White House releases Obama birth certificate

[picato]

White House releases Obama birth certificate
By Rachel Rose Hartman






The White House on Wednesday morning released the president's long form birth certificate (pdf) in an attempt to put "birther" questions to rest.

"The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good T.V., but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement.

The president had released his certificate of live birth in 2008, but many "birthers" said the absence of a long form birth certificate prompted questions about Obama's birthplace of Hawaii. In recent weeks potential GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has brought birther questions into the forefront of the media.

"At a time of great consequence for this country--when we should be debating how we win the future, reduce our deficit, deal with high gas prices, and bring stability to the Middle East, Washington, DC, was once again distracted by a fake issue," Pfeiffer said. "The President's hope is that with this step, we can move on to debating the bigger issues that matter to the American people and the future of the country."

Trump on Wednesday took full credit for the release.

"I feel I've accomplished something really really important and I'm honored by it," Trump said at a press conference held during his pre-scheduled visit today to New Hampshire. Trump noted that people have long been requesting the document, but Trump was the only one who got the president to release it. Trump suggested Wednesday this development will boost his own potential presidential candidacy.

Trump said he and others are still going to have to assess the document's authenticity. We're "going to look at it. We have to see if it's real, if it's proper," Trump said. But he added that he's "sure it's the right deal" and is looking forward to moving on to more important issues such as OPEC and China.

[emj]

Trump is just a frump..........

[Lalakokofefe]

WASHINGTON -- Per his directive, the White House released on Wednesday President Barack Obama's "long form" birth certificate, the document whose absence has long been at the heart of the conspiracy-riddled discussion over Obama's legitimacy to serve as the nation's commander in chief.

The move came as a surprise to the press corps, many of whom had not shown up for Wednesday's early-morning White House briefing. By the time word had spread that Obama would be making a 9:45 a.m. statement on the matter, however, the top anchors at all the networks had scurried into the briefing room.

Once there, they received a presidential scolding for their concern with "silliness." Obama began his five-minute statement with the complaint that he wouldn't be able to get the networks to break into their regularly scheduled programming for a speech on policy proposals.

"I know that there is going to be a segment of people for which no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest," Obama said. "But I am speaking for the vast majority of the American people as well as for the press. We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We have better stuff to do. I have got better stuff to do. We have got big problems to solve."

"We are not going to be able to do it if we are distracted, we are not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other ... if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts, we are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by side shows and carnival barkers," the president declared earlier.

The document released by the White House differs from the one that Obama's aides made public during the 2008 presidential campaign. Instead of a "certification" of live birth, this was a "certificate," clearly recording that the president was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in the Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.

For years, Obama's circle of aides had resisted calls to make the latter form public, noting that a certification is legally sound and what any citizen of Hawaii receives upon requesting documents of birth. And indeed, for some time, that explanation -- supported by a a wide swath of other contemporaneous evidence - seemed to suffice.

But some who challenged the president's citizenship remained unsatisfied, and in recent weeks they found a high-profile megaphone for their cause: business tycoon and presidential flirt Donald Trump.

"This issue was resolved in 2008. It has not been an issue," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said during a morning briefing in which he and other officials took care not to mention Trump's name. "None of you have asked about it, called about it or reported on it until the last few weeks ... [not releasing it] would probably be good for the president politically. Despite that, the president said he was struck by how this was crowding out the debate."

Last Friday, the president himself wrote Loretta J. Fuddy, the director of health at the State of Hawaii, requesting "two certified copies of my original certificate of live birth." Fuddy complied. Shortly thereafter, the president's counsel, Judith Corley of the firm Perkins Coie, flew to Hawaii to pick up two copies of the form. The trip was not taxpayer funded but, rather, paid out of the president's personal account. Corley returned on Tuesday at roughly 4 p.m. with the copies. The White House announced a "morning gaggle" for reporters shortly thereafter. One aide explained that they did not want to "hold" on to the documents for release on a later date.

Many members of the press confessed to being "stunned" as it became clear what was about to be discussed. White House press assistants handed out a six-page stapled packet of photocopies showing the new and old birth certificates as well as the White House's legal correspondence with Hawaii's Department of Health.

And yet it was the press that played a large role in forcing the administration's hand. CNN's Ed Henry had pressed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the issue just one day earlier, despite the fact that his own network had done a thorough investigation debunking the claims of the conspiracy theorists.

"There will always be some selection of people who will believe something. That is not the issue," Pfeiffer said when asked if Wednesday's move would silence the doubters. "This issue is, this is not a discussion happening just among conspiracy theorists. It is happening here in this room, on all of the networks, and it is something that every major political figure of both parties -- instead of talking about real issues -- is being asked about this. So the president decided to release this."

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This is a real shame, and a sad day for America. No other President in history, has ever had to show his birth certificate. Well, just goes to show... you can be the most powerful man in the world, but you're still black......

Damn shame.

LKF

[Bill Carson]

This is a real shame, and a sad day for America. No other President in history, has ever had to show his birth certificate. Well, just goes to show... you can be the most powerful man in the world, but you're still black......

Damn shame.

LKF

Lala,

I think it was a good political move by Obama and his team. Obama�s handling of Oklahoma incident nullified Sarah Palin and this will put pay to Donald (always Bankrupt) Trump�s political ambition.
I wish Obama had played the game longer though.

[First-lady]

That's my man!!

[Lalakokofefe]

[Auspicious]

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YawN!

A non-issue, really.

And good enough Obama is treating it as one.
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[M. Akosa]

This is a real shame, and a sad day for America. No other President in history, has ever had to show his birth certificate. Well, just goes to show... you can be the most powerful man in the world, but you're still black......

Damn shame.

LKF

The colour of shit is black.

Racism and prejudice will remain forever an enduring human malady. That is why we all need to keep an eye on the situation, re-negotiate our existence and relationships with others, do a rethink on our values, norms and what we have been taught to percieve as good or evil. Because to the minds of many out there, being black forever means evil, undeserving or undesirable. Many black folks themsleves are equally guilty of some of the worst crimes of ignorance induced prejudice and racism working against them.

I am sure folks like Donald Trump would have had a heart attack 50 years ago, at the thoughts of Barack and Michelle Obama entering and exiting the White House from the main entrance.

The questions over Obama's birth certificate is just a tip of the iceberg.

[picato]

Now the shithead is shifting to Obama's academic records. They had Bush for eight years. Everyone knows the guy is a buffoon. They didn't ask him to release his academic records. Now they are trying to reduce Obama's towering academic accomplishment as being due to Affirmative Action. In other words without the so-called Affirmative Action, no black person stand a chance of competing in a level playing field against his peers of other races. Yeye de boom for that America.

[Lalakokofefe]

This guy is such a wind-bag, its unbelievable. Now he wants to look at it and make sure its the real thing! - LKF

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

And, as expected, the birth certificate is not enough ....

Joseph Farah, chief executive of birther-oriented website WorldNetDaily.com, said on the site the document "raises as many questions as it answers".

"It is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very sceptical public concerning Barack Obama's parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life," he said.

[anwulika]

Now the shithead is shifting to Obama's academic records. They had Bush for eight years. Everyone knows the guy is a buffoon. They didn't ask him to release his academic records. Now they are trying to reduce Obama's towering academic accomplishment as being due to Affirmative Action. In other words without the so-called Affirmative Action, no black person stand a chance of competing in a level playing field against his peers of other races. Yeye de boom for that America.

Real shithead!

Pardon moi but Trump and these Republicans are just pissing me off right now. Since when did anybody's education or aptitude become important to the Republicans?? After choosing Sarah Palin as their VP candidate who is dumber than the Moose she kills?

I hope we will get to see Donald's transcript also. He is not half as smart as Obama is on his worst day. While we are checking history, I'd like to see Trump's report and financial history. Let me understand why a very "smart" man like him filed for bankruptcy more than once.

[Lalakokofefe]

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At this point, Anwuli (the "my dia" is temporarily suspended), I NEED TO SEE YOUR birth certificate!!

LKF

[anwulika]

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At this point, Anwuli (the "my dia" is temporarily suspended), I NEED TO SEE YOUR birth certificate!!

LKF

Lala why now? I am a hot, young kokolette. I promise you!

[First-lady]

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At this point, Anwuli (the "my dia" is temporarily suspended), I NEED TO SEE YOUR birth certificate!!

LKF

Gbam!

not sworn declaration of age o

Lala why now? I am a hot, young kokolette. I promise you!

In whose eyes?
He said he needs solid evidence
biko produce the thing
before the poor man will spend years laboring for the kokolette Rachel and finds out he is getting an advanced kokomama Leah

[anwulika]

Gbam!

not sworn declaration of age o

In whose eyes?
He said he needs solid evidence
biko produce the thing
before the poor man will spend years laboring for the kokolette Rachel and finds out he is getting an advanced kokomama Leah

Ok...I need to call a friend at Ikeja registry. I dey come...

[BeePee]

The minute I saw the headlines, I knew there would be some fun reading on NVS :-) I had to log on immediately! Yes, Trump is a publicity hound. Yes, there are nut-jobs out there. �totally agree on those points. And I wasn�t disappointed by the usual �it happened because he is a black man� mantra� after all in some quarters criticism of the man is because of his skin color.

But, Obama is the only one who�s citizenship was questioned , really? Recall the elections of 2008? Wasn�t McCain�s citizenship challenged as well? If you doubt me, google �..

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&so...in+citizenship

Politics is a game people, and Obama himself is playing the game�.they all milk publicity for all it is worth!

Okay, you can all go to town of BeePee, the foolish black girl who isn�t toeing the �democrat� line, now
In any case, thank you for this afternoon�s entertainment�..catch you later.

[First-lady]

The minute I saw the headlines, I knew there would be some fun reading on NVS :-) I had to log on immediately! Yes, Trump is a publicity hound. Yes, there are nut-jobs out there. �totally agree on those points. And I wasn�t disappointed by the usual �it happened because he is a black man� mantra� after all in some quarters criticism of the man is because of his skin color.

But, Obama is the only one who�s citizenship was questioned , really? Recall the elections of 2008? Wasn�t McCain�s citizenship challenged as well? If you doubt me, google �..

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&so...in+citizenship

Politics is a game people, and Obama himself is playing the game�.they all milk publicity for all it is worth!

Okay, you can all go to town of BeePee, the foolish black girl who isn�t toeing the �democrat� line, now :lol :lol :lol :lol
In any case, thank you for this afternoon�s entertainment�..catch you later.

My young son who is so into American politics just said something to me now and I was like chai,this boy is just as intelligent as his mama.

Ifeanyi: Mom,Obama's timing was wrong

FL:No dear,he had to put an end to the distraction so he can focus on the elections

Ifeanyi: But the issue of his birth certificate is not a winning issue.The birthers are not popular and he would have allowed Donald trump and others who jumped on it to stay on it for as long as they could.They would have been front runners on the republican side exactly the type of people we need there.
Now that Obama is out with this,Trump and co will disappear since they have nothing else to say and more serious candidates will emerge to challenge Obama.

Fl: Chai it is true o

Maybe one day una go see President Ifeanyi Nwokorie

[BeePee]

Must say you have a smart boy there.....I thought his timing sucked too, why not wait until the primaries or something, after all if he has held out this long another few months won't matter. But, on the flip side, do you really think Trump is going to run? Somehow I don't see that happening...and even if he did, he could never win the republican nomination, he just has too much history of supporting Dems for that to happen. But, the longer he is left out there running at the mouth could have long lasting damage...it would be like ignoring a dripping faucet, it may not look like much to begin with, but could get really expensive. I am sure team Obama did their homework before deciding this was the best time to produce the document.

[Auspicious]

Ok...I need to call a friend at Ikeja registry. I dey come...

Ikeja registry?

Oh stop that Anwuli, you know you pretty !!! didn't see beyond the Village until you were enroute Canada at age 26.

So please call the Village instead hoha!
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PS: I still think it is a non-issue, and thank goodness Obama treated it as a non-issue.

[Big-K]

I like the way Obama played this. He allowed them enough time to make complete fools of themselves.

So, Trump is FIRED - in many ways. Now let's have the serious candidates..Huckabee and Romney

[Auspicious]

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John Dickerson handles this with all the (derisive) hard-knocks that it deserves @ Slate.com:

Putting aside Trump mockery�difficult as that may be�and taking him seriously for a moment, this episode has revealed yet another reason he is so spectacularly ill-suited to the presidency. The most important task for a president is knowing how to set priorities and maintain a sense of perspective. By founding his candidacy around the question of Obama's birth, Trump fails this basic test.

Trump has moved his focus to questioning whether Obama was qualified to attend Harvard. (Obama graduated magna cum laude and served as editor of the Harvard Law Review, trinkets not just distributed at the bookstore.) One of the evils of racism is that it locks in the idea that no matter how well you do, your achievements will never be considered legitimate. Because of the color of your skin, someone will always be raising doubts about you.

The only way Trump can top himself now is to attack Obama for not serving in Vietnam. Maybe he's saving that for the fall campaign, along with the dancing lions and flaming acrobats.

[I Love Nigeria]

We made these arguments in 2009! Perhaps it was a matter of strategy for the White House, to allow the Republicans, the Tea Party and sundry extremists and racists to wrap themselves in cow-manure, before responding to this inane issue... a mole hill which has been made into a mammoth mountain!

America is engaged in three foreign wars, namely, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya... American economy remains in the doldrums, with spiraling unemployment of over 15 million Americans, and mortgage foreclosures over 4 million homes-homeowners and the issue of America's burgeoning deficits in public financing ... with some municipalities and states in dire straits... with attendant cuts and layoffs in federal, state and local governments

Racists and plethora of ignoramuses ... remain fixated on whether President Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia and whether he is a Muslim who just managed to have been a member of the famous Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago for 20 years etc

Donald "Duck" Trump is shifting focus to President Obama's academic achievements now, both in college and law school etc - ILN




Obama Is Not An American!
http://adujie-writings.blogspot.com/...-American.html

http://www.google.com/search?source=...not+an+America

Monday, September 14, 2009
By Paul I. Adujie

In 2007, events in the United States moved me to wonder publicly, whether race relations were actually getting worse as opposed to, progressing? I asked then and I ask again now, whether �Race Relations Is Regressing in America? What with the return to slavery era language? What with a return to tactics of that ignominious era? Brandishing of weapons, guns, knives, fire, fists, clubs, stones and the pinning of mustache on Obama to portray his as fascist and even as Adolf Hitler?

Last Saturday, crowds of mostly racists, illiterates and bigots besieged Washington D.C. in their thousands. And they chanted USA, USA, USA, they claimed that they are the �real� Americans; self-proclaimed �Nativists� who were saying that this is a matter of self-preservation, against socialists and communists, arguments cloaked in identical fa�ade during battles against slavery and segregation when racists claimed that they were trying to preserve their race or its �purity� They mostly spoke in code words often used by racists and xenophobes. Those Minuteman types, who never worry about terrorists coming into the USA through Canada, as have been the case, but, they rather paranoid about hardworking immigrants coming into the United States from Mexico. Racism, bigotry and prejudice is written all over the current attacks against President Obama, by these chortling crowd.

This is all about Obama�s color! Some Americans are labeling President Obama Adolf Hitler, Al Quieda sympathizer, a September 11, 2002 hijacker, an advocate of Eugenics, a Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro identical policy twin! Ignorant protesters with a herd mentality, they are so illiterate, so much so, they confuse feudal Russia with Czars, with communists who overthrew the feudalists! So that the appointment of czars (heads of government agency) to enforce policies is synonymous with the introduction of communism into America by Obama, so that, transport czar, internet security czar and narcotics enforcement czar, are all harbingers of the onset of communism into America through Obama!

The protesters were mostly nuts and simpletons, who are being choreographed by the inanities of political handlers and some ratings conscious members of the so-called mainstream media, who are milking the advertised idiocies of these nuts, for high ratings. There are willful exploitation of these multitudes of illiterate Americans by Machiavelli like politicians and journalists, who are polarizing the American populace for monetary benefits. President Obama is falsely accused of planning to confiscate privately owned properties of individual Americans as well as planning to impose Islam on unsuspecting Christians in America.

Since the presidential campaign in 2008 during which the term �real Americans and real America� was made a recurring term by that incongruously ignorant Sarah Palin of small town, in Alaska, it has become a euphemism for those with the nonsensical conspiracy theory regarding whether or not Obama is ineligible to be elected or to have been elected president of the United States. Those conspiracy theorists, better known as �conspi-racists� for their �conspi-racism�, have become so loud, and they are also now, alternately referred to as the �birthers�

Harsh racial politics of South Carolina is historical. A South Carolina Congressman once brought a cane to whip state of Massachusetts US Senator Charles Sumner, on the almost to death because Sumner was an abolitionist, and an advocate for the end to slavery� and all this happened on the floor of the US Congress.

In proper perspectives therefore, historically, South Carolina, has been perennially backward, in racial matters� it is no surprise that Joe Wilson, the �Con-gressman� for SC would, on the floor of the US Congress shout-down President Obama, in Wilson most outrageous manner. South Carolina is also one of the states in the South, which still proudly hoist the �Con-federate� flag� which celebrates confederacy, with all its pungent putrid history of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws and institutional racism etc

On the floor of the US Congress, the following statements were made by US Congressman James Henry Hammond

"All this leave one to wonder what would happen next, would South Carolina and their fellow con-federates with shared racism seek secession from the United States as they did in the past? A South Carolina Congressman, James Henry Hammond once said, �Although I am perfectly satisfied that no human process can elevate the black man to an equality with the white - admitting that it could be done � are we prepared to face the consequences which then must follow? Are the people of the North prepared to � place their political power on equality with their own? Are we prepared to see them mingling in our legislatures? Is any portion of this country prepared to see them enter these halls and take their seats by our sides, in the perfect equality with the white representatives of an Anglo-Saxon race � to see them fill that chair � to see them placed at the heads of your Departments; or to see, perhaps, some Othello, or Toussaint, or Boyer, gifted with the genius and inspired by ambition, grasp the presidential wreath, and wield the destinies of this great republic? From such a picture I turn with irrepressible disgust�

This was hundred of moons ago. We all thought that these sorts of mindsets and racists attitudes were behind us� But no!

There is so much idiocy going on in America these days. Racism is alive and well, but it now too often wears fine clothes and expresses itself in impeccable grammar wrapped in robust syntax. These season of unreason and idiocies by racists, (and their facilitators) have been exacerbated in recent times, as more and more racists are expressing their crude umbrages because a man with darker hues, unusual and unknown in the �traditions� of the Oval Office, in the presidential building of the United States, which is also known as the White House. Why would any sane American compare President Obama to Adolf Hitler? It is the case that Obama has been called Marxist, fascist, socialist, communist and his upper lip adorned with a mustache reminiscent of Adolf Hitler�s mustache, how egregious!

Many American racists are obviously pained and sorely disappointed by the fait accompli of having, this colored-man at the helms of political affairs, in the United States! Who would have thunk-it?! That there is a biracial man, who now parades himself as president of the United States! What has the world turned to? And they seem to hide and seek refuge in the open, with their base racists commentaries against Obama, even as the cast themselves as being merely interested in critical examinations of Obama�s public policies.

These strident and most vociferous critics are no critics at all; they are really bigoted attackers of President Obama. Their racial prejudices cannot be concealed, despite their most ostentatious efforts at obfuscating their real motives and intents, in all of this. What does any reasonable person make of those who remain adamant and persistent insistence, in their conspiracy theories regarding President Obama�s place of birth and religious adherence? � Despite incontrovertible evidence, and available facts, the Birthers� continues to assert that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States! And clearly, this is an attack as to his qualification to be president of the United States. If these shenanigans were merely at the fringes of public debate and the American society, it would have been easy to dismiss it.

But, when so-called journalist such as Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and many more on the television, are continually and continuously giving pedestals and podiums for psychotic debates about Obama�s citizenship and religion, the prejudice and bigotry rises to a din and uncomfortable decibels. These persons are using the same sorts of language and crudity, which propels anti abortion protesters to murders and maiming of innocent people, and their facilitators and those who spur them to violence are then quick to feign a lack of responsibility, when violence ensues from their useless rhetoric which they spew for profits!

Tea Party, Freedom Works, Lou Dobbs of CNN, Ann Coulter, Glen Beck and his 9/12 Project and now, Congressman Joe Wilson, have demeaned and denigrated the president of the United States in terms and manners not seen since the 1800s. And were harm to befall Obama, these folks here who are endorsing idiocies and outrageous behaviors now, even if endorsing only coyly and in some cases, tacitly, would pretend unawareness of logical consequences that are now apparent and clearly foreseeable, as outgrowth of the poisons which the are currently peddling in the media

President Obama inherited two foreign wars, and a third war at home, here in the US, the wrecked economy, with attendant joblessness and frayed nerves, were the doings of Obama�s predecessor. Former President Bush burned billions of dollars, a trillion dollars and counting, in foreign wars, in his wrong-header policies and pursuit of phantom terror wars. And Obama is not even at the deck for 8 months and he is being blamed for the mess which he inherited!

Attackers of President Obama rallied in Washington D.C this past weekend, and their pronouncements, their placards, their composition, their sponsors, organizers all point to the unsavory motives of the rally and the participants. The rally was not about Health Care Reform or about any public policy. But instead, it is clear that they were motivated by vile and hatred. Just imagine those who picked quarrels with the present speech to students who were returning to school. This president is not the first to have given pep-talk to American youngsters. However, some racial baiters and racial racketeers, found it fit to suggest that President Obama was in the process on introducing their children to socialism, communism etc. They accused the president of the United States of planning to indoctrinate their children, and these magnificently ignorant attackers of the president, chose to withdraw their children and wards from school, as if the president was visiting schools, oozing with contagious diseases, maybe Swine-Flu?

I think it should be clear that the undertones of this �revolt� against President Obama�s pep-talk to American school kids, was an unstated retort, �I do not want this Negro to indoctrinate my children into socialism and theories about wealth redistribution; My child should not have to hear anything this Negro has to say� The truth of the matter is, even for those who disagree with Obama, can agree that he has the antecedents which makes him a good example or role-model for children everywhere! And I do not understand why any parent would tell a child not to listen to such a compelling example? Or why the fixation of about risks children being indoctrinated by the president. This is all about total disrespect and devaluing the presidency because of the individual who now occupies the position. There are concerted efforts to demean the current occupant of the White House.

Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, brought this to the surface last Wednesday, when he behaved like a thug in the hallowed halls of the US Congress, he shouted epithets at the Negro who is parading as president of the United States!

There are, sadly, too many Americans, whose patience have been tested in the past several months, tested by the singular fact of having to call a man with a natural tan, the president of the United States! The events have been unfolding in sequence. There are those who have argued forcefully that Obama was not born in the United States, and that if he is an American citizen at all, he does not qualify, as a matter of constitutional law, to hold the presidency, as a matter of law, only citizens by birth, and not by naturalization or registration, qualify, to be elected president of the United States.

Then, there were those who were so affronted and miffed, at the prospect of this Negro and charlatan, posturing as president of the United States, and using such �false� claims, as pedestal, podium or platform to teach American children about anything! Not even a Pep talk about how to succeed against all odds? And certainly not about personal hygiene in foreboding possible Swine-Flu! Don�t you talk to my kid! No Negro talks to my kid or tells my kid how life works, never! Say the racists. And just when you were convinced that the birthers and their ilk are deranged conspiracy theorists, mostly at the fringes of the American society, a confederate soldier showed up and bared his fangs in the hallowed halls of the US Congress, he disgracefully, unabashedly and shamelessly interrupted the president mid-speech to the nation, on prime television no less, while the world watched!

You may not be as rattled as some of us are about this sequence s of events. But please be reminded that Obama was mentioned in the same sentence with guns and assassinations during the presidential campaigns in the United States in 2008. Kindly be further advised, that the Health Care Reform debates have been hijacked by persons who have demonstrated vehemence beyond impolite and cantankerous hectoring-heckling of anyone a scintilla of support for any health care reform measure.

There have been occasions when some opponents of the reforms have felt the �need� to show up with weapons at Town-Hall meetings or such other venues, just to add toxins and �gunpowder� to the needful health care reform debate. All sorts of bizarre extremisms have been employed by attackers of Obama�s Health Care Reform, among which is the falsehood, that the contemplated reforms, includes Death Panels, which would summarily decide who lives and who dies, as features of the reform rules.

We have witnessed the theatrics of the so-called Tea Party or anti tax opponents of President Obama. It has become clear, if gradually, that there is a taint and tinge beyond the pale, all these cloaked attacks on President Obama, even though many a racists still pretend to have finesse and freedom of expression sheaths, over their racially sharpened swords.

The opposition by these racists, steeped in their resentment, in having to �endure� the tenure of a president, whose color operates as an unmitigated shock to their intelligence. Congressman Wilson impulsive outbursts is proof, that racism directed at Obama since his election, is not isolated, nor should it be dismissed infinitesimal or inconsequential chatter by those in the political fringes of the American society. Those in the business of protecting President Obama should become robust and rigorous in his security and safety precautionary measures. Mr. Obama�s security team are now sufficiently on notice, that there are those in the United States, who would do Obama harm, physically, if Obama�s security detail slips.

All these are clearly indicative of the fact that racism remains an albatross around the neck of the United States. We only need to just look at the �Tea-Bagers� pretend Tea Parties, then The �Birthers� Con-gressman Joe Wilson outrageous outbursts and now, these marchers consisting of one peculiar hue; even as they wrap themselves in their CON-federate flag� what does all this tell us?

Only last week, we all witnessed the silliness of those who did not want President Obama to give their children pep talk about how to stay in school and succeed in life against all odds. Some clearly did not want their children to listen to whatever that �Negro� has to say!

I will have to assume that everyone can see clearly now, that we do not as yet, live in a color-blind society! Or live in the nonsense which some call a post-racial society, especially, since President Obama�s election!

Racists are alive and well, and sadly, in huge numbers!

During this tumultuous week, the only speech to which its listeners did not behave like a bunch of children was actually the speech by Obama to school kids. This was quite unlike the speech to the US Congress which met unsavory reactions, such reactions, as from those who mechanically clapped, or stopped clapping midway or the Joe Wilson outrageous outbursts as he castigated the president a liar!

[I Love Nigeria]

Did somebody say that this is not about race?

Code words and innuendos?

[I Love Nigeria]

MAN-o-ACTION also doubles as MAN-O-PEACE

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=13735

http://www.costofwar.com/

[Auspicious]

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Tonight, April 27 2011, should be fun on the late night channels.

Cant wait to see them: Stewart. Colbert. Letterman.
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[I Love Nigeria]

Don't you just love Whoopi Goldberg and her audacity in stating it as it really is? She spoke for me, she spoke my mind!

[agensheku]

I like the way Obama played this. He allowed them enough time to make complete fools of themselves.

So, Trump is FIRED - in many ways. Now let's have the serious candidates..Huckabee and Romney

How do you expect Trump who cannot even arrange the hair on his head properly to know how to trump up charges against Obama? Its nice to see that Obama could produce that "joker"...his birth certificate to knock his critics out for good.

Even if he is not given a second term,no amount of muck-raking by the likes of Trump can delete Obama s name from America s history for life.

[Uncle Sam]

This is a real shame, and a sad day for America. No other President in history, has ever had to show his birth certificate. Well, just goes to show... you can be the most powerful man in the world, but you're still black......

Damn shame.

LKF

You captured my sub total feelings. On your quote above, I will only make changes to "it is a sad day for America" to read it is a sad day for a black man.

This writer http://www.thegrio.com/politics/why-...his-papers.php captures your thoughts and mine too. This indeed is a good read.

[Uncle Sam]

The minute I saw the headlines, I knew there would be some fun reading on NVS :-) I had to log on immediately! Yes, Trump is a publicity hound. Yes, there are nut-jobs out there. �totally agree on those points. And I wasn�t disappointed by the usual �it happened because he is a black man� mantra� after all in some quarters criticism of the man is because of his skin color.

But, Obama is the only one who�s citizenship was questioned , really? Recall the elections of 2008? Wasn�t McCain�s citizenship challenged as well? If you doubt me, google �..

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&so...in+citizenship

Politics is a game people, and Obama himself is playing the game�.they all milk publicity for all it is worth!

Okay, you can all go to town of BeePee, the foolish black girl who isn�t toeing the �democrat� line, now
In any case, thank you for this afternoon�s entertainment�..catch you later.

You don't get it. That Mccain's birth was even questioned was icing on the cake for KKK. It's a cover.

However BP, you said you are woman. So, prove it! Show me your Ikebe. Your real Ikebe.

[Uncle Sam]

My young son who is so into American politics just said something to me now and I was like chai,this boy is just as intelligent as his mama.

Ifeanyi: Mom,Obama's timing was wrong

FL:No dear,he had to put an end to the distraction so he can focus on the elections

Ifeanyi: But the issue of his birth certificate is not a winning issue.The birthers are not popular and he would have allowed Donald trump and others who jumped on it to stay on it for as long as they could.They would have been front runners on the republican side exactly the type of people we need there.
Now that Obama is out with this,Trump and co will disappear since they have nothing else to say and more serious candidates will emerge to challenge Obama.

Fl: Chai it is true o

Maybe one day una go see President Ifeanyi Nwokorie

He is smart. Actually very smart. And I want you to reinforce his smartness. Obama has been on this train of thought for long. But Obama is really really smart. Obama understands the 15:15:70 rule. The rule is simply 15% will support you no matter what and 15% will oppose you no matter what . 70% do not give a rats ass about you. That 70% are the independents. Obama's ratings was falling badly by at least 25% in independents corner. Any sensible politician would not let that happen.

Now, explain to your son, that this is why Obama did what he had to do. He had to stop the bleeding.

[valteena]

This is a real shame, and a sad day for America. No other President in history, has ever had to show his birth certificate. Well, just goes to show... you can be the most powerful man in the world, but you're still black......

Damn shame.

LKF

Its an absolute shame that they made Obama surrender his privacy to satisfy their racist curiosity. First it is their sleaze ball lie about Obama's birth/citizenship as championed by Trump. Now he has shifted focus to Obama not being good enough to go to the colleges he went to.

Next I think it will be if he Obama is a man, and he'll want to see the real thing as proof. This is obviously not about citizenship at all and it has shown Trump's racist tendencies which might not have been glaring and confirmed that he is just another dysfunctional bigot right wing who engages in smear campaign.

[Anioma777]

Donald Trump = Money miss road. You cannot buy class.

I think I need a trip to America soon the land of the bizarre. Barack Hussein Obama will turn around the fortunes of America is my hope to silence these bigots. One has to marvel at teh stupid lengths these morons will descend to just because they do not like the fact a black man is a President. Donald Trump has come out of this looking silly or should I say wallowing in his own nsi ( mess ).

[BeePee]

You don't get it. That Mccain's birth was even questioned was icing on the cake for KKK. It's a cover.

However BP, you said you are woman. So, prove it! Show me your Ikebe. Your real Ikebe.

"It's a cover"? Really? Prove it! Funny how things that happen to him that have happened to others as well are quickly dismissed.

As for the rest of your statement, I don't have to prove anything to you.....I could care less! However, it is foolish for a person who goes to apply for a job that requires a background and drug test to cry foul because he/she is required to actually be tested.

If a candidate with two American parents can be challenged to prove his citizenship, how much more one who has a parent who is not an American? This is the first time in the history of this country where they are faced with such a situation....at least to the best of my knowledge, if you have any other examples please produce. And the requirement for that office states the person in the post has to be a citizen. It is not far-fetched to think that there would be those who would exploit the uniqueness of the situation. The proof of this is in the fact that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have both at one time or the other tried to run for the same office, did anyone one ask for their birth certificates? Or are we to believe the people were less racist then than they are now?

Is this the first time a public figure is being force to produce proof? Anyone remember the Dan Rather fiasco with the GW service record? Yes, this whole thing was without merit, but Obama is not the first and will not be the last US president that is attacked based on something that has no merit.

This always crying "racism" whenever anyone has a harsh word for this man is getting old....anyone disagree with his economic outlook...racist.....depict the man as Hitler (nevermind that the same was done to his predecessors and even more recently the governor of Wisconsin)....racism....it is beginning to sound like the boy who cried wolf....and will not help Obama in the long run.

If truly a black man is equal to any white man, then let him as the president who happens to be black, face the situation of having political friends, foes, face just criticism and unjust criticism like any other president before him. Unless, of cause deep down inside people feel that as a black man he needs some type of special protection because somehow he is less than.....

[Auspicious]

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Too bad I can't locate a video yet, but..

As expected last night, main man Jon Stewart delivered.

He tore into the topic with all the clownish zeal that the topic deserved.
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JON STEWART'S DAILY SHOW:
Barack Obama Needs To Show Umbilical Cord Blood To Disprove Birthers
Noah Davies | BusinessInsider.com



Did you hear?

PRESIDENT OBAMA PROVED HE WAS FROM America!!!

Even Jon Stewart was impressed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at 9:02 East Coast Elitist time, Barack Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate," the Daily Show host said on Wednesday night.

The news agencies went into overload at the surprise announcement.

Cue footage of the 24-hour news organizations in "Def Chyron 1," in which anchors from multiple networks discussed the "bombshell" that the President was born in the United States.

Stewart raised a solid point.

"I don't want to nit-pick, but wouldn't the bombshell have him not being from America?," he said. "Isn't this one more of a non-shell?"

Of course, some people believe the document is a forgery. How can we finally put this matter to rest once and for all?

Senior White House correspondent Jason Jones has a (gross) solution.

"Why can't I taste the blood from his umbilical cord?" Jones asked. "Barack Obama could put this whole thing to rest by just releasing the cord blood. Where's the blood, Jon?"

[Auspicious]

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Dontcha just loooove how he takes it all in his stride?

Like, goodness, how he feints to the left when they lunge at him from the right,

Stepping aside with such grace and with such class, only to come out shinning?
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[Lalakokofefe]

As expected ... LKF


Orly Taitz: Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Should Say 'Negro' Not 'African'
Ryan J. Reilly | April 27, 2011


Orly Taitz


In a development that will surprise no one, it turns out that President Barack Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate hasn't quieted members of the "birther" movement who promote the conspiracy theory that he wasn't born in the United States.

"Look, I applaud this release. I think it's a step in the right direction," so-called "birther queen" Orly Taitz told me in one of her many media interviews this morning. "I credit Donald Trump in pushing this issue."

But she still has her suspicions. Specifically, Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama's race as "Negro" and not "African."

"In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing 'Negro' not 'African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or 'Negro'."

Taitz says she's not giving up her fight. She also claims Obama isn't a "natural born citizen" because she uses a standard that requires both parents to be American citizens -- a misreading of the Constitution which if enforced would have rendered several other American Presidents ineligible.

Obama predicted this type of reaction from Taitz and those he described as "carnival barkers" in his comments to reporters on Wednesday.

"I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest," Obama said. "We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do. We've got big problems to solve. And I'm confident we can solve them, but we're going to have to focus on them -- not on this."

Source

[Auspicious]

As expected ... LKF


Orly Taitz: Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Should Say 'Negro' Not 'African'
Ryan J. Reilly | April 27, 2011

The funny thing is that the girl doesn't even sound half as American as Obama.

You hear her and you wonder where in Dumboslovakia she's from.

Anyway, besides Box 9 on race (Negro/African), they also have issue with Box 15:

The "K" in Kansas, Obama's mom's birth-state, look like from a typewriter that wasn't yet invented.

(Oh yes trust me thats what they said!)

Alright just watch Lawrence O'Donnel go off on the girl, watch and laugh you melons off!


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[First-lady]

As expected ... LKF


Orly Taitz: Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Should Say 'Negro' Not 'African'
Ryan J. Reilly | April 27, 2011


Orly Taitz


In a development that will surprise no one, it turns out that President Barack Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate hasn't quieted members of the "birther" movement who promote the conspiracy theory that he wasn't born in the United States.

"Look, I applaud this release. I think it's a step in the right direction," so-called "birther queen" Orly Taitz told me in one of her many media interviews this morning. "I credit Donald Trump in pushing this issue."

But she still has her suspicions. Specifically, Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama's race as "Negro" and not "African."

"In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing 'Negro' not 'African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or 'Negro'."

Taitz says she's not giving up her fight. She also claims Obama isn't a "natural born citizen" because she uses a standard that requires both parents to be American citizens -- a misreading of the Constitution which if enforced would have rendered several other American Presidents ineligible.

Obama predicted this type of reaction from Taitz and those he described as "carnival barkers" in his comments to reporters on Wednesday.

"I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest," Obama said. "We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do. We've got big problems to solve. And I'm confident we can solve them, but we're going to have to focus on them -- not on this."

Source

The woman sef looks like a very exhausted semi-retired prostitute in Milan
I had to say this
I am "pissed" with these characters who will never go away because they've built their life around this(excuse my French)
Nonsense!!

[Auspicious]

The woman sef looks like a very exhausted semi-retired prostitute in Milan!

LOOOOOL!

I nor wan die insai lafta o!

Nah wah for exhausted Milan prostitute!!!

Plix ehn, 'Lady, don't be "pissed"; just laugh at them all.
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[First-lady]

LOOOOOL!

I nor wan die insai lafta o!

Nah wah for exhausted Milan prostitute!!!

Plix ehn, 'Lady, don't be "pissed"; just laugh at them all.
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LOL
look at her and her bleached salon manufactured blonde hair trying to recapture her lost youth
Is that a normal pose?
holding onto the pillars of her walls for support and attempting to do lovingitis eyes with fake lashes when her game is old.
Put me face to face with this woman and by the time I am done,she will never mention my Obama again


Don't worry bobo mi ,I gat ya back