ABC Confirms Mitt Romney IS Eligible To Run !!

(HANDOUT, Reuters / May 29, 2012)

Well.  I am,  ….  Well.  ABC.  Well.

Sure, they did misrepresent the issue about as horribly as they could.  They spun it around like a whirly-gig in a nor’easter, confused about every issue included in this article, and made it all twisty and turny so that it ended back up at:

By Matt Negrin
@MattNegrin
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May 30, 2012 12:20pm

Birther Saga Continues:

Turns out Romney gave his “birth certificate” (shown above) to Reuters at his fundraiser.

Reuters posted an image of it along with a full article, (at pink link),   which shows quite clearly that a COPIED and SCANNED birth certificate printed on safety paper presents the word “VOID” along  the margins of the document.    

Recall please, that obama’s “long form birth certificate”, (at pink link),    shows no such disclaimer on it anywhere.  Neither did the VOID disclaimer appear on either of the two “short form” birth certificates that the obama campaign touted as genuine.  But it does appear on this  Hawaiian short form birth certificate:

click to enlarge:

                             

 Sez ABC:

The birth certificate has a visible reminder of a more legitimate “birther” controversy — efforts by Romney’s father to run for president despite being born in Mexico. George Romney was granted American citizenship because his parents were U.S. citizens — but Democrats in Congress preempted his run by questioning his eligibility.

The Congressional Research Service even stepped in, siding with the elder Romney.

This CRS OPINION was of course, non-binding.  It was thoroughly discussed and debunked at the Free Republic blog in March of this year: (at pink link).

ABC goes on:

It’s perhaps a sign of the absurdity of American politics that the modern birther fringe movement has gained so much attention in the media and among right-wing critics of Obama. Before releasing his long-form birth certificate last year in response to Trump’s demands, Obama had made public his own “Certificate of Live Birth,” which birthers claimed wasn’t a real birth certificate.

Uh, ABC, if I could just make one point here…………”Birthers” were right, and what they were asking for was the more complete copy, the “long form birth certificate”.   When obama did release an image on the White House website, it was clear to even NON-birthers that the scanned image was an inferior forgery.

ABC makes it clear, if you know how to navigate the spin, that:

George Romney was granted American citizenship because his parents were U.S. citizens

AND: They leave out that Mitt Romney was born in Michigan, thereby making him a natural born Citizen who was born on US soil to two US citizens.  They (ABC) can’t quite bring themselves to making that link for their readers though.  They avoid doing so by linking to the Reuters article which has the image topping this post.

So, in a round about way, they do confirm Mitt’s eligibility.  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/birther-saga-continues-romney-releases-birth-certificate/#comment-26455241

Frankly I think it’s a sign of the absurdity of the douchbag who wrote the piece to suggest that the “modern birther fringe movement” are “fringe” because they choose to honor the Constitution as it was written, and with the original intent.

Primary evidence of original meaning is how words were used in common discourse and the definitions in contemporaneous dictionaries and legal sources. Circumstantial evidence includes the drafting and ratification conventions, public debates, and so forth.  At the time the Constitution was WRITTEN.

But hey, ABC actually took the time and made the effort to confirm that Mitt’s father, George Romney, was a US CITIZEN prior to Mitt being born in the UNITED STATES. That means Mitt is a natural born Citizen, born to two US citizens on US soil. And ABC actually got that verified? ABC?

ABC has also rooted out the fact that George Romney was HOUNDED off of the campaign trail by the Democrats BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BORN IN THE US! Hilarious as it gets. Especially when you consider that every single obama fan has claimed that NOTHING like this “Birtherism” has EVER HAPPENED TO A WHITE PERSON! Bwahahahahaha!

AZ Secretary Of State Bennett Became Desperate

WND EXCLUSIVE

Sheriff Joe’s posse: ‘Hawaii duped Arizona’

   OR: Oh who in hell didn’t see this coming?

Letter on Obama eligibility ‘doesn’t verify anything of significance’

“Hawaii duped Arizona” in its response to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s request to verify Barack Obama’s eligibility for the 2012 election, charges the lead investigator of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse.

“We have developed incontrovertible proof that the verification provided by the Hawaii Department of Health to Arizona’s secretary of state on May 22 really doesn’t verify anything of significance,” said MikeZullo, who is in Hawaii to follow up on his team’s initial findings concerning Obama’s birth record.

I am having massive trouble with attempting to post this and to copy snips to quote.  So, I will put up one other little pertinent bit of a snip and you can click the link to read the full article.  Spiders are out in full force tonight kittens.

“The Hawaii DOH letter is nothing more than a highly lawyered, cleverly crafted document that we can now prove does not verify what it appears to verify,” he said. “At Sheriff Arpaio’s next press conference we will be able to prove that the Hawaii DOH has actually refused to verify either that Obama was born in Hawaii or that the long-form birth-certificate released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is an authentic document.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/sheriff-joes-posse-hawaii-duped-arizona

Hawaii Sends Verification Letter To Arizona-Images

State of Hawaii Verification of Birth-obama

Yep, here it is.  The above is a screenshot – click to enlarge – for the full size entire document, click the PDF link – http://www.azcentral.com/12news/Obama-Verification.pdf

True, it has no official stamp – but AZ did state they would be satisfied with an email.

Something has caught my eye.  The wording in the first answer (1) is not as strong as one would hope.  The official chose to use the word “indicating”, which is close cousin to “implying”.   Are they claiming this is “probably” what is on file, or is ABSOLUTELY what is on file?

“Indicating?”  Is that the legal and official term for “verifying“?  As in the exact same as: ” A birth certificate is on file with the Dept. of Health verifying that Barack Hussein obama ll blah blah blah.”

Yes, I linked the definitions to the words.  Click ‘em.

Close up crop of Hawaii verification letter for obama

 

Sheriff Joe weighs in:

 

Sheriff “Show Me Something” Sends Zullo To Honolulu

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/hawaii-five-o-sheriff-joe-sends-detectives-to-honolulu

This article popped up last night – I’m guessing that most of you have read part, or all of the following article by now.  I will do excerpts, the full article can be found at the link above.  Following the WND material is a little gift for you.  Make sure that you read all of it, it is very enlightening and will OPEN your eyes to the way that Hawaii operates.  Trust me, you are going to be glad you read it.

From World Net Daily:

Hawaii Five-O: Sheriff Joe sends detectives to

Honolulu

In a major development in his probe of Barack Obama’s eligibility for Arizona’s 2012 presidential ballot, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched his lead Cold Case Posse investigator and a deputy detective to Hawaii.

The mission to Obama’s purported birthplace comes as the Hawaii Department of Health continues to resist efforts by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to verify that the Honolulu agency has a valid birth certificate on file for Obama.

Recall the recent (actually, ongoing) controversy surrounding the Arizona Secretary of State’s request to Hawaii:

“I asked the state of Hawaii for a Verification in lieu of certified copy. We’re merely asking them to officially confirm they have the President’s birth certificate in their possession and are awaiting a response.”-Ken Bennett

Well, the good Secretary of State, Mr. Bennett was dissed.  Like hard core dissed.  Hawaii ignores him for EIGHT long weeks, then SOS Bennett does a little talking on a radio show, and…..bingo…..Hawaii springs into action.  If you want to call insulting the intelligence of the AZ Secretary of State springing into action.

PHOENIX — The state of Hawaii has responded to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s request for proof that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the Aloha State.

The Hawaii attorney general’s office has reportedly told Bennett that there are steps he needs to take in order to confirm President Obama’s birth records.

Those steps include Bennett proving that he legitimately needs confirmation in order to update the records at his office.

Get that – LEGITIMATELY NEEDS.  Anyway, back to Sheriff Joe sending the Cold Case Posse off to Hawaii.

Excerpts:

Zullo’s investigation is a volunteer effort, but the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has sent him to Hawaii with an MCSO deputy detective for safety reasons and to act as a liaison between MCSO and local law enforcement.

WND reporter Jerome Corsi is embedded with the investigators in Hawaii with the provision that reporting during the trip be curtailed to protect the investigation.

Arpaio told WND Friday that the Hawaii Department of Health’s refusal to confirm to Bennett that it has a valid Obama birth certificate on file makes it look like Hawaii officials “are hiding something.”

AND

Zullo told WND Friday that Hawaii’s refusal to comply “is just another outright, glaring display of stonewalling that the Sheriff’s Office has encountered since Day One conducting this investigation.”

Zullo said “common sense at this point should be everyone’s guide.”

“If this was a non-issue, it wouldn’t be going on eight weeks waiting for the state of Hawaii to verify anything,” he said.

AND

Zullo told WND that Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office investigators have spoken at length with Bennett regarding the president’s birth record. Zullo said his team spoke with Bennett as recently as last week.

“We are in the beginning stages of enlightening him to critical information that the sheriff has acquired during this investigation,” Zullo said.

The balance of the article is largely rehashing the work the Cold Case Posse has already released.

There is something more that corresponds with all of this.  As I mentioned above, this is some good stuff:

 Here is the exchange between SOS Bennett and Hawaii, obtained by Talking Points Memo:

On Monday, TPM filed a public records request for the correspondence between the Hawaii government and the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. The results show Bennett and his staff grew ever more impatient with the slow pace of Hawaii’s response before the secretary finally took to a local conservative radio talk show on Thursday to voice his concerns.

“Hello Jill. I just left you a brief voice mail message,” Arizona Deputy Secretary of State Jim Drake wrote in an email to a Hawaii attorney on May 1. “I am wondering whether you can give me a ballpark timeframe on our request. As you know, the closer we get to November, the more my phone rings. I believe that having Hawaii’s response on hand might help to quell the inquiries!”

Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine’s response? “We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification.”

MORE ON THE CORRESPONDENCE, Source is TPM, Full article is at pink link:

Here now is the correspondence chain, starting with an email from Nagamine, the Hawaii deputy attorney general, which apparently followed a phone conversation between her and Bennett. The secretary’s first written request comes after that. Also included at the end are two emails Bennett sent to birthers who had been heckling him about the fact that Obama was still on track to be on Arizona’s ballot. TPM has edited out things like home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.

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From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:15 PM
To: Bennett, Ken
Subject: Link to Hawaii laws and the Department of Health webpage

Hi Ken—

So sorry I’ve taken so long to get back to you. I may take a few more days to get your final response about what we can verify and how we will do so. I have been tied up with some legislative deadlines that take precedence. To start with, here are the links that I mentioned to you.

The first link is to the Department of Health’s website that was created in response to the high volume of inquiries about the President’s birth certificate. It includes the press releases issued by the former Republican-appointed Director of Health.
http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/obama.html

The second is to section 338-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which governs the confidentiality of vital records. Let me direct you to paragraph (g) which relates to verification of records.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm

Another link is to section 338-14.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which pertains to verification.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0014_0003.htm

The last link is to all of chapter 338, Hawaii Revised Statutes, Hawaii’s vital statistics law.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/

Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii

—

March 30, 2012

Hawaii Department of Health
Office of Health Status Monitoring
Vital Records Issuance Section
P.O. Box 3378
Honolulu, HI 96801

Ladies and gentlemen:

Enclosed please find a request for a verification in lieu of a certified copy for the birth record of Barack Hussein Obama II. In addition to the items to be verified in the attached form, please verify the following items from the record of birth:

Department of Health File #151 61 10641
Time of birth: 7:24 p.m.
Name of hospital: Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital
Age of father: 25
Birthplace of Father: Kenya, East Africa
Age of mother: 18
Birthplace of mother: Wichita, Kansas
Date of signature of parent: 8-7-1961
Date of signature of attendant: 8-8-1961
Date accepted by local registrar: August-8 1961

Additionally, please verify that the attached copy of the Certificate of Live Birth for Mr. Obama is a true and accurate representation of the original record in your files.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

Ken Bennett
Arizona Secretary of State

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From: Bennett, Ken
To: Jill T. Nagamine
Date: 04/16/2012 01:48 PM
Subject: RE: Link to Hawaii laws and the Department of Health webpage

Dear Jill,

Thank you for speaking with me several weeks ago and providing the helpful links below. I sent a request for a verification in lieu of a certified copy of President Obama’s birth record to the Dept. of Health on March 30th. I was just wondering if you knew whether the request was received and how long it usually takes to process? Thanx.

Ken Bennett
Arizona Secretary of State

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From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:39 PM
To: Bennett, Ken
Subject: RE: Link to Hawaii laws and the Department of Health webpage

Ken—

Thank you for this heads up. This is the first I heard of it. I will check with my client to see if they received your request.

Jill

Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii

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To: Jill T. Nagamine
From: Drake, Jim
Date: 05/01/2012 11:52AM
Subject: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office

Hello Jill. I just left you a brief voice mail message. I am wondering whether you can give me a ballpark timeframe on our request. As you know, the closer we get to November, the more my phone rings. I believe that having Hawaii’s response on hand might help to quell the inquiries! Thanks in advance. Jim

Jim Drake
Deputy Secretary of State

—

From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 5:11 PM
To: Drake, Jim; Bennett, Ken
Subject: Re: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office

Dear Mr. Bennett and Mr. Drake—

My apologies for not responding immediately. I have recently been away from my office a great deal, including today. My client, the Department of Health, has forwarded your request for verification of President Obama’s birth record to me. We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification. Hawaii Revised Statutes, section 338-18(g), provides:

(g) The department shall not issue a verification in lieu of a certified copy of any such record, or any part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant requesting a verification is:

(1) A person who has a direct and tangible interest in the record but requests a verification in lieu of a certified copy;
(2) A governmental agency or organization who for a legitimate government purpose maintains and needs to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities;
(3) A governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks confirmation of a certified copy of any such record submitted in support of or information provided about a vital event relating to any such record and contained in an official application made in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities by an individual seeking employment with, entrance to, or the services or products of the agency or organization;
(4) A private or government attorney who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record which was acquired during the course of or for purposes of legal proceedings; or
(5) An individual employed, endorsed, or sponsored by a governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record in preparation of reports or publications by the agency or organization for research or educational purposes.

As the Secretary and I initially discussed, it appears that you might be eligible for verification of the record based on subparagraph (2), but we need to see what your authority is “to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of your activities.” Will you send me a copy of your law that allows this, and will you send me information that shows:

(1) What list are you updating?
(2) Is it your normal procedure to update all entries on your list by requiring birth data verification?
(3) Are you requiring birth data verification of all entries on your list, rather than just targeting one name on your list? (please provide evidence that you are doing so)

You may address your response directly to me, and I will relay it to my client.

Thank you,
Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii

—

From: Bennett, Ken
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:12 PM
To: Jill T. Nagamine; Drake, Jim
Subject: RE: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office

Dear Ms. Nagamine:

As the chief elections officer for the State of Arizona and pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes, sections 16-212, 16-301, 16-502, 16-507 and others, my office is tasked with quadrennially compiling a list of candidates for the Office of the President of the United States. This list is then officially “certified” by my office and transmitted to the fifteen counties for creation of the official ballots. The list is generated in the “ordinary course” of my office’s activities (every four years) and it is certainly made for a “legitimate government purpose” (elections).

Based on the above representation, I believe that my office has strictly and expressly complied with all of the elements found in Hawaii Revised Statutes, section 338-18(g).

I understand your client’s initial trepidation in responding to this request given the significant amount of email, fax and phone call traffic that this issue has spawned. My office too has received numerous constituent requests and I agree with Director Fuddy’s assertion in her letter of April 25, 2011 that the sheer volume of inquires has “been disruptive to staff operations and have strained State resources.” However, I am concerned that a rejection of a request by another State’s chief elections official will dramatically exacerbate an already untenable situation.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Ken Bennett
Secretary of State

—

From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:38 PM
To: Bennett, Ken
Subject: RE: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office

Dear Mr. Bennett:

I am in receipt of your email dated May 17, 2012. As I have informed you and Mr. Drake, Hawaii law requires that for verification of a vital record the requestor must satisfy the requirements of section 338-18(g), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which provides:

(g) The department shall not issue a verification in lieu of a certified copy of any such record, or any part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant requesting a verification is:
(1) A person who has a direct and tangible interest in the record but requests a verification in lieu of a certified copy;
(2) A governmental agency or organization who for a legitimate government purpose maintains and needs to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities;
(3) A governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks confirmation of a certified copy of any such record submitted in support of or information provided about a vital event relating to any such record and contained in an official application made in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities by an individual seeking employment with, entrance to, or the services or products of the agency or organization;
(4) A private or government attorney who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record which was acquired during the course of or for purposes of legal proceedings; or
(5) An individual employed, endorsed, or sponsored by a governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record in preparation of reports or publications by the agency or organization for research or educational purposes.

I asked you for legal authority that establishes your right to obtain verification, and your email of May 17, 2012 provides me with references to Arizona Revised Statutes 16-212, 16-301, 16-502, 16-507, and unnamed others. These statutes seem to deal with election of presidential electors, nomination of candidates for printing on official ballot of general or special election, form and contents of ballot, and presentation of presidential candidates on ballot, but none, as far as I can tell, establish the authority of the Secretary of State to maintain and update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of his activities. I researched other sections of the Arizona Revised Statutes and was unable to find the necessary authority.

If I have missed something, please let me know. My client stands willing to provide you with the verification you seek as soon as you are able to show that you are entitled to it.

Thank you,
Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ken_bennett_birther_hawaii_arizona_emails.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Arizona Officially Requests Hawaii End Eligibility Dispute

BREAKING !!

DRUDGE HEADLINE:

OBAMA LIT AGENT SHOCKER:

'BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED

IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII'

LINK TO THE ORIGINAL BREITBART ARTICLE:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

BUT WAIT THERE”S MORE !!!  This NEWER article goes with that first bombshell:

screenshot, click to enlarge, balance of article at pink link:

Breitbart article excerpt

A state official in Arizona, Secretary of State Ken Bennett has asked Hawaii for verification of the information on Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

I believe we all know where this is headed.  Hawaii officials, either from the Department of Health, or the Governors office, will release a vague statement verifying the  “birth records on file” for President obama.  But they will stop short of claiming that the information entered/displayed on the April 27, 2011, officially released  by-the-White-House “long form” birth certificate, is spot on exactly correct and 100% factual.

Well hold up, I may be wrong on that.  I believe Governor Abercrombie would trip over himself lying in order to curry favor.  He has already done so with his ludicrous claims that he had seen little baby Chicago Jesus being shown off by a beaming Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama Sr. at all the cool hangout spots in Honolulu.  But it turns out obama’s mother was in the state of Washington within two weeks of being released from hospital, and it’s been proven that the two obama parents never once shared a residence.  Add to those simple facts, there is not one single other person on the face of this earth who has made such a wild claim, and you know that Abercrombie is simply making shit up.  He does have a long connection to obama’s family though. 

I suspect that the Arizona SOS will get something “official” in the way of the requested verification, and he will decide that it’s sufficient.

I suspect that it will be more of the same thin nonsense we have been insulted with to date.  My desire would be for Secretary of State Bennett to require HI to allow Sheriff Joe, along with a professional document expert to visually inspect the original paper copy bound in the original book.  Microfilms can be EASILY forged, so frankly I would be suspect of anything contained on microfilm.

Without further ado, here is what Arizona is asking Hawaii to do:

via World Net Daily; http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/arizona-official-to-hawaii-show-birth-verification

Secretary of State Ken Bennett had promised to ask Hawaii officials for verification of Obama’s documentation, vowing that if answers are not forthcoming, Obama’s name will not be on the ballot.

The assurance came in an email to various constituents in Arizona who had contacted Bennett’s office expressing concern that the name of an ineligible candidate would be presented to voters in November.

“Because of the importance and profile of the president’s case, and at the request of many constituents, I have gone the extra step of asking the state of Hawaii to verify the facts contained in his birth certificate,” Bennett wrote in response to concerns last month. “Hawaii is bound by their own statutes to provide such verifications to other state officials in their official duties.

“With all due respect, the [Arpaio] investigation has not proven anything other than raised probable cause that the birth certificate posted on the White House website ‘may be’ a forgery. The next lawful step would be for the sheriff’s office to turn their findings over to the county attorney for prosecution,” he continued. “Evidence would be brought on both sides and a judge should issue a decision.

“Whether or not that happens, if Hawaii can’t or won’t provide verification of the president’s birth certificate, I will not put his name on the ballot,” he wrote.

If SOS Bennett is unwilling to make very specific requests, like……….say……….”Hey Hawaii, will you state unequivocally that the official Certificate Of Live Birth File Number, 151 61 10641, which appears on the birth certificate released by the White House, was absolutely assigned to Barack Hussein Obama ll, on August 8, 1961 – and was never assigned to any other person, living or deceased, prior to being entered on Barack Hussein Obama ll’s original Certificate Of Live Birth?”, then we know he’s just trying to get the TEA party off of his back with the appearance of caring about such things. You know, the Constitution and the rule of law………those things.   

I’d LOVE to see such a request.  Several such requests which leave little room for ambiguity should be made of the Hawaiian “officials”.  Pronto dammit.  However, he sets the stage for accepting whatever assurances Hawaii chooses to provide:

“I can tell from the tone and language of your letters that the only acceptable outcome for you is that his name not be on the ballot, period. That may be what happens, but under my watch, it won’t happen based on opinions, petitions, probability or pledges to support or oppose me in the 2014 governor’s race. My oath of office is to uphold the Constitution and laws of our state and country, and I’m going to do that by following the law,” he said.

“I can tell from the tone and language of your letters that the only acceptable outcome for you is that his name not be on the ballot, period.”

Uh huh.  To be followed up with, “Hey, I tried!  Hawaii says it’s fine, so I accept their official answer.  I warned you people that you might not like the outcome.”

#ObamaInHistory (guilty pleasure)

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While I do not twitter, I do occasionally find TREMENDOUS amusement in reading the “latest” tweets on certain topics.

Today’s being the obama self-inclusion, or more correctly, usurpation, of the most notable accomplishments of PAST Presidents.   Yes, it turns out Obama has added bullet points, bragging about his own accomplishments, to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin-fricken-Coolidge (excluding Gerald Ford).

Gems are abundant:

screenshot – click to enlarge -  to read the twitter thread click the pink link above

The Daily Caller has a piece detailing some of the “enhanced” Presidential biographies :

http://dailycaller.com/dc-trawler

Yep. This is a real thing that they really did. Here are just a few examples from the presidential biographies at WhiteHouse.gov (emphasis mine). Calvin Coolidge:

On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.

FDR:

On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.

JFK:

President John F. Kennedy famously suggested the American people: “Ask what you can do for your country.” In 1961, the Peace Corps was created, facilitating service among citizens working toward peace in developing countries. In 2011, President Obama celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with a Presidential Proclamation.

Reagan:

President Reagan designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday; today the Obama Administration honors this tradition, with the First and Second Families participating in service projects on this day.

In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.

Even the guy who calls Obama an “amateur” was just one of his opening acts:

Continuing his work as a lifelong public service, Clinton created the Clinton Foundation in 2001 to improve global health, education, economies and environments. Affectionately calling him “Do-Gooder-in-Chief”, President Obama has worked with Clinton to make buildings in our country more efficient—announcing a $4 billion investment in energy efficiency upgrades for commercial buildings.

All of American history was just prologue. How can any future president ever live up to Obama’s example?

So now, of course, #ObamaInHistory is trending on Twitter. Here’s some of the fun, courtesy of Twitchy:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/dc-trawler/#ixzz1uzcQx03A

Obama Wonders, “Am I An American?”

Funny, we’ve all been wondering that for years.

We, the little people, have been gratified to receive the gift of two new books recently written about the “history” of our New Master, the American King.  In these books we are treated to revelations about the life, loves, ponderings and the obama family paternal parental perfections.

This newest, written by David Maraniss, will be released in about a month.  We were encouraged to read lovely excerpts though, which reveal a portrait of obama carefully obscured from the American people during the 2008 campaign.

Today I came across the following Washington Examiner article, in reading it I was privileged to learn even more about our first American King.  Interesting and thought provoking revelations they were.  For in this new biography-style book we learn that:

snip

The son of a Kenyan father and an American expatriate mother, Obama emerges as a man questioning whether he viewed himself, or wanted to be viewed by others, as an American. Not in a citizenship sense — Obama was born in the United States and that was that — but in the sense of how he saw the world and wanted to be seen by it.

Obama had a lot of Pakistani friends; Maraniss writes that if Obama and his girlfriend socialized as a couple, “it was almost always with the Pakistanis.” Obama appeared to identify with his friends as fellow non-Americans. “For years when Barack was around them, he seemed to share their attitudes as sophisticated outsiders who looked at politics from an international perspective,” Maraniss writes. “He was one of them, in that sense.”

Fundamentally considered himself an outsider – and a sophisticated one at that!  Still does dude. 

I can’t help but notice a similarity here – didn’t obama’s mater and pater only socialize as a couple around a very few select people?  Isn’t that why Hawaiian Gov. Abercrombie is the ONLY person in the world who recalls hanging out with the young married couple, because he was one of the few in that select small group of very special beings?  It’s the same story when he recalls seeing Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann showing off little baby Chicago Jesus.  Gov. Abercrombie is the solitary human who has any memory of such a thing.

Ditto situation with this COMPOSITE compressed girlfriend of obama’s youth- only the Paki friends got to witness the sexual warmth between the two of them.

Wait, there’s more:

But Obama was ambitious. Appalled by the “dirty deeds” of “Reagan and his minions” (as he wrote in “Dreams from My Father”), Obama became increasingly interested in, as Maraniss writes, “gaining power in order to change things.” He couldn’t do that as an international guy hanging around with his Pakistani friends; he needed to become an American.

So he did. One of those Pakistani friends, Beenu Mahmood, saw a major change in Obama. Mahmood calls Obama “the most deliberate person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity,” according to Maraniss. The time after college, Mahmood says, “was an important period for him, first the shift from not international but American, number one, and then not white, but black.”

Mahmood, Maraniss writes, “could see Obama slowly but carefully distancing himself as a necessary step in establishing his political identity as an American.”

read the full article at The Washington Examiner, http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/new-biography-obama-asks-am-i-american/526196

“Needed to BECOME American”.  And, “carefully distancing himself as a necessary step in establishing his political identity as an American.”

Thank you Mr. Maraniss, for validating what millions upon millions of good, truly patriotic Americans have instinctively been certain of since obama was delivered to us.  He needed to deceive American citizens in order to achieve his goal, his version of an America, so very different than Ronald Regan’s.

And as we are certain to observe in this 2012 election, you can deceive some of txe fools all of the time.

Will these revelations make any difference to the followers of obama?  I think not.  obama represents something altogether “different” to his followers.  Yes, I meant something rather than someone.  I’ll try and sum it up by quoting a comment I read some days ago:

They are generally ‘anti-authority figure’, yet like the idea of the government giving them everything.

This is because, to them, ‘Authority figures’ are teachers and parents and even priests/ministers/rabbis. And Authority figure tells you what you can’t do “don’t do this, don’t do that,” and when they tell you what to do it is inevitably boring.

The Obama government, on the other hand, is much like the Two Shady Characters in Pinocchio: promising a life free from care, a life of perpetual childhood-

while, in reality, changing you from someone who can think for, and rely upon, themselves into someone who relies on others for all their subsistence, and is a slave.

emphasis mine