The Definitive Birther Takedown

[dubeskin]

I apologize if this has been posted before. I haven't been on DU for a while.

A growing chorus of fringe conservatives, ranging from members of Congress to Lou Dobbs, have started echoing the "birthers'" claims that Barack Obama's eligibility for office needs to be examined. Media Matters Action Network decided to take up the challenge. Needless to say, we found their evidence rather uncompelling.

http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200907280002

MYTH: The Certification Of Live Birth Is Not Enough Evidence To Confirm His Birth In Hawaii

Birther Movement Claim:

Obama has NOT provided a certified copy of an original, typed, vault copy, long-form, birth certificate, signed by his mother and delivering doctor with the name of the hospital thereon, to be used to conclusively prove one of the two key elements used in determining his "natural born" citizenship status per the U.S. Constitution, i.e., where he was born. All he has provided to the electorate and public to see is a digital image on the internet of a purported copy of a short, summary, computer printed form called a Certification of Live Birth, aka COLB, which is not a Birth Certificate. No one in any controlling legal authority and official expert capacity has ever been allowed to examine the purported computer made paper document displayed in the digital images and digital pictures on the internet.

FACT: Not Only Has The Certificate Of Live Birth Been Verified By Numerous Officials, Other Primary Source Documents Verify Contents

FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article.

More claims debunked. Now hopefully we can put this issue to rest.

http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200907280002

[Arkansas Granny]

1. They don't want to believe the truth, so it won't matter what evidence is

presented or who debunks their claims.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Jesus H. Christ on a trailer hitch

could deliver a pronouncement that our president was born in Hawaii - as documented - and it would still be met with derision from the microencephalic birthers.

[havocmom]

3. Most likely, they would claim Jesus wasn't Jesus, without seeing original, mother signed certificate

pulled from a vault in Bethlehem. And Half of them would discount it if Jesus produced it.

Lou Dobbs would point out that Jesus wasn't born in the US and unless he could produce a valid visa, should be deported.