On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:00, Elliott Hird<penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/30 Roger Hicks <pidge...@gmail.com>: >> False. Obama published it, not the state of Hawaii. Its not a birth >> certificate but a Certificate of Live Birth (confusing name, but >> different document), issued (at the time) by Hawaii to infants as old >> as a year. No hospital or attending physician, and possibly even a >> forgery. But who cares about the truth? He's a great guy....hope and >> change and all that other nice stuff. > > I really tried not to respond to this message. I truly did. Apologies > to all of you who are here to, say, play nomic — I must indulge, as it > were, for the duration of an email. Feel free to ignore. > > --Cut on the dotted line-- > >> Obama published it, not the state of Hawaii. > > And then, the state of Hawaii confirmed it.[1] > >> possibly even a forgery. > > See [1] and [2]. > >> He's a great guy....hope and change and all that other nice stuff. > > Nice sarcasm, but I strongly disagree with basically everything he's > done. From the rest of the world, even in the near-police-state > Britain, your political system is hilarious: you get to choose between > far-right or slightly further right. > I'm fairly certain most of the world would classify Obama as far-left....and I think Reagan was the last far-right president (or serious contender). I will concur that our political system is hilarious.
> That doesn't change the fact that conspiracy theories are. It's like > claiming that Belgium doesn't exist[3]: trivially falsifiable and with > no justification; just random assertion. Can't you right-wingers > attack the policies instead? > > 1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate > 2. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp I hardly consider snopes.com an objective source. And I think it's somewhat odd that Hawaii can't just release the document and put the matter to rest. BobTHJ
