Barack Obama
Is He or Is He Not?
How March 1st Could Crumble Obama's Presidency
by I.M. Citizen
(conservative)
Friday, February 24, 2012
It has been a raging controversy for some four years, a very long time in this 24/7 news-cycle world. It has included software experts, politicians, private investigators, judges, attorneys, a pastor, a billionaire, the president and a sheriff, just to name a few. It's not often a controversy can boast such a cast. And on March 1, 2012, it is a lock that the cast will grow and so will the headlines. If you haven't heard, next Thursday is the day that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will hold a press conference to disclose the findings of his office's official investigation into the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate. What can I say, “it's baaaack”.
But before you roll your eyes, sigh and look to click another headline, allow me a few more precious moments of your time.
Last spring, when Donald Trump pretended he was going to join the election campaign I followed the shenanigans. It was classic Trump and for his ability to generate headlines and for his "outlaw" candidness, he is a favorite of mine. Obama, not so much. So, I confess, when Trump called for Obama to release his birth certificate, I watched, not so much for the birth certificate, as I'm no "birther", but for the "squirm factor." And to see Obama cave to Trump's demand, based on an obvious ruse, was special. Come on, we've been listening to the supreme ruler tell us what to do and how to do it, while he does what he wants, when he wants, for a long time now. It was overdue. So when The Donald got in his face and started snorting, we were able to see the flaws in Obama's facade and in a perverse way, that spectacle cracked a "take that" nugget locked up deep inside me. The Donald snorted, the supreme ruler folded and the country was a better place for a few days.
Anyway, at that point, I thought the issue was finished. Silly me. So when I read that Sheriff Arpaio was holding a press conference based upon findings from a year long investigation, I thought I'd better bone up on the details so that, come Thursday’s main event, I wouldn't be caught off guard. It turns out, there's quite a bit more to this birth certificate thing than most know, certainly more than I did.
From what I've been able to uncover, we have Hillary Clinton, her supporters more specifically, to thank for this soap opera. During her prolonged and nasty campaign against the supreme ruler during the democratic primaries, questions regarding his citizenship first hit the papers. Issues raised were his place of birth (America? Kenya?), his middle name (Muhammad rather than Hussein), his given first name (Barry? Barack?) and his religion. Now, only the absurdly naive wouldn't acknowledge that this was Clinton supporters mucking it up in hopes of rocking the Obama campaign. In June of 2008, The Review, apparently not absurdly naive, called for Obama to release his birth certificate to put an end to this distraction, so we could all get back to the thrill of watching Hillary and Obama slice and dice each other on national television. Fair enough. I mean, what's the big deal? It's a silly issue that can be done away with in a heartbeat. It's easy, just release the birth certificate, show the social security card and flash the ID. I have to do this routinely, for a hell of a lot less than the presidency, don't you?
Well, the supreme ruler, based on his advanced mental prowess, no doubt, decided to start a website. Primitive from a web designer's perspective, Fight The Smears, posted Obama's Certification of Live Birth (the short form birth certificate). And there the tale should have ended. Not.
It didn't take long for the American public to go to work on the posted certificate and shortly after, critics began to raise questions regarding its authenticity. Why, for instance, did it not have a State Seal on it? At this point, because the American people were now involved, the Democratic party circled the wagons, and had every prominent Democrat from Boston to Hawaii issue a statement regarding the legitimacy of Obama’s short form. In addition to being experts on what is best for you, they're document experts too, don't you know. Unsatisfied, calls from the people went out for the release of Obama's long form certificate.
In 2009, CNN announced that, based upon their research, Hawaii had destroyed all paper birth records in 2001. Obama's long form birth certificate no longer existed, therefore the short copy is the official copy. And it is here, for me and probably most of you, that the book on the supreme ruler's past was closed. Mostly.
Enter James David Manning and Orly Taitz.
Manning is chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church in New York City. Although a pastor, this man of faith is no angel, having done some stints in the pokey for burglary, robbery, larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, and other charges as a young energetic lad. He came into the public spotlight during this time with very harsh criticisms of the Democratic Party, American black culture and Obama's background, or lack thereof.
Taitz is an attorney for hire, and like all lawyers for hire, she benefits as much from headlines as she does fees. She has her own website (
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/) complete with Hollywood-style photos and a donation button, naturally. Taitz has been involved with a string of cases that range from zany to zany. Her briefing and courtroom skills have been called into question and she has been sanctioned for attorney misconduct (slapped for $20,000 as well). She is also the poster-girl for the "birther" cause, as her website clearly points out.
Using secret connections and private investigators throughout the country, Taitz has compiled information that includes:
Obama has numerous Social Security Numbers
His passport is invalid and the person cooperating with the FBI regarding this matter was shot in the head
There is a Kenya birth certificate with the name "Barack Obama" and it is authentic
Obama, or his cronies have threatened her life
Obama, using FEMA, is building internment camps for "Anti-Obama dissidents"
Osama bin Laden was killed years ago, kept in the freezer, and thawed in perfect timing for his death to be announced to divert attention from one of her Obama citizenship court cases
Needless to say, these two, Manning and Taitz, injected lightening bolts into the "birther" movement. Things begin to accelerate from here.
From 2008 to 2011 Keyes vs. Bowen; Lightfoot vs. Bowen; Barnett vs. Obama; Cook vs. Good and a string of other suits (9 or 10) are filed by Taitz with Obama's citizenship directly or indirectly involved. That's a lot of suits in a short period of time. What's a supreme ruler to do?
Apparently feeling a little heat, on April 22, 2011, Obama writes the Hawaii Department of Health, and demands his long form certificate be released. Of course, they write back saying they can't because it was destroyed in 2001 like CNN announced, right? Wrong.
On April 25, 2011, the request is approved, and on April 27, White House staffers give reporters a copy of the certificate, and post it on the White House website. And there our story concludes. Nope, not quite yet.
As before, the American public goes to work. Software geeks and professional graphic illustrators, compositors and the like download the online certificate and have at it. The very same day of it's posting, shouters come forth claiming it's fake. And not even a good at that. It is not one document, they claim, it is many fragmented documents, layered one on top of another, to give the illusion of a complete document. It works like this. A blank birth certificate serves as the base. Have on hand 5 or 6 real birth certificates. Remove via a computer, particular information from birth certificate #1 and place it on the blank one. Remove different information from birth certificate #2 and place it onto the base certificate. Think of a movie, the cops looking for the bad guy take his picture and add a beard, and then long-hair, then change the eyes from brown to blue. Same principle here. Fill in all the information on your blank birth certificate and you end up with a new birth certificate with random information taken from other existing certificates. Presto, who ever you want, was born when you want and where you want. The problem is, as I mentioned, the workmanship was poor and our geek-squad heroes spotted the shoddy work immediately. Further, different experts from different parts of the country all point out the same errors.
And that brings us to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Remember him? The press conference?
Now Joe, "America's Toughest Sheriff", is a man's man, a Sheriff's Sheriff. You know him. He's been on television, not just press conferences, but reality shows, too. He's the guy that banned inmates from possessing Playboy magazine, so he's tough on convicts. He instituted female chain-gangs as well as tent-city. He also sells pink boxer-shorts with "Go Joe" on them. I kid you not. We're talking a Maricopa County legend here.
Anyway, big Joe is a pistol and he's got an ax to grind. Turns out, he's a closet "birther", and when our supreme ruler caught a sniff of that, he ordered the DOJ to start leaning on Joe. Suddenly, claims of racial profiling, misuse of funds, abuse of power and unconstitutional jail conditions started surfacing. These accusations came fast and furious, all within 2010 and 2011. Unapologetic, big Joe stood tall and claimed the accusations were rubbish. Nothing more, the man in pink claimed, than a smear campaign against him by Obama, based on the fact that he had initiated an investigation into the status of Obama's legal residence.
And here we find ourselves. The investigation is complete. The results are in. And we sit, waiting like dogs at the dinner table for scraps of information to fall on the floor. Is the supreme leader an American? Or was he born in Kenya? Is the birth certificate real? Fake? Is his name Barack or Barry? Oh, my, Thursday seems so far away.
But I can make it, though, because during my exhaustive research into this crazy tale, I encountered some things I need to consider. So should you. For instance, why did CNN claim their investigation concluded there were no more paper birth certificates and then, suddenly, Obama is able to order one up? And what of publicity hound attorney, Taitz? She submitted as court evidence in one of her cases, numerous Social Security Numbers have been assigned to Obama. And what about the death threats, or the guy shot in the head? Why did the short certificate of Obama's have no State Seal on it? Why is the long certificate layered and able to be dismantled by graphics folks? Is it so hard to believe it may have been faked? Haven't counterfeiters been doing the same thing for centuries? And what about the miss-matched text? I'm no expert but they looked like miss-matches to me. And why are there videos of Obama and his wife stating during different speeches that his home country is not America? And there is actually a little more to consider.
I don't watch the news 24/7, I can't. I know you can't either. But I feel I keep up on current events and because of this I'm forced to ask this question. Why, three years into his ruler-ship, haven't we seen anyone from Obama's past? Think about it. I've seen no interviews given by childhood friends, for instance. Have you? There's no stories of him saving someone from getting hit by a car or running a lemonade stand at the top of the street. There's no neighborhood bully telling us how many times he beat him up. How can this be? What about college? He went to Columbia. Allegedly. Why can't these records be accessed? Are they sealed? If they are, why? I've seen no one come forward, roommate, classmate, pickup basketball buddy, no one. There's no professors saying he was a good student, or a bad one. Nobody. How can this be? I'm sorry but even the most insignificant dolt has somebody that remembers him. This is the President of the United States. It's the ultimate bar-stool story, "yeah, him and me, we're like this".
I don't know where you stand, but I tend to believe in the cliché, “Where there's smoke, there's fire”, and there seems to be some smoke here. What about old girlfriends? There's no one willing to sell lurid tales of his sexual exploits for book deals? I mean, Herman Cain was just a Republican primary candidate and we had numerous gold-diggers paraded in front of us. Here, we have the supreme ruler with no former acquaintances ready to exploit the opportunity, no hangers-on, no one looking for their 15 minutes? How can it be that not one soul is prepared to bare all for the big bucks? I find that very odd. Creepy odd. Manchurian Candidate odd.
Perhaps the press conference on Thursday, March 1st, will shed some light on this. Maybe big Joe has unearthed information about Obama's background and will confirm that Barack Obama is Barack Obama. But what if he doesn't? What if big Joe announces he's found more faulty information, more contradictions? What if he says his investigation raises more questions than it answers? We're in an election year. Too much creepy information could scare voters and crumble Obama's presidency.
Oh god, Thursday is so far away.
