Did Michele Bachmann Crack a Birther Joke?
- Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:46pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The answer to the question in the headline is “maybe.”
The internet is buzzing with rumors that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), possible Tea Party presidential candidate, cracked a birther joke while on the campaign, fundraiser, I-love-America trail this weekend in New Hampshire. In an interview with Boston’s conservative radio host Jeff Katz on Friday, Bachmann remarked, “I think the first thing I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate so we can get that off the table.”
Taken by itself, that sounds pretty self-explanatory — it’s a birther shot at Barack Obama. But here’s the larger context: Bachmann’s comment was in response to a point that Katz was making about little league baseball.
Katz: “Just yesterday my boys brought home the sign-up sheets for little league, and I kid you not, I’m looking through them and I realize I have to provide more documentation for them to go play tee ball and little league than the president ever had to provide. I mean, I’m amazed by this.”
Bachmann: “You’re kidding. Little league?”
Katz: “Little league. I got a packet of paper work and I know I’m going to get called on this, but it starts with their birth certificate and goes form there.”
Bachmann: “Oh my word. Well, I tell you one thing, if I was ever to run for president of the United States, I think the first thing I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate so we can get that off the table.”
When you look at the entire transcript, isn‘t at least plausible Bachmann was poking fun at Katz’s local little league instead of the president? Sure, maybe it still wasn’t the smartest comment to make — especially since many want to push Bachmann into the birther camp — but it might not be the smoking gun the left is looking for.
Listen for yourself:
Readers may remember that ABC’s George Stephanopoulis asked Bachmann point-blank last month what she thought about Obama’s citizenship. She responded, “When the president makes his statements, I think they need to stand for their own.”
We reached out to Bachmann’s office for clarification regarding her latest comment and have not heard back.
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Comments (226)
curtmavi38
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:28pmActually Obama didn’t exsist until he came to Chicago, he just appeared one day and that was it. Sound familiarmeh
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:39pmLike Li Uhr–he just popped off a comet in Chicago at age 40 and started campaigning to be Senator ;)
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:28pmObama makes his own jokes about the birther issue all the time
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:56pmHis birth WAS the joke.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:13amhttp://www.rense.com/general92/birthcert.htm………………..Let's see if he can dispel this one
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:24pmi like her,but president no,she has the ability to be behind the scenes ,she is very smart,and has a way of getting things done,she is aggressive,and that can be bad and be good,but she should continue to support the freedoms of america with her abilities to raise money and to call out the left wing nut jobs,she would be great at that,but president,i am not sure the democrats would not eat her alive.but it is her money,so be it.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:31pmA lot of men…and women, are afraid of smart women!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:37pmtrue that !!!!! and smart she is ,just maybe she could help fight this great fight for freedom with the rest of us and use her abilities to be an insider who can lead us to the ones who would love nothing better than to ruin america, but if not, so be it,it is a free country and i love it that way.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:21pmI don’t care what jokes Bachmann makes–it’s not her mediocre sense of humor that makes her distasteful; it’s her political record and incoherent ideology (and the catastrophic policy results).
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:24pmPlease clarify your assertion on the ‘incoherent’ part.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:27pmincoherent???? that would be the left.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:28pmSomebody at The Blaze doesn’t like Bachmann, or Palin.
Report Post »Don’t know who or why,
but the tone and the bias are there. Ha! Must be O’Reilly!
13th Imam
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:30pmAlinsky Trap. FAIL
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:36pmI mean that she advocates “jobs”, then turns around and advocates policies that have a redistributive effect upon incomes (but in the opposite direction would expect) such that income is more concentrated. When income is more concentrated, the average marginal propensity to spend decreases, and as a result, there is a slump in aggregate demand. The only reason the economy, capital goods, and capitalists (largest plurality shareholders of capital goods) exist is to provide product for that aggregate demand. So, by pursuing tax cuts for the wealthier (which obviously entails fewer transfer payments) and policies that allow those who own capital goods to extort larger rents for the use of “their” capital, Bachmann hurts aggregate demand, the basis for economic strength, the provisioner of profits, and the incentivizing mechanism of production. This is just one example of a logical inconsistency (two mutually exclusive stated goals, or a conflict between actions and professed goals) in Bachmann’s political philosophy.
I don’t remember if she is a social conservative, but if she is there’s another inconsistency–one can say one favor’s “liberty” if one is in favor of the government intervening to curtail a citizen’s liberty. And on most of the issues social conservatives advocate for intervention on, I can’t see sufficient harms (the only justification a secular, rational, and just society ought to accept for curtailing liberties) to justify intervention, so there’s an unjustified intervention (that’s where the catastrophic policy results comes in), which can only lead me to conclude that while Bachmann SAY’S she supports liberty, what she ACTUALLY prefers is arbitrary exercise of power.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:43pmshe advocates jobs then turns around and advocates against them THIRD ARCHON,that sounds just like your beloved left wing president and his buddies soros,so try again with some more your left leaning b s
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:46pm@The Third Archon
That was whole bunch of nothing. You wrote much, but said little. What ‘aggregate’? What extensions of capital and denial of it (where you think it’s happening) are you meaning?
Let’s get down to brass tacks: Were do YOU find less taxes and smaller government are somehow a harm to the individual–like you and me?
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:00pmShe’s also a hypocrite: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/14/inside-washington-farm-subsidies-staying-power/
It must be OK for you and your family to take government welfare in the form of subsidies as long as you come out against them first.
She also has a problem with the truth. Yes, her inflammatory statements about the President whip up her base, but based in facts they are not. Remember the $2,000K/day trip to India accusation for which she jumped on the bandwagon with both feet? I know Blaze readers don’t lend credence to Politifact, unless it’s hammering Rachel Maddow, but check out Mrs. Bachmann’s stats. Not too good.
If you insist on putting all your efforts behind a this woman, who is a divider and has no chance of winning the Presidency, I’m positive you have the blessings of the DNC.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:03pmThis is a REAL internet meme satirizing Glenn Beck for the EXACT same kind of silly rhetorical tool that he uses, and that you’ve reproduced, when talking about the “birther” issue. I simply took out the actors and replaced them with something more familiar to you, and I was HOPING that you’d understand how ridiculous it is to imply that silence is self-incrimination.
There are, for example, a lot of reasons why Glenn/Obama don’t respond to charges of them not being born in this country/having Raped and Murdered a Girl in 1990;
1) They don’t have the time or inclination to respond to every idiot with a phone who wants a personal written and oral apology and denunciation plus furnishing irrefutable proof of innocence when the charges are ridiculous, unsubstantiated, and/or highly unlikely.
2) They have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and probably feel it is an intrusive and unrealistic burden to expect them to justify their innocence on demand to every unsatisfied petitioner, particularly when they feel, and they official record shows, that they are innocent.
Yes you’re right–it is a ridiculous example; Glenn Beck OBVIOUSLY doesn‘t need to defend that he didn’t Rape and Murder a Girl in 1990 from any idiot that accuses him of it, anymore than Obama needs to defend that he was not born in this country from any idiot that accuses him of it.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:13pmSomalia.
There–one example of a world in which low taxes and subsequent small (in fact non-existent actually) government is awful for everyone living in, near, or having to come close to, the country in question. It’s not the size of the government–it’s how you use it.
As to you not understanding the function of an economy, let me put it simpler–people wanting and able to buy stuff creates an incentive for people to provide that stuff on the basis of the exchange of their labor and skills. So long as we educate our population and improve our technology, the amount of product efficiency each worker can generate improves. All goods, including capital, experience diminishing returns (they get less valuable as you get more of them). Once you’ve bought everything you could possibly need or want, it becomes very difficult to find ways to spend additional money, in fact, you deliberately HAVE to seek out more expensive means of consuming the same amount in order to continue to spend the same proportion of your income. However, the majority of people don’t continue to spend the same proportion–in fact, the majority of people follow a very predictable progression of spending a smaller and smaller proportion of their income is the nominal amount of it increases. That’s what the “marginal propensity to spend” means–given a certain consumption level (enabled by income, and determined by personal preference), one has an inversely related likelihood of spending more money; as you buy more of your hierarchy of needs and wants, you want and need less and consequently buy less. That’s why income disparity hurts consumer spending.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:23pmArchon, you typed a lot of words and said absolutely nothing. It’s much simpler then that. The people with money create the jobs. Obamas policies punish people who create jobs, Bachmanns does the opposite. Brevity is your friend Archon.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:31pmJust because you have a simplistic explanation for how the economy works does not mean your explanation is correct. If we didn’t know anything about how economics played out empirically, and we simply had to distinguish which causal argument had the fewest logical links, then yes, you would be correct.
However, your logic is circular and your model doesn’t correctly explain the causal origins of the value added chain; yes in the status quo the people with the largest shares of money, surprise surprise, are the people who own the means of production. And the only have an incentive to produce, and thus are only able to make money, if there is a market for their product. Poor people spend all or almost all of their income–splitting the same amount of money amongst more poor people instead of fewer rich people, means more overall spending. I don’t understand how much simpler I have to state that for you to see how logically intuitive and self-evident it is–I would draw you a picture if could but there’s no way to post it on the Blaze. Obviously, I’m not saying we should redistribute income so that no one ever makes more than anyone else–that’s as patently ridiculous and untenable as the idea that we should have one person with all the resources (the natural hyperbolic implication of the other end of the spectrum). All I’m saying is that when you move towards one pole of the spectrum, which we historically are, you are going to have negative consequences. I’m against negative consequences and I think you should be too.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:48pmDid someone just give you a dictionary as a gift?
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:05pmI was thinking a thesaurus Bikerr. Don’t get angry at Archon for using it though, it shows that he is at least trying to put it to good use.
Archon your drama queen rendition of how the economy works is so errantly wrong that I figured I would give you a rather simple explanation so as not to explode your brain. You need to get a grip on reality and do some homework. Obamas’ Keynesian policies do not work, they never have and they never will. Obama does not believe in what has proven time and time again to work. He feels that America needs to atone for its “transgressions” and he feels that he is the one to do the atonement. His policies rob hard working people of what they earned and promotes laziness and complacency. If you ever decide to grow up an join the real working world you would realize that. The simple fact is you can not spend more then you have and when you steal from Peter to pay Paul eventually Peter runs out of money. Get a clue cupcake.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:52pmNo, I’m just educated and intelligent.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:17pmYou are willfully ignorant of the artificiality of the market–the market doesn’t just automatically assign profit to value, it does so under the constraints of the legal framework the political system provides. And aside from the fact that obviously those who control the political system can change the rules to preference their interests, and that having control of the means of production gives one an obvious advantage in securing this political control, there is still the fact that the market doesn’t reflect value unless the law constrains activities (externalities) that are net negative but produce profit absent controls of the market.
Unless you were born yesterday, you can probably think of dozens of historical and contemporary examples of how our market isn’t perfect, and that that which is “profitable” for the producer is sometimes antagonistic to the interests of the economy as a whole (the recent behavior of the banks, the bedrock of American capitalism anyone?). To just pretend that everything is fine, that the market isn’t failing in many instances and that we can “stay the course” and keep doing business as we have for the last four decades is unrealistic and ignores the build up of externalities that threaten to destroy our economy and our society–I think that’s a more real impact than any of the rationales offered for why nonintervention is superior.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:53pmYour statements are long and rambling Please make them clear, concise and back them up with facts or quit wasting our time.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:15am@The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:21pm
I don’t care what jokes Bachmann makes–it’s not her mediocre sense of humor that makes her distasteful; it’s her political record and incoherent ideology (and the catastrophic policy results).
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Report Post »Amazing, just goes to prove, “You see what your looking for.” Most of us would tell you, your description is a mirror image from the truth, and that‘s just why many of us think she’d make a Great President!
Mil Mom
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:21am@The Third Archon
Report Post »Talk about Incoherent Policy, I gave up trying to read your explanation, Speak plainly, we’re all Real People here, one reason we love Conservatives, they don’t try to prove their intelligent, Didn’t Lincoln say something about that?
leary1
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:18pmeven if oddman obama admits it, do you really think the lefties would accept the truth and then what would they do?????….NOTHING
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:17pmWhile I don’t subscribe to the birther meme, the question is out there. Only Obama can solve it, and he’s not doing it.
The best way to keep an argument going, if that’s your aim, is to tell nothing and let everyone guess.
Obama sealed his records by executive order, didn’t he? A stroke of his pen can clear it all up. But he’s not doing that.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:25pmYeah–I heard Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Girl in 1990, too–didn’t you? Now, I’m not saying I BELIEVE that, but hey, it’s on the internet somewhere that someone said they heard that Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered A Girl in 1990. I’m not saying there is any truth to this rumor, but you’ve got to wonder–this rumor is fairly old by now, and Glenn Beck has had ample time to make a public announcement on his radio show, or his TV show, or his guest appearance with O’Reilly, or his blog, or even by calling me with that red phone he has (Obama never calls so I know the line is free to use) and plainly state for the record that he did not, in fact, Rape and Murder a Girl in 1990–then after he‘s been called up before a Congressional hearing and we’ve overturned every aspect of his personal life for the last two decades, we will finally be able to put this ugly rumor that Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Girl in 1990, behind us. I mean, if he didn’t do it, why hasn’t he responded to the accusation? The best way to keep an argument going, if that’s your aim, is to tell nothing and let everyone guess, right?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:40pm@The Third Archon
You’re kidding with all that, right?
Really–are you such an idealogue that you have to go into fantasy to somehow make a lame defense?
And who mentioned Beck, except YOU?
BTW–you forgot to mention that Nixon had sex with his wife–EVIL!
You might think you’re somehow savvy but, mentioning Beck when his name isn’t part of this discussion, says a lot about YOU. I didn’t mention Beck, did I? But you sure needed to. Why is that?
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:41pmI’m telling you….the reason he won’t show his birth certificate is because he is listed as caucasian. not mulato, or black…but caucasian.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:50pm3rd. Arhole.:
Report Post »That is what you call slander and deformation of character, and I pray Glenn SUE‘s you until you can’t bleed green any longer.
Where as Obama is a pier, he promised the most transparent administration ever and yet he has denied over one third of the FOI requests that have come his way, and yes he even won’t put his legality to serve ( he isn‘t legal as his daddy wasn’t a natural born citizen of America.) out of the spot light by presenting documents everyday Americans must show to get things like drivers and marriage liscenses, he is wicked evil. And before you go spouting racism, he has less color in him than I do, so there!
The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:20pmLook, no one’s arguing that Obama shoots rainbows and has ushered in a new era of Leftism–that’s obviously not the case, and that’s certainly not why Leftists are upset with him. Also defamation only applies to:
1) Speech or written assertions that is intentionally false with the malicious intent of causing monetary loss due to reputation damages, lost ad revenue, brand tarnishing, etc.
2) Only applies if monetary damages can be proven.
Neither of these conditions are fulfilled–I neither asserted, nor do I believe, that Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered A Girl in 1990, and even if I did, unless Beck can prove that doing so somehow injured him monetarily (which he can’t because I doubt THAT would be the last straw that made anyone who would consider giving him money not still do it, while those who already don‘t like him aren’t giving him money anyways) it’s not defamation–it‘s a metaphor to show what nonsense it is to indict someone and assume they are guilty just because they don’t answer every idiot’s demand for them to defend themselves.
Report Post »swagger
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:25pmThe President knows there is doubt amongst many Americans regarding his birthplace. As a “uniter,” it would be a simple gesture to end any questions and show the birth certificate.
Report Post »Otherwise, It is rather cruel and twisted to use this as a political issue and send his minions out to call fellow Americans “insane.”
He works for me and as his employer, I want to see his birth certificate
The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:36pmhttp://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
This nonsense has been put to sleep a long time ago–as far as Obama and any reasonable person is concerned. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
Besides which, the issue of whether or not he was even born here in my mind is irrelevant–being a native born American is a stupid requirement and one that no one should logically care about–you should only care about the policy proposals and outputs, as well as whether or not he is a citizen, which he undeniably is. I know it’s “in the Constitution” and if there was a remote likelihood of it being true, then they would have legal grounds of investigating it, but given the reality, and investigation would be a pointless infringement of privacy and waste of resources that I don’t think should be necessary to satisfy a constituency that never was going to, and probably won’t ever, like him anyways.
Report Post »swagger
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:56pm@ third archon. After reading all that, I would just repost my original post which stands tall and speaks volumes about Obama and his “minions” :?)
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:02pm@The Third Archon
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:36pm
“…Besides which, the issue of whether or not he was even born here in my mind is irrelevant–being a native born American is a stupid requirement and one that no one should logically care about…”
It’s in the Constitution, and THAT is what is relevant. Your dislike is what’s irrelevant; it’s the Law of the Land.
You, and others, are welcome to change it. That’s what the Amendment process is all about. Go for it, get that petition going! In the meantime, you’re stuck.
Report Post »APEXIdaho
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:26pmObama is not the President, he is in the white house illegally. If the SCOTUS were to do it’s job and uphold the oath that they took when they were sworn in the executive branch would be cleaned out and the Speaker of the House would be President and every thing that Mr Obama signed would be voided.
Report Post »APEXIdaho
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:40pmAlso his SCOTUS apointees would be booted as well.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:09am@The Third Archon
Report Post »And tell us, is it or is it not true, that you’re an un-indited co-conspirator for 9/11. If you don‘t tell us we’ll just have to believe it’s so, won’t we?
The Third Archon
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:51amI don‘t have to defend against that accusation for the same reason Glenn Beck doesn’t have to answer accusations of Raping and Murdering a Girl in 1990 and Obama doesn’t have to answer accusations of being born outside the U.S.–such accusations are ridiculous and unsubstantiated.
Also, you misspelled the “indicted” in “un-indicted” (not technically a word, but it gets the point across just fine) and you used “their’ (should have been there) wrong–it should have either been “prove their intelligence” (not prove their intelligent) or “prove they’re intelligent.” You can either prove your intelligence or prove your are intelligent, but you can’t prove your intelligent. Personally, I‘d rather the people IN CHARGE OF MY COUNTRY were intelligent about the world and able to correctly understand American’s problems and the necessary solutions, then effectively work towards them–I think this is a much more valuable skill for leadership than the ability to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Report Post »nelan72
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:17pm“She is Canadian” or is she from the other border…..IOWA
Report Post »conservativeBC
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:16pmThe Democrats Master Plan For Winning In 2012
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/03/democrats-master-plan-for-winning-in.html
Report Post »Infidel and Proud
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:14pmLets see, opey-dopey was born Barry Soerto (sp?), Changed it Barrack Hussein Obama, but maintains he’s “christian”….yeahhhhhhh right.
WHERE’S the:
Report Post »Birth Certificate
College records
thesis
ANYTHING from his past?
chips1
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:47pmActually the first part of the name Barry was omitted. I heard it was Dingle.
Report Post »ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:26pmHey don’t forget the Law Review…..he’s the only guy ever to be editor…that didn’t write ANYTHING.
This bozo couldn’t write for a comic book…and everyone knows it.
Although he could be on the cover…of Mad magazine…..Barry mooohamad Newman.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:04amAdoption records, Name Change Documents, Passport, Anything?
Report Post »What is required to prove in order to run for the Senate from IL, and for the POTUS? ( I mean, when they file, what documents are required? Could someone run with a STOLEN IDENTITY???? )
AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:12pmIs The Blaze targeting Michelle Bachmann?
Second “questionable” article in 2 days.
What is happening in Wisconsin?
Report Post »Death Threats!
Active Recall attempts.
National Union acctivism…let’s hear some news please.
AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:19pmActually, any article that may cause Obama to present his birth certificate,
Report Post »along with all those other documents that were sealed as his first order
after taking office, IS news, big multimillion $$ Obama-legal-defense-team news!
Mil Mom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:58pm@AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:19pm
Actually, any article that may cause Obama to present his birth certificate,
along with all those other documents that were sealed as his first order
after taking office, IS news, big multimillion $$ Obama-legal-defense-team news!
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Report Post »But not to worry, I’m sure he still has paid back TARP, or Stimulous money to finance it with.
“It‘s his STASH’!! Remember!!
NUTN2SAY
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:11pmBefore Obama came along I used to think O’Reilly was “looking after us” but sad to say, O‘Reilly is really looking after the illegal usurper who is illegally living in The People’s White House! Bring up Obama‘s ineligibility to be president and O’Reilly plays the “birther” card with more skill than the liberal democrats. Folks! The birther issue is irrelevant! The core of the matter for which they want nobody to talk about is the original intent of the Founding Fathers and the Constitutional requirement that a president be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN! Obama could have been born in the middle of New York city with thousands of observers watching and Obama still would never be qualified to be president because Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen!
How many of you realize that when the Founding Fathers created the Constitution of the United States of America, they also created two separate and distinct classes of citizen. The citizen and the NATURAL BORN CITIZEN! The Bill O‘Reilly’s of the MSM don’t want WE THE PEOPLE to discuss NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. They want everyone to talk about the birth certificate instead where they then can label people as “birthers” so as to insinuate there is something wrong with you!
People! Do the research! It can be found on the internet. Look up John Jay, Morrison R. Waite and NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. John Jay was the very first SCOTUS Chief Justice and whom I think should be called the father of NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Morrison R’ Waite was also a SCOTUS Chief Justice! He validated and confirmed NATURAL BORN CITIZEN to be defined by the Founding Fathers as being born to a mother and father both of whom are U.S. citizens at the time of birth!
You must understand what is going on here if you truly care about the future of America for yourself and family. The Bill O‘Reilly’s of the MSM are helping the democrats and republicans circumvent the Constitution of the United States of America. They are rewriting the Constitution with nonsense like this instead of going through the Constitutional Amendment Process! In essence they have suspended the U.S. Constitution and when the Constitution is suspended your freedom is also suspended! Think about it! This is very dangerous stuff they are doing and it threatens all of us!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:23pmnutn2say;
Seems you have plenty to say – I’ll do some research.
Report Post »LVNAmerica
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:38pmI couldn’t agree more. I have heard this said before and it’s the MSM that prevents it from having legs.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:41pm14th Ammendment doesn’t speak of Natural Born, instead it states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:42pmKudo’s!
Report Post »Best comment in ages, nice info WE ALL need to read and know this information.!
Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:53pmHave already researched that, and you are 100 percent correct in every word you posted.
And, not only that, Stanley Ann Dunham did not meet Hawaii law in effect at the time of Barry’s birth regarding age and residency requirements to pass her U.S. citizenship to her son. Barry Obama and his father both became citizens of Kenya on the same day — 12 December 1963. You can read it for yourself in the Consitution of Kenya. I’ve copied and pasted the wording before.
Report Post »BCNU
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:12pmIMO nobody is stating that he is NOT a citizen…….he is NOT a NATURAL BORN citizen per defintion/specification. He asumes his father’s Kenya (British Colony) citizenship.
Report Post »APEXIdaho
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:00pmThis article explaines it all very well.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:09amhttp://www.rense.com/general92/birthcert.htm
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:11pm“The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people who have something to hide.” ~ Barry Soetoro
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:08pmUsamama: What this means,is President Obama cannot ever play little league baseball,or Tee Ball.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:29pmThe Test will be
Throw him a Baseball and a Soccer ball.
I’ve seen him throw, Youse guys figure it out
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:41pmI wonder if its the same for little league basketball?
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:07pmodumbo finally told the truth: “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide.”
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:07pmThe birther joke really is why Onbama refuses to present this birth certificate. Since Obama has proven that he is uncapable of telling the truth only brainwashed lemmings give him any relevance in regards to this or anything he says..
Report Post »Ken
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:07pmObama was born in Kenya and everyone knows it. The lies have got to STOP. Obama is a fraud PERIOD!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:18pmKevin in Rep. Westmoreland’s congressional office said that all that information about Obama is a lie. I nearly had a stroke on the phone with him.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:05pmTee ball,little league, have always required birth certificates to be eligible to participate. At least since early 1950′s.So i am told. lol.
As to the Office of the President, logic suggests a certified birth certificate could, should have been forth coming,IF,there was one to be presented. Seems,one has to present a certified birth certificate of live birth from one’s home state,before gaining a U.S. passport. Records,where are the records?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:49pmRecords,where are the records?
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Maybe if we find the map on the back of the Declaration of Independence? (( Oh, is that another movie idea!!!! Love to see what they’d do with it!!!! ))
USAMama
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:01pmI think its pretty obvious that she is just cracking a joke about how easy it would be for this president to put this debate to rest. Honest to goodness, while I am not a “birther” I think its pretty silly that he would not just show it and get the issue off the table. Of course, he likes to use it to show that the right is simply racist and full of conspiracy theories. It plays in his favor every time it comes up.
Report Post »shimauma42
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:14pmI still think he’s embarrassed to show his birth certificate because it says his name is “barry”.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:55pm@shimauma42
Report Post »Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:14pm
I still think he’s embarrassed to show his birth certificate because it says his name is “barry”.
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Or maybe “Bunny” …….?
ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:19pmOr maybe….born in a flea ridden mud hut…in Kenya.
Report Post »Indie
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:01pmShim – He said kids used to make fun of him because of his name.
Report Post »He really said that.
What’s so funny about Barry?
NickDeringer
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:00pmSounds like Michelle was dissing the Birthers. “I put it out there and get that out of the way.“ This is English for ”here you go, nut jobs, now lets get to the real issues.”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:13pmI didn’t take that as a dis to “birthers.” I take it as a dis to Whatever-His-Name-Is.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:46pm@Hawt‘n’secksie
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And I have a rat’s rosterium for sale, if you’re looking for an extra…
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I recognized “rat’s rosterium” the first time you used it. I’m the one who thought of it, remember?
SpiderPig
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:35pmI’m with NICKDERINGER…it was nothing more than a jab at birthers
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:42pm@NickDeringer
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:00pm
Sounds like Michelle was dissing the Birthers. “I put it out there and get that out of the way.“ This is English for ”here you go, nut jobs, now lets get to the real issues.”
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Report Post »Not Dissing, It’s called humor, try it sometime, it’s a real stress reliever.
Diamond Girl
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:58pmI‘m lovin’ it either way she meant it!
I love Bachamann, have for quite awhile now…funny how Tingles now has a vendetta against her since she put him in his place way back when now regarding her suggesting to him he check out how many in congress were Socialist/Commie leaning.
You go Girl!
Report Post »jmmjr49er
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:03pmRight On! I would like to see the diplomas and GPA from The One, too.
Smartest guy in the room. At least that’s what he believes.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:35pmNot neccesarily the smartest one in the room, but definitely the best teleprompter reader.
Report Post »code green
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:58pmMy first and only impression of her comment…………….so what is the big deal? It is not like she called him a Marxist -socialist………. At least there is some tiny doubt about his citizenship.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:42pmROFLMAO! Keen!
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 6:33amand accurate, sad to say. When did it become ‘cool’ to be a freaking Commie! Did I miss that memo? I‘m pretty sure I’d remember something like that. Guess that’s what I get for ignoring society for a couple decades. Aren’t those people supposed to be smart? Best arguement for Tech and Vocational Schools? See the current administration.
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G man
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:57pmHummmm
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:21pmGMAN
Hmmmm. indeed!
If you have a modicum of common sense you must wonder why Barry Dunham has spent MILLIONS in legal fees not to have his records released.
It is not the Birth Certificate. It’s everything else! Forget the “BIRTH CERTIFICATE”. Release the rest of the records! Why is everything else a mystery too? I don’t give a flying feather if he FAILED political science. That’s pretty much obvious to everyone….,even the Dems.
Barry Dunham what are you hiding?
Report Post »Rob
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:56pmWhat I don’t get is this… when did it become illegal to ask questions…. where it the birth certificate?
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:06pmExactly. And what’s wrong about saying that his “father”
was a Subject of Great Britain at the time Obama was born.
And Obama, adopted by his stepfather, was an Indonesian Citizen.
….still is!
What’s wrong about saying that?
Oops! Can’t say those facts
Report Post »because they make him ineligible to be President.
Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:15pmSince when is it forbidden for the American citizens to obtain a copy of Obama’s proof of eligibility to be POTUS? When he’s in the White House and is ineligible. What happened to the FOIA?
Report Post »Colonel-Burkhalter
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:53pmWhat about his school records and passports? Obama’s records and documents have never been released. He is the only president I know that has not released this information -so much for transparency
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:07amFinally……………….http://www.rense.com/general92/birthcert.htm
Report Post »Fool
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:14pmIt became illegal to ask for a particular person’s birth certificate when all of the effective PR apparatuses was lined up behind him.
Asking for Obama‘s documents is question to be asked on the wrong side of ’official’ credibility.
This country will not make any improvements until our collective minds become educated to the point of discussing and arguing issues as opposed to trashing credibilities due to some phrase–taken within or without of context–that appears to manifest a socially unacceptable mania.
St. Thomas Aquinas once said that it does not matter who states a truth, but what matters is the truth that is stated. In terms of this debate, the Founders shrewdly inserted the natural born clause to keep the country safe from a Trojan Horse candidate, namely, someone not born an American is more inclined to lack the fondness and asperations of the U.S.A.’s well-being that should normally not be missing in a natural born American.
This is a truth worth protecting and defending and, if it’s not a charade, or bait-and-switch, by Obama, then at some time it will reach critical mass and everyone will have to talk about it. If it’s a lie still hiding in the shadows, the truth will shine on it and expose it to all.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:55pmZing!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:25pmPresidential jokes have always been funny… how come now they’re not? Guess that’s what happens when you get a dictator in power.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:51pmThat’s “Tee Ball”, not Tea Ball The TEA BALL , will be the party that we throw when this idiot we have in the Whitehouse gets thrown out in 2012. Encinom will be jumping on the T word, Wait for it ,, Wait ,,,,Wait
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:57pma joke is a joke. but please dear god don’ t run for president michelle. just don’t. Your so nice and they’ll tear you up and make you do reality t.v. shows from your homestate and tina fey will impersonate you all the time.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:04pmNice little double entendre there, Congresswoman Bachmann.
And “Hawt-n-Seksie” will say it smells of something, or is impeccibly groomed.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:05pmI think the comment was great. Detractors will always detract, supporters will support, it was an honest and funny comment. With the way the media and public analyze every word a candidate speaks, I honestly do not know why anyone would put themselves through it. Especially a presidential run. Who in their right mind wants to be president? You have to be a nut to even want the job! Scary, aint it?
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:22pm@ 13th
I am looking for the “Tea Ball” you were talking about. Was that a joke I missed or does it really say that? I can only see where it was spelled correctly.Please tell me. Thanks
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:28pmIts just sad that somemany confused, ignorant, inbreds, continue to vote for these tea-bagging clowns, even when it becomes clear that the Bachmann, Palin and the rest of the tea-****** leadership do not represent the salt of the earth, but rather the bankers that nearly destroyed the economy in 2008 and the the DC insiders.
Ron Paul is nuts, but at leasthe is honest about wanting to confront some of the parties responsible for the economic melt down, Bachmann, Palin and the rest of the tea-baggers are providing cover for these bankers, while they send the masses to attack union worker’s rights.
13th Imam
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:35pmIt was corrected . I was looking also. It was in the first Katz quote. Go Michelle
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:38pm@Hawt‘n’secksie
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:24pm
@ Anonymous…
Actually, I didn’t have a comment (I have a cold and can’t smell things very well) but you can bet your rat’s rosterium that our beloved “Showtime” will…no doubt a correction of someone’s spelling or grammar, as she is the undisputed master.
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Why, thank you, Hawt! I am a writer by profession, and I made straight As in English grammar while in school without even studying for tests. When I got caught smoking in school and had to stay in before and after school for three months, my English teacher had me tutoring students in grammar and punctuation when the students came in for extra help. So, thank you.
@SissyKatz ~
Report Post »Whenever there is an error and someone brings it to the attention of those on the “other side” of the screen, they will make the correction(s). We can tell them in a comment (and have everybody looking for something that is no longer there) or in an email directly to The Blaze.
Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:41pm@Hawt ~
“As” is plural of “A”
and “A’s“ is possessive of ”A” and is incorrect.
Same applies to years, such as the 1950s, rather than the 1950′s.
Report Post »Angry_Bird
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:53pmObama’s Birth certificate right here http://www.rense.com/general92/birthcert.htm
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:06pm@Hawt‘n’secksie
Sorry to hear that. I hope you get over your cold. You know I was only teasing :-)
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:41pmokay obama…we’ll take you at your word…what ya hiding?
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:46pmAfter this, she’ll probably mistakenly announced she was born in New Hampshire, right where the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:44pmObama IS a birther joke!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:17pmIt was sarcasm that’s all! Don’t make a President out of an illegal citizen, I mean a mountain out of a mo…..nevermind….
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:26pmANGRY_BIRD:
Report Post »Well, that one looks more realistic than that bit of Photoshop that they were trying to sell us on. Born in 1958, I still have a copy of mine and I bet I could go down to the court house and get another if someone just asked…
restorehope
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:03pmHow does making that joke connect her to the birther group? It is well-known that Obama has been obstinate about actually producing an original birth certificate. Whether he possesses one or not, he is reluctant to part with it. That is what her joke is referring to, not that he is not a legal citizen. Saying something about his birth certificate should not automatically make you a birther. As is usual with the progressives, they jump to the wrong conclusion and will blacken any conservative’s reputation if they can.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:13pmMinnesota mindless moron
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:51pm@tower7femacamp
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Minnesota mindless moron
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At least she knows how many states there are, can produce a birth certificate, is not a Muslim, doesn’t bow to Muslims, and didn’t crawl out from under God-only-knows which country’s rock!
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Posted on March 15, 2011 at 5:15amTheBlaze: “We reached out to Bachmann’s office for clarification regarding her latest comment and have not heard back.”
So you need it spelled out, do you? Well, here it is (hope you can read):
BARACK OBAMA IS NOT “CONSTITUTIONALLY ELIGIBLE” TO SERVE AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DUE TO THE FOLLOWING:
* The United States Constitution mandates the President of the United States must be a United States “natural born” Citizen – Article II, Section I;
* Obama was born in Mombasa, in what is now Kenya, Africa;
* Obama is an Indonesian Citizen as he was adopted/acknowledged by his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian Citizen;
* Obama’s legal name is Barry Soetoro
The crucial issues regarding Obama, the ‘IMPOSTER’, continue to grow. However, the most important issue is Obama not being ‘Constitutionally Eligible’ to be President: 1) not being ‘natural born’ being born in Mombasa, Kenya; and 2) even more important the fact that Obama was ‘adopted’ or legally ‘acknowledged’ by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, and his school record in Indonesia indicates the ‘Imposter’s’ name is ‘Barry Soetoro’, his nationality being ‘Indonesia’ and his religion being ‘Islam’. Obama, the Imposter’s legal name is ‘Barry Soetoro’.
Obamacrimes will be appealing the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in our False Claims Act [Qui Tam] case where I, as Relator, have sued Obama claiming that Obama is not ‘natural born’, not ‘naturalized, but Obama is an ‘illegal alien’ and therefore, his salary and benefits from being a U.S. Senator from Illinois must be returned to the U.S. Treasury, an amount in excess of One Million [$1,000,000] Dollars.
Obamacrimes.com will also be putting pressure on the Republicans as they take control in the U.S. House for Hearings to verify if Obama is ‘Constitutionally Eligible’ to be President of the United States. Keep watching our website, obamacrimes.com, for further details.”
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Report Post »“Oooh, baby. You are so talented. [looks to the camera] And they are so dumb.” -sheriff (Black) Bart, Blazing Saddles
tower7femacamp
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 8:14amObama IS THE ANTI CHRIST Michelle is a Patriot Poser
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 8:17amMichele Bachmann Supports the Patriot act
Report Post »funny how both Dems and Repubs can agree
that we are slaves
Tucci78
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:52pmJust as a rejoinder to this “ENCINOM” critter – who’d made the out-of-the-blue blurt: “Ron Paul is nuts, but at least he is honest about wanting to confront some of the parties responsible for the economic melt down” – I’ve got the advantage of having met the man.
Which is certainly more than “ENCINOM” can say. I had a long conversation with Dr. Paul at a conference a couple of decades ago, and he impressed me as a sensible, experienced, knowledgeable member of the profession. After discussing current issues in obstetrics and gynecology, we got to talking about economics. Turns out we have in common an interest in writers of the Austrian School, both of us taking up the study of the subject after we’d gotten into medicine. He‘d begun by reading Ludwig von Mises’ *Human Action* while I‘d taken a bit of an easier path with Henry Hazlitt’s *Conquest of Poverty*.
I’ve followed Dr. Paul’s political career since that time, and I‘m pleased to say that he’s shown nothing but the highest level of dispassionate rationality in his statements and policy recommendations. I disagree with him on some issues, but they‘re the same we agreed amicably to disagree upon back in the ’80s. In terms of the fiscal, foreign, and domestic policies of the federal government in these United States, Dr. Paul is firmly in line with the U.S. Constitution, with emphasis on Article 1, Sections 8 and 9.
Not to mention the Bill of Rights.
Inasmuch as the charter under which our central government claims even the least tattered shred of legitimacy isn’t the basis for everything we call “the rule of law” in this country, Dr. Ron Paul is the only truly sane, honest man in the U.S. House of Representatives.
And “ENCINOM” is nuts for thinking otherwise.
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