They had enough derp of their own, they didn't need more.

 "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that I was born and raised."


-- Willard Mitt Romney, Aug, 24, 2012

What hurt the Republican Party is that they didn't tell the Birthers that they're batshiat crazy and should EABOD, they kept giving htem little winks and nudges like Rmoney's "joke" here.

I hear 0bama's REAL Kenyan birth certificate was being held in Benghazi, and that's why he had his terrorist friends, led by Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, attack the compound and kill those brave Americans.

Thanks, 0bama.

Aside from Alan Keyes

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

Yeah, that's a load of bullshiat.

Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn't see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets

Because it's neither a rich nor urgent topic, you loon.

I refer to the electronic image of a long-form 1961 Hawaiian birth certificate posted at the White House website. After studying various evidence and demonstrations (which I've written about in previous "forbidden" columns), I've concluded that this online image is in all probability a forgery.

Because you're a loon.

Aside from Alan Keyes, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and a Republican candidate for the Senate and the presidency, no prominent Republican, <including> Sarah Palin, ever faced or raised the issue.

Sarah Palin three weeks ago: "More background checks?" Palin asked. "Dandy idea, Mr. President -- should've started with yours."

jake_lex: "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that I was born and raised."


-- Willard Mitt Romney, Aug, 24, 2012

What hurt the Republican Party is that they didn't tell the Birthers that they're batshiat crazy and should EABOD, they kept giving htem little winks and nudges like Rmoney's "joke" here.

Came here to post that.  Also, I seem to recall many prominent GOP politicians for blaming Obama for not clearing up the birfer issue which was almost as stupid.  Also, I recall some comments like "if the President  says he was born in the US, I have no reason to believe that isn't the case."  Which is a way of saying that it is in doubt.  shiat like that.

Four solid years of pounding that drum, and they still couldn't stop him from being re-elected. That's gotta stick in the craw.

I eagerly await the input of our resident green text birfer.

Elegy: I eagerly await the input of our resident green text birfer.

Sybarite: Four solid years of pounding that drum, and they still couldn't stop him from being re-elected. That's gotta stick in the craw.

Think lower.

HighOnCraic: "With a British father, Obama cannot meet the constitutional requirement of having been "natural born," which is a different and more restrictive category than "native born." Similarly ineligible, I would add, are Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and, alas, Ted Cruz of Texas, both of whom have parents who were not citizens when they were born."

I'm sure the author raised the same argument when Mitt Romney was running for president, since Romney's father was born in Mexico, right?  Right?

Governor Romney's father was a United States citizen at the time of Mr. Mitt Romney's birth. "Natural born" citizenship status requires that both parents be United States citizens -- not necessarily "natural born" United States citizens -- at the time of the child's birth, according to assertions by birthers who have yet to cite any Constitutional provision, federal statute or court precedent to justify such a requirement.

clambam: Sorry, I couldn't read that to the end.  So that was the argument? That because Obama's father wasn't an American citizen, Obama can't be president? Is there really something in the Constitution that says "Even though you're an American citizen because you were born here or because one of your parents is an American citizen, you're not entitled to run for president unless both parents were American citizens"? Because I'm not familiar with that particular Article or Amendment.

It's right there in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3

Mark your calendars.

2 more years and we can get the "legitimate rape" revisionist history lesson from WND.

An excerpt: "The liberal media propped up Todd Akin as their candidate and made him say dumb sh*t to torpedo the GOP candidates in 2012."

HighOnCraic: "With a British father, Obama cannot meet the constitutional requirement of having been "natural born," which is a different and more restrictive category than "native born." Similarly ineligible, I would add, are Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and, alas, Ted Cruz of Texas, both of whom have parents who were not citizens when they were born."

I'm sure the author raised the same argument when Mitt Romney was running for president, since Romney's father was born in Mexico, right?  Right?

Then there's the whole thing about Ted Cruz actually being born in Canada.

Didn't McCain basically tell someone to shut the fark up about Obama and the birth certificate issue on the campaign trail then get booed for it?

clambam: Sorry, I couldn't read that to the end.  So that was the argument? That because Obama's father wasn't an American citizen, Obama can't be president? Is there really something in the Constitution that says "Even though you're an American citizen because you were born here or because one of your parents is an American citizen, you're not entitled to run for president unless both parents were American citizens"? Because I'm not familiar with that particular Article or Amendment.

Citizenship granted by birth in the United States of America was not established until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Many "birthers" argue that citizenship established by such in-territory birth is not itself "natural born" citizenship, and that "natural born" citizenship may be established only through birth to two parents who are themselves citizens of the United States of America. They are unable to cite any Constitutional provision nor federal statute establishing such a requirement, and when I have requested reference to a possible court precedent in support of their claim I have been told of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, where no such requirement is stated, and another ruling where the majority opinion explicitly stated that whether a child born to a non-citizen parent could be a "natural born" citizen was not of relevance and thus was not addressed by the ruling.

Proponents of such a requirement do cite a mid 18th-century treatise titled Le droit des gens, despite this treatise being authored by an individual who advocates a "natural law" system in contrast with the "common law" system established by the Founders.