The left likes to call it the “birther” issue. The term birther is used as a derisive term by the left, much as truther is. Of course the difference is truthers beliefs are based on a paranoid ideology, where as the birther issue is based on facts.
I prefer to call it the eligibility issue, not the birther issue. Whether you agree or not, the people who are pushing the eligibility issue are on our side. It is certainly counter-productive to deride them like liberals do.
Recently a whole stream of Republicans have come out, at the prompting of the drive by media, to reassure us that Obama is a citizen and oh, yes, he is a Christian too.
Last Sunday, at the prodding of David Gregory on Meet the Press, or as Rush likes to call it, Meet the depressed, Boehner said, the State of Hawaii had said he was born there, that was good enough for him.
Karl Rove, not a friend of the Tea Party, pushed the RINO line that Obama is a citizen and Sarah Palin, at a meeting in Long Island, a few days ago, also denounced the eligibility issue. Palin ended her remarks on the subject by saying, “let’s stick with what really matters.”
This issue does matter.
There are three variations on the eligibility issue. Two are based on undisputed facts. The third is in dispute.
The most commonly reported of the eligibility challenges is the claim that Obama was actually born in Kenya, not Hawaii. I believe, based on the available evidence, that it is more likely than not, Obama was actually born in Hawaii. Obama has spent a lot of time and (other people’s) money, keeping his original birth certificate out of sight.
Why?
Jack Cashill is one of my favorite writers and he has a theory which I think makes sense, that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii, but there is something else on his birth certificate that would destroy the myth of Barack Obama. (See his website, Cashill.com). In the law, there is a presumption that if a party has exclusive access to a piece of evidence and will not release it, the evidence must be adverse to their position.
The second eligibility issue is the claim that because Barack Obama’s father was a Kenyan, a British subject at the time of Obama’s birth, he is not a natural born citizen.
The third is the argument that because Barack Obama was adopted as a child by an Indonesian and moved to Indonesia, he is not an American citizen. Under the law at that time, if an American child was adopted by a citizen of another country and moved to that country, he lost his citizenship. He could regain his citizenship by applying at an American Embassy when he was 18, but would then be treated as a naturalized citizen and thus ineligible to be President.
What is stunning about all of this is the mainstream Republican reaction to the eligibility issues.
The RINOs turn their noses up at the people who want the answers, which, incidentally is 60% of Republican voters. They turn their noses up at the Tea Party movement. Yet, they do not take a moment to consider why this is important.
If Barack Obama is proved to be ineligible to be President, everything he has done is wiped out. Obamacare is gone. The START treaty is gone. The liberal lunatics Obama has appointed to the Federal Judiciary, including the two he has put on the Supreme Court are gone.
Much of the damage Obama has done to this country can be undone. Unfortunately, the Country Club Republicans remain clueless. In their minds, the Democrats are simply the lower class versions of themselves. They do not understand that if the party of treason has its way, America will be forever changed and ultimately destroyed.
The Courts have so far brushed aside all of the eligibility claims. None have been addressed on the merits under the claim that Americans lack standing to challenge the issue. Recently, the Supreme Court has given some indication it may consider one of the issues. We can only hope.
What are the chances of success? Who knows?
Why do football teams run the flea flicker play? It does not work all of the time, but when it does, the results are spectacular. Why should conservatives all hope this works out? Because this wipes out almost everything the Obama regime has done. We get a do over.
You would think, even the RINOs who want to denigrate the eligibility issue could figure this one out.
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Shea on Democratic Convention Schedule
4:00 PM – Opening Flag Burning Ceremony – sponsored by CNN
4:05 PM – Singing of "God Damn America " led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
4:10 PM – Pledge ofAllegiance to Obama
4:15 PM – Ceremonial 'I hate America ' led by Michelle Obama
4:30 PM – Tips on “How to keep your man trustworthy and true to you while you travel the world” – Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM – Al Sharpton / Jesse Jackson seminar “How to have a successful career extorting money from white folks.”
5:00 PM – “Great Vacations I’ve Taken on the Taxpayer’s Dime Travel Log” - Michelle Obama 5:30 PM – Eliot Spitzer Speaks on "Family Values" via Satellite
5:45 PM – Tribute to All 57 States
6:00 PM – Sen. Harry Reid - 90-minute speech expressing the Democrat’s appreciation of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and George Soros for sparing no expense, for all that they have accomplished to unify the country, improve employment and to boost the economy.
8:30 PM – Airing of Grievances by the Clintons
9:00 PM – “Bias in Media – How we can make it work for you” Tutorial – sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, and the
Washington Post and the New York Times
9:15 PM – Tribute Film to Brave Freedom Fighters incarcerated at GITMO – Michael Moore
9:45 PM – Personal FinanceSeminar - Charlie Rangel
10:00 PM – Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners and Bible readers
10:30 PM – Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for IRAQ, & Afghanistan
11:00 PM – Obama Energy Plan Symposium / Tire Gauge Demonstration / You too can get rich with Green Investment bankruptcies
11:15 PM – Free Blago rally
11:30 PM – Obama Accepts Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Oscar, Basketball MVP, Tony & Latin Grammy Awards and Michelle accepts the World Traveler Award
11:45 PM – Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish – Obama Presiding
12:00 AM – Official Nomiation of Obama by Bill Maher and Chris “He sends athrill up my leg” Matthews
12:01 AM – Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM – Celestial Choirs Sing
3:00 AM – Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech
Permalink Reply by Nancy on Oh Elizabeth, I laughed (at first) so hard I cried--laughed because this is very clever; cried because it is also probably very true (or at the very least, how they want to proceed). Thanks :) God Help our Country!!!
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Shea on I laughed also -- it is probably not very far off from what their conventioin will really be like. It came with a funny photo (attendees wearing crazy red, white and blue hats) but I could not get it to show on this thread.
Permalink Reply by Avigdor Irachmiel on Here is the GOP schedule.
Permalink Reply by Royce Latham on 
Two weeks ago, over 20,000 of you sent email letters to the U.S. House and Senate in support of the five Members of Congress who had the courage to raise questions about Muslim Brotherhood influence in our government.
Thank you.
A lot of heat was directed at these Members of Congress, and particularly Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, because of one letter’s reference to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Since then, a great deal of information has emerged about Abedin and her family.
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/08/06/the-abedin-familys-pro-...
The Abedin Family’s Pro-Jihadist Journal
Posted By Andrew Bostom On August 6, 2012
(Adapted from this essay [1])
Steadily burgeoning [2] evidence [3] indicates that one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, Huma Abedin, despite Ms. Clinton’s protestation [4], was inadequately vetted for either family, or personal ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Diligent, open [5] source [2] investigation [3] has already uncovered and documented numerous alarming connections. One can reasonably infer that a serious, formal Congressional investigation of the overall extent of Muslim Brotherhood influence operations—as requested [6] by Representatives Bachmann, Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland, and Rooney—might yield even more disturbing findings.
Pending these sorely needed Congressional inquiries—replete with their probing investigative tools—much can still be gleaned from the public record. For example, over the past 33 years, Huma Abedin’s family has been responsible for the editorial production of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs [7] (IMMA)’s academic journal [8], known as Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal, from 1979-1995, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs [JMMA], from 1996. till now, starting with family patriarch Syed Z. Abedin’s, and Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin [2]’s, founding [9] involvement [10] since 1979, and subsequently joined by Huma’s brother Hassan Abedin (1996 [11] to present [12]), Huma herself (1996 [11] to 2008 [13]), and Huma’s sister, Heba (married name Khalid, or Khaled [14]; 2002 [15] to present [12]).
Syed Abedin, in the inaugural edition of the IMMA journal, gives an effusive tribute [16] to one of his IMMA co-founders, Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, Chairman [17] of the IMMA. During his concurrent tenure as Secretary-General of the Muslim World League—a combined [18] Saudi Wahhabi, Muslim Brotherhood-dominated organization—in July, 1988, Naseef also created the Rabita Trust [19], and became its chairman. On October 12, 2001, then President George W. Bush’s Executive Order named Rabita Trust [20] as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity, and the US Treasury Department froze its assets, while Naseef was still serving as the Trust’s chairman. Nasseef remained on the IMMA journal Editorial Board through 2003 [21], overlapping Huma Abedin’s tenure for 7-years (i.e., 1996-2003).
The current (April/May 2012) issue of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs journal (JMMA) features two essays, introduced with lavish praise by Editor Saleha Abedin [22], which champion, unabashedly:
The global hegemonic aspirations of major 20th century Muslim Brotherhood jihadist ideologues, such as the eminent Muslim Brotherhood theoretician, Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), and Abul Hasan Nadwi (d. 1999)
The more expansive application of Sharia within Muslim minority communities residing in the West, with the goal of replacing these non-Muslim governing systems, as advocated by contemporary Muslim Brotherhood jihadist ideologues, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Tahir Jabir al-Alwani
One of these JMMA essays repeats [23], approvingly, Qutb’s pejorative characterization of the West as a “disastrous combination of avid materialism, and egoistic individualism.” Abul Hasan Nadwi, was a founding member of the Muslim World League, a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference (now Cooperation), a member of the World Supreme Council of Mosques, and a member of the Fiqh Council of Rabita. In a triumphal 1951 manifesto extolling Islamic supremacism, Nadwi had proclaimed [24] “Behold the world of man looking with rapture at the world of Islam as its savior, and behold the world of Islam fixing its gaze on the Arab world as its secular and spiritual leader. Will the world of Islam realize the hope of the world of men? And will the Arab world realize the hope of the Muslim world?” Citing Nadwi with admiration, the same JMMA article opines [23], “[T]he confrontation has taken the shape of an ‘Islamic project’ in the Muslim world against Western modernity…. The war that has been declared against Western modernity now seeks a new modernity…unlike Western modernity.”
Another featured essay [25] from the current issue [26] of the JMMA is a fitting complement to the journal’s endorsement [23] of the global Islamic supremacist agenda. This essay endorses [25] the so-called “innovative” application of the “Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities,” living, for example, in the West, whose stated purpose is, “enforcement of shari’ah on the Muslim communities.” However, by the essay’s own expressed standard [25]: “The theory of the Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities is most easily clarified by shedding light on its founders.”
The two founders of this legal doctrine, as the essay notes [25], are Yusuf al-Qaradawi of Qatar, and Taha Jabir al-Alwani of Virginia, USA.
Qaradawi has publicly advocated [27]:
The re-creation of a formal transnational United Islamic State (Islamic Caliphate)
The jihad conquests of Europe, and the Americas
Universal application of the Sharia, including Islamic blasphemy law, and the hadd punishments (for example, notably, executing so-called “apostates” from Islam)
Al-Alwani, writing as president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a think tank created [28] by the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1980s, stated, regarding a (then) new English translation of the classic Shafiite manual of Islamic jurisprudence Reliance of the Traveller [29], “from a purely academic point of view, this translation is superior to anything produced by orientalists in the way of translations of major Islamic works.” Notwithstanding al-Alwani’s glowing tribute, Reliance of the Traveller [29] sanctions open-ended jihadism to subjugate the world to a totalitarian Islamic Caliphate; rejection of bedrock Western liberties—including freedom of conscience and speech—enforced by imprisonment, beating, or death; discriminatory relegation of non-Muslims to outcast, vulnerable pariahs, and even Muslim women to subservient chattel (who must be segregated and undergo female genital mutilation); and barbaric punishments which violate human dignity, such as amputation for theft, stoning for adultery, and lashing for alcohol consumption. Moreover,
Al-Alwani wished [30] Islamized Spain had conquered America and spread Islam in our hemisphere, not Christianity. He stated, “Perhaps some of them [Muslims from Spain] would have been the ones who discovered America, not someone else, and America could have possibly been today among the lands of the Muslims”
Al-Alwani was named [31] as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Sami Al-Arian who pled guilty to conspiracy to aid the terrorist organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
al-Alwani published an essay online, discovered (and translated [32] from Arabic to English) in July 2011, entitled “The Great Haughtiness”, which promoted conspiratorial Islamic Jew-hatred replete with Koranic references, conjoined to modern “Zionist conspiracies”
The Abedin family “academic” journal is a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sharia-supremacist agenda. One can now add this conclusive, public record evidence to a host of other bona fide justifications for the Congressional inquiry demanded by Representative Bachmann, and her four intrepid colleagues.
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[1] essay: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/08/04/muslim-brotherhood-worl...
[2] burgeoning: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/saleha_abedin_and_the_muslim...
[3] evidence: http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/27/huma-abedins-brotherho...
[4] protestation: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2012/07/transcripts-r...
[5] open: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19045.xml?genre_id=3
[6] requested: http://bachmann.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=303218
[7] Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs: http://www.imma.org.uk/
[8] journal: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjmm20
[9] founding: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666957908715790
[10] involvement: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02666957908715797
[11] 1996: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602009608716335
[12] present: http://www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm
[13] 2008: www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20080924122842/http:/www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm
[14] Khalid, or Khaled: http://www.shoebat.com/2012/07/27/exclusive-huma-abedins-sister-heb...
[15] 2002: www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20021202142005/http:/www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm
[16] effusive tribute: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02666957908715790
[17] Chairman: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666957908715776
[18] combined: http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/Muslim-Networks-and-Movements-in-Wes...
[19] Rabita Trust: http://www.nefafoundation.org/newsite/file/FeaturedDocs/Burnett_v_A...
[20] named Rabita Trust: http://www.asil.org/ilib051031.cfm#ju5
[21] 2003: www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20031203063833/http:/www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm
[22] Saleha Abedin: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602004.2012.675738
[23] repeats: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602004.2012.665625
[24] proclaimed: http://books.google.com/books/about/Modern_Islam.html?id=gpRtAAAAMAAJ
[25] essay: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602004.2012.665624
[26] current issue: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjmm20/32/1
[27] publicly advocated: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/12/04/qaradawi-the-%E2%80%9Ca...
[28] created: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12823-2004Sep10?language=...
[29] Reliance of the Traveller: http://www.amazon.com/Reliance-Traveller-Classic-Islamic-Al-Salik/d...
[30] wished: http://www.currenttrends.org/docLib/20061018_MonographFishman2.pdf
[31] named: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/eme073108.pdf
[32] translated: http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2011_07_10_archive.html
Permalink Reply by wayne thomas inman on Destined for The Email Hall of Fame.
He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you." My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who proceeded me is evil, that he has defiled thenation, and that all he has built must be destroyed. And the people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had promised that it was good; and they believed. And "The One" said " We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!" and the people said, "Hallelujah! Change is good!"Then He said, "We are going to tax the rich fat-cats." And the people said "Sock it to them!" "And redistribute their wealth." And the people said, "Show us the money!" And the he said, "Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody.."
And Joe the plumber asked, " Are you kidding me? You're going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??" And "The One" ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe's personalrecords were hacked and publicized. One lone reporter asked, "Isn't that Marxist policy?" And she was banished from the Kingdom's press corps ".
Then a citizen asked, "With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?" And "The One" said, "Simple. I shall sit with them and talk with them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!" And the people said, "Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!"
Then "The One" said "I shall give 95% of you lower taxes." And one, lone voice said, "But 40% of us don't pay ANY taxes." So "The One" said, "Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!" And the people said, "Hallelujah! Show us the money!"Then "The One" said, "I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!" And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed. And He said. "I shall mandate employer-funded health care for every worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every person unlimited healthcare and medicine and transportation to the clinics." And the people said, "Give me some of that!"Then he said, "I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas." And the people said, "Where's my rebate check?"
Then "The One" said, "I shall bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!" And the people said, "Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don't care for that part about higher electric rates." So "The One" said, Not to worry. If your rebate isn't enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you out. Just sign up with the ACORN and you troubles are over!"
Then He said, "Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let's grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing..." And the people said, "Hallelujah!" and they made him king!And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff.The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.
Then "The One" said, "I am the "the Chosen One"- The Messiah - and I'm here to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!" But our foreign trading partners said unto Him. "Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more... And "The One" said, "Wait a minute. That is not fair!!"
And the world said, "Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!"And the people cried out, "Alas, alas!! What have we done?" But yea verily, it was too late. The people set upon The One and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. And the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change "The One" had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, "give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!" But it was too late, and their homeland was no more.You may think this a fairy tale, but it's not. It's happening RIGHT NOWTHIS really tells it like it is. After reading it -- and before you go into the bathroom to throw-up -- forward it to your friends and those you know who care about our country and what is happening to it under the rule of Commissar Obamanation.
Permalink Reply by Nancy on Have you all seen these pics of Frank Marshall Davis' children (side by side comparison with BHO)?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/filmmaker-see-photos-of-obamas-real-sibl...
What do you all think--related? I have always thought BHO had a striking resemblance to "X" but these photos are making me rethink that possibility.
Permalink Reply by Nancy on Ooooo, here's a thought, if they are still alive, unlike BHO's cremated relatives, could do a DNA test yes???
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Shea on Doug Hagmann has written another good article -- this time about the comments of Wayne Root who was at Columbia Univ. at the same time Obama is purported to be there and both being political scienc majors.
Barry Soetoro, the Invisible Man
The Columbia matter is but one issue in what would appear to be a continuous course of conduct of deceit, cover-ups, obfuscation and obstruction --
Having researched, investigated and reported on the inconsistencies in the life of Barry Soetoro as a professional investigator and investigative journalist, permit me to offer a bit of speculation of my own based on four years of history regarding this subject. I suspect that the average Obama supporter and the corporate Obama “presstitutes” will likely describe Mr. Root’s speculative dalliances as baseless white noise of partisan politics. Meanwhile, the average member of the Republican establishment will continue to shy away from making any meaningful demands of Obama about his murky past. Any true conservative elected official with the testicular fortitude to press the issue will quickly be ostracized and instructed to remain silent by the beltway eunuchs holding the political clout over the former.
Meanwhile, right-wing political talking heads of the airwaves who address this issue will do so narrowly, sticking to a tightly controlled script of how this speculation should be used defensively for the sole purpose of advancing the GOP candidate. The greater picture, if any dare to address it, will omit any discussion of the darker and more sinister aspects of the Obama narrative that could expose the depth of the Obama/Soetoro rabbit hole. The Progressive talkers will continue their Alinsky tactics of mocking and marginalization the issue, concurrent with depicting the inquisitors as racists and bigots to avoid potentially criminal or treasonous revelations.
Absent of true, uncompromised and principled Conservative leaders, talk jocks with huge audiences but constrained by a lack of integrity, the desire for the truth, or acquiescing to duress by their paymasters or the long arm of globalist watchdogs, the vast catatonic population will be forced to settle for the normal political dog-and-pony show.
Read more:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/48691
Permalink Reply by Joel Garcia on "Meanwhile, the average member of the Republican establishment will continue to shy away from making any meaningful demands of Obama about his murky past."
I don't agree with this statement. Remember when Donald Trump started campaigning for prez, that he started askng or Obama's birth certifiate? He jumped to the head of the group in poll after poll. When Obama asks for more of Romey's tax returns, Romney should respond..."OK. But when YOU produce all the paperwork people have been asking for, like where did you get your SS card, where are your draft board records, where is the real copy of your BC, is it in Kenya? And, what passport did you use when you went to Pakistan in 1981, when travel to Pakistan was made off limits by the State Dept...was it a British passport or an Indonesian passport, and why did you register at Occidental as a foreign student, and at Columbia and Harvard, and who paid for your schooling at all of these schools? And, finally, if Romey's Mormonism comes into the discussion, Romney should just respond: "When I was 20 yrs old, I was serving as a missinary in Europe. When Obama was 20, by his wn admission, he was smoking pot and snorting cocaine.
Permalink Reply by Royce Latham on Joel
Obama is still doing cocaine.
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