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I haven't kept up with this story, but I followed a link from Barackryphal
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To this totally fascinating Freeper thread
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Starting at Post #47 - but continuing through the rest of the thread
Photo eBay seller self-identified as located in Cedar Rapids IA, calling himself variously "Lucas" and "Smith" - he posted photos of himself (supposedly in Africa; more likely now the Dominican Republic):
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CBS News photo during last year's flood in Cedar Rapids of Lucas Smith
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Honk Bumper Sticker
11.5″ by 3″
$4.50 (includes shipping)
8.5″ by 3.25″
$2.50 (includes shipping)
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From World Nut Daily
For sale on eBay: Obama's 'Kenyan birth certificate'
Seller claims Mombasa document 'certified copy'
Posted: June 27, 2009
12:40 am Eastern
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Freepers:
I got this response from the seller:
Hi, the Obama birth certificate auction is up again. Ebay pulled it two hours ago. They thought that maybe someone had gained access to my account being that the auction was atypical. The new auction ID number is 160344928067. Thank you and I apologize for the...
Money quote: "Obama's defining political trait is the belief that conciliatory rhetoric is a ruthless strategy."
The thing that people haven't figured out about President Obama's conduct of foreign policy is that it's the same as his conduct of domestic policy. Obama believes in the power of negotiation and public dialogue to split his adversaries--Republicans at home, Islamists abroad--and strengthen his own position. Obama's speech in Cairo to the Muslim world was simply the foreign analogue ...
Take a look at the part I've put in bold. Is there anything that makes you uncomfortable there? Or am I being silly?
On the verge of Victory!
Good news! I just spoke with Carl and he said it's going to be over by July 4. We will have real celebrations going on! I have no reason to doubt him; he has been very public about getting this usurper out of office. Here are his comments at the forums and his website:
We've had enough! I Carl Swensson and Mack Ellis will be in Washington, D.C., June 2...
Not that he’s ethnic Hawaiian, in any case, but it’s an argument Birthers like to use that the State of Hawaii would not accept his Certification of Live Birth, and they use Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands regulations as an example.
There are two categories of documents used in determining eligibility: primary and secondary.
Primary Documents
Birth certificates (Certificates of Live Birth and Certifications of Live Birth) and Certificates of Hawaiian Birth are the primary documents used to deter...
After serving as Ensign’s campaign and Battle Born PAC treasurer, Cynthia Hampton was Chris Ward the embezzler’s assistant treasurer at the NRCC. Chris Ward, treasurer of the NRCC, had also been treasurer of Ensign's Battle Born PAC. Ward also was treasurer for the Senate Majority Committee; after his removal, Cynthia Hampton became treasurer of the Senate Majority Committee.
But current and former aides to the Nevada Republican say the woman was 46-year-old Cynthia Hampton, a campaign st...
An examination of the taped interview with Obama’s African step-grandmother was performed by Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Gregory Doudna:
The full tape transcription makes clear that this phone conversation has not been represented accurately. There never was a statement by Sarah Obama at any point in this phone call saying or intending to say that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Kenya. Sarah Obama herself said that Obama was born in Hawaii and never said differently. There was a confusion over the me...
Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
A Pajamas Media investigation puts to rest another rumor claiming Obama is ineligible for the presidency.
August 12, 2008 - by Bob Owens
According to the Selective Service System, under the authority of the Military Selective Service Act (Act of June 24, 1948, c. 625, 62 Stat. 604, as amended; 50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.):
A man must be registered to be eligible for jobs in the executive branch of the federal government and the U.S. Postal ...
Obama did go to Pakistan that year when he was 20 years old with a college friend, after first seeing his mother and half-sister in Indonesia. That much is true.
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“Birthers” claimed that the Pakistan trip constituted indirect proof of Obama’s supposed Indonesian citizenship. Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg even told the U.S. Supreme Court last year, before it refused to hear his case challenging Obama’s qualification to be president, that Pakistan “was on the State Department’s travel ban list ...
Wrap-Up of the Open Government Brainstorming: Transparency
Posted by Beth Noveck
Last week the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) hosted the Open Government Brainstorm on behalf of the White House Open Government Initiative – the first of three phases in an unprecedented process of public engagement. The Brainstorm generated more than 1000 ideas to inform the crafting of recommendations on open government policy. Thank you to all who recognized the importance of this effort and pa...
Micah L. Sifry | June 1, 2009 - 3:01pm |
Right now, the Open Government Dialogue created as part of the Obama administration's new initiative to engage the public in a participatory discussion of ways to make the federal government more transparent and collaborative looks like it is being overrun by the so-called "birthers"--conspiracy nuts who think the President isn't legitimately a U.S. citizen. Here's a screenshot of recent tweets from @ogovbrainstorm, which automatically shows which idea...
I could easily be friends with this woman :)
By Keith B. Richburg, Robin Shulman and Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, May 31, 2009
NEW YORK -- Last November, soon after Barack Obama was elected president, a close friend of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's was hospitalized on Long Island because of a series of strokes.
Speculation was already swirling that the new president might make Sotomayor his first pick should a vacancy open on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor also had a full case...
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And this is what makes Judge Sotomayor so extraordinary. Even as she has reached the heights of her profession, she has never forgotten where she began. She has faced down barriers, overcome difficult odds, and lived the American dream. As a Justice of the Supreme Court, she will bring not only the experience acquired over the course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated over the course of an extraordinary journey – a journey defined by hard work, fierce intelligence, a...
After 7-Year Fight, Homeless Get $816,000 in Back Wages
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: Wednesday, October 25, 2000
They slept on plastic chairs or in makeshift beds in a church, rising to put in long shifts in menial jobs, like security patrols at banks across Manhattan's East Side, or cleaning toilets at a shelter. Instead of being paid minimum wage, they got $1 an hour and promises of a path out of homelessness that never seemed to lead anywhere.
Tonight, 198 of the men and women who were hom...
U.S. May Add New Financial Watchdog
Consumer Agency Under Consideration
By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Obama administration is actively discussing the creation of a regulatory commission that would have broad authority to protect consumers who use financial products as varied as mortgages, credit cards and mutual funds, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
The proposed commission would be o...
President Barack Obama will announce plans on Tuesday for a national fuel-economy and greenhouse-gas standard for automobiles in an effort to give more certainty to car companies as they struggle for survival, industry and administration sources told POLITICO on Monday.
The administration will bill the tailpipe-emissions announcement as historic, because it avoids a patchwork of standards and has won agreement from so many stakeholders, including automakers, state governments, the Department of...
Happy ‘Whitey Tape’ Eve!
One year ago tomorrow—May 16, 2008—former CIA analyst and current security consultant Larry Johnson put up this blog post at his site “No Quarter.”
I now have it from two sources that there is video dynamite–Michelle Obama railing against “whitey” at Jeremiah Wright’s church. Republicans may have a lousy record when it comes to the economy and the management of the war in Iraq, but they are hell on wheels when it comes to opposition research. Someone took the chance ...
I keep seeing DUers repeat the argument that Hillary would have beaten Obama in the primaries if Edwards wasn't in the picture. I hope this isn't considered a primary rehash. I think it's a question that needed a definitive answer and I was glad to see Pollster took it on. So let's not upset the mods by getting into tired old fights, but keep discussion to the polling.
This is what happened nationally in the six months after Edwards dropped out:
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Let's be a little more specific. The re...
Now this is very interesting. Stephanopoulos says he's talked to a lot of Edwards '08 staff about it. Did anyone watch this on Stephanopoulos today?
I've talked to a lot of former Edwards staffers about this. Up until December of 2007, most on Edwards' staff didn't believe rumors about the affair.
But by late December, early January of last year, several people in his inner circle began to think the rumors were true.
Several of them had gotten together and devised a "doomsday" strategy of sor...
Frank Perry is retired from the FBI and works for non-profit Foundation for Ethics in Public Service.
Feds probing Edwards affair
Thursday, May 07, 2009 | 11:58 AM
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“It is the FBI that makes a determination of that allegation, to see if it’s credible, specific and coherent enough to proceed,” he said. “I think many people wrongly believe US attorneys generate public corruption cases, but the initiation, the vetting, the working of the case, the FBI is driving that train and it’s done wi...
This is more about the effect the affair had on the Edwards presidential campaign than the personal issues.
In the fall of 2006, John Edwards’ political high command began hearing disturbing reports from aides on the road. The candidate, they were told, was spending too much time with an eccentric filmmaker named Rielle Hunter.
So when Edwards and Hunter returned from his trip to Africa in early October, his former campaign manager Peter Scher confronted him: If Edwards was having an affair, ...
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 22, 2009
EXECUTIVE ORDER
ENSURING LAWFUL INTERROGATIONS
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in United States custody and of United States personnel who are detained in armed conflicts, to ensure compli...
This is about how I saw Obama's governance philosophy when I decided to support him in the primaries. It's what the simple-minded media manages to miss about him. From an interview with Politico published today:
Obama’s Governing Philosophy
Axelrod: I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He’s consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations. He believes strongly that we need health care reform. ...
This is an interesting article from a prosecutor's perspective. If you haven't read it already, it's worth reading from the beginning.
Of Black Holes and Radio Silence
Monday 20 April 2009
by: Elizabeth de la Vega, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
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Well, if not now, then, when? Wouldn't the same interminable process just happen later? Not necessarily. Notwithstanding the public statements that the president and attorney general made in connection with the release of the memos, I find cause...
TPM Muckraker has started one up, which might be helpful in sorting things out.
CQ's blockbuster story, about a wiretap that picked up Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) discussing the AIPAC spying case with a "suspected Israeli agent", picks up on a sequence of complex events from several years ago, and involves several moving pieces.
So we thought it would be worthwhile to put together a timeline of events laying out the major reported developments in this sprawling story.
Without further ado:
* Nove...
An Early Military Victory for Obama
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Throughout the past four days, White House officials played down Obama's role in the hostage drama. Until yesterday, he made no public statements about the pirates.
In fact, aides said yesterday, Obama had been briefed 17 times since he returned from his trip abroad, including several times from the White House Situation Room. And without giving too many details, senior White House officials made it clear that Obama had provided the authority f...
This isn't really news, but the BBC is reporting it as if it is new information. :shrug:
The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced.
"CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites," Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff. Remaining sites would be decommissioned, he said.
The "black sites" were used to detain terrorism suspects, some of whom were subjected to interrogation methods described by many as torture.
President ...
This is striking: Not only do a majority trust Obama to get it right in repairing relations with the Muslim world, but a plurality of white evangelicals do, too — even though they have an overwhelmingly unfavorable view of Islam.
The Washington Post’s polling director sends over a detailed breakdown by religion of that particular question, which asks: “In trying to improve U.S. relations with Muslim nations, do you think Obama will (go too far), (not go far enough) or handle it about right?"
F...
Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 30, 2009; Page A03
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Daniel Reifsnyder, a 25-year State Department veteran, knew even before President Obama was elected that U.S. environmental policy was going to change. So in early November, he called a couple of his Environmental Protection Agency counterparts about drafting documents to lay the groundwork for endorsing a treaty to curb global emissions of toxic mercur...
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I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this. -Tulsa OK, January 29, 2004 We must assure investments in the technology infrastructure — the broadband and wireless access improved and modernized highway, air, and rail transportation systems, and the access to affordable, reliable sustainable energy essential to continuing economic development. We must have a real plan to achieve energy independence. And we need to do so without further damaging our fragile environment. In fact, sustainable energy and so-called green engineering provide major growth opportunities for American ingenuity, and we must move in that direction. - "Real State Of The Union," January 30, 2006 We need to really get to the bottom of the Abramoff scandal, we should have a special prosecutor appointed for that, we really need a congressional investigation of the whole business of the NSA wiretapping and how far that goes, there's been a lot of squirreling around the edges; we've never completed the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had - the evidence seems pretty clear to me, I've seen that for a long time. I think Americans are best served by a strong 2-party system and that's been out of whack and what I can do in 2006 is try to help the right Democrats get into office and that's what I'm going to do. - "This Week," March 5, 2006 Blogroll DU Journals
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