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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 06:03 PM Aug 2012

Birthers in Their Own Convention In Arizona plan on calling on Congress to investigate O's B/C

Birthers Plan Their Own Convention Next Month In Arizona

NICK R. MARTIN AUGUST 24, 2012, 5:01 PM 2239
While the Republican Party gears up for its biggest event of the year next week in Florida, the conspiracy theorists among them are already looking forward to another convention of sorts next month in Arizona.

Some of the best known birthers in the nation are scheduled to take the stage at a star-studded event in Phoenix, where they plan to call for Congress to investigate whether President Obama’s birth certificate is real.

There will be singing. There will be speeches. Drinks will be available for purchase. The only question is whether the venue, which features seating in the round, will activate its spinning stage. Promoters are calling it “A Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots Event” but you can call it Birtherpalooza.

The star of the gala is Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the eccentric Arizona lawman and a Republican who is running for his sixth term in office this year. Arpaio has been trying to find his way into next week’s festivities at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., even scheduling an “invitation only” event for Republicans at a nearby zoo. But he will not be part of the convention itself.

Arpaio has positioned himself as one of the leaders of the birther movement. For almost a year, he has been using a combination of taxpayer money and amateur volunteers to try to bolster the conspiracy theory that Obama’s birth records are elaborate forgeries designed to put a foreigner in the White House.

more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/birtherpalooza_arpaio_rnc.php

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Birthers in Their Own Convention In Arizona plan on calling on Congress to investigate O's B/C (Original Post) maddezmom Aug 2012 OP
Birthers should look at Mitt Romney's FATHER'S birth certificate - Mitt's father was born in Mexico Tx4obama Aug 2012 #1
this country is a fucking embarrassment spanone Aug 2012 #2
Aren't the TP Patriots the ones who stiffed a hotel for woodsprite Aug 2012 #3
Shameful DearAbby Aug 2012 #4
Damn ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #5

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. Birthers should look at Mitt Romney's FATHER'S birth certificate - Mitt's father was born in Mexico
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 06:17 PM
Aug 2012

Birthers are always saying that both parents of a president have had to be born in The USA in order for a president to be a 'natural born citizen',
well Mitt's father wasn't born in the USA.

And we never hear the birthers ever say anything about that


woodsprite

(11,916 posts)
3. Aren't the TP Patriots the ones who stiffed a hotel for
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 06:20 PM
Aug 2012

A block of rooms recently? If so, may they have as
much success at this event as well.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
5. Damn ...
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 06:49 PM
Aug 2012

I thought we could go 3 days without the state of my residence making it into the news for some lunacy or another.

Maybe next week ...

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