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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Pat Boone goes Birther

The entertainer gets behind the movement that claims -- wrongly -- President Obama isn't eligible for his job

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Monday, June 29, 2009 05:14 PM

You know....

I've never ever seen a long or short form of Pat Boone's birth certificate!

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:15 PM

gettign a passport

Well you cannot get a passport without a certified birth certificate, and Obama had a passport long before he ran for president.

I remember the first time I got a passport. I thought my hospital certificate with the feet imprints and seal was official. NO, I had to write the county and state I where I was born and or in and get a copy of my official birth certificate which is pretty boring looking.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:16 PM

Yo stupids!

There is no evidence for your belief.

So ad hominem is how you respond.

No evidence, insult anyone who wants to see evidence to back up your belief.

You got nothing but juvenile insults because there is no Birth Certificate.

If there was it would have been front page news.

Ready to sign up to invade Iran, fools?

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:17 PM

lol

"A rabid birther told me just this weekend that he saw Obama's real, authentic Ethiopian birth certificate on Ebay. On Ebay! It must be real!"

That's hillarious.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:18 PM

@ralafler

A rabid birther told me just this weekend that he saw Obama's real, authentic Ethiopian birth certificate on Ebay. On Ebay! It must be real!

Ebay? Of course. What else could anyone possibly think to do with a document that might turn the U.S. government upside down?

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:18 PM

Fuck Pat Boone

If I want to discuss current events, I'll talk to someone with an education. If I want to discuss music I'm better off talking to Fats Domino.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:18 PM

What is wrong with those people?

Do they really think that the DNC was going to allow a man who was not born in the US to run for office with its substantial financial backing? I know, I know, I keep hearing that any logic or reasonable argument you present to these people is just fodder for more conspiracies.

Against my better judgement, I clicked on the link and read the article. Boone wrote this: "When you shop at Costco, for Pete's sake, you have to prove you're who you are and that you're a credentialed Costco shopper with a valid credit card (which they'll verify on the spot) just to get in the door."

Costco doesn't do that, and I can't imagine a store that would. I have to wonder if Boone has really lost it entirely, because I don't know why he would even lie about such a stupid thing that's so easy to disprove. Oh, wait.

I really don't know what's wrong with these people mentally, but it kinda scares me that people can get so obsessed with such ridiculous things. That it stems in large part (or is it entirely) from the fact that Obama is black makes me feel hopeless.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:18 PM

@bernbart

I got a passport in the same way you did, not with my hospital footprint one, but with the laser printed one from the state. I reckon we're not alone. And, since according to some folks, the laser print method is a pure scam, then I really wonder how many people are illegally carrying US passports. You and I obviously. Who else? There must be millions of us.

This is a big story and is going to impact immigration hugely. Starting today, immigration needs to stop each and every person carrying a US passport because chances are they got it through nefarious means. At the border, they need to demand to see everyone's baby footprint certificate before letting anyone in.

Which sucks for me, because I'm leaving the country on Wednesday, and my footprint certificate was lost long ago.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:19 PM

to all you birthers . . .

If there was ANY genuine evidence that Obama was not born in Hawaii, don't you suppose Hillary would have used it against him ages ago? Remember? Those ruthless Clintons? Who'd do anything to gain power?

Or maybe McCain? Ya think the Repugs might have trotted this out in earnest??

I'm thinking that anyone who wants to be President, or Senator, of the U.S. goes through some sort of FBI/CIA/NSA vetting, ya think? Ya think Obama would get the nuclear launch codes if he hadn't passed his eligibility "test?"

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:20 PM

something stinks

Are you sure you have a birth certificate?

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:21 PM

Boone Is an In Law

of George Clooney anf Migel Ferrer.

Wonder how Thanksgiving is at their house.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:23 PM

paulpsd7

When my 'offcial' certificate came from the state it also had a seal on it.

Many people think those nice certificates you get in the hospital are the real birth certificates. They are not.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:23 PM

Stinky: what projection!!

Yo stupids!

There is no evidence for your belief.

So ad hominem is how you respond.

Actually, you've just described yourself. You've got no evidence for your own belief. The evidence is piled up hugely on the other side. We've got Obama's state-issued BC, plus a statement from the capital confirming that it's real, plus birth announcements in 2 Hawaiian newspapers. You've got your general suspicion that everything is due to a conspiracy, and that therefore this must be no exception. (Note, that isn't evidence, just meaningless conjecture. And YES, there is a difference.)

And how do you respond to your lack of evidence? Why, you call us "stupids!" And then...this is the funniest part...you criticize US for resorting to ad hominem because we lack the evidence.

Stinky, you should be on some kind of reality show. I'd watch.

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:26 PM

Yo! something stinkkks

I ain't never seen your birth certificate. All I see is this white background to your white rant which is written in black in approximately the same ratio as the population of the US.

Post a picture, front and back, or it didn't happen, and you are just a figment of Obama's, wait, scuse me, that would be Ayer's, fertile imagination, working as it should to distract the wingnuts' wingnuts while the fascist communist Dems pass their legislation to turn this country into the Socialist Repbulic of America, whose initials coincide with an outfit I remember from school ages ago when true men roamed the earth on the backs of dinosaurs!

Up!

Monday, June 29, 2009 05:30 PM

My dear bernbart,

I have two copies, both look pretty similar to the Hawaiian long form which contains the full information that the Certificate of Live Birth does not contain.

Maybe one exists but it has something on it that they do not want to the public to see or know.

Regardless, he has been deceptive and disingenuous concerning this matter which is well reflected in his behavior in his first six months in the White House.

You numbnuts believe anything the government or the MSM says.

If you had any real faith in the truth of this, my lack of faith wouldn't cause you to act like idiots.

It just doesn't exist in the public realm and the man is President.

I bet it will not be in his Presidential Library either.

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