HONOLULU, Hawaii. Temporarily set back by the release of a Certification of Live Birth for President Barack Obama by the State of Hawaii, members of the "birther" movement today fought back, arguing that Hawaii is not a real state.
I mean seriously: Which is more likely to be a state, Hawaii or Nebraska?
"Obama is not a legitimate president because Hawaii is not a legitimate state," said Norbert Speiser of Downer's Grove, Illinois. "Hawaii does not have a straight line in its borders, which is required in order to obtain statehood."
An alleged Kenyan birth certificate for Obama was filed in one of numerous lawsuits challenging Obama's citizenship, but White House press officers claimed it was produced by an internet-based Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator. "So what," replied Alan Strader, or Roanoke, Virginia. "Anybody could set up a fake Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth Generator."
Hawaii lacks many of the characteristics of the other forty-nine states, according to Herman Wold, chairman of the Geography Department at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "Hawaii is the only state made up entirely of islands, not geographically located in North America, and completely surrounded by water," he notes. "Do you want me to keep going, because we're right in the middle of our annual verification of state capitals, and we're only on Kentucky."
Jim Nabors: And they say it can't happen here.
Hawaii is the only state with a royal palace, a fact that has caused many birthers to suspect that Obama will ultimately demand to be named King of the United States. Hawaii is the only state in which coffee is grown, and the only state occupied by Jim Nabors, the actor who portrayed "Gomer Pyle" on The Andy Griffith Show and a subsequent eponymous spin-off from that show. "An eponymous spin-off can be a life-saver in a solar system such as ours," notes California Institute of Technology professor Willard van Ormand. "You've got one show and two big stars, and if you don't create a second sitcom, there could be a gigantic gaseous explosion."
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Aw, CRAP. Don't go giving them ideas. I expect to hear this allegation on FOX News by 6 pm.
Con, man, you're killing me.
That is unless CNN continues to be the Home Shopping Network of right wing political crap.
The rock hudson/nabors myth was due to the fact that back then, everyone was in the closet so the thinking was if these 2 men were gay, they must be a couple! Ha!
The left argues that Hawaii was stolen, which it was, and so the annexation was invalid and the howlies have to go.
then the right says it is not a state, and obama is out.
:)
Seriously, for those of us (which is most of us here) who have had friends and relatives come into this world through Kapiolani Hospital, particulary those who were there and visited the young Prez following his birth there, well, the idea that the fine people and doctors there would cook up documents is very offensive.
And, speaking of offensive, imagine the nerve of picking Oahu, home to Pearl Harbor, as somehow being symbolic of the left, a true attempt at revisionism despite the obvious ultimate sacrifice made here.
Racist Right is for the pale, male and stale crew ... the youth won't have it, and they don't watch Fox or listen to Beck/Limbaugh propaganda ... look closely how young people laugh and make fun of the birthers and the Right ... think they will vote for them in the future? I do not.
Rated!
The most obvious reason Hawaii isn't a real state is its location. Of course, when the Big One hits and California becomes detached, that argument won't hold water (oops)...except wait, maybe California isn't a state.
Too confusing. I gotta go to work now.
three vowels in a row.
not a state.
'nuff said.
Don, by the way, it's spelled "haole."
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/israeli-police-storm-jerusalems-holiest.html