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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBirther "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
GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)Or would that be wrong.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)with hundreds of questions pertainings to Mitten's eligibility! Wrong, I tell you!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)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.
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You wrote "jfaraah@worldnetdaily.com" but there's no double A. Correct is "jfarah@worldnetdaily.com".
"Faraah" looks sort of Arabic.
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)NGU.
Vogon_Glory
(9,109 posts)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)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.
FSogol
(45,435 posts)RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)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!
FSogol
(45,435 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,387 posts)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)questioned his citizenship or eligibility.
IOKIYAWR
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)The problem was it never gained any legs because Georgie dropped out over teh Vietnam brainwashing thing.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)This will take you to an article on it and a link to the Congressional Record:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd520.htm
Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)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
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Was born in Kansas. Maybe Georgia doesn't see Kansas as a legal state.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)"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)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)...which he interprets to be "Romney birther" e-mails for his own benefit.
Ohio Joe
(21,726 posts)Theres a shocker... Stupid birthers
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)malaise
(268,668 posts)DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)The birthers are just too dumb to realize it.