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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 theres a subset of Americans (and we have heard from many of them) who fervently wish to read President Obamas college transcripts for a different reason. Its 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
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)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.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)CTyankee
(63,903 posts)Or was that Hillary Clinton at Wellesley?
treestar
(82,383 posts)Thanks for that amusing list. You know it's true!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)No one cares what the 15% of the country who's lost their minds thinks.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)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)Everyone knows that the lizard people are from Zarg IV. (Zarg V is home to the Tarantula people).
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)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.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)They feed on it the way that we breath air.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)better to be a foreign student? Really?
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)Dang, those right-winger slammers are good.
librechik
(30,674 posts)what jerks they are
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Mars visitors Basiago and Stillings confirm Barack Obama traveled to Mars
Two former participants in the CIAs Mars visitation program of the early 1980s 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 DARPAs time travel program Project Pegasus in the 1970s, 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 Obamas background and pose the possibility that it is an elaborate ruse to conceal Obamas 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.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)The 'long form' of their mental hospital discharge papers.