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(46,299 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:00 PM Jan 2012

Birther "issue" is blowing up in the Birthers' faces.

So one of the head Birthers is throwing a snitfit.


WND's Farah: Eligibility Questions (About People Other Than Obama) Are A Distraction
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Joseph Farah is annoyed. The editor of WorldNetDaily and prominent birther has discovered that questioning the eligibility of a presidential candidate can be a distraction.

Here's how Farah begins his January 13 WND column:

How do these things get started?

No wonder people are so confused about the issues of the day.

I am literally deluged with emails from Americans insisting that Mitt Romney is not constitutionally eligible to be president.

It's not true.


Really? The man whose website is so obsessed with the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president that it ignores facts and descends into the realm of absurdity is wondering how such things "get started"?

Farah continues:

Furthermore, while I remain a strong advocate of the position that Obama is not eligible for a variety of reasons, I have never made this assertion based on the fact that I detest everything for which he stands. That assertion is based on fact, on reality, on verifiable truth.

Given his willingness to overlook overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it's difficult to believe that Farah would be such a "strong advocate" of Obama's purported ineligibility if he did not "detest everything for which he stands." As for Farah's claim that his assertion "is based on fact, on reality, on verifiable truth," this ignores reality as well. For example, a new book debunks many birther claims, and one prominent birther, Philip Berg, has shot down the WND-promoted idea that Obama is using a fake Social Security number. Curiously, WND has yet to report on either of these things, and WND's Jerome Corsi has refused to debate the book's author about his conclusions.


Farah then complains again that questions about Romney's eligibility is becoming a distraction to "my team at WND":

So can you please stop writing to me and to my team at WND with suggestions that Mitt Romney fails the constitutional eligibility test? It's not true.

I don't think he gets a passing grade on understanding and interpreting the Constitution, but - unfortunately, from my perspective - he passes the litmus test for serving as president.

Can we move on to more substantive issues in this campaign?


Presumably, Farah and his WND team don't think eligibility questions about Obama are a distraction from "more substantive issues," even though no factual basis for them exists.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2251397

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Birther "issue" is blowing up in the Birthers' faces. (Original Post) Archae Jan 2012 OP
Does this mean we can all email Farah asking about Mittens? GoneOffShore Jan 2012 #1
Hummmmmm . Historic NY Jan 2012 #7
No, it would be wrong to flood his inbox at jfarah@worldnetdaily.com ... 11 Bravo Jan 2012 #18
:) too funny. Yes, that would be so wrong. nt Honeycombe8 Jan 2012 #19
You're totally correct - if jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com is his email. GoneOffShore Jan 2012 #20
I got it from the WND website. I assume it's legit. 11 Bravo Jan 2012 #21
Typo in email address Jim Lane Jan 2012 #22
LOL... ClassWarrior Jan 2012 #2
Blowback Is A Pain, Ain't It? Vogon_Glory Jan 2012 #3
Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, are they? gratuitous Jan 2012 #4
Is Romney from Kenya too? Or was Michigan not a state in 1948? FSogol Jan 2012 #5
Romney's father was born in Mexico. RevStPatrick Jan 2012 #8
Too funny. FSogol Jan 2012 #11
Romney's father is not "natural born". BumRushDaShow Jan 2012 #6
Furthermore, George Romney, Mitt's dad, RAN FOR PRESIDENT and nobody kestrel91316 Jan 2012 #10
Actually it was questioned and noted in the Senate leftofcool Jan 2012 #15
IIRC that was McGovern. kestrel91316 Jan 2012 #27
Forgot to supply you a link leftofcool Jan 2012 #16
lol, they've totally lost it. Raffi Ella Jan 2012 #9
I believe Obama's mother Politicalboi Jan 2012 #12
Oh my the comments there amaze me......its like a cult.. Historic NY Jan 2012 #26
That's why they've moved on to the "Obama never went to Columbia" story proud2BlibKansan Jan 2012 #13
He is probably deluged with mockery... gulliver Jan 2012 #14
So they have realized that taking a position of insanity is a bad plan... Ohio Joe Jan 2012 #17
ROFL Scurrilous Jan 2012 #23
I'm lovin' it malaise Jan 2012 #24
It blew up long ago DeathToTheOil Jan 2012 #25

11 Bravo

(23,925 posts)
18. No, it would be wrong to flood his inbox at jfarah@worldnetdaily.com ...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:12 PM
Jan 2012

with hundreds of questions pertainings to Mitten's eligibility! Wrong, I tell you!

GoneOffShore

(17,336 posts)
20. You're totally correct - if jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com is his email.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:35 PM
Jan 2012

Are you sure that jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com is his real address and not that of some innocent stranger?

Though why would some innocent stranger have jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com as their email address.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
22. Typo in email address
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 06:47 PM
Jan 2012

You wrote "jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com" but there's no double A. Correct is "jfarah@worldnetdaily.com".

"Faraah" looks sort of Arabic.

Vogon_Glory

(9,109 posts)
3. Blowback Is A Pain, Ain't It?
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:05 PM
Jan 2012

Blowback hitting the birthers is a good thing from progressives' point of view. Most voters among the left and center have not only figured out that the President is an American man born here in the USA, but that the birthers are a bunch of lying clowns. Moreover, it seems to have dawned on a large part of the lectorate that beating the drums for birtherism also means being a nutcase.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, are they?
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:09 PM
Jan 2012

For all their huffing and puffing about "natural born" citizens, it was just a matter of time before their own intentional misreading of the law caught up with these nitwits. Now Farah's being "literally deluged" is he? Too fucking bad, asshole. Your bed's all made, just how you like it, now lie in it.

 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
8. Romney's father was born in Mexico.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:19 PM
Jan 2012

Kinda like Obama's not a "natural born citizen" because his father was born in Kenya.

And George Romney almost ran for president in 1968!

BumRushDaShow

(128,387 posts)
6. Romney's father is not "natural born".
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:16 PM
Jan 2012


Maybe he's hiding his income tax form because he has a fake SS # and is not really a U.S. citizen. Hell, Santorum lied about being a PA resident while a Senator here!

I have been waiting for the day to come when all the changed rules and goal-posts would finally be applied to their own. And they surely can't dismiss this so easily since they went all out in 2008 and haven't let up.

I want to see Romney's long-form birth certificate!
 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
10. Furthermore, George Romney, Mitt's dad, RAN FOR PRESIDENT and nobody
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:24 PM
Jan 2012

questioned his citizenship or eligibility.

IOKIYAWR

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
15. Actually it was questioned and noted in the Senate
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 04:28 PM
Jan 2012

The problem was it never gained any legs because Georgie dropped out over teh Vietnam brainwashing thing.

Raffi Ella

(4,465 posts)
9. lol, they've totally lost it.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:21 PM
Jan 2012

In Georgia, there is a case being brought forth at the end of this month that would make Barack Obama ineligible to be President because both of his parents weren't born here.

If they win that case that will also make Santorum and Romney ineligible. Their racism is getting the best of them.

Could Obama's “natural-born” case in GA affect at least two GOP candidates?

http://www.examiner.com/news-you-can-use-in-atlanta/could-obama-s-natural-birth-case-ga-affect-at-least-two-gop-candidates

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
26. Oh my the comments there amaze me......its like a cult..
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 08:19 PM
Jan 2012

"US citizenship may be acquired by naturalization or native birth in a United State. A natural born US citizen is born in the US of US Citizen parents owing no allegiance to any foreign power. The parents don't need to be native born US citizens, but the parents need to be US Citizens before the child is born. You may want to read that slowly a few times so you comprehend it.
Using a formula (SOIL)+(DAD)+(MOM)=(CHILD):
(USA)+(US)+(US)=(NBC) = MITT ROMNEY, NEWT GINGRICH", etc.

Obama would be: (USA)+(UK)+(US)=DUAL CITIZEN. He is native born to a UK citizen father, and can vote, be a mayor or Legislator, or any other than a US president.

Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico, but the US laws at the time granted citizenship to him, so when Mitt was born in the USA, both of his parents where US citizens..."


I was wondering if I should tell them Utah wasn't even a state then...

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
13. That's why they've moved on to the "Obama never went to Columbia" story
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 04:00 PM
Jan 2012

And when it's old and tired, they'll take on new stories claiming he never married Michelle, they don't have two daughters and that house in Chicago secretly belongs to a Nigerian email scammer.

gulliver

(13,168 posts)
14. He is probably deluged with mockery...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 04:11 PM
Jan 2012

...which he interprets to be "Romney birther" e-mails for his own benefit.

Ohio Joe

(21,726 posts)
17. So they have realized that taking a position of insanity is a bad plan...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 04:34 PM
Jan 2012

Theres a shocker... Stupid birthers

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