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Baitball Blogger

(46,700 posts)
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:23 AM May 2012

'Birthers' claim Obama applied to college as a foreigner

Really like this article because they reference snopes.com

We might have spoken too soon.

On Monday, we wrote that “birther” conspiracies about President Obama had mostly been laid to rest when the White Housereleased his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate last April, but that some detractors are focusing on his college transcripts, hoping to prove Obama is not as smart as he seems.

But it turns out there’s a subset of Americans (and we have heard from many of them) who fervently wish to read President Obama’s college transcripts for a different reason. It’s not because they give a rip about his grades, or his intelligence, but because when he applied to Occidental College, located in the Los Angeles suburb of Eagle Rock, they allege that he claimed to be a foreign student and may have received some sort of special benefit as a result.

According to the urban myth-debunking website, Snopes.com, it appears this rumor got started in 2009, when a fake story – it went out disguised as an Associated Press item – made the rounds.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-30/news/la-pn-birthers-claim-obama-applied-to-college-as-a-foreigner-20120529_1_transcripts-jim-tranquada-foreign-student

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'Birthers' claim Obama applied to college as a foreigner (Original Post) Baitball Blogger May 2012 OP
They want to read all his essays. Liberal Veteran May 2012 #1
They are in a whole 'nother alter reality, aren't they? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #2
It reminds me of the non-story about Michelle Obama's Senior Thesis at Princeton. CTyankee May 2012 #5
LOL treestar May 2012 #9
The birthers also think he's a lizard person from Zarg V. Arkana May 2012 #3
It's all code word for them. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #4
Don't be crazy. COLGATE4 May 2012 #8
And yet they never can produce any hard evidence of any kind for any of their claims. Ganja Ninja May 2012 #6
They thrive on rumor and buffoonery Baitball Blogger May 2012 #7
Donald Trump entered that realm today on Twitter: FarLeftFist May 2012 #10
since just qualifying for affirmative action wasn't enough librechik May 2012 #11
An alien AND an Affirmative Action recepient. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #12
Barry so evil! librechik May 2012 #14
Birther WIN! See picture and story proving his education right here: freshwest May 2012 #15
Here's what I want to see Canuckistanian May 2012 #13
evil is as evil does napkinz May 2012 #16

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)
1. They want to read all his essays.
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:37 AM
May 2012

The birthers imagine there is motherload of essays entitled things like:

Why I am the reincarnation of Karl Marx.

How to Destroy America as President.

Business and Capitalism: Evil or Satan Incarnate?

America Should Unilaterally Round Up All Firearms: A plan for Pacification of the Masses.

Re-education: How to Brainwash Americans to Convert to Islam.

Burning the Constitution: Fire or Acid?

Subjugation of the White Folk for Better Society.

CTyankee

(63,903 posts)
5. It reminds me of the non-story about Michelle Obama's Senior Thesis at Princeton.
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:50 AM
May 2012

Or was that Hillary Clinton at Wellesley?

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
3. The birthers also think he's a lizard person from Zarg V.
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:38 AM
May 2012

No one cares what the 15% of the country who's lost their minds thinks.

Baitball Blogger

(46,700 posts)
4. It's all code word for them.
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:47 AM
May 2012

For us minorities it all comes down to being knocked back into the crab pail. And questioning someone's "Americanism" is just the latest twist. Ex-military right-wingers have been applying this litmus test to those of us who don't have military service. I don't know when minority Democratic candidates will figure it out and use it to their advantage, and hopefully teach the right-wing a thing or two.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
8. Don't be crazy.
Wed May 30, 2012, 12:55 PM
May 2012

Everyone knows that the lizard people are from Zarg IV. (Zarg V is home to the Tarantula people).

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
6. And yet they never can produce any hard evidence of any kind for any of their claims.
Wed May 30, 2012, 12:01 PM
May 2012

It's always the same shit. 'Obama's Grandmother said this blah blah.' 'Obama did this blah blah.' 'His Mother blah blah'. 'His father blah blah'. And the persistent misinterpretation or misstating of the constitution and laws as to what qualifies a person to be a citizen. Not one shred of any real evidence of any kind, ever.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
15. Birther WIN! See picture and story proving his education right here:
Wed May 30, 2012, 01:35 PM
May 2012


Mars visitors Basiago and Stillings confirm Barack Obama traveled to Mars

Two former participants in the CIA’s Mars visitation program of the early 1980’s have confirmed that U.S. President Barack H. Obama was enrolled in their Mars training class in 1980 and was among the young Americans from the program who they later encountered on the Martian surface after reaching Mars via “jump room.”

Andrew D. Basiago, 50, a lawyer in Washington State who served in DARPA’s time travel program Project Pegasus in the 1970’s, and fellow chrononaut William B. Stillings, 44, who was tapped by the Mars program for his technical genius, have publicly confirmed that Obama was enrolled in their Mars training class in 1980 and that each later encountered Obama during visits to rudimentary U.S. facilities on Mars that took place from 1981 to 1983.

Their astonishing revelations provide a new dimension to the controversy surrounding President Obama’s background and pose the possibility that it is an elaborate ruse to conceal Obama’s participation as a young man in the U.S. secret space program.


http://www.ufodigest.com/article/mars-visitors-basiago-and-stillings-confirm-barack-obama-traveled-mars

Hey, I found it on the internet, it must be true. Besides, I simply want to believe that Obama is from another planet. It is the first real proof that we've been visited by intelligent life.

Our reputation in the galaxy has always been that we're the universe's lunatic asylum. Things can only get better from here.

We don't need Hollywood for entertainment, it doesn't get any better than this.




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