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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery birther is racist...
They can deny it to their heart's content, but we all know they would not say a word if President Obama was a white man.
It should be said loudly. They are all racists.
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North Carolina is apparently ground zero of the latest resurgence of the birther movement, as a number of Republican candidates in the state are expressing doubts about President Obamas birthplace.
ThinkProgress has previously noted that Richard Hudson, running for a congressional seat in the states 8th district, said Obama is hiding something on his citizenship, while the Charlotte Observer rescinded its endorsement of Jim Pendergraph, running in the 9th district, after he expressed his own doubts about Obamas birth certificate.
Now, the Observer reports that Dr. John Whitley, one of Hudsons opponents in tomorrows GOP primary, has also gone birther. He declared Obamas birth certificate a poorly reproduced forgery after comparing it to the Hawaiian birth certificate of one of his campaign workers. There is a tremendous amount of smoke here, Whitley said. In fact, its called a smoke screen.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/07/479070/more-north-carolina-republicans-go-birther-certificate-is-a-poorly-reproduced-forgery/
zbdent
(35,392 posts)and that's when you weren't punished for calling a sp*de a n*gger ...
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)is being silenced by the GOP media. I know a relative who's birth who is screaming that it looks like both Noms are "Illegal to hold the office of President and NO ONE CARES".
zbdent
(35,392 posts)and the question of his "naturally-born citizen" status never came up AT THAT TIME?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)but WorldNutDaily wasn't around to make a mountain oyut of that particular molehill.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I've seen the theory that, to be a natural born citizen, and hence eligible for the Presidency, the candidate must have been born in the United States to two U.S. citizen parents. This standard would disqualify Obama (one noncitizen parent) and McCain (born in Panama).
This theory is not found in the Constitution. In fact, it's pretty much destroyed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)admit you are racist instead of hiding behind a B.S. story.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Obama obtained a valid U.S. passport as a child, when he went to Indonesia with his mother and then returned to the U.S. to live with his grandparents.
How do the birthers explain his passing that proof-of-citizenship process?
Yes, birthers are racists, but they're also unsalvageable idiots. I'd love to see one of them try to answer the passport clearance question.
infrared
(10 posts)I think Birthers are an example of people 'wearing their' institutional racism - with honor!
(of course you no longer have to wear those annoying white sheets)
Just because I am old, white (look like you) and live in the SE... that doesn't mean I want to hear your latest black joke.
Spike89
(1,569 posts)Naturalized U.S. citizens (those who became citizens after birth) can get a passport. The bar keeps getting moved with the birthers, first it was that he was born outside the US, then when that was pretty obviously not true, they went the "father wasn't American" route" (which is immaterial) then they went "he renounced it when he lived in Indonesia" (minors can NOT renounce citizenship).
The birthers don't make sense, but throwing facts at them is like trying to kiss a pig. At best you get dirty and kiss a pig, at worst, well, there isn't any worst.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]State Department records would confirm young Barack's citizenship credentials (i.e., natural born or naturalized through his mother) long before there was any thought of a political career. Combined with his already-released birth certificate, the proof would be incontestable.
Of course, I agree completely that facts don't faze true birthers, but they might sway the unsure.
CRK7376
(2,204 posts)is full of CRAZIES!!!! Oh yeah, my state is full of crazies.....
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,512 posts)would be no birtherism. So yes you're right.
goclark
(30,404 posts)to say stuff.
With Romney they can say anything that is Not True and he knows that it is NOT TRUE and he will not address it.
"No Guts Romoney" is my new tag for him.
amb123
(1,581 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts).
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)The Birther thing was never anything other than a pretext for the belief that a black man can't possibly be a natural born citizen.