Utter bullshit. This birther is making it up out of whole cloth. I suppose it's magical thinking, hoping that if s/he says it, it will somehow become true. Did you notice there's no citation to any law that would support any of the magical claims?

In addition, anyone purporting or pretending to write like a lawyer who spells "respondent" with an "a" is a fake.

The author should go back to building cargo cult models of airport control towers. Maybe tomorrow will be his/her lucky day.

Note the author of that thing is Jon Roland.

Jon Roland was CEL3's friend. He does all that Sovereign Citizen stuff.

Here's a sample.

http://victimsoflaw.net/TX_LincolnTrials.htm

Toll sez they became enemies some time ago.

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1897&p=76333&hilit=ROLAND#p76333

Who knows as of today?

Anyway, he's been doing pseudo law for a long time.

Eric Randall (the Atlantic) posted about Zebest's Sit Room Photoshopping theory.


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics ... job/52115/

I didn't carry over the links.

......and the glaring double negative which conveys the exact opposite meaning to that intended wouldn't exactly encourage anyone to place confidence in the ability of the writer.....



Eh?

He came out with some legal argument...

Even if his nonsense about having 20 days to respond to a writ of quo warranto or be forever banished wasn't out of the loony bin, how can he claim the President is ineligible when no such writ has ever been issued?

Maybe he missed the distinction between some whackjob filing a petition for a writ of quo warranto and a judge actually issuing the writ.

This has to be the stupidest claim ever by Zebest. So Obama's head is a different size so that means he's photoshopped in? Does she pay attention? The camera took a picture at an angle. Obama is actually further away at a diagonal. Even so the guy closest to him standing behind the general has about the same size head as him.

Also, too, and the President is sitting forward, not straight back.

OK, can someone help me out here? What is the actual theory behind why they would photoshop that picture? Am I just too old school to think that if you're at the Whitehouse, and all of those people are at the Whitehouse, and you want to fake a photo, you just sit them all down and snap a photo? You fake the scenario, and use a real photo. That's the easy way.

becasue they want to deny that Obama was sitting there in control at a critical time. They want tro deny the fact that the man that was killing in the White house conferance dinner a few hours before could be the guy that was sitting there with all those people around him. They want to deny he had anything to do with the Osama raid, that other people made the decision and he signed his name absent mindedly before reading some stuff from a teleprompter.

The want to deny the President any place on the decision process, becasue they want to believe the man is stupid

It's their way of trying to not admit they elected George W. Bush twice. If they make Obama sound dumber than Bush they can feel better about themselves.

Well, most of these people simply can't believe or accept the idea that an African-American person can, you know, actually be just as intelligent as "real people".

You see it all the time in the snotty comments about "Affirmative Action" and the like. That somehow the person they're questioning gamed the system or was somehow allowed to slide by, because, you know, "those people" can't possibly be as smart as whites.....

It makes me sick.

One of the things that I find fascinating about the conspiracist side of Birthers is how they're not actually satisfied with comments about affirmative action. So Obama was a black guy who got into Columbia and Harvard Law School in the 1980s; whether or not he made it into those schools purely on merit or not, I can't say I'd be surprised at the notion that two Ivy League schools at that time may have factored in race as a consideration in admission. (I remember liberals making exactly those claims about Clarence Thomas, in fact.)

However, Birthers don't stop with claims of affirmative action. No, they insist on upping the ante, and claiming that his admission to those schools involved much more than race-conscious admissions standards...they claim there must have been powerful people pulling strings for Obama specifically to get into those schools. That he was recommended by radicals and financially supported by the families of domestic terrorists. They aren't content with merely pegging Obama as a beneficiary of affirmative action; they're compelled to depict him as nothing less than a real-life Manchurian candidate, a puppet of secret and powerful interests.

Clarence Thomas acknowledged he was helped by affirmative action. Even as he condemned it for anyone else.

In line with the "affirmative action" posts above, today Al Hendershot sez...

How Obama had managed to become the president of the Harvard Law Review Without Publishing Anything Of His Own



lots more at the link

Well, that's wrong. I have some idea how the Law Review works. And Barack Obama the student did have a publication -- a student case note. They are often unsigned.

So how did that work -- did the minority students have better grades or higher regard among fellow students?

The write on system meant that students who wrote well (but may not have tested that well in their first year) could become editors of the Law Review.

Bill Ayers Barack Obama is a very gifted writer. But I believe he got on the Review based on grades.

But how would that favor minority students?

(That was the snarky, if apparently opaque, intent of my question!)

It wouldn't. The birfer idiot is FOS and has no idea how anything works. Generally, write-ons are graded blind. The editors reviewing them do not even know the name of the submitters.

There are some law review selection processes to favor minority students to some degree, but I would be surprised if Harvard had one at that time.

You are dramatically understating the statements about affirmative action that are being made by even the less conspiracy-addled on the right.

The claim is not that Obama was helped by affirmative action. That is something that I think few would suggest is impossible, or, for that matter, unreasonable. The claim that is being made is that all Obama's academic achievements came about because of affirmative action. That they were entirely unearned. That he never would have been able to get in at all without affirmative action. It's meant to accompany the claims that the President cannot speak without a teleprompter; that he did not write - could not possibly have written - his books.

It is part of a set of claims that is designed to provide affirmation, confirmation, and validation to the assorted bigots and out-and-out racists that make up a substantial fraction of the Republican Party's base.

And the Conservative movement, as a whole, has become so thoroughly corrupted by the desire to win at any cost, so intellectually exhausted, so morally bankrupt that it is difficult to find a Conservative commentator who will even acknowledge the possibility that this is occurring, much less take a principled stand against it. It's pathetically easy, on the other hand, to find prominent Conservatives who encourage such behavior. You can't throw a stone without hitting one.

And he did not go to two Ivy League schools (Holy Cross is not an Ivy). He graduated from Yale Law School in 1974. Tremendous academic change took place between the early 1970s and the 1990s.

As for the notion that Obama did not have the intellectual skills, I guess Laurence Tribe's statement that Obama was the most brilliant student he'd ever had was just a big lie.

Obama then became the president/editor-in-chief/grand poobah of the HLR. I do not know the exact selection process for the top position at the HLR, but Obama was elected: He convinced a majority of those voting he was the best person for the job.

So, shockingly, a birther was wrong.

I don't know about that. The dark forces behind Obama have managed to intimidate and buy off Congress, state and federal courts, the state of Hawai'i, etc. I wouldn't put it past Bill Ayers and George Soros to have put pressure on the editors so that their Manchurian candidate could continue his rise to power.

I mean heck, the birfers allege that the illuminate have been replacing microfish in libraries across the nation and having adult women pretend to be Obama's Photoshopped ex-girlfriends because we know no one knew him during his Columbia years.

This just seems so needlessly complicated though, all this trouble for sinister forces to control the three branches of the US government. I mean, if only there was some sort of way for people with power and money to influence elected officials disproportionately over their relatively small voting numbers. Then they wouldn't have to install a usurper to get everything they want.