry Soetoro is the name used by Obama while he attended school in Indonesia and possibly later. It has been cited in a number of lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president, because records uncovered by the Associated Press show he was registered at Indonesian schools under that name as a child.
The president’s use of the name Soetoro as a child has raised the question of whether he was adopted by his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, and consequently lost his U.S. citizenship.
That is an issue because the U.S. Constitution bans anyone but a “natural born” citizen from being president. If Obama/Soetoro relinquished his U.S. citizenship at any point, or didn’t have it at birth, as some lawsuits have alleged, he then could be, at best, a “naturalized” citizen and, therefore, ineligible to be president.
Other scams
Several other rumors and pranks have flown around the Internet in an effort to send people genuinely inquisitive about Obama’s past on wild goose chases.
A popular email that has been widely circulated, for example, cites a purported Associated Press article reporting Obama’s lost records from his days at Occidental College. The article claims there is evidence Obama received financial aid as a foreign student.
The AP, however, has never released such an article, and its April 1 date suggests it was an April Fools joke. Obama’s records from Occidental remain undisclosed to the public.
The Internet also has been rife with fake Obama birth certificates, including a nearly convincing “Kenyan” document that was even submitted in court but that WND helped debunk in 2009.
Then in 2010, WND helped track down the real image behind a widely circulated photo purporting to show a sign declaring Kenya the “birthplace of Barack Obama.”
The image displays a green and white billboard with the message “Welcome to Kenya, Birthplace of Barack Obama.” It also features text in Arabic."
..............................
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/birthers-...been-punked-2/
My Comment: I think it is interesting that Mr. Zahn states, "The Internet also has been rife with fake Obama birth certificates, including a nearly convincing "Kenyan" document ...". That document, the 'Bomford' Birth Certificate, is linked in the article. However, Mr. Zahn importantly and understandably chose NOT to specifically mention in this article covering 'deceptions', the widely distributed and authentic 'Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate'.
The talented and highly respected WND writer, Jerome R. Corsi, commented in several previous articles dating back to 2009 regarding his perception of the document's lack of authenticity.
To date, over 26 thousand high resolution copies of the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' have been viewed and/or downloaded from Mr. Smith's - http://www.WasObamaBornInKenya.com website. Many additional thousands of copies of this important historical document have been shared privately between individuals or publicly posted for mass audience viewing on Internet websites. Like the discredited 'Bomford' BC, the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' was also submitted by Attorney Orly Taitz to Judge David O. Carter's federal court in Santa Ana, California in September 2009. Copies of the document were also sent to over 535 members of the U.S. Congress, along with individually crafted, signed, and notarized cover letters, via USPS Certified Mail, from Mr. Smith as part of his monumental 'July 4, 2010 Letter to Congress' project.
-- but still, no mention of the 'LDS, Obama Kenyan BC' by Mr. Zahn in this excellent, comprehensive article.
This puzzle seems somewhat analogous to the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story, 'Silver Blaze' concerning the 'curious incident of the dog in the night', or 'the dog that didn't bark' phenomenon, as it is more commonly known. There really wasn't much 'important new information' revealed in Mr. Zahn's article. - so, WHY did WND post this article? - WHY now? - and WHAT does the omission of any specific mention of the LDS document from the article mean, IF ANYTHING, concerning the Obama eligibility issue? Hmmmmm!
See also, 'A Tale of Two Elephants' - http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/I...-Two-Elephants
Mystery lovers, please take note!