Birthers are accused in an editorial at
Leader Telegram for having a very
distorted view of Obama's origins. When will people finally just accept the fact that he was born in Hawaii and is a US natural citizen?
Helas, there lies a problem in this anti-Birther view for one sole recent contradiction in the news that I will summarise further down to make it as
clear as possible that we skeptics are NOT lunatics.
First let's quickly see what this editorial said:
The issue: Conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen.
Our view: Such claims have been disproved, and those who tout them are in danger of provoking violent lunacy.
That's quite a strong statement, isn't it? Violent lunacy?
Wow. I didn't know we skeptics were that severe. Thank God there's a mental asylum next door to our hospital here.
Now let's gradually move on to that one lie that would make it difficult to believe any statement about Obama's origins from the government:
The Date of his Birth
The above article states:
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, meaning he will turn 48 on Tuesday.
The Wikipedia article about Obama states the following:
The couple [his parents] married on February 2, 1961,[13] and Barack was born later that year.
The White House website states the following:
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
So at least we are confident that he was born in 1961 according to the mainstream, even if Wikipedia is clueless of the day, and skeptics say he was
born on August 1st.
Now the simply detective question:
Where was he on July 24th, 1969?
Let's find our strong witnesses...
The Guardian states the following:
Guardian: Obama Praises Apollo 11 Crew At White House
Obama, who was a 7-year-old living in Hawaii when the astronauts flew to the moon and back, recalled sitting atop his grandfather's shoulders and
gazing out into the Pacific Ocean as the Apollo command module splashed down roughly 900 miles to the south-west.
His official speech on the
White
House website also quotes Obama as having said:
I should note, just personally, I grew up in Hawaii, as many of you know, and I still recall sitting on my grandfather's shoulders when those
capsules would land in the middle of the Pacific and they'd get brought back and we'd go out and we'd pretend like they could see us as we were
waving at folks coming home. And I remember waving American flags and my grandfather telling me that the Apollo mission was an example of how
Americans can do anything they put their minds to.
It is true that he was 7 years old in July 1969, and was about to turn 8 in August.
Even the
Washington Post states the following:
The president recalled that as a boy living in Hawaii, he would perch on his grandfather's shoulders and watch the space capsules land in the Pacific
Ocean.
So we all agree that he sat on his grandfather's shoulders in Hawaii.
Or do we?
Was he in fact in Hawaii? Did he tell the truth?
Unfortunately he lied, as the above statements were all refuted by
CNN
themselves back in 2007 in the following statement:
Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school,
So who knows the truth better? The skeptics or those who label us as lunatics? If this case were brought to court, the skeptics would win simply by
quoting the government's own newspapers!!
[edit on 4-8-2009 by MightyAl]
[edit on 4-8-2009 by MightyAl]
