volkfolk
2011-04-09 01:43:37 UTC
I happened to catch a little bit of Michael Smerconish on the radio
and I heard him talking about "The Donald's" new obsession with the
Presidents birth certificate. He spells out the issue perfectly.
Anybody who believes this fairy tale is either a moron or a bigot.
There is no third option IMO
Scot
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/michael_smerconish/20110408_Birthers__conspiracy_plot__Plants_are_legion.html
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Birthers' conspiracy plot: Plants are legion
By Michael Smerconish
Inquirer Columnist
Every time I hear Donald Trump talk about President Obama's birth
certificate, I think of O.J. Simpson.
The conspiracy theory invented by Simpson's defenders was every bit as
loopy as the fantasies concerning Obama. Remember the O.J. defense
ruse?
Years before the murder, conspirators would have had to incite Simpson
to commit domestic abuse, laying a foundation for a future motive.
Several weeks before the murder, an O.J. doppleganger would have
purchased a knife exactly like the weapon used in the slayings.
The night of the murder, someone would have to take the eyeglasses of
Nicole Brown Simpson's mother, providing the reason for Ron Goldman's
presence.
And Brentwood resident Jill Shively would have to be falsely convinced
that she had seen O.J.'s Bronco speeding away from Nicole's house.
The first police responder would have to know to call Mark Fuhrman, so
he could discreetly get blood from the crime scene while also picking
up one of the real murderer's gloves.
Then Fuhrman would've needed to head over to Simpson's to sprinkle
blood on the driveway, in the white Ford Bronco, and on Simpson's
socks somewhere inside the house. He would also need to deposit the
bloody glove behind Kato Kaelin's apartment.
Then, four days after the murder, after O.J. serendipitously cut his
hand and volunteered an incriminating statement to police, one of the
conspirators would have had to put cash and a disguise in the Bronco,
and programmed the vehicle to drive toward Mexico with O.J. inside.
I don't know why prosecutor Marcia Clark's summation did not more
cogently articulate the absurdity of this defense. I'm also not sure
it would have made any difference. Perhaps the same is true of any
birth-certificate analysis, but consider nevertheless what's needed to
hold this conspiracy together:
The plot would need to span five decades.
It begins with the future president's birth in Kenya eight months
after his parents had gotten married in Maui. (Why, I wonder, didn't
their handlers simply ask mom and dad to stay in Hawaii for a couple
of months?) Instead, having been born in Kenya for no purpose other
than to complicate what would have been a rather straightforward plan
to take over the world, the boy was quickly shuttled back to Hawaii,
where the boy's grandparents resided. (The plan also called for
Obama's grandfather to fight with Patton so as to enhance the future
commander-in-chief's military credentials.)
Then, the plotters planted a bogus notice in the Aug. 13, 1961, issue
of the Honolulu Advertiser, announcing the birth of Barack Obama on
Aug. 4, 1961. This trail of official records and newspaper accounts
would provide the necessary cover for the child's madrassa training,
as he was ushered to Indonesia (or, according to Mike Huckabee, to
either Kenya or Indonesia), where he would be schooled in the lessons
of the Mau Mau Revolution until such time as he could resume his
American mission.
That mission included getting accepted to Harvard Law School, and
eventually publishing a best-selling book about (of all things!) his
ancestry. And it explains why, on Page 26 of the memoir, Dreams From
My Father, there is the suspicious passage: "I discovered this
article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination
forms, when I was in high school."
Knowing that the young-Kenyan/Indonesian/Hawaiian candidate would
begin his quest for the presidency, the conspirators enlisted two more
participants in their nefarious scheme: Hawaii's health director,
Chiyome Fukino (a Republican appointed by Republican Gov. Linda
Lingle), and its state registrar, Alvin Onaka. Both would personally
verify that the health department holds the president's original birth
certificate.
Jess Henig and Joe Miller would be planted into the Annenberg Public
Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where they would
declare in 2008 that they had "seen, touched, examined, and
photographed the original birth certificate" and that it "meets all of
the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S.
citizenship."
The conspiracy would include spies within the GOP who would guarantee
that the 2008 Republican nominee would be born outside the United
States, and understandably be unwilling to make "natural born"
citizenship an issue.
The final assist would be provided by two surprise coconspirators,
President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who
would preside over an eleventh-hour financial meltdown. The economy in
ruins, the desperate nation would welcome this strange outsider.
Mission accomplished.
and I heard him talking about "The Donald's" new obsession with the
Presidents birth certificate. He spells out the issue perfectly.
Anybody who believes this fairy tale is either a moron or a bigot.
There is no third option IMO
Scot
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/michael_smerconish/20110408_Birthers__conspiracy_plot__Plants_are_legion.html
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Birthers' conspiracy plot: Plants are legion
By Michael Smerconish
Inquirer Columnist
Every time I hear Donald Trump talk about President Obama's birth
certificate, I think of O.J. Simpson.
The conspiracy theory invented by Simpson's defenders was every bit as
loopy as the fantasies concerning Obama. Remember the O.J. defense
ruse?
Years before the murder, conspirators would have had to incite Simpson
to commit domestic abuse, laying a foundation for a future motive.
Several weeks before the murder, an O.J. doppleganger would have
purchased a knife exactly like the weapon used in the slayings.
The night of the murder, someone would have to take the eyeglasses of
Nicole Brown Simpson's mother, providing the reason for Ron Goldman's
presence.
And Brentwood resident Jill Shively would have to be falsely convinced
that she had seen O.J.'s Bronco speeding away from Nicole's house.
The first police responder would have to know to call Mark Fuhrman, so
he could discreetly get blood from the crime scene while also picking
up one of the real murderer's gloves.
Then Fuhrman would've needed to head over to Simpson's to sprinkle
blood on the driveway, in the white Ford Bronco, and on Simpson's
socks somewhere inside the house. He would also need to deposit the
bloody glove behind Kato Kaelin's apartment.
Then, four days after the murder, after O.J. serendipitously cut his
hand and volunteered an incriminating statement to police, one of the
conspirators would have had to put cash and a disguise in the Bronco,
and programmed the vehicle to drive toward Mexico with O.J. inside.
I don't know why prosecutor Marcia Clark's summation did not more
cogently articulate the absurdity of this defense. I'm also not sure
it would have made any difference. Perhaps the same is true of any
birth-certificate analysis, but consider nevertheless what's needed to
hold this conspiracy together:
The plot would need to span five decades.
It begins with the future president's birth in Kenya eight months
after his parents had gotten married in Maui. (Why, I wonder, didn't
their handlers simply ask mom and dad to stay in Hawaii for a couple
of months?) Instead, having been born in Kenya for no purpose other
than to complicate what would have been a rather straightforward plan
to take over the world, the boy was quickly shuttled back to Hawaii,
where the boy's grandparents resided. (The plan also called for
Obama's grandfather to fight with Patton so as to enhance the future
commander-in-chief's military credentials.)
Then, the plotters planted a bogus notice in the Aug. 13, 1961, issue
of the Honolulu Advertiser, announcing the birth of Barack Obama on
Aug. 4, 1961. This trail of official records and newspaper accounts
would provide the necessary cover for the child's madrassa training,
as he was ushered to Indonesia (or, according to Mike Huckabee, to
either Kenya or Indonesia), where he would be schooled in the lessons
of the Mau Mau Revolution until such time as he could resume his
American mission.
That mission included getting accepted to Harvard Law School, and
eventually publishing a best-selling book about (of all things!) his
ancestry. And it explains why, on Page 26 of the memoir, Dreams From
My Father, there is the suspicious passage: "I discovered this
article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination
forms, when I was in high school."
Knowing that the young-Kenyan/Indonesian/Hawaiian candidate would
begin his quest for the presidency, the conspirators enlisted two more
participants in their nefarious scheme: Hawaii's health director,
Chiyome Fukino (a Republican appointed by Republican Gov. Linda
Lingle), and its state registrar, Alvin Onaka. Both would personally
verify that the health department holds the president's original birth
certificate.
Jess Henig and Joe Miller would be planted into the Annenberg Public
Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where they would
declare in 2008 that they had "seen, touched, examined, and
photographed the original birth certificate" and that it "meets all of
the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S.
citizenship."
The conspiracy would include spies within the GOP who would guarantee
that the 2008 Republican nominee would be born outside the United
States, and understandably be unwilling to make "natural born"
citizenship an issue.
The final assist would be provided by two surprise coconspirators,
President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who
would preside over an eleventh-hour financial meltdown. The economy in
ruins, the desperate nation would welcome this strange outsider.
Mission accomplished.
