Gibbs on Birthers - "Made up, fictional, nonsense...DNA wouldn't assuage them."

[jefferson_dem]

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[yellowcanine]

1. "For $15 you can get an internet address and say whatever you want." That doesn't explain Lou Dobbs

however. And I am not buying that CNN couldn't shut him up on the issue. They should tell him to shut up or take a hike.

[zbdent]

9. Dan Rather uses one of only two documents which put Bush in the National Guard

and he's forced out of his job ...

Lou Dobbs pretty much drops acid, and he's backed by the president of CNN who contradicted himself a day earlier ... obviously under pressure ...

[laconicsax]

2. Not that it matters...DNA doesn't say where you're born.

[newsish]

3. True, but DNA can determine your race

White = American
Not white = Illegal immigrant socialist Nazi commie terrorist Muslim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIBHCTTZ5sA

[laconicsax]

4. Oh shit! I forgot about that.

It's on the chromosome 2, right?

[question everything]

5. McCain was not born in this country, though

What I don't get is, his mother was a U.S. citizen, so what difference does it make where he was born?

[Hamlette]

7. there is an odd provision in the law that says:

Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock: A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) INA provided the citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen are required for physical presence in the U.S. to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.

From the state dept. web site via josh marshall

I did a bit of research last night and the provision has been upheld (?) in the case of a 16 year old man who had a child with an "alien" overseas. Obama's mother was a few weeks/months short of her 19th birthday when he was born. So, the conspiracy goes, there was good reason for his parents to rush back to the US and fake that the birth was in Hawaii by planting the birth announcement and birth certificate (with no doctor's name or signature or name of hospital etc.)

[question everything]

8. One has to wonder why they have to go through all the trouble

It seems that all the anti-immigration forces have found a new banner to go around.

[burning rain]

6. Some wingnuts claim Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's biological father.

But that's not a birther claim, rather one that contradicts birtherism, and Gibbs surely just had a brain fart when he referenced DNA testing.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Just freaked myself out a little bit.

Tried to imagine Dana Perino dealing with this issue. Kinda torn between 'yikes' and 'ew' at this point.

[Mithreal]

11. Is Gibbs scientifically illiterate? The internet comment was stupid as well. nt