The "Birthers" are maggots!

mswas · December 6, 2009, 11:37pm

LOL fuck Birthers, I’ve moved on to Climate Truthers.

Tim_T-Bonham.net · December 7, 2009, 12:10am

Well, Margaret Thather sounds a lot like Palin nowadays. But of course, Thatcher is aged & suffering from senile dementia.

I’d prefer Palin. She’s just as evil a right-winger as Thatcher, but she is much less effective. I prefer right-wingers dumb & ditzy.

sisl · December 7, 2009, 12:14am

Why on EARTH should such a “question” be “Unconstitutional”

I am new here, and hoping for some fine discussions.

Is this a good start? Methinks not!

The early life of POTUS O-BOMB-A is shrouded in mystery.

He surely was NOT born in a Log Cabin!

Equipoise · December 7, 2009, 12:22am

Points and laughs at the Birther newbie

It’s about time one of you clowns showed up. Even if the SDMB had any Birthers before, they were far too intelligent to say so out loud. Welcome!

mswas · December 7, 2009, 12:24am

Sarah Palin is hot, Maggie Thatcher never was.

Equipoise · December 7, 2009, 12:30am

I’m with you. Birthers are absolutely delightful! You can’t make up that kind of stupid.

Bookkeeper · December 7, 2009, 12:48am

I believe the court consensus is that it is up to Congress to deal with this as a strictly political issue, and since Congress as accepted Obama as qualified, no one else has standing to raise the issue.

Bryan_Ekers · December 7, 2009, 1:26am

I’m kind of mystified by that, too.

Monty · December 7, 2009, 1:35am

As I mentioned above, the simple asking of a candidate for President his circumstances of birth (natural born or not) is not unconstitutional. In fact, the Constitutional requirements for being President include being natural born. Now, refusing to accept the answer marks one as a WONJCT of the “Birther” stripe.

BrainGlutton · December 7, 2009, 1:38am

You’re giving circus freaks a bad name.

BrainGlutton · December 7, 2009, 1:42am

No, it isn’t. It’s an interesting story, but not in any way mysterious.

Mr.Miskatonic · December 7, 2009, 2:50am

Only if you’ve been playing with the “Lil’ Bastard Self-Trepanation Kit”.

mswas · December 7, 2009, 3:15am

Haha yeah. It’s kind of funny. We know more about Barack Obama’s early childhood than most other Presidents.

How many of you knew for instance that George W. Bush had a sister Robin who was like his best friend. Then one day she fell ill and they were separated, and they simply pretended she no longer existed. She died and George was shielded from this experience completely, he was given no real closure on it, they simply stopped talking about her.

Barbara Bush considers it the biggest mistake she ever made. Early twentieth century WASP culture was FUCKED UP.

I bet you all know that Barry Obama lived in Indonesia with his Mother and his Step-Father, but didn’t know anything about Bush’s sister Robin.

On a fall day in 1953, George and Barbara Bush drove their green Oldsmobile up the gravel driveway at Sam Houston Elementary School in Midland, Tex., looking for their oldest child. George W. Bush and a friend from second grade were lugging a Victrola from their classroom to the principal’s office when he spotted his parents’ car. He was sure his little sister was in the back seat.

"He went running back to the teacher and said, ‘I’ve got to go. My mother and father and Robin are here,’ " Barbara Bush, the former first lady, recalled in a recent interview.

“I run over to the car,” said George W., remembering the same moment, “and there’s no Robin.”

“That’s when we told him,” his mother said. “In the car.”

Two days earlier, Pauline Robinson Bush – “Robin” – had died in New York of leukemia, two months shy of her fourth birthday. Her big brother had known she was sick but never dreamed she was dying. “Why didn’t you tell me?” George W Bush repeatedly asked his parents, and for years the question would resonate in the Bush family.

Only after her death did they disclose to young George W her illness, which had lasted longer than doctors expected it to and had led the Bushes on a frantic quest back East to find a specialist who could treat her. These efforts kept them away from their son for long stretches of time, and he was not present when Robin died, nor at her burial.

After the service for Robin in Connecticut, Barbara and George H.W. Bush returned to Houston the next day. There was no further attempt at closure or a protracted mourning process, in keeping with upper class mores of the time.

It can be argued that the apparent abruptness of his little sister’s passing and the lack of any way to deal with it have had a strong impact on George Bush’s later personal development. Barbara Bush has since said the way she handled Robin’s death with her son was one of the few mistakes she made as a parent.

At age 7, Bush found himself surrounded by bewildering grief. His parents were not even 30 years old, trying to move past a devastating loss while raising George W. and his baby brother Jeb.

As part of a family famously allergic to engaging in public introspection, Bush is reluctant to talk about the forces that shaped him. He acknowledges, of course, that his sister’s death was profoundly sad for him and his parents, but he also sees the sources of his personality as “more complex than one or two events.” Few would argue with that assessment.

Yet some close to the Bushes do see the death of his sister as a singular event in George W.'s childhood, helping to define him and how he would deal with the world

So yeah, I bet you know more about B. Obama’s childhood than you do any other President’s.

Patch · December 7, 2009, 3:44am

Aw, c’mon, if not for the birthers, where else would we get to see a lawyer/real estate agen/dentist claim Obama is using 39 different social security numbers and may also have been born in Equatorial Guinea? This is top quality entertainment!

Leaper · December 7, 2009, 3:48am

I’d heard about the 39 SSNs, but does she also say he may have “ALSO” been born in Equatorial Guinea? Is Taitz asserting that he was born in two different places at once? Or that EG is just another possible birthplace that’s MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE U.S.?

BrainGlutton · December 7, 2009, 4:27am

Nothing is surprising when you’re dealing with the Antichrist.

Euphonious_Polemic · December 7, 2009, 6:01am

Only if you are willfully ignorant.

So therefore… he was not born in the United States? Huh? Your amazing powers of logic amaze me!

Patch · December 7, 2009, 6:11am

It’s another place he may have been born. Under her 'Point 4" of items that need to be investigated.

The insanity is too long to quote.

Equipoise · December 7, 2009, 9:09am

I’d click on that link, but reading sisl’s post has already made several brain cells pop. I can only afford a few per thread.

Robot_Arm · December 7, 2009, 12:09pm

Sarah or Michael?