Those behind the Obama Birth Cert conspiracy

Have a look at this

Obama Birth Announcement

From the Honolulu Advertiser from August 13th 1961 - about 8 lines up from the bottom of the page on the left hand side.

Make of it what you will.

Originally posted by Marcus Calpurnius

You're the one attempting to deflect from the issue, by Ycoming in to a conspiracy thread, on a conspiracy forum and wringing your hands that people would dare discuss this. Even though the forum you moderate has several special sections for blaming ridiculous # on Bush and Republicans.

You're allowed to have an opinion, but lets not be dishonest here. This forum THRIVES on Bush/Republican conspiracies and now that its starting to focus on a black democrat named Obama, you suddenly have a problem with it. I'd also like to add that many of us predicted such a response here at ATS.

You might be suprised to know that, having read thread upon thread upon thread about Bush, and how he was this/that (and I do have my own beliefs on some of those things), I was heartily sick of them after a while. Especially the "martial law" ones, which had no basis in reality or common sense - as if the entire US military was going to roll over and let one man call all the shots while rounding up regular citizens in the US? (Laughable, IMHO)

You seem to think you're fighting the board and staff here, and you aren't.

The topics on ATS are member authored and member led. Some of the staff may agree with what some members post, and some of them may not. The forum rolls with the times and there will be as many Obama conspiracies as Bush ones - especially if he serves two terms.

Now by providing my opinion on the issue, I'm not deflecting away from it at all. I'm discussing it. Not only that but I'm discussing it as a neutral party who had no say in the election whatsoever and is looking in from several thousand miles away.

The fact that you choose not to attack the points I raised, and choose to attack me in your reply says volumes about your thought process here. I laid out some fairly good arguments in my post and yet you chose to attack the person, and not the post.

That says to me that you can't counter them, and instead decided to try and discredit the poster, in the same manner as you are trying to further propogate the "smear" against Obama.

Not going to work.

My point stands. Too many people have too much money, too much reputation and too much time to have invested in Obama's campaign without being absolutely damn sure that he's A-OK to be eligible for the Whitehouse.

There will have been highly paid investigative professionals that make the smear jockeys in the blogosphere look like kindergarten posters ripping through the mans background looking for every single opportunity to find something on the guy to subtlely expose and leak to discredit him. They haven't.

From day one of his campaign, the blogosphere has been saying that this or that will be released about Obama, from the supposed Limbaugh tape through to the "proof" that he wasn't born as a US citizen. Guess what - none of its been proven and most of it was conjectural smearing with no basis in reality.

Which is why I say this issue is old and lame, and getting older and lamer by the day. The horse was dead, and still it was flogged. It was ressurected, died and flogged some more. It was raised supernaturally as a zombie, shot in the head and flogged, and now people have dug up the bones and are flogging each individual one, one at a time.

I'm all for conspiracies, but baseless smears.... nah. This is ATS, not the Youtube comment section.