I got a look at this tonight. I'll just put it up here and let you make your own call.

Feel free to comment.

RWR

Liberals and semi-conservatives all over the blogosphere are now abuzz with different "stuff" about Mr. Obama's birth certificate. We are getting a lot of it, too:

* Great. He showed his birth certificate. Since it says he was born in Hawaii, we can now put this issue to rest.
* The serial number is later than those of two twins known to be born after him. The certificate is therefore fake.
* His father's race was shown as "African", which is not a race and would not have appeared on such a document. The certificate is therefore fake.
* Since the birth certificate shows that his father was born in Kenya, it proves hat he is not eligible to hold office.

All of these are very interesting indeed. I will address each directly.

1. Obama was born in Hawaii. We can put the issue to rest.

With regard to "putting the issue to rest" because Obama is now documented to have been born in Hawaii, I will reiterate that while a person's place of birth does make him a native born citizen, it in no way makes him a natural born citizen as the Founders would have defined it. No less than four Supreme Court rulings on the matter, including a case adjudicated by a Founder, support the position that in addition to being born on US soil, one must also be born to citizen parents in order to be considered natural born. For reasons that will be explained later, Obama is not off the hook simply for having shown this birth certificate.

2. The serial number of the birth certificate proves it to be fake.

I'm not buying into this simply because I have no idea (and I doubt those taking this position do either) how the certificates were ordered or expected to be ordered for processing. It may or may not have been mandatory that these certificates be issued in the order of the births they document. In fact, it is highly unlikely that there would have been any mandate with regard to order of issuance. Consider what would have happened in that scenario if a birth took place on a busy night and in the rush an emergency took place that would have taken priority over knowing the order of births. Having a mandate on certificate order would cause unnecessary issues within the hospital and the state. These kinds of busy nights are rare enough, but I have personally been in the labor and delivery ward in the midst of such a rush (at the birth of muy oldest daughter). If hospital employees had to be concerned with the order in which the births were reported, I couldn't even imagine how they would have gotten it all sorted out. In fact, there may very well have been a safety issue due to having to divert staff for the express purpose of keeping the birth order straight instead of attending to the births. I doubt anything with regard to the serial number has any merit.

3. His father's race is shown as "African". The document is fake.

Count on Sage to pick up on this. I would want to see another 1961 certificate from this hospital to verify it. I thought there was something strange about that being there too, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Of course, this brings us to the bottom line of why America wanted to see this document in the first place: SO THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US COULD INSPECT IT AND COME TO OUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. This is what America is all about.

4. Since his father was born in Kenya, it proves Obama's ineligibility.

It proves no such thing in and of itself. However, when combined with other circumstantial evidence (or lack thereof), it does just that. This document does not show the citizenship of the father. The fact that the senior Obama was born in Kenya doesn't alone prove Obama's ineligibility at all. If Mr. Obama could produce legitimate documentation that his father had become naturalized as a US citizen prior to his birth, then he would clearly be eligible, having been born on US soil to American parents. However, given that it wasn't very long before he senior Obama moved back to Kenya and worked there as a socialist activist (and I believe he even held office there), it's quite doubtful he would have done so, only to repatriate again as a Kenyan. If it cannot be shown that the seinor Obama was naturalized (and it doesn't look like he was), then and THAT point, we can say he is ineligible. The senior Obama's birthplace only mandates that next step be taken.

It's a shame that there are Americans who are look at this document and say that it's time to put the issue to rest. It's further a shame that people would call it fake and cite bogus reasons for doing so. Let's face it, the fact that it came from Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is reason enough to distrust it. Sage's point is very interesting, and I would love to get more information there, but for the time being, there is more than enough information in it to go to the next step, prove ineligibility, and remove this piece of socialist horse shit from the White House.

Let's get it on!

RWR

The Interloper-in-Chief today released his birth certificate. I will start by awarding him Kudos for that.

Barack H. Obama's Birth Certificate

Now the real debate begins. Do we apply the definition of natural born citizen that the Founders intended, or do we move forward with some pissant bullshit some irrelevant fool came up with defining natural born and native born as the same thing?

I have for a long time (and not secretively) posited that Mr. Obama was most likely born in Hawaii. Today, we have proof of that. Fine. But look at the birthplace of his father - KENYA. That means that in order to prove Mr. Obama's natural born citizenship, We the People must now see the documentation that shows that the senior Obama was naturalized as a US citizen prior to August 4, 1961. It is kind of sickening to hear and/or see people saying that the Supreme Court has never ruled on the definition of natural born citizen, when clearly it has. Not only that, but it made such rulings during the presidency of James Madison himself.

Of course, the LA Times, instead of reporting the news, twisted it (full disclosure - I noticed this was a blog after writing this post, so the word "twist" may be a tad unfair).

Obama said he knows the release will not put this issue six-feet under for some birther diehards, who probably haven't a clue where their own is. With a sigh, the Democrat from Chicago says he doesn't know why this issue just won't go away. Thank goodness, this fellow is patient with his people.

For starters, I will attest today that I am NOT one of Barack Obama's "people". As far as I'm concerned, legitimately in office or not, he can go fuck himself. The things he has proposed or attempted to foist upon the American people are nothing short of shameful, and Americans who cast ballots in his favor should be ashamed of themselves. As for my own original birth certificate, it is on file at the hospital where I was born or in Trenton's records, so I know where mine is, or at least how to go about getting it in a timely fashion. Thank you very much.

That being said, we now know why Mr. Obama didn't present this when the courts demanded it (no word yet on the other documents that were subpoenaed). He clearly wanted to delay the debate long enough to do some damage to the American way of life before having to answer for this. It's quite a bit late now to remove Mr. Obama from office much before January 2013, so he will at least get his entire first term in.

So we now know that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii (assuming the certificate is genuine, and I see no reason to believe it isn't at this point). Now Americans need to decide whether they want to change the law so that a man born of a foreign national can serve in the White House. They also will want to look at naturalization laws as they existed in 1961. It is possible that Mrs. Obama may have been too young to confer US citizenship upon her son anyway (the law may have required her to be at least 19). British law at the time also would have claimed young Barack as a British subject. Lots to go over, and if you haven't gotten serious about it, the time is now.

Being born in Hawaii isn't enough in itself, and has never been. You can thank us here for pointing that out all along.

Again, the real debate begins now. Decision time, America. Is the Constitution good enough, or isn't it?

RWR

Happy Easter all!

Great post by Michelle Malkin exposing Donald Trump's SERIOUS Fourth Amendment issues.

Read it.

RWR

I did some math today, and decided that the best way to balance the budget would be to give Congress and the White House real motivation to do so. Check this out ...

* Every Member of the House and Senate is paid a salary of $174,000 per year.
* Every Majority/Minority Leader is paid an additional $38,800 in addition to his/her salary.
* The Speaker of the House gets an additional $49,500 in addition to his/her salary.
* The President gets a salary of $400,000 per year, plus a $50,000 expense account.
* The Vice President gets a salary of $230,700 per year.
* Every member of the President's cabinet is paid a salary of $199,700 per year.
* Every living past President is paid a pension of $599,100 per year.

This totals $97,492,400 per year, and does not include any money paid to Congressional staff members or other employees of the federal government who work directly with the above.

It seems to me that the nearly $100 million these clowns are making would be better spent on debt reduction. Furthermore, failure to properly balance the federal budget and eliminate the federal debt should have financial consequences. So what say none of these people gets paid a dime until the debt is paid off? Seems to me if you took away this $100 million and put it towards the debt, they'd find a way to balance the budget (including paying off the debt) in a big hurry.

RWR

So I've been on here shooting down every so-called "conservative" with aspirations for the White House. From Paul Ryan to Rick Santorum to Michelle Bachmann, none of them are strong enough Constitutionalists for the job. Sorry LOTE voters, but it's a cold hard truth. Eventually, someone appropriate for the job has to be found. There is a good place to start, if people are willing to get on the guy's case and get him to do it.

It would be kind of tedious to get an issue-by-issue analysis of this man's positions, but so far there isn't much else in the way of choices for POTUS in 2012. Time to get him to run.

Judge Andrew Napolitano
Get him to run.

Check out this Wiki. You will like it. Undeniably Constitutionalist.

Time to put the pressure on. What do you say, your honor?

RWR

OK so Rick Santorum wants to be President ...

Rick Santorum
Yet Another POUTS Wannabe

This guy's been hailed as a Tea Party guy, which I guess is all right (for him), but just like most Republicans, analysis of his record tells a much different story.

Comes in around 67%.

That means you're better off with Bachmann or Ryan.

In other words, get me my barf bag. If the RepubliClowns want conservative votes, they will have to do a lot better than this.

RWR

This is just stupid.

If I had more time, I'd tear this shit up.

What a fucking joke.

RWR

I was invited today to be a contributor at Blogcritics.com.

Sent samples and was approved.

It seems, however, that I will not be contributing. The email I got back from them stipulated the following:

Once you've submitted your article and saved into PENDING, the editors receive an alert which tells our editorial team that there are pending articles in the queue. From there, we will either edit and publish your story, or if there need to be further revisions, then the story will be placed back in DRAFT and you will be sent an email with revision instructions. Only AFTER you receive the automated email stating your story has been PUBLISHED can you post the article on your own blog.

Haha yeah right. My work will be subject to someone else's revision? Fuck that. I am by far the best proofreader in the Rightosphere, and I would wind up correcting the editors. And who the fuck do they think they are telling me I have to wait for them to publish first before publishing here? What a load of crap.

I am the lead blogger at TSAR and TAFP blogs. I do edit for grammar and spelling, but that's mostly to cover Sage's occasional run-ons. I do NOT stipulate where my fellow bloggers can post their work or when. It's THEIR WORK, after all.

So I responded as follows:

"Only AFTER you receive the automated email stating your story has been PUBLISHED can you post the article on your own blog."

No thanks.

My work gets published where and when I choose, and is not subject to anyone else's approval or revision.

If you have a problem with this, please remove my application immediately.

RWR
www.rightwingrocker.com

If they want my work, they get it on my terms, period.

RWR

The Schlock is running for a second term.

I nominate Sage to oppose him ... or maybe OreoThunder.

Hell, even Alfred E. Neuman would be an improvement, as long as the usual gang of Republican idiots could be kept at bay.

RWR