# Joe Arpaio forms "posse" to investigate Obama birth certificate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956 "2011-09-20T15:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/21 "2011-09-20T20:01:01Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > I just don’t get how the jurisdiction works for him. A county sheriff investigating (wait for it, oh that’s right, you already know) the President of the United States. > > Sheesh. THE TRUTH NEEDS NO JURISDICTION WHEN THERE’S A MAN TO TREE! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/22 "2011-09-20T20:06:29Z")
> [@BigShooter](#): > > Hate to see what a wet crazy feels like… Florida ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/23 "2011-09-20T20:18:19Z")
> [@BigShooter](#): > > Hate to see what a wet crazy feels like… Pretty sure that’s the kind you’re not supposed to stick your dick in. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/24 "2011-09-20T20:31:09Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Brilliant. I wish I could say I came up with it but I heard it long ago and can’t remember the source. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/25 "2011-09-20T20:42:18Z")
> [@BigShooter](#): > > Hate to see what a wet crazy feels like… Christine O’Donnell for wet and furry crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/26 "2011-09-20T20:43:03Z")
Thanks fuck that, I’m glad Joe fucking Arpaio stepped up to the plate; I thought I was going to have to call the fucking Hardy Boys. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/27 "2011-09-20T20:43:29Z")
Arizona is still, culturally speaking, living in the 19th Century. Think of it as Alabama with saguaros. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/28 "2011-09-20T20:54:15Z")
Why is everyone jumping to the conclusion that this posse is out to disprove the PResident’s eligibility. I highly suspect they will show him to be the legitimate President, born in Hawaii. Then I Sarah Palin to admit she’s not qualified to run for Crossing Guard. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/29 "2011-09-20T20:59:11Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Here’s the story: > > [http://gawker.com/5841963/americas-sheriff-assembles-elite-team-of-five-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate](http://gawker.com/5841963/americas-sheriff-assembles-elite-team-of-five-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate) > > > [@Gawker](#): > > > > Quote: > > There’s a rumor going around Arizona about a black fellow claiming to be president, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is going to get to the bottom of it—even if it gets him tons of press kills him. Too bad it’s uncredited. I wanted to nominate the author of that sentence as Arpaio’s vice retard running mate. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/30 "2011-09-20T20:59:30Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I wish I could say I came up with it but I heard it long ago and can’t remember the source. I first heard it from Brett Butler, comedian and actress. She was the main character of “Grace Under Fire”, the TV series, but I heard it in a stand-up routine beating up on the South. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/31 "2011-09-20T21:09:00Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Arizona is still, culturally speaking, living in the 19th Century. Think of it as Alabama with saguaros. Apparently we got tired of Florida and South Carolina taking all the crazy credit. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/32 "2011-09-20T23:22:48Z")
On a slight tangent, is it just my imagination, or did the movement to allow non-native born Americans to run for President (because at the time Republicans wanted Governator Ahhnold to have a go at it) die off pretty much around the same time the Birther crap started? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Gui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@El\_Gui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Gui)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/33 "2011-09-20T23:32:52Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > On a slight tangent, is it just my imagination, or did the movement to allow non-native born Americans to run for President (because at the time Republicans wanted Governator Ahhnold to have a go at it) die off pretty much around the same time the Birther crap started? I think it started earlier, when the Governator’s poll numbers started tanking. Even though, as the Repubs. kept repeating, this had nothing to do with Arnold. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/34 "2011-09-21T01:11:44Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > You just know that if someone had a time machine and went BACK IN TIME TO WITNESS OBAMA BEING BORN IN HAWAI’I, the birthers and Tea Partiers would immediately start saying that the real Barack Obama died soon after birth and his mom then secretly adopted a Kenyan-born baby who she then passed off as her natural-born son. Smuggled into the country in [a warming pan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Edward_Stuart#Birth_and_childhood), of course. Oh, wait, that was the crazy conspiracy theory from three centuries ago. No-one would believe that nowadays. Right? Please? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/35 "2011-09-21T01:19:07Z")
He wasn’t found floating in a basket of reeds? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/36 "2011-09-21T02:04:26Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > An “elite team of five.” So I’m guessing… an explosives expert, a linguist who speaks fluent African, a guy in a ninja suit swinging _nunchaku_, a pilot (best goddamn flyboy there ever was, who’s gonna retire and settle down after this _one last job_), and a pyrokinetic who can ignite crosses with his mind. Which one is the beautiful but brainy female scientist?😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/37 "2011-09-21T02:24:48Z")
This is good news. Finally, a charity for conservative to donate to. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/38 "2011-09-21T02:30:54Z")
Anyone else imagine a group of five and six year old giggling girls when they read about the Surprise Tea Party? ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/39 "2011-09-21T02:47:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Which one is the beautiful but brainy female scientist?😛 Due to budget constraints that part will be played by Arpaio himself in drag. I just hope the ending of this story somehow involves Navy SEALs. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956/40 "2011-09-21T02:48:32Z")
I don’t know but I’ve been told. Arizona posse’s mighty cold. I don’t know it could be snark Joe Arpaio’s jumped the shark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio-forms-posse-to-investigate-obama-birth-certificate/596956.md?page=3)