Birthers' fade after passage of law against them

[RamboLiberal]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle/AP


The persistent quest for President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth certificate has died down since the state passed a law allowing it to ignore repetitive requests for the document.

Far fewer "birthers," who claim Obama is ineligible to be president, have asked state officials to provide the document since the law was enacted in May, according to the state.

The law has never even been put to use, said Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo. The number of people seeking proof that Obama was born outside of Hawaii and the United States diminished without the law being invoked.

Only about two or three e-mails now seek verification of Obama's birth each week, compared to between 10 and 20 weekly requests earlier this year.





Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/07/national/a100100D32.DTL

[marybourg]

1. If only ALL of their bizarre behavior were as easy to squelch. nt

[ZM90]

2. Good News!

K&R

[Fearless]

3. Worst thing they could've done. It encourages conspiracy theorists.

[Richardo]

4. But the requests also waste already scarce public funds that could be used on Hawaiians

Let the whackjobs have their conspiracies - they will continue no matter what the Hawaiians do, so they might as well save money.

[JI7]

5. haha, they were available all this time and it didn't stop the conspiracy theorists

in fact that's why they are conspiracy theorists. nothing they believe is based on evidence. when shown something to the contrary they claim it's some conspiracy.

[sensate2000]

8. Yet the facts suggest the opposite.

[boppers]

11. conspiracy theorists don't care about reality.

See: JFK

[Arkana]

16. Who cares?

[Javaman]

20. It already is a halfwit conspiracy theory, how could passing this law make it worse?

people will believe what they want to believe regardless of evidence and facts contrary to their very bizarre beliefs.

Personally, I believe that aliens swooped in and took his original birth certificate out of the Hawaiian archives and spirited it off to alpha centuri! But no one will listen to me!!!!

We live in weird times.

[alp227]

6. Haha nothing's ever gonna convince em not even the newspaper announcements

No matter how close you can get to proving anything even identifying the hospital where Obama was born none of the wingnuts will ever change their stone-solid minds. But at least they stopped a major annoyance.

[KamaAina]

7. They could get that done, but not civil unions.

Thanks for nothing, Lingle -- and fundie Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona (R-Finished Behind Palin On Standardized Test), who must NOT be allowed to succeed her!!

[lillypaddle]

9. Hey, what happened to "Oily"?

Haven't heard anything about her for awhile. Surely she didn't give up.

[trusty elf]

10. Here she is.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. OMG

I should have heeded my own alarm bells going off before I clicked on this graphic post this early in the morning!

:rofl:

[mwb970]

13. She's been busy trying to weasel out of the fine she owes.

Birther Queen Tries To Fight $20K Fine At Supreme Court
(Talking Points Memo, August 6, 2010)

If you say nothing else about Orly Taitz, say she is persistent.

Taitz, birther lawyer extraordinaire, last month tried to fight a $20,000 fine by appealing to the Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas denied her appeal.

So this week, she re-filed the appeal, this time directing it to Justice Samuel Alito instead.

[BlueMTexpat]

14. If even Thomas denied her appeal,

it won't be going anywhere. He is, after all, the least qualified person ever to be confirmed as an SC justice.

[lillypaddle]

15. THAT'S my girl!

:crazy:

[No Elephants]

17. Teabag Thomas got to decide on her appeal? He did not recuse himself?

Sorry, but he's an abominable turd of a Supreme Court Justice. I have to try hard not to hate him.

That his ruling went in the correct direction is irrelevant to whether he should have recused himself. And his ruling in a slam dunk case against Orly for non-payment of a fine, only helps him "prove" that his wife's role in the Tea Party does not affect his decisons.

[lunatica]

18. The Idiocracy

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. I grew up in a family of teabaggers.

Nothing will make them change their minds. Nothing.

I heard someone mention this on a talk radio show this morning:

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate