No, I’m not a “birther”, I have no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii, that’s not what this is about. P
I’ve seen in several places the claim that Obama has spent a million dollars to hide his birth certificate. It may or may not have originated from the Queen Birther herself, Orly Taitz: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
I cannot find on that website any more information about this claim.
Anybody know any more about this? Are they referring to legal fees from some kind of court proceeding, or what? Are there any details anywhere about this claim?
And no, even if this claim is true, I doubt that will change my mind.
A certified copy of his birth certificate is readily available on the web. So if he spent $1M hiding it he should demand his money back. How do the fruitcakes who make these claims substantiate them? Did the Son of Sam’s dog tell them?
Orly whatshername is a lawyer, a dentist and a real estate agent. I think that says it all really. And she doesn’t exactly have a midwestern accent herself, where’s her birth certificate?
I assume it’s the master copy, kept away from the public in case some retard asks to have a look and “accidentally” destroys it to prop up their moronic claims.
In which case it’s worth noting that Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has already said that she, and other officials, have seen this copy of the birth certificate and that it is genuine.
Since I haven’t seen it out and out stated yet, I should mentioned that most folks who talk about this number are talking in terms of (usually estimated or guessed-at) attorney’s fees.
I just don’t get why somone can’t smack this whole thing down. Isn’t there a neighbor who remembers, medical records, or a comparison to another person born on the same day in the same hospital as to what records are available? This is not dying down, it’s just getting more and more crazy. Now that we have partisan news I’m not sure that the WH is watching Fox or following right-wing radio enough to see what a wildfire this is. One of the supermarket rags had a huge headline today about Obama being born in Canada for goodness sake. Isn’t there a Gerald Posner around who can document every jot and tittle of the birth to at least confine this to a small fringe rather than the majority of the GOP who don’t think Obama was born in the US?
The way things are going with the birthers and the healthcare nuts, someone is going to get shot.
If you come up with a neighbour who remembers, the conspiracy theorists will say they’re lying, or mistaken, or are Obama shills.
If you come up with medical records, they’ll say they’re faked, or not the correct records. After all, his OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE is being dismissed, so why would medical records matter?
Another person born oin the same day? Won’t matter. Faked, lying, blah blah blah.
We’ve seen his birth certificate. There is independent evidence (newspaper announcements) he was born in Hawaii. There is a LOT of circumstantial evidence he was born in Hawaii. It makes no difference.
You can’t smack it down for the same reason you can’t smack the 9/11 truthers down: Their arguments aren’t based on logic, not even on flawed logic. They believe because they want to believe. Both sides consist largely of stupid, unstable angry wingnuts and not-quite-as-stupid-or-unstable ringleaders with a vested interest in riling up the stupid angry wingnuts, because they are unable to get what they want through more socially or morally acceptable means.
The only important difference between the truthers and the birthers is that the mainstream liberals were able to disassociate themselves from the truthers, but mainstream conservatives have proven themselves unable to dislodge the birthers. I’d call them albatrosses around our necks, but albatrosses are attractive animals which serve a purpose.
