July 28, 2009

Noted Trig Birther Upset Over Anti-Birther Bill Block

After spending much time 'just asking questions' about the circumstances of Sarah Palin's youngest child Trig's birth, Andrew Sullivan is now upset that one single Republican blocked a vote which included an anti-birther clause.

Sullie's writing is always incredibly unclear, but much of the post seems to be devoted to the notion that leading conservative voices are also birthers. He notes:

Yep, the other face of the GOP - after Coulter, Limbaugh, Malkin, Cheney and Inhofe - just blocked a resolution affirming the birthplace of Obama.

That would be news to me if true. In fact, I've never once heard either of these two say anything that comes close to birthirism. I'm on a listserve with Michelle, and whenever a birther raises their ugly head and I and others shout them down, I've never once heard Michelle offer any support for the birther position.

I don't listen to Limbaugh the entire 15 hours a week he's on the air, but I've never once heard him even 'raise questions' about Obama's birthplace.

Sullivan, on the other hand, is a noted Trig Truther.

Also a problem? The guilt-by-association argument he uses to bring Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, etc. into the birther nuthouse (ie, one Republican blocked the anti-birther vote. That one Republican must be a birther. What else could explain the procedural blocking? Malkin, etc are Republicans. Therefore Republicans are birthers) is complete nonsense.

Go to Think Progress, his source for the deranged accusation, and watch the video. From that you come to the conclusion that birtherism is rampant in leading Republican circles?

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding.

Also a problem for the Think Progress / Andrew Sullivan argument: Bachman, the woman seen in the video, ended up voting yes on the anti-birther bill.

Alex Koppelman at Salon notes:

In fact, as a spokeswoman for Bachmann told Salon -- and C-SPAN video of the congresswoman's remarks on the House floor confirmed -- Bachmann supports the resolution.

After the postponement, on Monday evening the resolution passed -- unanimously. Bachmann was one of the "yea" votes.

Because of the hypocrisy!

Thanks to Cuffy Meigs.

UPDATE: Well, duh, of course Obama was born in Hawaii.

UPDATE II: Et tu Rush? Or is this taken out of context by the WND birther nuts?

UPDATE III: Birthers, please STFU. You know not of what you speak.

When I applied for my US passport I didn't produce an original birth certificate. I produced a "certificate of live birth". Exactly what Obama has produced. That's what many states give you when you ask them for a copy of your birth certificate.

Since I can't produce my "original birth certificate" am I ineligible to run for President? Seriously, you guys are retards.

NR:

If one applies for a United States passport, the passport office will demand a birth certificate. It defines this as an official document bearing “your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records.” The Hawaiian birth certificate President Obama has produced—the document is formally known as a “certificate of live birth”—bears that information. It has been inspected by reporters, and several state officials have confirmed that the information in permanent state records is identical to that on the president’s birth certificate—which is precisely what one expects, of course, since the state records are used to generate those documents when they are requested. In other words, what President Obama has produced is the “real” birth certificate of myth and lore. The director of Hawaii’s health department and the registrar of records each has personally verified that the information on Obama’s birth certificate is identical to that in the state’s records, the so-called vault copy. Given that fact, we are loath even to engage the fanciful notion that President Obama was born elsewhere, contrary to the information on his birth certificate, but we note for the record that his mother was a native of Kansas, whose residents have been citizens of the United States for a very long time, and whose children are citizens of the United States as well.

Baby Barack’s birth was not heralded, as some of his partisans have suggested, by a star in the east, but it was heralded by the Honolulu Star, as well as the Honolulu Advertiser, each of which published birth announcements for young Mr. Obama.

Wow, a bunch of mongoloids.

UPDATE Again: Ha, my bad. You guys were right. Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. That's from an IBM Selectric, right?