The deepest, darkest corner of the Birther universe.

[elfs]

Wow. Although Ms. Ferguson may best be descibed as confused, Sharon Rondeau has to be considered merely deluded. If only she were a little more outright insane, she would be the next Orly Taitz. Consider her reaction to a Kenyan parliamentarian's recent and ill-informed comment that Barack Obama was "a son of Kenya:"

With numerous sources reporting that Obama was born in a foreign country to a foreign father and only one person in the entire world stating that Obama was born in Hawaii, with no corroborating evidence offered in violation of Hawaii law, where is the U.S. military? What are they doing taking the orders of an apparently illegitimate Commander-in-Chief? Is there only a small group of men and women out of a force of 2,000,000 with enough patriotism to stand up and demand that the putative president prove himself?

And her commentors are right there with her: "Obama dodged the press pool on Sunday to watch his daughter play soccer. Oh really? My guess is he was at the Kenyan embassy and it was related to the 'born in Kenya' document."

Her co-conspirator at the site, John Charlton, adds:

The Joint Chiefs of Staff should be worried of the dire punishment they will face, when they are one day convicted of treason against the United States of America for siding with the enemy and giving him aide and comfort.

They have supported a man who is clearly a usurper, as if he were the President of the United States This fact is manifest and notorious.

Wow, just... wow. That's so out there it's not even cute.

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

Denial is such a convenient fig-leaf for outright racism, isn't it?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Some people don't bother with fig-leaves: Will It Be Jew-Queer, or just Jew-Zionist For New Sup. Ct. Justice? (http://gentilealliance.org/?p=2704)

The search pattern for all this hate is:

http://www.google.com/search?q=obama%20usurper&tbs=blg:1,bks:1,blg:1

Apparently the term "usurper" is their current code-word.

[areitu.livejournal.com]

The way a lot of the Right (birthers, tea-baggers, etc) is reacting to this presidency reminds me a bit of the riots in Thailand, where the losing minority will fuss, spew vitriol, protest and almost riot until they get their way.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

They're just not thinking, or using remotely critical thinking skills. If he was really a natural-born Kenyan, then that WOULD have come out by the squads of well-trained, professional investigators that (a) vetted him for Congress, (b) vetted him as a candidate, and (perhaps apocryphally) (c) vetted him on behalf of McCain and Clinton who would most assuredly loudly use such a campaign-ending factoid against him in 2007. If this yahoo is so quick to say that the Joint Chiefs are 'complicit' in some sort of treason charge... *then so are McCain and Palin* because there's no bloody way their investigators wouldn't have turned up something like that!

So who is *slightly* more reliable: The aforementioned squads of investigators, who do this for a living, who eat, sleep, and breathe this sort of research in such a way that Sherlock Holmes would be envious... or the dentist/lawyer/realtor/whatever who has produced nothing but proven forgeries, the amateur document analyzer who 'is familiar with' image editing, and the legions of people who squint at a grainy GIF on the web and declare 'I have seen many Photoshops in my time and this is a Photoshop!'?

Between things like this, and so-soon-we-forget Oklahomians who have started talking about state-sponsored militias to oppose federal law enforcement... sometimes I think it's time for a new Constitutional Convention... except that'll just make things worse for everyone, including our neighbors, won't it?

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Wait - wasn't McCain born outside the US, in Panama?

Yes

[(Anonymous)]

But the senate had to make a special resolution about it in 2008. Check out what Snopes has to say: http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/citizen.asp

Also the core of that is the Panama Canal zone was considered US territory: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1403.html