Comments on: Obama is an American. No, really. Update: Shocker – Berg a truther?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Shocker: Berg lawsuit denied by Supreme Court

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Shocker: Berg lawsuit denied by Supreme Court — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:01 +0000

[...] Really? And here I thought that was the one involving the eye on the back of the one-dollar bill. Or perhaps the “culture of corruption” argument the Democrats used in 2006 to pretend that all corruption was Republican while one of their Congressmen hid $90,000 of kickback cash in his freezer. Or the JFK assassination conspiracy theories. Or, for that matter, Berg’s own 9/11 Trutherism. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Birther lawsuit tossed by Kennedy

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Birther lawsuit tossed by Kennedy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:30:34 +0000

[...] Obama’s eligibility for the Presidency. One of the two appeals came from Philip Berg, the 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that Obama was born in Kenya and that a conspiracy existed to cover up the alleged [...]

By: Obama Citizenship - - Who Decides, and When? | American Sentinel

Obama Citizenship - - Who Decides, and When? | American Sentinel — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:50:56 +0000

[...] prevail. The evidence includes not only his Hawaiian birth certificate, but the contemporaneous newspaper announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser. [For a different viewpoint, see American Thinker, Why The Barack [...]

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:05:44 +0000

Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging…

The conservative blogosphere deserves to win a collective Pulitzer Prize for its election-year coverage….

By: Politico: Ben Smith: Viral emails come to life « Stop Dog Whistle Racism!

Politico: Ben Smith: Viral emails come to life « Stop Dog Whistle Racism! — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:53:35 +0000

[...] rabbit holes (the “serious issue” of Obama’s citizenship , which hails from the people who brought you “9/11 Truth,” made it all the way toNational Review the other day) [...]

By: pdigaudio

pdigaudio — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:58:45 +0000

All I care about is the fact that Barack Hussein Obama is a socialist intent on destroying America.

The fact that Philip Berg is a 9/11 Troofer moonbat destroys his credibility on anything in my view. If Berg told me the sky was blue and the grass was green, I’d have to go see for myself.

By: After Hours Friends » Blog Archive » The Smoke Screen Surrounding Barack Obama

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:41:12 +0000

[...] I have taken this issue up here three times before ( The Cheney and Obama Lawsuits, Obama Is a U.S. Citizen & Obama Admits He’s Not U.S. Citizen ). In Obama Is a U.S. Citizen I included a link to an article at Hotair.com which displays a photo of Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser in 1961 ( Obama Is a U.S. Citizen. No, Really ). [...]

By: Obama, American at Impolite Company

Obama, American at Impolite Company — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:08:57 +0000

[...] If you have any doubts, please read “Obama is an American. No, really.” [...]

By: Barack Obama is a US citizen

Barack Obama is a US citizen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:15:58 +0000

[...] does Ed Morissey one of the leading conservative bloggers think of this? Ed writes- I really thought we’d put this conspiracy theory to rest over the summer, but it has arisen like [...]

By: Wizbang

Wizbang — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:13:15 +0000

Barack Obama is eligible to be President of the United States…

Lets put this silly hoax to rest. It flared up again this week because of a video. What does Ed Morissey one of the leading conservative bloggers think of this?……

By: bigtallgoo

bigtallgoo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:50 +0000

To me the bigger picture is who officially verifies whether the presidential candidate is a natural-born citizen? I hope it is not the party! To date we have seen a scanned copy that Atlas Shrugged has raised some questions about and then a photo that Fact Checkers says is valid but others disagree. If the presidential candidate declares he was born in a state then why doesn’t that state openly verify they have a valid birth certificate on record.

By: SarahW

SarahW — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:54:05 +0000

Again, birth announcements are made where there are persons who might be interested in the announcement. Families for example, might announce the birth children in New York, even if the children were born when the parents were traveling or residing in another state or country. Just because Madison Hunter Byrd Ukrop (aka Mun Bun) was born in Paris, doesn’t mean the news is of no interest to the folks at home.

It would be natural for the birth to be announced upon O’s mommies return to the states, even if her child were born abroad.

It simply means that the mother and father had ties in the community where the announcement was made, and does not indicate birth in Hawaii.

I would love for the announcement to have said “Lately, at Honolulu Johnson kettering Hospital, a son to ….blah. blah blah, but it does not.

And O’s parents and grandparents had significant enought ties in the community where the announcement was place to justify it’s appearance, even if it was only done upon the news of birth, or the mother’s return to the States shortly after the birth.

By: Pelayo

Pelayo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:51:04 +0000

Why can’t we get just ONE other COLB that shows “AFRICAN” as a race, (from 1961); or even ten other copies to compare….this isn’t rocket surgery!

A real birth certificate in 1961 probably had “Negro” listed as the race for an African. Even if it was Hawaii, but it was 1961.

BTW, my car title has more information than that cert I saw on Fightthesmears.

By: Pelayo

Pelayo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:38:33 +0000

Another commenter or two and I have posted previous examples of births (ours) being announced in newspapers in other cities. The Social Security people told my mother that a newspaper announcement was not sufficient, even if she could find one. (She was born in 1912, before Tennessee issued birth certificates.) I also contacted one of my genealogist friends and was told that a newspaper announcement is just another piece of evidence, and without the child’s name in the announcement, it is damn near useless for any evidence of lineage. In other words, if 100 years from now someone wants to prove that they are a descendant of Barack Obama Sr. from Kenya, that newspaper annoncement alone is useless.

So, we have an interesting tid bit of information, but it proves nothing.

People doing genealogical research have to rely on several pieces of information because a birth certificate is a realtively new innovation. I have a copy of my father’s cert, he was born in 1913.

By: SarahW

SarahW — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:20:12 +0000

Hold the phone there, my rational friend.

I am no proponent of Berg kookery, but that birth announcement does not declare O was born in Hawaii. In case you were unfamiliar with the practice, birth announcments are often made in the “home county” of parents or a parent, even when the babe is born abroad.

Berg specifically points out, to his credit and despite his debits, that Obama’s mother registered his birth in Hawaii. You understand that this can occur despite a child having been born abroad. His notion of events that allows for Birth in Kenya, is that she departed and returned to Hawaii for this purpose.

The birth announcement did not indicate birth in Hawaii at all.

So stop saying this announcement is inconsistent with Berg, and contary to birth abroad.

It is really not dispositive. I wish it were.

By: Right Wing News: Barack Obama Is An American Citizen « Stop Dog Whistle Racism!

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:51:27 +0000

[...] already been satisfied on that count for a while now, if you’re not, I think this post from Hot Air should do the trick for you even if nothing else has, Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a [...]

By: JannyMae

JannyMae — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:33:12 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a contemporaneous corroboration of Obama’s Hawaii birth? As it happens, we do — provided by another PUMA who wanted to find ways to disqualify Obama. Lori Starfelt found this in the archives of the Honolulu Advertiser in a print copy from August 1961:

And we also have Obama’s grandmother on record now claiming that he was born in Kenya.

All Obama has to do to quell this controversy is produce his original birth document. Why won’t he? What is he hiding?

By: petit bourgeois

petit bourgeois — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:57 +0000

Man up.

BemusedMalkinite on October 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM

You can’t be a man when you have no testicles or a conscience, and when you have to leave California for Minnesota because you are not man enough to stand your ground either, it displays the sissy within.

The party hacks on this site are one of the biggest contributing factors to losing this election. They would rather eat their own than to support a conservative.

Thanks for losing this election for us, HotAir. You can blame the media all you want, but you are just as culpable.

By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » You Know Things Are Not Going Well for the Right …

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:29:07 +0000

[...] when rightwing blogs have to start defending Obama over scurrilous rumors. The once well-oiled rightwing machine has collapsed into the kind of [...]

By: jellybelly

jellybelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:58:03 +0000

Mr.Seanrobins says “{This case will be dumped in about 5 more minutes…show’s over. The defense counsel will file a Motion to Dismiss, attaching the COLB; the Court will convert the motion into one for summary judgment; Berg will huff and puff and produce no evidence in opposition to the COLB, and it willgo down the drain.”

If thats the way it is then that’s the way it goes.I will
just wait and see what happens.

By: seanrobins

seanrobins — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:46:05 +0000

I am not a lawyer. I read Mr. Berg’s postings of legal court
documents where he makes a case about Mr. Obama’s birth and citizenship. It seems to me that it does not matter if
Mr.Berg wears a tinfoil hat or not, this is a case in a federal court and it will go forward until Berg withdraws or the court rules against him. If Mr. Obama’s lawyers want to argue against this,then let them produce evidence that the suit is without merit.

I’ve said this before….. Can’t we all please stop acting as idiotic as Berg and other Truthers.

This case will be dumped in about 5 more minutes…show’s over. The defense counsel will file a Motion to Dismiss, attaching the COLB; the Court will convert the motion into one for summary judgment; Berg will huff and puff and produce no evidence in opposition to the COLB, and it willgo down the drain.

By: Elizabetty

Elizabetty — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:42:33 +0000

The newspaper clipping gives the legal address of his parents, not his place of birth.

By: seanrobins

seanrobins — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:42:10 +0000

That Berg is a kook, is certainly no secret here in Philadelphia.

By: jellybelly

jellybelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:56:34 +0000

I am not a lawyer. I read Mr. Berg’s postings of legal court
documents where he makes a case about Mr. Obama’s birth and citizenship. It seems to me that it does not matter if
Mr.Berg wears a tinfoil hat or not, this is a case in a federal court and it will go forward until Berg withdraws or the court rules against him. If Mr. Obama’s lawyers want to argue against this,then let them produce evidence that the suit is without merit. Their delaying tactics only help give
merit to Mr. Berg’s case and gives the appearance that Mr. Obama has something to hide. This is not going to go away and the longer it is put off the bigger the mess it will be.

By: After Hours Friends » Blog Archive » Obama Is A U.S. Citizen

After Hours Friends » Blog Archive » Obama Is A U.S. Citizen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:45:56 +0000

[...] Why doesn’t Obama show his true birth certificate? Are you a U.S. Citizen? Have you tried to get your birth certificate lately? All they give you is a Certified Copy of it. You can’t get a copy of the actual certificate anymore. (See update in this article at HotAir.com). [...]