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Obama’s Signature: Is It Real or Is It Autopenned?

Obamas Signature: Is It Real or Is It Autopenned?

In this photo taken June 13, 2011, Bob Olding, president of Damilic Corp., the leading manufacture of automatic signing machines for replicating authentic signatures, demonstrates the features of the older model Autopen Model 80 in Rockville, Md. Autopens have been used for decades by presidents of both parties, an open secret nobody in Washington wants to talk about, including the White House. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the open secret that nobody in government wants to talk about: That cherished presidential signature that‘s tucked away in a scrapbook or framed for all to see might never have passed under the president’s hand.

For decades, presidents of both parties have let an autopen do some of the heavy lifting when it comes to scrawling their signatures. The machine was recently put to use signing a bill into law, apparently a first.

Overseas and out of reach when lawmakers passed an extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act, President Barack Obama employed the autopen to sign it, a step the White House has been mum about ever since.

“I always heard the autopen was the second most guarded thing in the White House after the president,” says Jack Shock, who had permission to wield former President Bill Clinton’s autopen as his director of presidential letters and messages.

Jim Cicconi, who oversaw the use of autopens for President George H.W. Bush, recalls that the plastic signature templates for the machines — yes, there was more than one autopen — would wear out from repeated use.

Ronald Reagan had 22 different signature templates, including “Ron,” ”Dutch” and other iterations, to boost the aura of authenticity surrounding his fake signatures, says Stephen Koschal, an autograph authenticator who two years ago published a guide to presidential autopen signatures.

It’s not just ordinary Americans who get the autopen treatment.

Koschal says he once visited Vice President Dan Quayle’s office in the Capitol and spotted a signed photograph from the first President Bush that he said had clearly been autopenned.

Obama took the presidential autopen out of the closet and into a new realm.

Obamas Signature: Is It Real or Is It Autopenned?

While traveling in Europe last month, Obama directed his staff in Washington to use an autopen to sign into law an extension of certain Patriot Act powers to fight terrorism. The legislation had been approved by Congress at the last minute, and there was no time to fly it to France for Obama’s signature before the anti-terrorism powers expired.

It was believed to be the first time a president has used an autopen to sign legislation, and that didn’t sit well with a number of Republicans. Twenty-one GOP House members sent Obama a letter on June 17 asking him to re-sign the legislation with his actual signature because use of the autopen “appears contrary to the Constitution.”

Obama’s team relied on a 29-page legal analysis crafted during the administration of President George W. Bush to argue that the faux signature passed constitutional muster.

Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under the younger Bush, says the Bush White House had considered using the autopen to sign a minor piece of legislation as a test case, “but in the end Bush just kept signing the parchment himself.” Bush used the autopen for routine correspondence and photos but not on matters of importance, Fleischer said.

While a number of White House aides from administrations past were willing to discuss the presidential autopen, that kind of talk is frowned upon while a president is in office.

“You want to preserve the president’s semblance of reaching out and being connected,” says Shock. “But the cold hard facts are that when you get 10,000 letters a day he can’t possibly handle all that kind of correspondence himself.”

It turns out there are varying levels of fakeness in presidential signatures.

There are preapproved form letters with digital signatures. There are preprinted cards for birthdays and other special events. Autopen signatures generally are reserved for more personalized correspondence that doesn’t score a real signature, say officials from administrations past.

Obama’s staff is loath to talk about his use of the autopen.

The president prefers to keep the focus on the sampling of 10 letters a day that he reads from among the tens of thousands that ordinary people send to the White House. In many cases, he writes back to these people, with his own signature.

But the president couldn’t get around explaining how the Patriot Act got signed into law without briefly shining a spotlight on the autopen. Once that news was out, though, the White House clammed up. It declined to provide any further details about how many autopens the administration uses, what they look like, where they’re kept, or who makes the machine.

And don’t ask Bob Olding, whose company is the leading manufacturer of autopens, to discuss his clientele.

“I’m not going to help you,” he said. “Our customers do not want anyone else knowing they have these machines.”

Olding did reveal, though, that “when there’s a major change in government, we get an uptick in business.”

Olding is president of Rockville, Md.-based Damilic Corp., whose signature machines run from $2,000 up to $10,000. Hulking older versions look like a drafting table and are too big to fit through a doorway. Newer models, with microprocessors and digital controls, sit on a tabletop. But they still feature two mechanical arms that move a pen back and forth, up and down.

The machines sign letters at about the same pace as does the human hand. An autopen machine that automatically signs a stack of documents can spit out roughly 500 signatures an hour; those with manual document feeders, about 200 an hour.

As recently as the second Bush administration, the autopen in use was a large piece of furniture that looked like a drafting table, says Heidi Smith, who served as Bush’s correspondence director for two years. She says those with clearance to use the autopen would head over to the executive clerk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, where the autopen wielded Bush’s pen of choice — a Sharpie.

Autopens have been used by presidents since Dwight Eisenhower, says Koschal, and President John F. Kennedy put them to heavy use. Many presidents have had secretaries sign their names to correspondence and documents, he says.

More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson acquired a mechanical copying device called a polygraph that attached to his pen and made a second copy of what he was writing. Jefferson liked it so much he wrote that “I could not, now therefore, live without the Polygraph.”

It’s not just busy presidents who rely on autopens. They’re used by thousands of organizations, companies and government officials.

Donald H. Rumsfeld got in hot water for using one as defense secretary to sign letters of condolence to the families of U.S. troops killed in action. When word leaked out in 2004, Rumsfeld said he’d done it to “ensure expeditious contact with grieving family members.”

“I have directed that in the future I sign each letter,” he said.

Other officials and candidates have fingered the autopen as an excuse to avoid taking responsibility for documents that appeared to bear their names. One was Enron executive Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of fraud, conspiracy and lying to banks despite his lawyers‘ arguments that he shouldn’t be held accountable for documents signed by autopen. His conviction was later vacated on other grounds.

So how to tell the difference between a real signature and an autopen version?

Koschal says the best way to detect a fake is to lay the signature in question over a known autopen version and hold the two documents up to a light. If they’re exactly the same, chances are that the top one was created with an autopen. But presidents often create multiple autopen signatures to make it less obvious when they’re letting a machine do the work.

As for Obama’s autopen signature on the extension of Patriot Act powers, it may pass the constitutional test, but not Koschal’s.

“I’d pay peanuts for it,” the autograph authenticator said. “It’s not a real signature.”

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:40pm

    Each day that goes by, Americans are finally beginning to see how fraudulent and phoney this incompetent narcissist is. Its hard to believe such a guy who lies about everything. He does things behind closed door with this filthy cockroach friends then used mouthpieces like Chris Matthews who sold his sould years ago to blame the Republicans. Of course anybody with the slightest bit of sense knows its the Republicans who will save the nation in 2012 or its end game for us. It just amazes this cockroach Presidenet has not been bounced out on his sorry ass. What a waste of human life…

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  • ChuckJ
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:37pm

    Well lets hope the machine was made in America. That way atleast some of the things that were signed in the president’s office were signed by something made in America.

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  • TelepromoterNChief
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:26pm

    Too easy for him to back out of something if the autosignature did it.

    He’d throw the machine under the bus.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:26pm

    Everything about the noman is fake, false, a lie. Why wouldn’t his “signature” be a lie as well?

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  • jeronadams
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:05pm

    GWB, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush sr. These are four other presidents that used auto signatures.

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  • 2smart
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:52am

    It doesn’t matter if the signature is real or memorex. His whole administration has a rubber stamp mentality.

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  • Hot Flash
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:50am

    Does anyone see a similarity between the beginnings of Nazi germany/Hitler and the path Obama is taking us down right now? Is there a concern he might suspend the 2012 elections by initiating a conflict and/or refusing to step down from his presidency if he looses? This is what my intelligent conservative friends are saying….

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:01pm

      Yes, …and (sadly-fearfully) yes again! I too for some time now have been saying “THEY” are hoping for class warfare or economic riots to blossom nationwide giving the excuse to suspend ALL constitutional rights and impose Marshall Law and confiscating any and all items they wish!

      Best we can do is (like Glenn has said) “Be prepared! and be self-sufficient!”

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    • ApokTheGreat
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:19pm

      Which leads to an idea of a connection between that and the riots in Illinois. Could the mob attacks be the beginning of that unrest that bobo da prez uses tominitiate martial law? Especially if these mobs go nationwide. They are getting increasingly widespread and more violent, some extremely racially motivated.

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  • kapnkd
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:47am

    Plain and Simple……NOTHING is real about this person other than he is a traitor to America!!!!!

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  • last frontier
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:42am

    His first autopenn, was Bill Ayers.

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:42am

    Everything about him is phony, why would anyone think he really signs his signature? Watch the other hand….

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  • streetrodder
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:41am

    I wonder if there is some way he can use the autopen when he’s golfing to lie about his score. This weekend is what, 14 weeks in a row?

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  • ForTheRepublic
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:37am

    I have a btter question.
    Is it legal ?

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  • Baxie
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:35am

    His entire presidency has been “phoned in”. Why not the signature?

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  • focusonhistory
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:28am

    When will the House bring impeachment proceedings against this guy. He without question is a “clear and present danger,” to the Republic.

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    • Hot Flash
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:47am

      Obama is taking us down the same road as Hitler; he may even find a way to suspend 2012 elections; he may refuse to leave the presidency. This man is dangerous and I concur with you about that

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:33pm

      @FocusonHistory

      You’re absolutely correct on that. As 2012 nears itself, it’s only a matter of time before Mr. Obama decides to allow those public-sector unions to instill nationwide mayhem so he’ll be able to forgo the 2012 election season and then declare Martial Law. This man is a real threat to this country and yet Congress is simply without a spine to impeach him for TREASON.

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  • last frontier
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:25am

    He cant even pull, his worthless butt together long enough to sign a letter to the families of fallen soldiers, this guy is a fine piece of work.

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    • Rick57
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:29am

      I understood the need for auto pen during Nam my God that was 5000 a year on average but this is 10-11 thousand over ten years. DON’T MISTAKE MY WORDS ONE AMERICAN KILLED IN BATTLE IS TWO TOO MANY, BUT HE COULD AT LEAST TAKE THE TIME. This guy sucks and that is all there is to it.

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  • EJ1979
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:25am

    Wish I would have had an autopen with my parents signature growing up, would have saved me years of being grounded!

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  • Zcat
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:11am

    Obama Administration Passes DREAM ACT by Executive Memo

    Who needs Congressional authority when you can govern by executive fiat?

    “A new enforcement memo handed down by the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week has some accusing the White House of running around Congress to implement the DREAM Act – and consequent amnesty for some illegal immigrants – by executive fiat.

    The new memo, penned by ICE Director John Morton, directs ICE agents, attorneys and directors to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” – meaning less likelihood of deportation – for illegal aliens who have been students in the U.S., who have been in the country since childhood or who have served in the American military.” LINK

    Morton’s excuse for the memo—”not enough resources”:

    Specifically, the memo argues, “Because the agency is confronted with more violations than its resources can address, the agency must regularly exercise prosecutorial discretion.”

    Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer calls this maneuver a Constitutional breech pointing out that it is Congress’s responsibility to enact laws:

    “This is outright lawlessness on the part of the administration,” argued syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on a discussion panel with Fox News’ anchor Chris Wallace. “Whatever the politics of this, we do have a Constitution. And under it, the Legislature, the Congress enacts the laws and the executive executes th

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  • Zcat
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:10am

    Obama Administration Passes DREAM ACT by Executive Memo

    Who needs Congressional authority when you can govern by executive fiat?

    “A new enforcement memo handed down by the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week has some accusing the White House of running around Congress to implement the DREAM Act – and consequent amnesty for some illegal immigrants – by executive fiat.

    The new memo, penned by ICE Director John Morton, directs ICE agents, attorneys and directors to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” – meaning less likelihood of deportation – for illegal aliens who have been students in the U.S., who have been in the country since childhood or who have served in the American military.” LINK

    Morton’s excuse for the memo—”not enough resources”:

    Specifically, the memo argues, “Because the agency is confronted with more violations than its resources can address, the agency must regularly exercise prosecutorial discretion.”

    Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer calls this maneuver a Constitutional breech pointing out that it is Congress’s responsibility to enact laws:

    “This is outright lawlessness on the part of the administration,” argued syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on a discussion panel with Fox News’ anchor Chris Wallace. “Whatever the politics of this, we do have a Constitution. And under it, the Legislature, the Congress enacts the laws and the executive executes them.

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:00am

    I wonder what he uses to sign his golf score card? If he can hand-sign that he can hand-sign anything. I do not trust whatever he does, however.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:57am

    A FRAUD is a FRAUD

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:14am

      And an authorized facsimile signature is a legal signature, in a court of law. Not a “fraud.” So what is your point?

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    • Rick57
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:08am

      This monicne is one straight up brainwashed (or brain dead) obozo zombie she will never be convinced. I wonder why we can’t reply to her directly? Is there someway to shut that off on the site so you don’t get diliberate challenges to your coments?

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:55am

    At this point, who would want a nobama signature, to begin with?…unless it was on his official resignation.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:03am

      Obama’s resignation……that would make my day

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:06am

      If it was on his resignation, would it be a real resignation?

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    • Rick57
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:21am

      Thers a chick I forget what state but she’s trying to sell hers (obozo siganture) on the internet right now because she didn‘t get enough change and is about to be evicted she can’t pay her rent. Another satisfied obozo voter. Oh, did I mention she‘s a nurse and can’t find a job. Oh yeah, she’s got three kids one about 3 yrs. says she worked real hard to get him elected had t-shirts (her design) the whole nine yds. The other two kids, well obozo been in office two and a half years right. During that time shes managed to pump out two more units so take in to account two maternity leaves in two years plus the federal family leave act after the births and this chick hasn’t really had much time to show up for work in the last two and a half years. By the way one of these kids is still draggin on the teat. And this BI*&CH can‘t figure out why she doesn’t have a job. One more thing she is of course a victim because she’s a single mother of three. Where is the father or fathers of the two units she pumped out in the last two years? Is he helping out? Doubt it.

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  • discardofevil
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:54am

    How could we expect anything respectful and American from this President.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:11am

      I do and I am satisfied he is the real thing. That’s because I am not afraid of him, my family is patriotic and we expect truth and justice.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:37am

      YEP!

      He’s the REAL THING, alright!

      The problem, is, he is the WRONG real thing!

      Lint is the real thing.
      Botulism is the real thing.
      Aids is the real thing.
      Socialism is the real thing.
      Murder is the real thing.
      Puppy dogs are the real thing.
      Unemployment is the real thing.
      Inflation is the real thing.
      Deficit spending is the real thing.
      A dead terrorist is the real thing.
      Post Nasal Drip is the real thing.
      Class warfare is the real thing.
      Divisiveness is the real thing.
      A twitter pic is the real thing.
      A “lone wolf” terrorist is the real thing.
      Another “lone wolf” terrorist is the real thing.
      ANOTHER “lone wolf” terrorist is the real thing.
      ANOTHER “lone wolf” terrorist is the real thing.
      ANOTHER “lone wolf” terrorist is the real thing.
      A plummeting polling number is the real thing.

      So, sure, he is the real thing.

      He is just the WRONG real thing for America!

      ALMIGHTY GOD IS THE ONLY TRUE REAL THING ! ! !

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:04pm

      GeraldCross, your post is a fake – it’s really your attempt to steal some advertising space from the Blaze.

      TomFerrari, what a long scary List! Looks like you are scared and afraid of the president! Do you leave the house much? Or do you stay at home smoking with your little pet doggie except for a Friday AA meeting and a quick stop at the grocery to buy some more cigarettes when your pension money clears? Do you still go to Church or have you found they just don’t get it anymore (like you do)?

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    • last frontier
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:37pm

      MINSANE I prefer to stay at home with my family and my dog, clinging to my bible and gun, instead of being all alone clinging to a hot, and steamy, romance novel all alone eating every last Bon Bon in the container under your homade quilt with a picture of president Obama embroidered with yes we can.

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  • cobra two
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:54am

    Everything about this jackass is PHONY. even is signature. Does that really surprise anyone?

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:26am

      .
      It was an AutoPen his hands were busy getting to the bottom of that nasty Anthony Weiner……

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    • Pydge
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:35pm

      Just want to comment on handwriting analysis—I have been saying how crazy this guy is—that his narcisssism and horrible upbringing go hand-in-hand to make for one sorry SOB psychopath if not a sociopath. The man has no superego and a divided self…. LOOK AT THE ‘O’ in his name—it’s a problem!! SHOWS a troubled past that is unsettled, unsolved. AND THEN!! He has a line right the hell through the ‘O’!!!! A divisive schizoid line!! Right through his ‘symbolic’ past letter of letters—he is torn, unsettled —with an abused past! YIPES!!! If this doesn’t show probs, I put in with ya! How’nhell did this guy EVER even get noticed as a player in the first place? Thank You Valerie Jarrett and MO for your bringing this mess of a man to the Oval Office—it explains why he is so woman-dependent and weird when it comes to HARD decisions (killing Osma or snipering the pirates off Somali or providing troops to A-Stan in their surge there—). He cannot make decisions—weighs and weighs and weighs—then goes back on his word— the opportunity to decide on those decisions above were made for him by dufusiranian Valerie or someone more intelligent (Thank God for cooler, smarter heads SOMEWHERE) –(Panetta on Osama’s shooting).

      I will keep hammering until some White House SHRINK gets their ^^&**() together and LOOKS DEEPLY at this man’s mental illnesses. He is very very very sick. And does not belong in power because he HAS NO POWER—it is false!! AND he is VERY trou

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    • THETRUTHWORKS
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:13am

      NO SURPRISE HERE. WATCH THIS AND FIND OUT WHAT HE IS REALLY UP TO.

      http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.09/obamadeception.html

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:51am

    Do you really care? http://commonsense21c.com/

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:50am

    “President Obama is just too busy with other important things”.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:57am

      Do you have any idea of how many rounds of golf it would cost him if he had sign everything himself?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIOFzLIZjh4

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 10:57am

      I bet Soros could afford to buy one of those and probably has crafted most of what Obama supposedly signed, since this president is no more than a ‘Spooky Dude’ puppet. When Obama has to think and speak for himself he botches it, which means someone else has been in control for most of his 2-1/2 years in office.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:01am

      NO Bill should ever be signed into with the autopen!!

      NO Bill should be signed into law until it is read in its entirety by the the potus in front of witnesses!

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:04am

      It doesn’t matter any more.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:08am

      I’ll bet the speaker of the house knows how many rounds of golf would be saved if he could “auto-legislate” Ha Ha.

      The auto pen is a non issue, it is legal and can be used any way the President authorizes. So what?

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    • drattastic
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:22am

      His whole presidency is a lie ,what difference does it make.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:26am

      What does it matter?

      He is a rubber-stamp for the unions and the socialist democrat people.

      Does anybody honestly think he would say, “NO” to anything the unions tell him to do?

      I call “MARIONETTE” or “PINOCCHIO” may be more fitting considering aversion to the truth.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:32am

      Really bad hand writing. He needs to stop Golfing and learn better Penmanship. Look like a child did this. A very young one. He can’t golf anyway. 95 -100 is not a good score. It’s not basketball.

      I knew this Guy was going to be bad for America, but I didn’t think it would be close to this. The worse President in the History of the USA & that’s counting Wilson, Jimmy and both Roosevelts.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:39am

      Does he use his real signature for the golf score card? after all,gotta sign in person what’s important!

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    • 50BMG
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:44am

      Barack Obama IS George Soro’s autopen.

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    • mils
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:00pm

      fake,
      just like barry hussein obama…our muslim in chief…FAKE

      …and should be UNACCEPTABLE.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:05pm

      @NoBaloney:

      Yeah, too busy doing things like talking with his socilist and radical brothers, executing the downfall of America as we know it, playing golf and apologizing across the world for the ‘evils we do and have done to everyone for everything since time began.’

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:11pm

      I don’t see the big deal. The autopen thing was probably pretty helpful when Ronnie Reagan developed Alzheimer’s while in the White House.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:17pm

      @50BMG
      Nice 1 !

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    • drattastic
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:27pm

      @zombieDRONE
      Half a Reagan beats 1.5 trillion obamas. I thought I had won the hand with 1.5 trillion obamas and he trumped me with half a Reagan. 1.5 trillion obamas and $1.35 will buy you a soda out of a vending machine ,oops never mind 1.5 trillion obamas just taxed the $1.35 now your great grandchildren owe the government $47,000 a piece.

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:33pm

      I hope Glenn didnt use an autopen on my signed copy of “Arguing With Idiots”.

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    • Morris
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Everything about this Dictator Barack Hussein Obama is FAKE!!!!
      One term is to many for a person like Dictator Obama,He should be IMPEACHED,He and his Mexican-Muslim Loving Administration and their “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BU__ SH__, I s killing our America our Republic!!!
      America get on your CONGRESSMEN and CONGRESS LADIES to STOP the OBAMA,PELOSIE,CLINTON,
      and Harry Reid “DREAM ACT”,America cannot afford to keep all of these people from all of these 3-Rd
      world countries!
      Lets start DEPORTING ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW,LETS SAVE OUR AMERICA!!

      The HELL with the Obama “DREAM ACT”,America don’t need Immigration Reform,“WE THE PEOPLE”
      need to start pushing to +++++DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW++++++
      SORRY Washington DC “WE THE PEOPLE” have had it with the Washington “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
      BU– SH–,!!!
      It is way past time that “WE THE PEOPLE”,start the clean up in our America!
      Close the borders and start DEORTING ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW!!!!
      GOD BLESS AMERICA.

      America,Have you had enough of the OBAMA“CHANGE” YET???????????????

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Why, it’s Autopen, of course.

      What else would you expect from an Autopencil Neck?

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:42pm

      I’m sure the sig is “enhanced”. Obama is about as “real” as reality TV; everything about him is manufactured and fabricated.

      The Synthetic President.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:45pm

      Gee, I wonder if he could get one made for his backswing?

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:54pm

      Chicken scratch. Doesn’t look like Barry Soetoro to me.

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    • Jimbo Wales
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:29pm

      The articles on this site are really poorly written, and the layout is horrendous. Please put a bit more effort into this crap.

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:35pm

      Yeah, like playing golf.

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:39pm

      Is obama real….. or a manchurian candidate….nobody could intentionally be doing this to our nation.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:49pm

      There is NOTHING real about Obama.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Who cares about the actual physical signing of something by Obama? Either way, the signer is a phoney!!…..Thats what matters to me……………….

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Real or auto it doesn’t matter. nothing this boob signs is for the good of the USA.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:29pm

      I agree with most posters…obama’s presidency has been on auto-pilot/pen since he started..it is amazing the things that he’s done to this country…intentionally!…2012 can’t come fast enough…one good thing obama has done…he’s awakened “We the people”…and know that were awake, OBAMA NEEDS TO GO!

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    • QC Ghost
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Too busy to affix his own signature? He’s entitled! Here’s proof of how the democraps think:
      http://qcghost.blogspot.com/2011/06/democraps-explained.html

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    • Evileye
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:19pm

      He can read (teleprompter)
      Can he Write?
      Or does he need Bill Aryes to do it?

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    • justafollower
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:50pm

      Total non-story! the act of a “signature” is just a formality in the digital world. I wouldn’t care if it was a repub pres. I don‘t care HOW Obama’s signs things, I care about WHAT he signs!

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:46pm

      What did he use to sign this – WAKE UP LIBERALS – America is awake, time for you to catch up

      Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob
      Scarborough, of Arlington , Va.

      “I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our
      wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation which
      provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening
      illnesses. This past weekend we had our annual banquet / fundraiser
      event in Starkville . “As a part of our program, we had scheduled
      Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube, a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret
      and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed
      overseas and didn’t have much of a chance for survival to come. Greg
      is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his
      commanding officer to come speak at our function… Everything was
      on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT
      ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE. Needless to say, Greg had to
      cancel his speaking event with us… Didn’t know if anyone else was
      aware of this new policy. Wonder what kind of news we all will
      receive next. You’re just starting to see the Obama nation. Your
      religion is on the list next. I don’t know about you, but this makes
      me furious.

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    • THETRUTHWORKS
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:46pm

      Your right. Check out what he is really up to

      http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.09/obamadeception.html

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    • M-O-O-N Spells Moon
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:13am

      And the last remaining need for Obama goes out the window. Now Spooky Dude only needs the President’s brain in a jar in order to run the country by proxy.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:51am

      You mean he can WRITE? Maybe it’s to give him “plausable deniability”. The next time he sneaks around and signs something that proves to be unpopular, he can always claim innocence on the grounds that somebody must have used his autopen to sign it.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:53am

      @50BMG, who Posted: ” Barack Obama IS George Soro’s autopen.”

      How true – the modern equivalent of the “rubber stamp”.

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