I have truly arrived. How, you ask?
I have my very own cadre of actual, living breathing BIRTHERS here. Yes, BIRTHERS. 
Just as a certain crew is convinced that President Obama is not a citizen because he was born in the mythical, magical state of Hawaii, apparently Southwest Atlanta, Georgia is another place too exotic for certain individuals to understand that even though it's in the Southern part of the United States, it is is still AMERICA and that the people that are born there are in fact, wait for it...... AMERICANS!!! 
But according to the Number23 Band of Birthers, I am not a United States citizen. This will come as an IMMENSE surprise to my employers! 
I mean, that will be HUGE. And why have these people decided I'm not a citizen? Because I am currently in Australia, something I have never made a secret of just as I never made a secret when I was in South America or the Middle East either.
Me being born in America doesn't matter. Me paying US taxes every year doesn't matter. The fact that the United States is the only country where I possess citizenship, including the only country IN THE WORLD whose elections I can vote in doesn't matter. The fact that my entire family is in America doesn't matter. According to this crew, because I am sitting in another country other than the USA that means that I am not a US citizen and that I don't have the right to talk about Obama, the United States, ACA or any damn thing else despite the fact that the US gets my money and my votes just like it gets theirs.
And these same folks howl and bray every single time they get compared to the Tea Party. Well, we can put that analogy aside! They have sunk to full fledged BIRTHER mode now. Huzzah! 
= new reply since forum marked as read
Practice Tip: Every now and again whisper this phrase and you will magically find new life:
"It's really is about Class, rather than any other ISM!"
...this is baloney. 
Last edited Sat Mar 29, 2014, 04:19 AM - Edit history (2)
Although MLK, Jr., for example, was against Communism (but no fool about capitalism) but he was called a Communist and still is by the Birchers, like Obama?
Are blacks genetically Commie, is that what they're saying? 
Exactly what political affiliation did blacks have before Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, etc?
Blacks have been in America long before those guys were born. And how can they be anti-American when they were here way, way before 1776?
Something don't make sense here. Inquiring minds what to know so we can go forth and raise hell.
Particularly those dastardly Canadians. It's so funny. The same crowd that talks about how much they would DESPERATELY like to move to Canada seem to absolutely hate it when a Canadian actually dares to say something.
No, that OP was about other very vocal Obama supporters who are not Americans or don't live in America. But when I agreed with someone's comment that the OP has never said a word about DUers from other countries that don't support this president, suddenly it was some great "reveal" that I was an Australian.
Check out that thread. You got folks TELLING other people about my nationality, or my health care status as if they know any damn thing about me OR my status. The "I'm not stalking you, I just feel the need to respond to you in practically every thread you post in with a handy batch of links to your posts which I have convinced myself will discredit you but don't do a damn thing but make me look like somebody who DESPERATELY needs a fucking life."
The two links that confirm (!!1one) my Australian status is 1) with me saying that I've been "Down Under for too long" (do people that are actually FROM a country say they've been there too long?? GD says yes! :facepalm and 2) the one that says PLAIN AS DAY that I am "currently" in Australia. That is their great proof that I am Australian. And keep in mind, this was AFTER two posters posted a link from five years ago that I noted I was born and raised in Atlanta. 
They're just jealous because you are filled with awesome and don't have their bullshit issues! 
250 responses, 60 recs.
and half the posts in the thread are asking her who died and made her God. That she doesn't have the right or the power to dictate what people talk about here.
And my favorite is when the OP announces she's putting me on ignore but then responds to every single post in a sub-thread AFTER mine.
Damn, these folks can't get ANYTHING right. Really? Really? She's a piece of work.
and posting about their politics.
I mean, if somebody was BORN in France, votes in French elections, and pays French taxes, then who the hell are you to tell them they cannot talk about French politics because they live in Albuquerque??! Gaaah is right! There is no bottom to this foolishness!!! 
This?
And I was trying to find a good one but I'm not as good at it as you are!
Just cause I like ya! 
You can have all the gifs, just for your "AKA". Same as my mom and daughter.
Wait, am I misunderstanding or are there some Skee Wees up in here???
Somewhere a few posts down JAG signed her post with an "aka Adrienne".
The name that my Mom (RIP) and daughter share.
I never thought it was that uncommon, but I have only met a handful in my life.
When my daughter was born, she looked just like my mother (in my eyes anyway), and "Adrienne too" (what my grandparents called her) was just... right.
But JAG better stick with JAG. If this whole incident shows anything, it shows the dangers of putting any and I mean ANY personal business about yourself on this place. I don't know what the hell made us think that we were among friends here.
And for those who just can't get over Number 23's fabulous life that exceeds their wildest fantasy, here's one:
I know they're both white cats, but just run with it anyway.
I am crying!!!
Don't hate on Number 23 just because she's fabulous!
I'm holding that one for a special occasion. 
The second ne I'll pass on to my SO, cause... it's all about the hair.
No worries - the op has Number23 on ignore so I don't think they can see this thread.
is just as bad. Note the post from the person holding up my post where I CLEARLY state that I am "currently" in Australia as undeniable proof (proof, I tells ya!) that I am not an American citizen. 
along with others.
You brought the attention on yerself, doncha know!!! The nail that sticks up gets hammered down, and having ANY experience of another culture or nation makes you....well......
SUSPECT!!!!!!!!
I DO know how you feel, though!!
Last edited Fri Mar 21, 2014, 02:46 AM - Edit history (1)
These folks, who break their arms patting themselves on the back every day with how "worldly," "sophisticated" and "informed" have apparently lost all ability to comprehend that someone can live in another country and still be a citizen of the United States!
So somehow, ACA has absolutely NOTHING to do with me. Never mind that my taxes help pay for it. Never mind that I voted for the man who's implemented it -- TWICE. Never mind that my family will be directly impacted by it. I am not allowed to discuss it because my backside is not physically located in the country at this moment.
And I don't know if you saw the OP in question but folks are in that thread discussing my health care status as if they know the first damn thing about me. I could slap them in the face and run off and they'd go "who in the hell was that??!" but somehow, they know what health care policies I'm qualified for.
Between that shit, the "I'm not stalking you, I just refuse to leave you alone and am constantly searching for your posts so that I try to embarrass you even though the only person I have EVER embarrassed with this behavior has been myself;" the "I have proof she's Australians!1 See this post that says she is CURRENTLY living there! That PROVES she's an Aussie!1;" and the "I'm putting you on ignore" but somehow manages to respond to every single post that came after mine, that thread is so full of hot stupidity it would be hilarious if it wasn't so downright pitiful at the same time.
I think socially, Australia is about 30-50 years behind the U.S. I know that alot of folks here love it because it's got stronger gun control policies and appears to be more liberal on many issues. But Australia is as expensive as shit, still has some fairly significant racial issues, and I do feel is more sexist than the U.S.
Don't even get me started on the media representation. My babies can watch Australian tv all day and barely see a single person of color. Which is one of the reasons I don't complain too hard that so much of the television and movies are imported from the U.S. and the UK. But it is clean, safe and a remarkable place to raise children. I am going to miss it when we leave.
Oh, and they LOVE Americans. Which I guess doesn't relate to me because apparently I'm not one anymore?? 
Plus, when you get here, you can buy a five bedroom house with no yard for only $1.2 million
http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/nsw/sale-residential/23-tamborine-drive-beaumont-hills-sydney/1316895447511
Hey, if it was good enough for the President to mock the fools questioning his citizenship, it's certainly good enough for me!
And this about the issue at hand:
I'm reading your post and dying laughing. It is astonishing what a group of people who believe that they and they alone possess all of the wisdom in this world are capable of spewing forth on this board. I am still shaking my head over the poster who feels in any way qualified to discuss what health care I am privy to as if he knows me from a hole in a goddamned wall. I see they did the same shit to you as well.
Freepers/Birthers/Tea Partiers have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on these imbeciles. In fact, if you threw them all in a room together and turned out the lights and let them start their respective spews, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
All I have to say is, if these people represent the 15% of Democrats that don't support this president (and let's be honest, the folks doing this shit are not the president's supporters but some of his loudest, most ignorant and unhinged critics and I strongly suspect aren't even Democrats) then there is no doubt in my mind why DU is the only place in the entire world that they have any influence.
DU is the Sharks and the Jets!!! WEB SITE STORY!
What a grand analogy...I guess we'll all have to get ourselves some of those gang "letterman" jackets...or maybe ... bowling shirts!
We'll get one for you, just in case you change your mind! I think you'd make a great gang leader, myself!
In the meantime, here's a musical representation of a brief thread in GD!!!
I guess American Exceptionalism (i.e., in this case, knowing everything about everything) only applies to them.
I think we may have new sig lines here!
DU: Ain't that some shit. 
I envy that you were able to put this place in your rear view mirror and keep going. As Drunken Irishmen said the other day, DU is the place where the president is a piece of shit and the first lady is clueless. This place is an incredibly bad joke and has been for a while.
You're SO right about the sig line - and DU!
I thought Drunken Irishman's OP was brilliant in its brief and precise summation of what this site has become.
It's so sad to see, though. I remember reading the DU statement of purpose before I signed-up - it was described as a safe sanctuary from the constant Dem-bashing in the "liberal media". And now it has become the very thing that it once fought and defended against.
I stayed here much longer than I should have - hoping against hope that DU's original purpose would somehow rise from the ashes. But that's not going to happen. It is what it is - warring factions fighting over a tiny piece of internet property that is losing ground in traffic stats day by day.
By the time one faction or the other declares victory, they'll be down to six posters - and they won't even be able to celebrate their victory together - because they'll all have each other on Ignore.
In any event, it was good connecting with you again. You're still the on-line friend I would most like to meet in real life - too bad you're an Australian pretending to be a US citizen!!!
You Canadian pretending to be an Aussie. I mean you Australian pretending to be an American. I mean...
Our exchange in this thread has helped me to remember why I still come here.
When he starts going on about the American Civil War, I remember our American friends being like "really?? For real??! I didn't know that!" So yeah, this whole, "you aren't American so you can't talk about shit" is just the flip side of the Freeper coin. It's an embarrassment. They sound just like Freepers who think that Obama should have been ineligible because he spent some of his childhood years in Indonesia. I mean, they sound JUST LIKE these imbeciles.
I have a friend here born and raised in Alabama but has been in Australia for ten years. Her mother died of breast cancer when she was young and she's got two younger sisters, one of whom has been recently diagnosed. When ACA was passed, she practically wept because it meant that her sister would be covered for the first time in years. I dare ANYONE to tell my friend that she shouldn't be happy or talk about ACA.
The fact that some people here find it so damned unusual that Americans travel the world is one of the many, many reasons I find them so moronic. The entire world is full of Americans that have traveled and live in other places. Some do it for 3 years. Some five. Some 20. But the idea that somehow you stop caring about your homeland when your entire family is there or even when you're still paying taxes is something I think is a surefired way to show how narrow and ignorant a person is. One of the 4 gillion reasons their "advice" on how to run the US government winds up in the trash.
Let me get my church fan because you have TRULY just broken it down.
To get this thread hidden I think.
I saw it on the ACA/Girlfriend/Obama Sucks No He Doesn't threads going on in GD. Somewhere in there she/he is upset because once again - reading comprehension was an epic fail.
And whines there - yet no apology ANYWHERE to you for that vicious snideness against you - by her/him
The she/he and her/him is because I always thought that poster was male but some folks are indicating the poster is female. I dunno - just trying to cover all of my bases.
Signed - Your Faithful Third Way but ALWAYS been a Democratic Party Member Never Ever a Republican in the Past Friend -
Just Another Gen aka Adrienne
I've gotten so many PMs about that one and her exchange with me it's not even funny. And far too many of them contained some variation of the phrase "that raccoon knew exactly what he was doing."
Oh? You're not talking about him now? 
I think you might be confused.
I'm one of "the ones" who claims that to attack Obama is to attack THE WRONG PEOPLE. I'm one of "the ones" who say that when you attack Obama because he isn't making your dreams come true asap, you are attacking THE WRONG PEOPLE. I'm one of "the ones" who say that when you attack Obama because he's not instantly able to fix for you ALL the damage done by Repukes over more than 3 decades, you are attacking THE WRONG PEOPLE.
Again, you are under the mistaken impression that President Obama is either emperor and has sovereign powers, or that he can pull tricks better than David Copperfield.
As for you being a birther, I'm never one to say that. However, if you attack Obama, ACA, and such, you ARE engaging in the same, identical tactics as the Republicans, and using the same terminology.
If that upsets you, there's not a heck of a lot I can do about that, can I?
That Americans who want to comment on anything other than America should mind their own business too.
Example:
The Italian Justice system (the Meredith Kercher murder fiasco) - where in America black kids get blown away and white/hispanic men walk around smiling and laughing about how they got away with it. Yet right here at DU white 'liberals' truly believe we are in a post racial society and others in the group believe that we black folks ought to shut up about racial privilege.
Ain't that some shit?
America has it's own problems - maybe we ought to stop worrying about Oligarchs, billionaires and plutocrats in Russia -
And start focusing on the New Jim Crow and how it starts as young as pre-school - i.e. black little girls getting suspended at alarming rates from effin' pre school.
Even more of - Ain't that some shit?
[URL=http://gifsoup.com/view/2483708/miss-celie-g-bye.html][IMG]
[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://gifsoup.com]GIFSoup[/URL]
to be sure I was reading what I was reading! 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4743383
When they claim Canadian opinions don't matter, but even more ridiculous is the case with you or Nance Greggs. Americans living abroad are also not to comment! Just shows how little they have to base opinions on that they have to resort to that.
And what's so ridiculous is these same folks spend so much time going on about how horrible and evil the U.S. is and how desperately they want to go someplace else. Someplace like... CANADA!!!!
They've started the dehumanization of President Obama on the left now. 