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patgund(Crossposted from Yes to Democracy
Around the start of July, "TexasDarlin" starts to question not just the COLB, but Sen. Obama's citizenship. She has a guest author, "Judah Benjamin", who "NoQuarter" claims is a "historian and former journalist". It does not say if it's the gentleman's real name or a non du plume, though I suppose it's just silly coincidence that the only "Judah Benjamin" I can find on Google outside of the one who appears on NoQuarter and TexasDarlin was Judah P. Benjamin, former U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and later Confederate Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, before leaving the United States and settling in England.
Anyway "Judah Benjamin" posts a metric blortload of legal files relating to dual-citizenship. The reason for this? She starts pounding more on the idea he either has dual-citizenship (US/Kenya) though his father or lost his US citizenship when his mother married an Indonesian citizen. She starts to claim there may be a second certificate for a "Barry Soetoro" and that if he was adopted by his mother's husband, then he lost his US citizenship.
One does not lose their "native born" citizenship as a child, even if both parents renounced their US citizenship. There's no record Stanley Ann Soetoro ever renounced her US citizenship, and even if Barack Obama had been adopted, he would have had to renounce his US citizen as an adult to lose it.
Anyway.....
10 July, TexasDarlin makes a request for "Burdens of Proof for POTUS Eligibility: Information Request"
13 July, TexasDarlin makes the sudden announcement that (gasp!) she has"personally come to the conclusion recently that Obama’s COLB was probably real, although its handling has been incredibly sloppy" and that she believes "that Obama is likely enjoying — in a twisted way — the public debate and analysis over his birth certificate that has mushroomed into a netroot obsession" so he can play the race card later. She starts to hammer more on the supposed citizenship questions.
14 July TexasDarlin is "demanding that Sen. Barack Obama show America a certified copy of his complete and original birth certificate (BC) by August 1."
14 July, "Judah Benjamin" comes back, with TexasDarlin claiming that he is "developing an exclusive article about eligibility to be POTUS in the event that a candidate has ever been a dual citizen of the US and other countries". So now he's a historian, former journalist, AND legal scholar? And all this without ANY proof of his credentials or if he really exists too....
14 July, Dr. Neal Krawetz, an expert in computer forensics and security, reviewed the work of the people who have analysied the COLBs and claimed they were fake. His conclusion? "Unfortunately, there is not much I can say to the people who believe this image has been manipulated, except "you're wrong." There is no indication of image manipulation."
16 July, "Polarik" is a guest blogger, with an article in which the title pretty much sums it up "OBAMA’S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, why I’m right and they’re wrong (V. 3)". Obviously one can't argue with scholarship like that, eh? Problem is, all it is is a recap of the stuff that's was shot down two days earlier by an expert in computer forensics and security. Stamping your foot and going "I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right !" doesn't make one any the less wrong.
18 July - "TexasDarlin" discusses a Congressional resolution declaring Sen. John McCain "a natural born citizen". (He was born to US parents in the Panama Canal Zone, which was US territory at the time). Why does this concern "TexasDarlin"?? Because it was introduced by Claire McCaskill, "a major Obama supporter in Congress" according to TexasDarlin. She also asks "Was Barack Obama born in Canada?", and cites "Contrarian Commentary", YET another right-wing blog. (PUMAs sure do like those right-wing blogs, don't they??) This one is by so-called "legendary Chicago muckraker" Andy Martin, who compared Obama to Hitler with such gems as:
and
Wow, comparing Obama to Hitler AND attacking his mother. How impressive and grown up.....
18 July - Also, we had a major shootdown of both "Polarik" and "TexasDarlin". Remember that real Forensics expert, Dr. Neal Krawetz?? Well, in this post on his website, he reveals not only that the "image experts" don't know what they're talking about, but goes into what he found out about both of them.
Now "TexasDarlin" is interesting. According to Dr. Krawetz, "TexasDarlin" is the Nom de PUMA of blogger "SusanUnPC", aka Susan Hu. However he also notes that the email address that Susan Hu uses is also used by a very infamous PUMA - Harriet Christian, the one who called Sen. Obama on national TV an "inadequate black male". He ends with "if these are different people using the same email address, then they seem to share political opinions."
And "Polarik"? Dr. Krawetz states that:
He ends with "TexasDarlin should have never promoted the conspiracy when her "experts" were unverified. And upon learning of the error, she should have recanted the accusation rather than continue to promote a baseless conspiracy."
20 July - She had another so-called "Forensics Expert", "TechDude". It started with the line "The following report was written for TD/NQ by Techdude, who hurried to complete it after his tires were slashed and a mutilated rabbit was found hanging by his front door.". Who is TechDude?? A anonymous "Tech Expert" on ANOTHER right-wing blog with nasty anti-semetic leanings.
As for the rabbit? Well, Israel Insider, who calls this mysterious "TechDude a "Document forensics expert", claims that someone hung a dead mutilated rabbit from (TechDude's) front door Of course, we only have TechDude's claim on this, and it was around the same time that Murphy at PUMA PAC made a simular unproven claim about so-called death threats
Hmmmm......On one hand, we have a known expert on computer forensics saying that Polarik and Techdude are wrong in their claims. On the other hand, we have now three anonymous bloggers who's claims keep getting more and more out there.
20 July (updated on 27 July) , "Polarik" is claiming a Smoking Gun on the COLB. This is a "Smoking Gun" for a COLB that the State of Hawaii has ALREADY said was legit.
23 July, "TexasDarlin" found an article in a Hawaiian paper (the Sunday Advertiser), dated 12 August 1961, stating "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, a 6084 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, August 4." She then said that "Barack Obama was likely born in Honolulu, the hospital still unknown"
At this point, "TexasDarlin" she went mostly from arguing the COLB was a forgery, (though she still believes it was), to asking questions about his citizenship.
Around the start of July, "TexasDarlin" starts to question not just the COLB, but Sen. Obama's citizenship. She has a guest author, "Judah Benjamin", who "NoQuarter" claims is a "historian and former journalist". It does not say if it's the gentleman's real name or a non du plume, though I suppose it's just silly coincidence that the only "Judah Benjamin" I can find on Google outside of the one who appears on NoQuarter and TexasDarlin was Judah P. Benjamin, former U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and later Confederate Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, before leaving the United States and settling in England.
Anyway "Judah Benjamin" posts a metric blortload of legal files relating to dual-citizenship. The reason for this? She starts pounding more on the idea he either has dual-citizenship (US/Kenya) though his father or lost his US citizenship when his mother married an Indonesian citizen. She starts to claim there may be a second certificate for a "Barry Soetoro" and that if he was adopted by his mother's husband, then he lost his US citizenship.
One does not lose their "native born" citizenship as a child, even if both parents renounced their US citizenship. There's no record Stanley Ann Soetoro ever renounced her US citizenship, and even if Barack Obama had been adopted, he would have had to renounce his US citizen as an adult to lose it.
Anyway.....
10 July, TexasDarlin makes a request for "Burdens of Proof for POTUS Eligibility: Information Request"
13 July, TexasDarlin makes the sudden announcement that (gasp!) she has"personally come to the conclusion recently that Obama’s COLB was probably real, although its handling has been incredibly sloppy" and that she believes "that Obama is likely enjoying — in a twisted way — the public debate and analysis over his birth certificate that has mushroomed into a netroot obsession" so he can play the race card later. She starts to hammer more on the supposed citizenship questions.
14 July TexasDarlin is "demanding that Sen. Barack Obama show America a certified copy of his complete and original birth certificate (BC) by August 1."
14 July, "Judah Benjamin" comes back, with TexasDarlin claiming that he is "developing an exclusive article about eligibility to be POTUS in the event that a candidate has ever been a dual citizen of the US and other countries". So now he's a historian, former journalist, AND legal scholar? And all this without ANY proof of his credentials or if he really exists too....
14 July, Dr. Neal Krawetz, an expert in computer forensics and security, reviewed the work of the people who have analysied the COLBs and claimed they were fake. His conclusion? "Unfortunately, there is not much I can say to the people who believe this image has been manipulated, except "you're wrong." There is no indication of image manipulation."
16 July, "Polarik" is a guest blogger, with an article in which the title pretty much sums it up "OBAMA’S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, why I’m right and they’re wrong (V. 3)". Obviously one can't argue with scholarship like that, eh? Problem is, all it is is a recap of the stuff that's was shot down two days earlier by an expert in computer forensics and security. Stamping your foot and going "I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right !" doesn't make one any the less wrong.
18 July - "TexasDarlin" discusses a Congressional resolution declaring Sen. John McCain "a natural born citizen". (He was born to US parents in the Panama Canal Zone, which was US territory at the time). Why does this concern "TexasDarlin"?? Because it was introduced by Claire McCaskill, "a major Obama supporter in Congress" according to TexasDarlin. She also asks "Was Barack Obama born in Canada?", and cites "Contrarian Commentary", YET another right-wing blog. (PUMAs sure do like those right-wing blogs, don't they??) This one is by so-called "legendary Chicago muckraker" Andy Martin, who compared Obama to Hitler with such gems as:
"Hitler's troubled family life and psyche? Adolph meet Barack. Philandering father Barack-from-Kenya impregnates impressionable girl from Kansas-Washington-Hawaii, most likely without benefit of clergy. Father moves on and leaves a wound in his son's life. The son reverses field and receives "dreams from his father," instead of nightmares. Fantasy reigns."
and
'His father was a rake who never married his mother, and his mother showed abysmally poor judgment in being impregnated by a married man. Hardly a 'strong family' and certainly not 'strong values.' Quite the contrary. Shameful values is more like it."
"His mother was promiscuous and had a child out of wedlock, in 1961, when that was still scandalous behavior. Is this Obama's idea of 'family values?' Obviously, he has been deceiving the American people and hoping his advertising lies could overcome the truth. He has failed.
Wow, comparing Obama to Hitler AND attacking his mother. How impressive and grown up.....
18 July - Also, we had a major shootdown of both "Polarik" and "TexasDarlin". Remember that real Forensics expert, Dr. Neal Krawetz?? Well, in this post on his website, he reveals not only that the "image experts" don't know what they're talking about, but goes into what he found out about both of them.
Now "TexasDarlin" is interesting. According to Dr. Krawetz, "TexasDarlin" is the Nom de PUMA of blogger "SusanUnPC", aka Susan Hu. However he also notes that the email address that Susan Hu uses is also used by a very infamous PUMA - Harriet Christian, the one who called Sen. Obama on national TV an "inadequate black male". He ends with "if these are different people using the same email address, then they seem to share political opinions."
And "Polarik"? Dr. Krawetz states that:
"Even though he says he is an expert, he focuses on pixel-based qualitative analysis rather than quantitative analysis and technical evaluation methods. Moreover, he uses no terms common to the field. This reminds me of the Wikipedia scandal where an author claimed to be a professor of theology, yet made it all up."
He ends with "TexasDarlin should have never promoted the conspiracy when her "experts" were unverified. And upon learning of the error, she should have recanted the accusation rather than continue to promote a baseless conspiracy."
20 July - She had another so-called "Forensics Expert", "TechDude". It started with the line "The following report was written for TD/NQ by Techdude, who hurried to complete it after his tires were slashed and a mutilated rabbit was found hanging by his front door.". Who is TechDude?? A anonymous "Tech Expert" on ANOTHER right-wing blog with nasty anti-semetic leanings.
As for the rabbit? Well, Israel Insider, who calls this mysterious "TechDude a "Document forensics expert", claims that someone hung a dead mutilated rabbit from (TechDude's) front door Of course, we only have TechDude's claim on this, and it was around the same time that Murphy at PUMA PAC made a simular unproven claim about so-called death threats
Hmmmm......On one hand, we have a known expert on computer forensics saying that Polarik and Techdude are wrong in their claims. On the other hand, we have now three anonymous bloggers who's claims keep getting more and more out there.
20 July (updated on 27 July) , "Polarik" is claiming a Smoking Gun on the COLB. This is a "Smoking Gun" for a COLB that the State of Hawaii has ALREADY said was legit.
23 July, "TexasDarlin" found an article in a Hawaiian paper (the Sunday Advertiser), dated 12 August 1961, stating "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, a 6084 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, August 4." She then said that "Barack Obama was likely born in Honolulu, the hospital still unknown"
At this point, "TexasDarlin" she went mostly from arguing the COLB was a forgery, (though she still believes it was), to asking questions about his citizenship.
