Best Birther Lunacy Evar

[BrotherMan]

I'm just relieved I didn't recognize anyone.

[Miisa]

OMFG, it's true. You are all nuts. ALL OF YE!

And - pardon me if this is akin to fearmongering - that nation has teh bomb!

[Deadlokd]

[Hysterical]I want my country back!!11!!!!#[/Hysterical]

What the almighty flaming fuck?

[Psycho]I think we should all stand up and do the pledge of allegiance.[/psycho]

Seriously. You let these people vote? Racist bitches of both genders crying hysterically over a molehill. You've locked the wrong people in Guantanomo. You should be locking up the ignorant because they're a much greater threat to your nartional security than 'terrorists'.

[Watser?]

Well, we have the same kind of people coming out of the closets here too, lately.

[Joshua Adams]

So, there is hope for you Hollish people after all.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by Deadlokd

Seriously. You let these people vote?

Why do you hate democracy so much?

[Deadlokd]

I'm seriously reconsidering that aspect of my civil libertarianism. I think there should be an intelligence test before people are allowed to vote.

[Ensign Steve]

Or at least hold office, am I right?

[Crumb]

Originally Posted by Miisa

And - pardon me if this is akin to fearmongering - that nation has teh bomb!

[naturalist.atheist]

Originally Posted by Adam

Found this gem via Wonkette:

Bonus: Is the dude's lawyer's name rly Orly? Yarly!

If he wants out all he has to do is say he is gay.

[Deadlokd]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Or at least hold office, am I right?

High office anyway. I reckon there'd be towns with no elected officials at all if there was an intelligence test. Towns where the only last names in the phonebook are Cletin and Cretin.

ETA: Or Palin.

[Kael]

I think there should be an intelligence test before people are allowed to vote.

Too easy to abuse. Like it or not, freedom sort of has to mean freedom for everyone, even hateful ignorant bigots, or it isn't freedom. The only version of voter restriction I've heard of that seems the least bit palatable to me is requiring some form of civil service to earn the vote, but even then you still have possibilities of ignorant hateful people working their agendas just as hard within that system. Part of the idea of running a republic instead of an actual democracy is to mitigate the ignorance and idiocy of the general public. Doesn't always work, but...

I like to believe humanity is better than that overall, and that nutters and hatemongers only expose and marginalize themselves by spouting their nonsense.

[Watser?]

Originally Posted by Kael

Part of the idea of running a republic instead of an actual democracy is to mitigate the ignorance and idiocy of the general public. Doesn't always work, but...

I've never seen any reason to believe it works at all. I don't think there is any less ignorance and/or idiocy in republics than in actual democracies, whatever the difference is.

Other than that I agree with you.

[Kael]

I more meant that that's the idea behind it. The common citizen isn't informed enough to make good decisions so they pick a representative (who is supposed to be informed enough) to make those decisions for them. I don't know that it ever really works either, but the effort is there.

[chunksmediocrites]

The Birthers are apparently spreading their brain fever.

The most prominent birthers are Alan Keyes, the former presidential candidate and Obama Senate challenger; Orly Tait, a wonderfully named lawyer from California; Phil Berg, a Democrat; and Michael Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, and a prominent radio talk show host. This is, at once, a fringe movement and something greater. It's fringe because no important Republicans believe it, and most are offended by it. It's greater because some fairly prominent local lawmakers are beginning to sign birther petitions.

At least nine members of Congress have cosponsored a birther bill that would require prospective presidents to affirm their U.S. citizenship.
...>snip<...
.... The buried lede to this post: Rush Limbaugh claimed today that Obama "has yet to prove that he's a citizen."

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Adam

I dunno, I thought "Here is a document where Taitz makes claim X" was a great response to the objection that no one but Taitz is making claim X.

So now you are claiming that an Army Major is lying.

Why exactly would this Army Major risk his entire life's work for this lie?

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

"Federal court only has authority [over] actual cases and controversies," Judge Clay Land said. "The entire action is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction."

...because the government decided not to prove in court that Obama is legitimate.


Not a very good precedent for the government to set, claim Obama is not legitimate and you do not have to serve.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by chunksmediocrites

At least nine members of Congress have cosponsored a birther bill that would require prospective presidents to affirm their U.S. citizenship.

Is anyone here against this bill? If so, why?

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by JEROME DA GNOME

So now you are claiming that an Army Major is lying.

omg

Why exactly would this Army Major risk his entire life's work for this lie?

poon?

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by Watser?

It's also a bit scary from over here I must admit.

Originally Posted by Ari

Don't worry, most of these people are too busy fwding anti-obama e-mails and going to meetings to complain that their neighbor is using unsanctioned grass on their lawn to be much real harm.

Yah, this.

Also it is a little more funny than scary to me because Mike Castle is like one of the least offensive Republicans I can think of and now he is stuck in a party basically full of crazy microphone screamers waving Ziploc bags full of flags around.

So sucks for him huh.

[chunksmediocrites]

Originally Posted by JEROME DA GNOME

Is anyone here against this bill? If so, why?

Because then we can't get secret mooslims elected to enact
THE MARXISMS! Hah hah! In old America, you pay more tax than average American earn in year AND you probably most non-religious in forum. In new Amarxika, You earn less than average Amarxikan worker pay tax in a year AND you worship -at the altar of the State- OR ELSE!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HOO HEE HOE HAW HURRRRRRRR HEEE HEE HEE HOO HOO HOO....SNURK....HURGHHH HOOO HOW HAY HA HAH!

[Sauron]

Speaking of birther conservotards, Chris Matthews ambushed the chief nut of the bunch today, Rep. John Campbell, and even showed him a copy of the birth certificate that these loonballs say doesn't exist:

After some drawn-out questioning, Matthews got Campbell to say that, yes, he does believe President Obama is a natural-born citizen:

"Okay," said Matthews, "glad we're making progress here."

[ChuckF]

ha good for Tweety

[LadyShea]

"That's not what this bill is about". What's it about then? Why wasn't it introduced 20 years ago?