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NRaleighLiberal

(61,857 posts)
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:54 PM Aug 2012

"Birther Group Launches National Ad Campaign Seeking To Disqualify Obama From Reelection"

from ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/03/635491/birther-group-launches-national-ad-campaign-seeking-to-disqualify-obama-from-reelection/

"A birther organization known as the Conservative Majority Fund is currently running a national ad campaign claiming that it can disqualify President Obama from running for reelection. While the ad is steeped in the rhetoric of the birther movement, it goes far beyond simply claiming that Obama was not born in the United States. Indeed, the ad manages to cram a truly stunning number of far right conspiracy theories into just one minute of air time:

Who is Barack Obama? We know less about this man than any other President in American history. What’s he hiding? His autobiography is full of fictional characters. But there’s a lot more than that. If you try to look into his past, you run into a brick wall.

His college records at Columbia, sealed! His college records at Harvard, sealed! We don’t know what his thesis papers were about because those are sealed too. He Selective Service record is sealed. His records as an attorney are sealed. He has a Connecticut Social Security number and we can’t get answers about that either.

And no one — I mean no one — has seen an actual physical copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate."

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this is some sick, sick shit. There are going to be some really nauseating moments leading up to the big day in November.

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"Birther Group Launches National Ad Campaign Seeking To Disqualify Obama From Reelection" (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Aug 2012 OP
Let these fucking morons knock themselves out and spend all their money MotherPetrie Aug 2012 #1
I saw it on television today. Ilsa Aug 2012 #3
I've seen this new ad. meanit Aug 2012 #2
It plays over and over in Iowa. Sickening! n/t justgamma Aug 2012 #4
Yeah... let them knock themselves out... Puzzler Aug 2012 #5
Money can make a bad person worse. Heather MC Aug 2012 #6
I agree KegCreekDem Aug 2012 #8
I had this discussion with a Doctor I work with... KegCreekDem Aug 2012 #7
Post removed Post removed Aug 2012 #9
How is it that conservatives think that 3 or 4 construes a majority? Thor_MN Aug 2012 #10
OFFS!!! Odin2005 Aug 2012 #11
I will encourage them to spend more of their money on this. n/t Lil Missy Aug 2012 #12
*Sigh* Will these people ever stop? AverageJoe90 Aug 2012 #13
... "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen struggle4progress Aug 2012 #14
 

MotherPetrie

(3,145 posts)
1. Let these fucking morons knock themselves out and spend all their money
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:59 PM
Aug 2012

Is any TV station actually running their ad or is it just on YouTube.

Ilsa

(64,362 posts)
3. I saw it on television today.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:28 AM
Aug 2012

I think I had the channel on the Olympics on MSNBC, or maybe NBC. It's an irritating commercial.

meanit

(455 posts)
2. I've seen this new ad.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:03 AM
Aug 2012

It's pretty ridiculous. Makes Obama sound like a comic book villain. The birthers tactics are mimicking the Swift boaters at this point, minus the effectiveness. They really are insane vermin.

Puzzler

(2,505 posts)
5. Yeah... let them knock themselves out...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 09:41 AM
Aug 2012

... they're preaching to the proverbial choir. It's way too late in the day to try to define (or redefine) Obama. Romney, however...

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
6. Money can make a bad person worse.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:41 AM
Aug 2012

OK let's do a worthers commercial

Mitt did you have legal residence in Massachusettsat the time you ran for Governor?

Mitt Did you really go 10 years without paying. taxes

Mitt why do you stock pile money in foreign banks, American banks not good enough for you?

Mitt if you really left Bain in 1999, why is your name used on forms filed to the SEC in 2002 listing you as the CEO.

Mitt why do the middle class have to pay more, so you can pay less in taxes.

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KegCreekDem

(75 posts)
7. I had this discussion with a Doctor I work with...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:56 AM
Aug 2012

When this Creighton educated doctor mentioned that Obama might have been born in Kenya, I look at him incredulously then mentioned this: There is no record that Barack Obama's mother was ever in Kenya. It must have been a miraculous birth! So Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, left Hawaii to give birth in Kenya? His father was studying at the University of Hawaii while she was pregnant, and was deeply entrenched in studies. Where is the evidence that either of Obama's parents left Hawaii and went to Kenya so Barack would be born there?? Maybe infant Barack was teleported to Kenya by aliens. Not sure how they can justify his birth announcements being found in two Hawaiian papers, while he was in Kenya.

Hopefully, I got through to him. Most pubs do not pay attention to the real information that is out there, then they believe this kind of crap.

Response to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
10. How is it that conservatives think that 3 or 4 construes a majority?
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012

Most of their gatherings make family reunions look like metropolises, yet some how they think they outnumber everyone else. Is lack of comparative numbers skills genetically linked to conservatism?

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
13. *Sigh* Will these people ever stop?
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:41 PM
Aug 2012

The amount of Teabagger dog whistling is getting to be really nauseous.

struggle4progress

(126,145 posts)
14. ... "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:55 AM
Aug 2012

the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."
Hawaii: Obama birth certificate is real
Updated 7/28/2009 7:41 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-27-obama-hawaii_N.htm



Hawai'i's Health Department confirmed yesterday that it has President Obama's original Aug. 4, 1961, birth certificate in storage, but the announcement is unlikely to satisfy conspiracy theorists who insist Obama was born in Kenya. "We don't destroy vital records," Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said. "That's our whole job, to maintain and retain vital records." The Health Department's director reiterated yesterday that she has seen Obama's birth records ...
Posted on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Hawaii officials confirm Obama’s original birth certificate still exists
By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writers
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Jul/28/ln/hawaii907280345.html



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