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Something is really wrong with this dude.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio looked out at a wall of television cameras and started to raise his voice. The rant that followed was confused, rambling and aimed directly at President Obama.
Show. Us. The. Mircofilm, he demanded. I said it a while back. Show. Us. The. Microfilm. And well all go back home and forget this! Where is the microfilm? Where is the microfilm? Is it in Hawaii? The Department of Health? Whats the big secret?
Even for a notoriously eccentric Arizona politician like Arpaio, the spectacle he created on Tuesday at a news conference in Phoenix was on a whole other level.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/sheriff_joe_arpaio_birther_stunt.php?ref=fpa
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Sad in a way, he doesn't even know that he's publicly made a fool out of himself.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)unstable.
TlalocW
(15,571 posts)He's just a publicity hound, and he's facing DOJ charges this week so he needed to get the birthers and tea-baggers fired up so that when the DOJ makes their move it will look like retaliation from Obama.
TlalocW
pinto
(106,886 posts)I guess I'll have to check my birth certificate...I was born in the Territory of Hawaii and I've always wondered what those numbers in the upper right hand corner meant?
Maybe I my mother gave birth to me in Kenya too?
spanone
(137,287 posts)atreides1
(16,295 posts)Just think of the bat shit crazy offspring from that pairing!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)to Hawaii and admit that apparently Obama was born there and that the doubters were wrong?
haele
(13,241 posts)Does he suspect the President one of the "Boys of Brazil" and this was all a secret clever plot by Himmler and the rest of the High Command to put the next Furher in the US White House? Using an American from Kansas for the mother and a Kenyan for the father to throw the Nazi hunters off the trail?
"Is...it...safe?" (Bzzzrzzzrzzzzz.....)
Haele
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Microfilm way back sometimes aren't that great. Why is it they will take Mitten's birth certificate of live birth that is the same as Obama's? Why aren't we questioning Mitten's birth?
drm604
(16,230 posts)We have no more proof of his birth than we do for Obama.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)How the hell can he do that if one was never issued to him or anyone for that fact. I think if you are going to ask for Obama's then lets see Mitten's.
drm604
(16,230 posts)I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)MrScorpio
(73,693 posts)Maybe Sheriff Joe should look into getting this whole mess that he's started classified as "performance art", in order to justify all of that tax payer money that he's been spending on this indecipherable melange.
He can confidently claim that he's created a "modern art masterpiece".
That would be a more credible explanation than the ones he's been offering.
Hey, I'm a artist, so cut me some slack, ok?
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Buns_of_Fire
(17,699 posts)Might as well settle all these things in one fell swoop.