# Birther Mania **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051 "2010-05-11T14:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/61 "2010-05-12T21:06:42Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Silly humans. Obama is Kodos. No, dammit. Kang! (I have a friend whose daughter used in vitro fertilization and was pregnant with twins. Before the birth we all called them Kang and Kodos, though the daughter gave that up in fairly short order.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/62 "2010-05-12T21:12:55Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Whar are you talking about. That guy is so much funnier than Orly! Did you read this part: That is the funniest shit I have read in weeks! The only thing its missing is UFOs and Elvis. You didn’t know Elvis is hiding in Kenya? ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/63 "2010-05-12T21:23:17Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Lets not forget that in 1961, to be an American citizen born outside this country you had to be born to a parent who was a citizen and had lived in the US for at least 5 years after the age of 14 and since Obama’s mother was only 18 when he was born she doesn’t qualify. Also let’s not forget the “Kenyan Birth Certificate” the birthers came up with. And besides, since his father would have been a British citizen he would have had dual citizenship and you can’t be President if you have dual citizenship, and he went to Pakistan when he was in college when Americans couldn’t go so he must have had a passport from another country and besides didn’t his stepfather adopt him because he used that name in school so he’s actually an Indonesian citizen and since he changed citizenship he’s not really a citizen and and and… Please tell me you typed all that out without pausing for breath. Because that’s totally how I read it. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/64 "2010-05-12T21:38:53Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Ooh! I want to play! > **SCENARIO NINE: Did Obama steal all my antipsychotic drugs?** He actually did! And is now planning on using them for communist nazi muslim anti-white brainwashing! ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/65 "2010-05-12T22:11:46Z")
**SCENARIO ELEVEN: My pants! Oh merciful god, where are my pants?!?** ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/66 "2010-05-12T22:31:54Z")
I am certainly not the only one who watched Obama on election night and witnessed the flag of the United States appear with the revolutionary and anarchic colour red and the monarchic colour white, dabbed with the military-industrial colour blue, in a gigantic stripe configuration reminiscent of the death camps inmates’ pyjamas. Not to mention the five-pointed stars of SATAN, all fifty of them ! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/67 "2010-05-12T22:38:26Z")
_They took urrrr pants!_ ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/68 "2010-05-12T22:49:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > _They took urrrr pants!_ **SCENARIO TWELVE: I’m in ur pantz, stealing all ur cheezburgers.** OK, I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/69 "2010-05-12T22:49:51Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > This is where you end up after doing too much LDS. You lick Mormons to get high? The flashbacks must be horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/70 "2010-05-12T22:50:39Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I am certainly not the only one who watched Obama on election night and witnessed the flag of the United States appear with the revolutionary and anarchic colour red and the monarchic colour white, dabbed with the military-industrial colour blue, in a gigantic stripe configuration reminiscent of the death camps inmates’ pyjamas. Not to mention the five-pointed stars of SATAN, all fifty of them ! Obama is a Christian too - a fan of Jesus, and what was Jesus if not a dirty, Middle-Eastern _socialist_? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/71 "2010-05-12T22:53:27Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > You lick Mormons to get high? The flashbacks must be horrible. I read that Archuleta had been spotted in a gay bar but didn’t realize he’s a controlled substance. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/72 "2010-05-12T22:57:53Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Obama is a Christian too - a fan of Jesus, and what was Jesus if not a dirty, Middle-Eastern _socialist_? [Jesus – Wrong on social services. Wrong on crime. Wrong on defense. Wrong for America.](http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/georgewbush/ig/100-Bush-Pictures/Bush-vs--Jesus.htm) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/73 "2010-05-12T23:02:14Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Obama is a Christian too - a fan of Jesus, and what was Jesus if not a dirty, Middle-Eastern _socialist_? And Obama probably licked him to get high, so we should be expecting George Rekers and J. Edgar Hoover to weigh in any minute now. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/74 "2010-05-12T23:31:53Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > And Obama probably licked him to get high… Well, considering that the presidency is the highest office in the land, I think it’s more accurate to say that Obama licked John McCain to get high. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/75 "2010-05-12T23:53:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You didn’t know Elvis is hiding in Kenya? Well, that explains everything! ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/76 "2010-05-13T01:55:16Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > If Beck and Rush say he is not a citizen , it must be so. They have the largest ratings on talk radio. What more do you need ? And, they are loud. I suppose you have a cite for that? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/77 "2010-05-13T02:02:08Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I suppose you have a cite for that? I suppose that you will state that President Obama is absolutely and without question a natural born citizen of the United States? I suppose that you are merely asking for a cite of the post you quoted for purposes of entertainment only? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/78 "2010-05-13T02:11:58Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I suppose that you will state that President Obama is absolutely and without question a natural born citizen of the United States? I suppose that you are merely asking for a cite of the post you quoted for purposes of entertainment only? I suppose you realize your question is irrelevant to whether or not Beck and Rush actually said what gonzomax said they said? And I suppose you are well aware that there’s no swinging dick who knows what the term “natural-born citizen” means, and that I am not privy to all pertinent facts, so there’s no way I could make a judgment one way or the other? To avoid any further pile-on by idiots (such as Frank), I will say that I don’t have a big problem with whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen or even a “natural-born citizen” as I understand the term. It’s not something I think about. I’ve thought about this issue with respect to Obama about as much as I did with respect to McCain. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/79 "2010-05-13T02:17:08Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I suppose you realize your question is irrelevant to whether or not Beck and Rush actually said what gonzomax said they said? And I suppose you are well aware that there’s no swinging dick who knows what the term “natural-born citizen” means, and that I am not privy to all pertinent facts, so there’s no way I could make a judgment one way or the other? > > To avoid any further pile-on by idiots (such as Frank), I will say that I don’t have a big problem with whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen or even a “natural-born citizen” as I understand the term. It’s not something I think about. I’ve thought about this issue with respect to Obama about as much as I did with respect to McCain. Do you, in fact, accept that President Obama is constitutionally qualified to be the President of the United States? Yes, No. Simple question, really. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051/80 "2010-05-13T02:22:57Z")
It’s not a yes or no question. It’s a yes, no, or how the fuck should I know question. My answer is how the fuck should I know. You may want to re-read my post you quoted before getting your tighty-whites jammed any further up your duodenum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birther-mania/539051.md?page=5)