“Cook believes that Obama was ineligible to become president and commander-in-chief because he was is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, the paper reported. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.”

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/orders-revoked-on-soldier-91503.html

At no time does Knorr even suggest that Cook believes that Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii, implying that he believes that being born in Hawaii is in itself insufficient.

Very funny, unless Knorr is under the impression that this is an accurate presentation of the story (in which case it would instead be very, very funny).

Enjoy the schadenfreude, Loaf-sters.

Damn inflation! It used to be that the 100th player got the free t-shirt!

I appreciate the distinction, Rick!

I take it that both times you were formally asked to do so? By someone who had the authority to ask you to?

Obama’s not refusing to produce a birth certificate to a court or a judge or a legal authority. He’s simply declining to cowtow to the whims and demands of fringe folks who, for some reason, have singled him out for special treatment in evidencing the details of his birth.

In eight years, was George W. Bush ever asked to produce a birth certificate? In eight years, was Bill Clinton ever asked to PROVE that he was born in Hope, Arkansas? No; people accepted facts as facts, and didn’t manufacture conspiracies about Barbara Bush being in Montreal when she gave birth to Dubya.

I also notice that nobody gives two whits about whether Biden was actually born in Scranton or not. Nobody wants Joe to produce a birth certificate proving his birth, the way they want Obama to.

Besides, when Obama was initially asked to produce a birth certificate, he did. Did that stop the conspiracy theories? No, they just alleged that he’d faked it, or that it wasn’t proof ENOUGH.

For instance, are you aware that Mombasa is *on the other side of country* from where the Obama family and the Luo tribe live? Not only that, but it’s 300 miles directly past Nairobi.

Suggesting that he was born in Mombasa is like suggesting that a French woman married to an American expatriate from Nashville would come to the U.S. to have the baby in Savannah. Well, not quite; you also have to imagine that the French woman would be going to a third-world country to have her baby.

Do you even know where the ‘Mombasa’ rumor truly originated from? On June 9, 2008, Wayne Madsen put an article online that said the following:

“GOP dirty tricks operatives dispatched to Kenya to dig up any useful “dirt” on Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, Jr., and his late Kenyan father Barack Obama, Sr., believe they have found a “smoking gun.” In this case, it is a birth certificate from the Kenyan city of Mombasa registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr., on August 4, 1961. However, the registration is a common practice in African countries whose citizens abroad have families with foreign nationals. ”

The existence of these alleged “GOP dirty tricks operatives” was never verified by any other news agency, or even by Madsen himself. It was, and remains, pure rumor. And obviously, no real Kenyan birth certificate was ever produced by any real dirty tricks operatives.

Plus, Madsen clearly states in the next sentence that even the RUMOR doesn’t claim that the birth was in Kenya, much less Mombasa.

That’s your original source for your belief, sorry to say. An unsubstantiated, unsourced rumor that didn’t actually claim a Kenyan birth at all.