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Sat Aug 4, 2012, 12:46 PM Aug 2012

New PAC. Ad keeps Obama birth certificate theory alive

WASHINGTON -- Still convinced President Obama wasn’t born in the United States?

A brand-new political committee will be happy to accept your donations to keep the theory alive.

The Conservative Majority Fund, set up a month ago by a political consultant, is sponsoring television ads that recycle some discredited conspiracy theories regarding Obama’s identity -- including suggestions that he’s using a phony Social Security number and a fake birth certificate.

“We know less about this man than any president in American history,” the ad says. “No one, I mean no one, has seen an actual physical copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.” It calls for a petition drive -- “we need 10,000 signatures from every congressional district” -- to boot Obama from the ballot.

The group’s website, which “demands Congress investigate Barack Obama’s forged birth certificate,” suggests donations from $25 to $2,500. This week, the group reported spending more than $500,000 to oppose “Barak [sic] Hussein Obama,” according to the organization’s Federal Election Commission filings, with most of the money going to a nationwide phone-call campaign.


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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-political-committee-keeps-obama-birth-certificate-theory-alive-20120803,0,6336053.story

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New PAC. Ad keeps Obama birth certificate theory alive (Original Post) cali Aug 2012 OP
I believe the Birthers are going to torpedo the GOP. Faygo Kid Aug 2012 #1

Faygo Kid

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1. I believe the Birthers are going to torpedo the GOP.
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 12:57 PM
Aug 2012

The establishment GOP (McConnell, Rove, Cheney, Kochs, etc.) have tamped down the Birthers so far, but they are about to boil over - and the nation will be appalled by these nuts. It's just a matter of time, and it's coming.

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