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Another Patrick

Obama's Father. I don't understand why the Birthers have to swing on a pendulum with this. Why would his father need to be some famous, but controversial black man from 1960?

There were a lot of people back then, and much like today your average person didn't just sex up a famous person, and then have offspring who became President of the United States. There's a name for that type of thinking, and people buy lottery tickets based on that principle. Yes, winning the lottery HAS happened to people. It doesn't mean it's going to happen to you. Or even to someone you know.

The pendulum then swings the other way, if his father wasn't a famous black man, then why not his father be some random black man who happened to swing through Hawaii impregnating Stanley Ann on the way through?

The most likely explanation is the simplest one. The black man who Stanley Ann married, was the man who got her pregnant and is the father of Barack Obama. Simple! Of course, since there's not conspiracy attached to it they can't hang their hat on it.

In the end it actually doesn't matter who his father was, since his mother was an American Citizen, and that along with being born on American soil (Hawaii was a state by 1961), means he's a natural born citizen. A citizen at the moment of his birth. Just like James Buchanan.

Oh wait. Obama's black? Well, yeah that changes everything of course.

Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter

Lame Cherry's grotesque grammar inspired me to poetry.

A Ghastly Sugar Coma of Lingering Death.
(Being A Metaphysical Poem On The Misuse of Words)
by Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter

Go and kvetch, Thou Falling Star!!!
Git! You Child of Mundane Root.
And say Thee thrice and take no Breath,
"A Ghastly Sugar Coma of Lingering Death."

For sooth, if Words fair Women were,
Thou Cherry With A Limp,
Ask not for whom the Belles Toil,
They toil for Thee, Thou Pimp!!!

Squeeky Fromm
Girl reporter

MTinMO

So who is that crazy person behind that alias of Lame Cherry- a disabled virgin? Evidently a permanent virgin, because I can't imagine anyone wanting to get that close to crazy. I feel a little crazy after reading that.

The Magic M

> Gilbert’s distribution company is mailing a free copy of the DVD directly to hundreds of thousands of households across the United States

I wonder who's paying for that...

> Which just happens to be the name of a Kenyan environmentalist, member of Parliament, and holder of the Nobel Peace Prize. Who died on 25 September 2011.

I wonder if birthers will turn this into "famous Kenyan who sued Obama mysteriously dead"...

> Why would his father need to be some famous, but controversial black man from 1960?

Because they somehow believe that if such a "fact" became known, no white person would vote for him again.

> In the end it actually doesn't matter who his father was

Legally, it doesn't. But birtherism has always been about "smearing the black guy", and for that, a "controversial black father" would be perfect.
You've already fallen for the birther lie "we only care about the legal issues".

Patrick McKinnion

The Magic M - Actually I always thought that the birthers used the whole "legal issues" thing as an excuse to justify their blind hatred and screaming racism.

The fact we're starting to see them, as their "sure fire" court challenges fail, abandon all pretense and go straight to hatred and racism is sickening, but hardly surprising.

Thomas Brown

@Another Patrick:
> Why would his father need to be some famous, but controversial black man from 1960?

This type of thinking, instantly dismissible, is just like the wild theories about the identity of Jack the Ripper. It makes a much better story to say it was a mad nephew of the Queen, or a Royal Physician, a depraved Nobleman or Clergyman, etc. etc. than a nobody. But a story about a nobody doesn't sell tabloids.

The most likely suspect I've heard is James Kelly. He was fingered by Ed Norris, ex-commissioner of police in Baltimore, an enormously bright guy who has real cold-case savvy. He knows that the most colorful suspects are the most unlikely, just as Malcolm X or F. M. Davis are highly unlikely as BHO's father.

Ed doesn't want a good story; he wants to identify the perp. No kidding. Remember that real police investigations want-- you know-- facts? It's getting hard to remember that far back, I know.

Not only does Kelly fit, he was an escaped mental patient in the Ripper years, fled to America where there were a number of Ripper-style murders, but in separate cities (he kept moving) so back then they weren't connected. After this period he apparently went back to England and turned himself in to the asylum, saying something like "I've been a very bad fellow."

The really cool part about Nobody Kelly is that his occupation was re-upholstering furniture. Plus, he was at the bottom of the trade, the ones who remove the old upholstery before the more skilled mechanics put the new back on. I haven't found any verification yet, but I'm betting the trade monicker for guys like Kelly might have been "ripper."

He was quite the saucy fellow, and it would seem in-character for him to not only tell the police his name but also his profession, albeit both in slang.

oAran

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