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Birthermania!
American Thinker
Monte Kuligowski
3/23/2012
Excerpt:
"Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has released his ten-page report on President Obama's purported birth certificate, we are witnessing the predicted response of the establishment national news media: yawns, sighs, and laughter -- but little reporting.
After the six-month investigation by a team of forensic experts, Joe Arpaio said there is "probable cause" to believe that forgery has been committed. Those are fairly strong words. Probable cause is the legal standard for arrest and forced production of documents.
Jeff Kuhner of the Washington Times discusses the potential bombshell Obama scandal and the scandal of media silence in his piece, "Forgerygate: Ignoring Arpaio's Report is a Scandal in Itself." Kuhner argues that the reason for the media blackout is fear -- fear of a constitutional crisis. If Obama attained the high office through deception, then everything has done as president would be subject to annulment.
The blackout by the establishment conservative press is likely also fear-based. The cowards of the conservative media fear the Saul Alinsky tactic of isolation and humiliation. The narrative has already been established: all questions regarding Obama's eligibility have been debunked, and anyone who questions the president has a personal vendetta based in some sort of pathology. Better to play it safe and appear intelligent.
But history, when far removed from the Obama phenomenon, will not view the cowardly as intelligent or even wise.
The reason is twofold. First, there are too many oddities with Obama. And second, in context of the manifold oddities, the reasonable thing for Obama to do is end all doubt. If he had nothing to hide, wouldn't Obama want to quickly remove doubts and restore confidence?
The only way to end all doubt is complete transparency. Complete transparency means actually releasing personal records, including his birth certificate. Actually releasing his birth certificate means making the original available for forensic authentication. With today's forensic technology, all doubt could be laid to rest quickly. We have the ability to determine whether the original document is written on paper from 1961 and with corresponding seal, typeset, and ink.
No doubt was erased by Obama's "releasing" a belated birth certificate via internet posting -- the internet meets no legal standard of document production. Try showing an image of your birth certificate on your laptop to the processing agent when applying for a passport.
It is necessary to highlight some of the unique Obama oddities. For if the oddities did not exist, the protective response -- No other candidate or president released his birth certificate for authentication, so why should Obama? -- would make perfect sense. But Obama is no ordinary American.
Many Obama supporters claim that racism is the only explanation for doubting the president. But I've noted before that no one doubted the eligibility of Jesse Jackson, Alan Keyes, Al Sharpton, or Herman Cain.
Kenyan media publications never claimed that Al Sharpton was born in Mombasa. But several have referred to Obama as "Kenyan-born." That doesn't mean it's true, but it is a little strange nonetheless. The words of Obama's paternal grandmother and Kenyan officials also don't make any Kenyan-born allegations true -- but they are peculiar in light of the Hawaii claim.
Herman Cain's wife never referred to Kenya as Herman's "home country." Maybe Michelle didn't mean to say "home country." But it's a little odd that she did.
During his candidacy, no one doubted that Jesse Jackson was born in a house in South Carolina. Most candidates have living witnesses of their births. Obama had none (except his paternal grandmother).
The Daily Kos did not somehow get the sealed birth certificate of Alan Keyes and post it online during his campaign. Yet, mysteriously, somehow the liberal website posted Obama's "birth certificate" in early 2008.
At least, we were told that it was Obama's birth certificate. We were told for over three years that Hawaii had no other birth certificate. According to the fact-checking sites, the "long form" was a conservative myth which simply did not exist in the Hawaii archives. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assured us that the "birth certificate" was "right there online."
So it was a little strange when a long-form birth certificate appeared out of nowhere on April 27, 2011 -- on the eve of Jerome Corsi's Where's the Birth Certificate? book release and in the midst of Donald Trump's table-pounding campaign over the bizarre secrecy of Barack Hussein Obama II.
Early on, news sources couldn't even agree on which Honolulu hospital Obama was born in -- because of conflicting reports. And to this day, Obama has not released Kapi'olani Medical Center to give a simple yea or nay."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/...thermania.html
American Thinker
Monte Kuligowski
3/23/2012
Excerpt:
"Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has released his ten-page report on President Obama's purported birth certificate, we are witnessing the predicted response of the establishment national news media: yawns, sighs, and laughter -- but little reporting.
After the six-month investigation by a team of forensic experts, Joe Arpaio said there is "probable cause" to believe that forgery has been committed. Those are fairly strong words. Probable cause is the legal standard for arrest and forced production of documents.
Jeff Kuhner of the Washington Times discusses the potential bombshell Obama scandal and the scandal of media silence in his piece, "Forgerygate: Ignoring Arpaio's Report is a Scandal in Itself." Kuhner argues that the reason for the media blackout is fear -- fear of a constitutional crisis. If Obama attained the high office through deception, then everything has done as president would be subject to annulment.
The blackout by the establishment conservative press is likely also fear-based. The cowards of the conservative media fear the Saul Alinsky tactic of isolation and humiliation. The narrative has already been established: all questions regarding Obama's eligibility have been debunked, and anyone who questions the president has a personal vendetta based in some sort of pathology. Better to play it safe and appear intelligent.
But history, when far removed from the Obama phenomenon, will not view the cowardly as intelligent or even wise.
The reason is twofold. First, there are too many oddities with Obama. And second, in context of the manifold oddities, the reasonable thing for Obama to do is end all doubt. If he had nothing to hide, wouldn't Obama want to quickly remove doubts and restore confidence?
The only way to end all doubt is complete transparency. Complete transparency means actually releasing personal records, including his birth certificate. Actually releasing his birth certificate means making the original available for forensic authentication. With today's forensic technology, all doubt could be laid to rest quickly. We have the ability to determine whether the original document is written on paper from 1961 and with corresponding seal, typeset, and ink.
No doubt was erased by Obama's "releasing" a belated birth certificate via internet posting -- the internet meets no legal standard of document production. Try showing an image of your birth certificate on your laptop to the processing agent when applying for a passport.
It is necessary to highlight some of the unique Obama oddities. For if the oddities did not exist, the protective response -- No other candidate or president released his birth certificate for authentication, so why should Obama? -- would make perfect sense. But Obama is no ordinary American.
Many Obama supporters claim that racism is the only explanation for doubting the president. But I've noted before that no one doubted the eligibility of Jesse Jackson, Alan Keyes, Al Sharpton, or Herman Cain.
Kenyan media publications never claimed that Al Sharpton was born in Mombasa. But several have referred to Obama as "Kenyan-born." That doesn't mean it's true, but it is a little strange nonetheless. The words of Obama's paternal grandmother and Kenyan officials also don't make any Kenyan-born allegations true -- but they are peculiar in light of the Hawaii claim.
Herman Cain's wife never referred to Kenya as Herman's "home country." Maybe Michelle didn't mean to say "home country." But it's a little odd that she did.
During his candidacy, no one doubted that Jesse Jackson was born in a house in South Carolina. Most candidates have living witnesses of their births. Obama had none (except his paternal grandmother).
The Daily Kos did not somehow get the sealed birth certificate of Alan Keyes and post it online during his campaign. Yet, mysteriously, somehow the liberal website posted Obama's "birth certificate" in early 2008.
At least, we were told that it was Obama's birth certificate. We were told for over three years that Hawaii had no other birth certificate. According to the fact-checking sites, the "long form" was a conservative myth which simply did not exist in the Hawaii archives. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assured us that the "birth certificate" was "right there online."
So it was a little strange when a long-form birth certificate appeared out of nowhere on April 27, 2011 -- on the eve of Jerome Corsi's Where's the Birth Certificate? book release and in the midst of Donald Trump's table-pounding campaign over the bizarre secrecy of Barack Hussein Obama II.
Early on, news sources couldn't even agree on which Honolulu hospital Obama was born in -- because of conflicting reports. And to this day, Obama has not released Kapi'olani Medical Center to give a simple yea or nay."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/...thermania.html