New Hawaii Governor Vows to Discredit Birthers

[marmar]

New Hawaii Governor Vows to Discredit Birthers


Hawaii's newly-elected Democratic governor, Neil Abercrombie, has had enough of ridiculous birther conspiracy theories. The paranoid , racist, right-wing theories which claim Obama wasn't actually born there have irritated Hawaiians, who feel it undermines their status as Americans, and also the Hawaiian government, which has been hit with countless nuisance lawsuits demanding to see private information about the president.

What exactly the new governor will do remains unclear, but he has raised the issue before. As a congressman, Abercrombie already introduced legislation containing the affirmation that"Obama was born in Hawaii."

Abercrombie's anger partly arises from the fact that he knew Obama's parents when they were living in Hawaii. According to the L.A. Times:

Abercrombie, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., arrived in 1959 to study sociology at the University of Hawaii. As a teaching assistant, he met and befriended Obama's father, a native of Kenya.

Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Kansas and met and married his father, also named Barack, when the two were college students in Hawaii. Obama was born at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.

But in 2008, as Obama ran for president, critics posted allegations online, without proof, that he was born in Kenya.

By Sarah Seltzer | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at December 25, 2010, 7:40 am


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/409709/new_hawaii_governor_vows_to_discredit_birthers/

[PSPS]

1. Why bother? You can't reason with insane people.

There used to be a mentally ill guy who would stand out on the downtown street corner in front of a large local department store. He spent every day yelling nonsense at passers by. Nobody bothered stopping to listen to him or to "reason" with him. There was no point.

'Birthers' are of the same ilk. They live in their own whacked out world. You can't reach them. They belong in the loony bin.

[alex cross]

5. Really, there are just some people who can never be talked to

about any of their conspiracy theories. Pearl Harbor, Kennedy, man landing on the moon, Area 51 and so on and so forth. (I know I'm forgetting a big one here, but I can't think of it).

Hell they're even digging up John Wilkes Booth's brother to prove it's really him.

*SMH* *chuckling to myself*

Kin seek to exhume assassin’s brother’s body
DNA test may show if Lincoln’s killer escaped

The family wants to see if DNA from Edwin Booth’s body in a Cambridge cemetery matches that of John Wilkes Booth
By Travis Andersen
Globe Staff / December 24, 2010

The woman believed to be the closest living relative of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth hopes to exhume the remains of his brother at a Cambridge cemetery to help determine if the man who shot Abraham Lincoln is buried in a family plot in Baltimore, as claimed, she and her lawyer said yesterday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2010/12/24/kin_seek_to_exhume_body_of_lincoln_assassins_brother/

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Well I live in AZ and we have several in our State Legislature

A tad more problematic than merely screaming on a street corner.

[bluestate10]

2. Good for Abercrombie. Birthers are crazed idiots. nt.

[lolly]

3. Unfortunately, it won't work

I'm betting they will see his efforts as "desperation," as part of the gigantic conspiracy to put a Kenyan Islamofacist in the White House that began back in 1960.

No amount of proof will ever convince them. It will all be forged, part of a conspiracy, part of an alien invasion, or something.

[madinmaryland]

4. Heh. The birthers are already doing a very good job of discrediting themselves!!

[alc]

6. how? by giving them more press?

I can't imagine anything that's going to change anyone's opinion. But any time some official decides to make a statement about it, all the wackos take that as an invitation to crawl out of their holes and talk about it for another few weeks.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. The best to Governor Abercrombie

He was one of the best Congress critters I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

Mahalo for your service Sir and good luck.

[Stevenmarc]

9. I say he should just toss them into a volcano