Birther Potpourri

bob · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:15 pm

DaveMuckey wrote:

Birther please!

verbalobe · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:17 pm

Korwin wrote:

...who've raised legitimate questions...

Name one.

Adelante · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:37 pm

Muckey!

BFB · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:51 pm

bob wrote:

DaveMuckey wrote:

Birther please!

BFB · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:52 pm

"He's a bizzle, for shizzle."

Piffle · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 4:01 pm

When did RWNJs start getting oh-so-sensitive? Is this the start of a new political correctness on the right?

So what are we supposed to call them, Mob Creators? Or how about Legally Challenged? Functionally Ignorant?

What's the right term?

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 4:04 pm

Piffle wrote:

When did RWNJs start getting oh-so-sensitive? Is this the start of a new political correctness on the right?

Might as well. They coined the phrase "politically correct."

Birther say what?

Foggy · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 4:08 pm

Be sure to let me know when we start to make birthers ride in the back of the bus or use separate (but equal) drinking fountains. :roll:

OrlyIsAnAirport · **Joined:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:21 pm **Posts:** 13

So, we get yet another birther complaining about prejudice. Since birthers have a unique point of view to appreciate and recognize prejudice, I guess we need to show some compassion here. :roll:

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 4:23 pm

They want to be known as "Very Serious People", I think Duncan Black coined that meme.

And they get very upset when mocked, why just yesterday one of our old friends took great offense at David Letterman saying he poked the right because they were easy and serve up the most comedy material.

Quote:

Anthony G. Martin ‏@welshman007

Letterman says Republicans 'easier to make fun of' http://shar.es/qlX2P via @sharethis

https://twitter.com/welshman007/status/ ... 3246993408

He didn't like my response, "Africa, the country?"

See also the "Waaaaa! Stop making fun of us! " thread. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7769

vic · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 7:19 pm

If he doesn't like "birther", perhaps he should talk to the birther queen.

BFB · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:28 pm

So facebook has this new thing called "Trending Articles," which is self-explanatory.

But just now, here's how the trending article is presented:

Quote:

"Humans can smell one another's ...
Yahoo!"

Piffle · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:23 pm

GreatGrey wrote:

They want to be known as "We The Very Serious People", I think Duncan Black coined that meme.

Sorry, GG. I couldn't resist.

Loren · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 3891

Cue Birther freakout in 3...2...1:

Quote:

3. Obama's presidential ambitions stretched back to the 3rd grade when he wrote this paper for his class.

My name is Barry Soetoro. I am a third-grade student at SD Asisi.

My mom is my idol.

My teacher is Ibu Fer. I have a lot of friends.

I live near the school. I usually walk to the school with my mom, then go home by mystelf.

Someday I want to be president. I love to visit all the places in Indonesia.

Done.

The eeeeeeeeend.

I believe this makes the (let me count...) second usage of "Barry Soetoro" ever discovered. So, obviously, it's absolute proof of a secret legal adoption.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:36 pm

The "Truth" about Obama.

!	realist wrote:
	Fixeded it for ya.

kimba · **Joined:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:24 pm **Posts:** 6626

Quote:

From a postcard Obama sent to friend Phil Boerner while he was back in Indonesia: "I'm sitting on the porch in my sarong, sipping strong coffee and drawing on a clove cigarette, watching the heavy dusk close over the paddy terraces of Java. Very kick back, so far away from the madness."

Sarong? Clove cigarette? Paddy Terraces of Java? Busted. That is NOT a natural born US citizen let alone Presidential material. =))

kimba · **Joined:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:24 pm **Posts:** 6626

For the writers out there, here's Barry's writing tips:

Quote:

A friend sent Obama a manuscript for editing, Obama wrote back with five tips:

1) "Careful about too many adverbs, particularly describing how people speak (Paul asked disbelievingly, etc.) It can be cumbersome and a bit intrusive on the reader"

2) "Resist the temptation of easy satire ... Good satire has to be a little muted. Should spill out from under a seemingly somber situation."

3) "Try to get the basic stats on the characters out of the way early {Paul was 24} so that you can spend the rest of the story revealing character."

4) "Think about the key moment(s) in the story, and build tension leading to those key moments."

5) "[W]rite outside your own experience ... I find that this works the fictive imagination harder."

I must read this book. I'm :xo

and

just reading the excerpts. Being pimped as "the largely untold story" too. Not for anyone who's been paying attention for the last 5 years.

Loren · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 3891

I've got a new post up, inspired by Breitbart:

Barack Obama in Crain's Chicago Business's 1993 "40 Under 40"

It's a 1993 short piece on Obama that, as far as I can tell, has never been published online.

How did Breitbart inspire it? Well, with them and the Birthers running around claiming that Obama misrepresented his life story for decades, following that 1991 booklet, I wanted to find out what was said in this far-more-public 1993 piece.

And sure, it doesn't actually say where he was born, but that's part of the point. The argument now is that Obama said, repeatedly, that he was born in Kenya, even if he wasn't. But this story doesn't back that up. If he was pitching himself as a foreign-born or immigrant kid, now running a voter registration drive, you think that might have gotten a mention. But it's silent on the circumstances of his birth, as if (shocker) they were unexceptional.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:17 pm

Loren wrote:

I've got a new post up, inspired by Breitbart:

Barack Obama in Crain's Chicago Business's 1993 "40 Under 40"

It's a 1993 short piece on Obama that, as far as I can tell, has never been published online.

How did Breitbart inspire it? Well, with them and the Birthers running around claiming that Obama misrepresented his life story for decades, following that 1991 booklet, I wanted to find out what was said in this far-more-public 1993 piece.

And sure, it doesn't actually say where he was born, but that's part of the point. The argument now is that Obama said, repeatedly, that he was born in Kenya, even if he wasn't. But this story doesn't back that up. If he was pitching himself as a foreign-born or immigrant kid, now running a voter registration drive, you think that might have gotten a mention. But it's silent on the circumstances of his birth, as if (shocker) they were unexceptional.

$&@#%, you beat me by that much. I got the article before I went to NOLA and haven't put it up yet!

Loren · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 3891

Whatever4 wrote:

$&@#%, you beat me by that much. I got the article before I went to NOLA and haven't put it up yet!

The post is now updated with Whatever4's scan, and it's a good thing too: the transcript had some paragraphs missing, one of which explicitly discusses Obama's parents and his childhood.

And guess what it doesn't say?

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:40 am

Damn, the POTUS still owes us a book. :-?

Quote:

Rather than waltz the traditional path to a Supreme Court clerkship, however, he opted to direct Project Vote, write a book on race relations (to be published by Random House next year), and assist community groups in urban real estate development.