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by Mark Silva
So this is Dr. Orly Taitz's idea of a "Happy Birthday" for President Barack Obama, born 48 years ago tomorrow, in Honolulu, Hawaii -- U.S. citizen.
Taitz, attorney in a Keys vs. Obama court claim asserting that they are in possession of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, had some words with MSNBC's David Shuster today.
Since the so-called "birthers'' aren't content to let the president's Hawaiian birth certificate speak for itself online, or to let the state of Hawaii Health Department speak for its veracity or to let the White House vouch for his citizenship, we're happy to let Taitz and Shuster, and Tamron Hall, speak for themselves -- in the video above.
Seatbelts recommended.
What else is there, really, to say?









Comments
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http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-do-i-get-information-about-barack.html
Posted by: srini | August 3, 2009 6:03 PM
When I don't know what's funnier, the fact that these people think Obama's Hawaii BC is a fake, or that they're convinced this obvious forgery is real.
For God's sake, it lists the place of birth as Mombassa, which wasn't even part of Kenya when Obama was born! I'm starting to suspect that Taitz is some sort of crypto-liberal who's using this nonsense to speed up the GOP's implosion.
In either case, I wish her the best of luck!
Posted by: ScubaDew | August 3, 2009 6:09 PM
I don’t trust ANY politician and almost no one in the media. I still want two answers.
1) Why can't we see his long-form? Obama knows that millions of citizens want to see it yet he continues to hide it. What/why is he hiding?
and most disturbingly,
2) Why don't BHO's supporters want to know the whole truth, especially since there’s a reward of $100,000 for proof that Obama is a "natural born" citizen of the United States.
OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US THE LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!!
Posted by: Captain Steve | August 3, 2009 6:18 PM
I've seen that face before--It's Josephine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k812fxnpLAM
Posted by: slow news day | August 3, 2009 6:22 PM
Kenyan BC exposed as a definite forgery, politijab.com member locates model document used to create "fake bc" on internet!
http://www.bomford.net/worcestershire/images/DavidJeffreyBomfordBirthCertDoc65.jpg
Full story at politijab.com forum!
Posted by: birthersLIE | August 3, 2009 6:49 PM
1) Why can't we see his long-form? Obama knows that millions of citizens want to see it...
Posted by: Captain Steve | August 3, 2009 6:18 PM
Millions? LOL Boy you fringe right wing nuts are really dreaming! Why dont you all go to this web site and create your own BC's of President Obama. I'm sure its the same web site his parents used to 'Fake' his BC. Oh wait a minute no such thing back then!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6206640
MORONS!!!
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | August 3, 2009 6:50 PM
Two tjhingsObama is not going to admit to-
His birthing-
His racial remarks
So his stay in the White House should be interesting if he last the full term.
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Posted by: Inky | August 3, 2009 6:56 PM
Empress Josaphine?
I should have thought, Donald Segretti in a wig.
Posted by: ornery | August 3, 2009 6:59 PM
What a crack Pot! Even Anne Coulture agrees these people are nut cases and I have NEVER agreed with her ever excpet for this one time! Anyway, who the heck is this crazy woman and is she a natural citizen of the US???
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | August 3, 2009 7:15 PM
This lady is crazy!!! And she (like all you birther nutcases) keeps repeating the same crap! Forget about the "Long Form." What he and Hawaii have shown are valid and legal. Drop it! And there is NO requirement for both parents to be U.S. Citizens. If he was born in Hawaii (the U.S.), and all reputable sources agree he was, then is IS a "natural born" citizen and eligible to be President. Everything you have is based on no points of fact, just speculation, mistrust, and (often deliberate) misinformation.
Posted by: JR | August 3, 2009 7:20 PM
I can't decide whose more crazy - the Wingnut Birthers or the Wingnut Deathers.
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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/why-msnbc-allowing-matthews-repeat-deather
I hope these nutjobs keep speaking out because it's only their GOoPer base ([white] Southerners) who takes these birther nuts, like this Oily Teetz whackjob, seriously, but the rest of the country thinks she's fracking nuts.
This birther conspiracy theory is a Republican/Conservative/right wing/White Deep South (the GOP base) racist conspiracy theory. And America needs to be reminded of that at every opportunity availed.
Posted by: Right-Wing Stupidity | August 3, 2009 7:27 PM
I think Wingnut Oreally Taintz needs to go back to her day job - Dentist/Realtor/OMG! A Black Man Is President!!!
Posted by: Repugs are idiots | August 3, 2009 7:32 PM
THAT, folks, is the current face of the Republican party.
May it rest in peace.
Posted by: athena | August 3, 2009 7:37 PM
What intrigues me is why everybody focuses only on the birth certificate. Even if the prez WAS born in Hawaii, didn't he lose US citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia? (Bonafide elementary school records show him as Barry Soetoro, Indonesian nationality, apparently by adoption by his Indonesian step-father.) Indonesia did not accept dual nationality and only their citizens can attend their schools. An American child who renounces citizenship can still regain it provided he/she does so within the first 6 mos. of his/her 18th birthday, but there is no claim that that was done. This suggests that Obama may not be a citizen at all, making the "natural-born" rerquirement a moot point, right?
Posted by: J. Bierley | August 3, 2009 8:08 PM
This just shows you how diverged the political conversations have become in this country thanks to right-wing propaganda outlets like Fixed News and the Wingnut AM Hate Radio morons.
Democrats are debating how to tackle health care and whether a public option works best and how best to get costs under control..........Meanwhile, the Republican party has become fixated on the idea that Barack Obama's family faked his birth certificate 47 years ago, knowing he would run for President eventually and need a cover story?!?!
Ha Ha Ha!!! And the Repugs wonder why they can't win elections anymore?!?!
Posted by: Mongo | August 3, 2009 8:11 PM
Two tjhingsObama is not going to admit to-
His birthing-
Posted by: Inky | August 3, 2009 6:56 PM
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InkyClown,
First of all- things - is spelled - T-H-I-N-G-S - not "tjhings"
And Obama isn't going to admit his birthing? Ha Ha Ha!
So, you're trying to say that he's not a real live living, breathing human being?
I don't know who paid for your Home Schooling but you should get your money back InkyClown.
Posted by: Itchy | August 3, 2009 8:24 PM
Hawaii has announced they are holding the original birth records of Obama. Obama refuses to have them released, and he refuses to have the hospital he has named confirmed the birth there. Both of these are questions that the Democratic Party should have had asked and answered before they placed his name on the primary ballot. Remember this issue was raised in Hillary blogs as far back as December 2007. It is not like it should have come as a surprise. Look for something from the DNC or the Federal Election Commission where they say, no worry we reviewed the original birth certificate, confirmed the birth in the hospital and deem Obama a natural born citizen. Keep looking because it does not exist.
This is and will be a continued failure of the Democratic party to vet Obama.
Posted by: Pete | August 3, 2009 8:37 PM
These birthers are to the right as the "9-11 was an inside job" folks are/were to the left.
Until someone shows the Kenya birth certificate, drop it. I ain't holding my breath on that.
Posted by: Terry | August 3, 2009 9:01 PM
I can't decide if the Oily Taintz led GOP birthers are crazier than the GOP deathers?
I mean, how about that wacky congresswoman (Virgina Fox) from some southern state (it figures) who says that the Dems want to pass health care so they can kill old people?
Let's face it - there's a very, very, very fine line between sanity and the whackjobs who make up the birther and deather craziness in GOP conspiracy land these days.
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http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/07/30/gop-deathers-use-scare-tactics-to-deceive-on-health-care-reform/
Posted by: anti terry | August 3, 2009 9:38 PM
This birther garbage is nothing more than Republican racism....period, end of story.
Posted by: Yinda | August 3, 2009 9:55 PM
I had to show my BC when I played baseball and Obama doesn't have to show his when he can kill 1/2 million people with one nuclear bomb !
How can we be considered stupid & dumb when we just want to prove you are within the laws of the constitution.
The real stupid, ignorant, low IQ pinheads are the ones calling us names !
Posted by: Mike Fuller | August 3, 2009 10:08 PM
I have a Kenyan BC dated 1966 and it is nowhere near that piece of crap.
1. Kenyan Birth Certificates are never printed on white paper, even a copy
2. The format is very different, the size is not A4, they are "landscape" format
3. There are several official numbers, including the birth registers number and the number of the certificate.
The Kenya gov should sue this woman to bankruptcy for defamation and forging documents and purporting them to be official.
If she cant respect US gov docs from the state of Hawaii how does she know her greencard or whatever she got after immigration is real?
Posted by: Jezz | August 3, 2009 10:45 PM
An Israeli version of Sarah Palin?
They hyperventilate in a similar fashion.
This is the most bizarre video I've ever seen from any news outlet.
Posted by: ornery | August 3, 2009 11:42 PM
Are the humiliating Comment-makers and name callers all paid CHICOM Netizens or just paid ACORN activists?
Thank God for Attny. Taitz and her actions to save the US Constitution and the US, itself.
Ever notice: On ALL the search engine searches (Read they've been suppressing pro-birther results) the criticisms of all us "Birthers" is the same as they do in Red China?
There, the government employs a horde of "Netizens" to go to sites to humiliate & denigrate & suppress anti-government talk. They're paid about $.25 per input, I've read.
Just like these apparent ACORN operatives do, they ALWAYS humiliate, denigrate, and use varying terms of "Mental Illness" in volume! Buzzwords like "Wingnut," "Birther," "Insane,"Unhinged, "Delusional,"Tin-hat," "Conspiratorialist," etc.
That's what happens to the average Chinese when they type out loud, and the CHICOMs have even more "Mental Health" Prisons as do the Russians.
The apparent wave of the future for us here in Obamaland? Is this why The Great O is building more prisons on military bases?
The CHICOMS have been waging economic and PSYOPS warfare on us a long time, at least since JFK (Oooh.. LISTEN TO THEM HOWL, NOW!). They've apparently continued their terroristic use of Biblical prophesies and Feng Sui (Remember what they did on 6/6/6? On 7/4/6?) by creating as part of The Big 0's Economic Manchurian Candidate grooming and Legend, that he's "Actually the Anti-Christ" (Imagine the desired conquer-and-divide reactions.) That his name, "Barack Obama," as pronounced, means "Antichrist," in ancient Hebrew from the Book of Luke, according to a religious researcher. The video, actually a good one, can be seen at this YouTube video on World Net News. I bet the CHICOMS knew this when they choose his Legend name.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105527 is the site.
This creation of a well-groomed "Legend," part of an overall economic warfare agenda, taking over at the top, is as old espionage craft as is planting ads in prominent Hawaii newspapers, making myth become "The Truth."
.I lived in Hawaii when they were contemplating that legislation for the COLB's. At first it was touted as being "Generous" for the cheap immigrant Filipino sugar cane workers, because it allowed them access to Hawaii's huge entitlement programs. But when the Legislature found out hat it could potentially let a foreign, hostile, espionage agent in as US President, they RUSHED to pass that bill. HI is half-way to Red China IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN THINK OF. Very asian-based racist, they love to rip off tourists of any color or race, but there is not a school in Hawaii that does not have "Kill Haole Day," the first day of school, where any Caucasian kid who doesn't want to get beaten stays home.
Hawaii politicians are more corrupt and racist than NJ or Chicago. Call ME a conspiriatoralist? For my own anti-drug work, I was beaten three times. Twice by the Lahaina Mafia, and once by the MPD. You could ask Sen. Inouye about it - He wrote to say it would be investigated.
These people who know not that major criminal and espionage crime are, indeed, CONSPIRING, ought to get off their high horses, and stand among common men such as myself, in the know, and in the craft, for a change, before flinging their verbal spears at others.
Posted by: Rick A Hyatt | August 3, 2009 11:43 PM
1) How many times does she need to repeat the same thing
2) She will lose her law license for admitting false evidence into court
3) Obama has showed his BC, Hawaii doesnt have the so called long form
4) You people actually listen to this nutjob? That shows what level of intelligence you are on.... scary. You guys are allowed on the internets? zomg
5) hahahahahaha
6) oh man, it gets better every time I watch it. Calling a Jewish Guy and a Black Woman Brownshirts.
7) A woman thats not even a American claiming Obama isnt one
Posted by: hdtv information | August 4, 2009 12:24 AM
The fact is, she ended up answering Shuster's question. He just didn't realize it. And what she said about the types of Hawaiian birth certificates is accurate. So they were able to tag-team someone who's first language is not english, and they think they've accomplished something? The fact is Shuster and for that matter most people's real knowledge of this issues is so shallow. It's reduced to a Robert Gibbs type response by showing a Certification of live birth and fraudulently declaring it a birth certificate. For those interested in this topic, just do your own research.
Posted by: JImD | August 4, 2009 1:21 AM
This comment is incorrect:
"What intrigues me is why everybody focuses only on the birth certificate. Even if the prez WAS born in Hawaii, didn't he lose US citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia? (Bonafide elementary school records show him as Barry Soetoro, Indonesian nationality, apparently by adoption by his Indonesian step-father.)"
U.S. citizenship is determined solely by the U.S.; it does not matter what the rules are in Indonesia. And a child can't lose citizenship through the actions of a parent. A child born a U.S. citizen remains a U.S. citizen unless he/she chooses to renounce it through a formal process OR unless the child lives outside the U.S. for most of his/her life & does not return to the U.S. & reaffirm by age 25. Obama was only in Indonesia for 2-3 years before returning to the U.S. None of this applies to him.
Posted by: Moxie | August 4, 2009 2:03 AM
Mombassa wasn't part of Kenya until 1963. It was still part of Zanzibar. If he had been born in Mombassa in 1961, his birth certificate would have said "Republic of Zanzibar" not "Republic of Kenya".
Posted by: Pogo | August 4, 2009 2:12 AM
J. McCain was born in the Panama Canal. Both parents were U.S. citizens. If his mom had not been a citizen, J. McCain would not have been a natural born citizen. The constitution states you have to be a natural born citizen to be president of the U.S. This is the same for B. Obama. No matter really where he was born, he is not natural born citizen because his father was not born in the U.S.
Posted by: Kate | August 4, 2009 2:13 AM
What's going on with this ladies hair? She looks like she's taking her styling cues from Cindy Brady circa 1972. Please, please keep putting this nutcase on the air.
Posted by: alex | August 4, 2009 3:41 AM
Media should stop giving nutjobs/troll like orly publicity.
Posted by: Will | August 4, 2009 4:36 AM
he is not natural born citizen because his father was not born in the U.S.
Posted by: Kate | August 4, 2009 2:13 AM
I'm guessing you dont read. President Obamas mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth! The Constitution DOES NOT say both parents have to be citizens!! END OF STORY!!! COngress has dealth with this and unanamously voted (All Democrats and ALL Republicans) confirming President Obama was bornin in Hawaii!! Are you suggesting your Republican leaders are lying as well??
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | August 4, 2009 8:14 AM
Orly is the perfect face for the Barfer 'movement'. (Very aptly named.)
And to think she is one of the presentable ones.
Posted by: C.Morris✧ | August 4, 2009 8:50 AM
Posted by: Rick A Hyatt | August 3, 2009 11:43 PM
But where do the Bilderbergs and the aliens who transmit messages to my dental work come into the conspiracy?
Posted by: Another Conspiracy Theorist | August 4, 2009 9:04 AM
Where is Orly's BC?
Where is her green card?
Apart from those two intriguing questions, she is the PERFECT poster girl for the Birfers.
Posted by: ornery | August 4, 2009 9:08 AM
Posted by: Rick A Hyatt | August 3, 2009 11:43 PM
I must say, this is one of my favorite conspiracy theory posts that I've ever seen on the internet. Chinese communists, feng shui, numerology, ancient Hebrew, it's got it all.
It's right up there with the one I saw where a guy was saying that the WTC towers were really brought down by 6-9 dialable yield briefcase nukes.
Posted by: Lou | August 4, 2009 10:53 AM
Would you get a root canal from this woman?
Posted by: Kenneth Janowski | August 4, 2009 11:27 AM
Here's an interview with the Australian guy whose birth certificate they doctored.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2646009.htm
DINA ROSENDORFF: And looking at the fake Kenyan birth certificate what do you make of it?
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It's definitely a copy of my certificate. It's so laughable it's ridiculous.
Posted by: Lou | August 4, 2009 1:09 PM
Why is Orly in Israel? Could it be that she skipped to Israel because of stringent extradition rules. And knowingly submitting forged documents (Kenyan Birth Certificate) to the courts is a felony.
Posted by: jsfox | August 4, 2009 1:49 PM
heres some iddeasl for the birthists and feedom fighteres to use!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml
Posted by: Bushman | August 4, 2009 7:12 PM
Dems should stop trying to distract people from this issue with things like health care. NOTHING is more important than know if the President is LEGAL! We need one of our OWN KIND in the Whitehouse. Luckily Republicans know this is a NATION OF LAWS.
Posted by: Sean | August 5, 2009 1:08 AM
But but but ....
Where is McCain's birth certificate?
Why hasn't that been posted somewhere on the internet?
You can't find it because he wasn't born on US soil.
Panama City is not US soil.
Posted by: ornery | August 5, 2009 10:29 AM
obviously there is a reason this is SUDDENLY a story that msnbc, cnn, etc SUDDENLY need to defend???? why now? is this getting too close?
MSM has been treating this as a non-story UNTIL NOW!
yes, something is in the mix that they really fear being exposed and they are (IMO) being told to try and squash it... but therein lays the danger... turns out their sudden attention has suddenly caused many sleepers to suddenly sit up and take notice that something really STINKS here.
for example the address given in the BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT is false. obama or any members of his family never lived at that address as attested to by a neighbor who lived there since before 1961 and still resides there. YOU DO THE MATH.
Posted by: truth Confirms Itself | August 5, 2009 11:30 AM
Neither of Bobby Jindal's parents were born in the US, so let's take a real good look at his citizenship if he runs.
ho-hum
Posted by: born near the border | August 5, 2009 4:12 PM
Rick A Hyatt,
When President Obama and the Democrats (at least the majority of them anyway) get health care reform passed, you will finally be able to afford those meds you so obviously need.
Until then, please back away from the keyboard and lie down for a while. It will be okay. It really will.
Posted by: skip | August 6, 2009 3:44 AM
Kate August 4, 2009 2:13 AM
"No matter really where he was born, he is not natural born citizen because his father was not born in the U.S."
Kate, with all due respect, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
In that sentence, you are claiming that even if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii -- which he was -- he would not be eligible to be president because his father was not born in the United States.
Where did you get that from?
By your logic, you would have us believe that Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Chester Arthur, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover were all ineligible to be president of the United States. After all, each of those presidents had one parent who was foreign born.)
In fact, it sounds like you're suggesting Andrew Jackson was doubly-ineligible, since both his mother and father were born in Ireland.
Wow. Thank you for enlightening us to that massive crisis. This ineligible president conspiracy is a lot bigger than any of us thought. And it's been going on a lot longer than since 1961.
Apparently it goes back to 1801 when Jefferson took the oath of office.
Posted by: skip | August 6, 2009 4:11 AM