GOP Sen. Shelby Joins the Flea Circus Questioning Obama's Citizenship

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from TPM: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/22-week/

By Eric Kleefeld - February 22, 2009, 1:19PM

Oh, brother. The conspiracy-mongering that Barack Obama is secretly a Kenyan citizen who has hidden his real birth certificate has now found its way into the utterances of a United States Senator: Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama.

"Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Shelby said on Saturday, in response to a constituent's question at a public event. "You have to be born in America to be president."

link: http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/local_story_052203445.html

FactCheck.org's debunking
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Good 'ol Alabama.

[niyad]

2. did you vote for mcinsane, shelby--you know, the guy who was born in PANAMA?

[Seen the light]

3. This thing is mind-bogglingly stupid

Words fail me at this point.

[book_worm]

4. Shelby from Alabama, a state that once seceded from the union

probably had ancestors who fought in the confederacy. Shelby himself no doubt supported depriving black people from voting. He dares question Obama's legitimacy!

[TahitiNut]

5. Notice how he allows (wants?) the inference to be drawn but carefully avoids an outright lie.

It's the ethical bankruptcy of the right wing politicians to invite support from sociopaths and imbeciles.

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6. he must have missed that whole swearing-in thing

. . . with the chief justice and all

[TahitiNut]

7. To be fair, his view isn't very good when his bowels are wrapped around his head.

:shrug:

[47of74]

8. Shelby (R-Dumb F--k)

It doesn't surprise me that Richard Shelby (R-Dumb Fuck) would say something like that.