Gilligan:
- I hope that conservative Republicans can stop obsessing over this useless issue and start doing something useful to get Republicans elected to Congress in 2010.
Gilligan, I’m curious: other than the relative few individuals who’ve filed lawsuits, who do you think is “obsessing” over this issue? The GOP has no part in pursuing it (as noted above). Neither has the President. Neither has John McCain. The Conservative movement in general – actively addressing the failures of the GOP and thinking about ways to correct them – isn’t pursuing it. What resources are being dedicated to this issue – other than Obama’s army of attorneys and a few web pages at WND and elsewhere – that ought to be applied differently, in your view?
The fact is that Moran’s self-serving article is making a much bigger deal out of this – at least in terms of who’s actually pursuing it – than it really is. Based on the misrepresentation of facts and logic in his article and comment, one is led to believe that he’s written it just so he can be one of the first right-of-center bloggers to sing the “Obama Derangement Syndrome” song – certainly a feather in the cap of any wannabe MSM hack.
What I personally find offensive is Moran’s use of this public soapbox to float a vile assertion that a person is a “loon” and a “tin foil hatter” if they don’t accept what he deems to be “incontrovertible evidence” and/or don’t agree with his faulty rationalizations based on irrelevant claims made by unelected bureaucrats. According to Moran, those who don’t agree with his position suffer from derangement. Psychological projection at its finest.
The cause of Moran’s sad failure to emulate Charles Krauthammer is simple. BDS was – and still is – an observable phenomenon, even though the good Doctor K. was being somewhat less than half serious when he originally wrote about it. It is a destructive phenomenon which has caused a measurable degradation of our country’s ability to function politically, exhibited by those who fantasize that George W. Bush is the cause of all that’s “wrong” with America.
But what Moran has chosen to label “ODS” – in this case, at least – involves nothing more than making a simple observation about known facts: there are questions surrounding the circumstances of BHO’s birth and citizenship, and BHO has never publicly released objectively verifiable proof of his eligibility to serve in the Office of the POTUS. In fact, BHO has gone to virtually herculean lengths to avoid making that documentation public, and seems to expect the application of a double standard as compared to John McCain’s actions in this regard. Moran’s insulting “diagnosis” fails simply because it’s not deranged to observe and comment on known facts, much less to expect that they be resolved Constitutionally.
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NoYouCan’t:
- Why should Obama show his certificate …
Because Article II of the U.S. Constitution requires that the Office of the President be filled by a natural born citizen of the U.S. To date, BHO has never publicly released any objectively verifiable proof that he qualifies. The same question was put to McCain and he responded immediately with the same documentation that BHO is hiding.
- Nothing will convince them that he is an American citizen.
That’s your uninformed opinion. And you meant to write “natural born citizen”, since that’s the point in question.
- If he shows his certificate they will not beleive it.
Again, that’s your uninformed opinion.
- It’s on the internet for all to see, …
No, it’s not. The original copy of his Certificate of Live Birth (aka COLB) has been sealed by the Governor of Hawaii for undisclosed reasons. The digital image you’re referring to is not the original COLB and not a facsimile of the COLB. It is very likely a forgery. If it’s not, no one has as yet explained its inconsistencies.
- It’s sufficient for Obama to prove it to the government organizations that he has dealings with.
Even if that statement were true, there’s no evidence that he’s done that.
- If Obama wasn’t a citizen then the FBI and every security service in America would have revealed this.
Based on what? Your intuition? Get out more. Look up Earl Pitts, Richard Miller and Robert Hanssen. All of them perpetrated frauds on U.S. security services for years or decades – without the overwhelming assistance of the entrenched media – before they were discovered.
- The ‘evidence’ is there to show and prove he is an American citizen.
Is there some dispute over whether or not he’s an American citizen? The question is whether or not he’s a natural born citizen, which is different. That you keep getting this wrong indicates that you don’t understand the controlling Constitutional law.
- If these nutters are so sure he isn’t then can they please bring a birth certificate from either Kenya, …
No one is sure of anything. And that’s precisely because BHO refuses to do the one thing that will end this controversy immediately: simply release the sealed COLB. Assuming the COLB doesn’t disqualify him, there is no conceivable reason for him not to do this. It’s a Constitutional requirement. What part of that do you not understand?
- Can they please furnish any evidence that Obama was born somewhere else? No they can’t yet they use ‘No evidence’ to try to prove their case.
You don’t understand the process here. BHO needs to provide proof that he’s qualified, i.e., a natural born citizen. The burden of proof is on him, not those who simply point out that he’s never provided that proof.
- I feel sorry for sane Republicans who are feeling ashamed that there are people in the Republican party who are blinded by hatred.
Of course you do dear. Even though you fail to realize that it isn’t necessary to ‘hate’ in order to demand that BHO be held to the same standard as John McCain.
- I’m just waiting for someone to say Obama is really Elvis in diguise.
Too late for that. He’s already been declared The One, by The O.
