The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth â his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject â he cannot possibly be a “natural born citizen,” one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.
Andrew McCarthy’s posts at the NRO will be fun today, I am sure.
Conservatively Liberal
Time to get the hot air popper out, grab a root beer, kick up the heels and watch insanity spring forth from the deep Well of the Wingnut.
You can never please these people, and while that was a problem in the past right now it is just free entertainment.
Perform you clowns, I want to be amused!
28 Percent
I keep trying to think of how to match – let alone top – the level of crazy that this birth certificate has achieved.
I got nothin’
Comrade Stuck
Word has it, they’re considering an appeal to God. Or at least a new book by Teh Pantload.
gwendy
Clarence Thomas is full of fail!
I want some court somewhere to just hear the damn case already so they can rule on it and get it over with. On the other hand, like Vince Foster, it’ll be the gift that keeps giving.
Comrade Dread
Oh noes! The Supreme Court iz in on the cunspirshy too!!!
Time to buys lots of canned guds and gunz!!!
Wolverines!!!
zzyzx
Best early reaction I’ve seen is from Free Republic:
Someone already has mocked him for that. How bad of an Obama hater do you have to be to have other FR readers making fun of you.
The Grand Panjandrum
I think kudos go to Justice Thomas by invoking a rarely used rule to have this put before the entire court. From what I understand if he had not, and simply turned this fellow down, this knucklehead would have been able to go to each individual Justice for consideration. Now having spoken as a group the issue is more likely to disappear, at least as far as the courts are concerned. But Truthers, are … Truthers and will never be satisfied so it will continue to circulate through certain elements of the blogosphere.
Maybe one of our resident legal eagles can comment?
zzyzx
BTW, I’ve come to the conclusion that in addition to superspeed, the Roadrunner has the power to control the laws of physics.
Just Some Fuckhead
A part of me thinks it would have been nice for SCOTUS to take on this case and put the "issue" to bed. Is it possible this was the motive of Clarence Thomas, one black man looking out for another? I dunno.
But I ain’t looking forward to eight years of Right-Wing-Clintonesque drama centered on Obama’s illegal presidency. Just shoot me in the fucking head now.
Conservatively Liberal
I wonder if the conspiracy nuts are going to blame Thomas because they think he is pro-Obama? That would be like us hitting the double jackpot today. Maybe they will go for the trifecta and drag Anita Hill into the fray?
Goooooo fruitcakes! After all, it tis the season!
EDIT: JSF, you ain’t a wingnut but what impeccable timing! Kudos to you. ;)
TheFountainHead
One is a symptom of the other. His speed rips the space/time continuum and leaves the laws of physics in the dust (pun shamelessly intended). I say this on the authority of an intoxicated conversation I had with my Uncle at a family Christmas event. He’s a geologist and I work in entertainment, so we certainly have the prerequisite background and authority.*
*If this were a Wingnut blog.
Incertus
@gwendy: Just like Vince Foster, it wouldn’t matter if this nonsense had gotten a full hearing all the way up the ladder. Pammy and the gang would still be howling about it. That’s the way these people think–the more evidence marshaled against them, the wider the conspiracy.
Atanarjuat
The only crazies stoking this "fake Obama birth certificate" conspiracy are liberals who (once again) are trying to make conservatives look bad. That’s the true FAIL here, lefties.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Atanarjuat: Yawn.
zzyzx
@TheFountainHead:
It’s more than that though. It’s not just that the roadrunner can break the laws, but he manages to make them behave inconsistently around the Coyote. Objects fall at different speeds. Catapults work in the manner designed to cause the Coyote maximum pain. It’s a pretty major power.
It’s kind of sad to see a trickster god confused this much but apparently the Roadrunner is a more powerful force…
The Grand Panjandrum
@Conservatively Liberal:
How long will it take for this to be explained as a ploy to avenge the Clintons’ murder of Ron Brown and the imprisonment of OJ? Calling Agent Flowbee!
Incertus
@Conservatively Liberal: My guess is that they’ll give Thomas the benefit of the doubt and blame everyone else on the Court–after all, Thomas is the one who distributed the case, so he can’t be in league with the conspiracy, right? He was the brave one who tried to face them down!
It’s kind of fun, playacting my inner wingnut like this.
Conservatively Liberal
@Atanarjuat:
Talk about some weak tea there, I am totally underwhelmed by your milquetoast, limp-wristed, half-hearted attempt at wingnut outrage.
You forgot to end your post with your motto: Goats First.
Also.
South of I-10
This is a slap in the face! Obama is using his mind control powers on the Supreme Court!
Conservatively Liberal
@Incertus:
Wrong Incertus. They will probably cover for that by reasoning that with Obama in power, Thomas would threaten to bring in his new posse and take over the court if they allowed the case to go forward.
Wingnut logic is like a Gordian knot, there is no beginning or end to it, there is no untying it and the problem is nobody will ever be able to cut it.
Alexander, where are you when we really need you?
joe from Lowell
But I ainât looking forward to eight years of Right-Wing-Clintonesque drama centered on Obamaâs illegal presidency.
You’re not? Oh, good lord, I certainly am! This Obamanoia is a some sh*t. My favorite theory is that he won’t release his real birth certificate, because he was born with "Mohammed" for a middle name. Years later, his handlers realized that would be politically inconvenient for their nefarious plans, so they came up with something more all-American for a middle name: Hussein.
The only crazies stoking this "fake Obama birth certificate" conspiracy are liberals who (once again) are trying to make conservatives look bad.
And, you know, the guy who filed the lawsuit. And all of the conservative bloggers who spent the campaign writing about it.
zzyzx
…and Rapture Ready… and Free Republic….
Trying to disobey laws based on Obama not being a natural born citizen will be the gold fringe flag argument of 2009!
over_educated
@Atanarjuat:
Seriously dude, I have noticed a distinct downturn in the quantity and quality of your spoofing. You need to recharge.
J.D. Rhoades
The Freepers are in full Viva la Revulluoooshun mode: :
ISTR that if anyone said this after Bush’s SCOTUS selection they were called traitors.
Blue Raven
Oh, my, JD, that’s prime wingnut. So tasty.
Ash Can
@Atanarjuat: LOLZ! "Trying?" Ain’t no effort on our part, yo.
zzyzx
Here’s another "great" post from a Freeper:
(Paragraph structure changed to preserve the blockquoting)
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
"But I ainât looking forward to eight years of Right-Wing-Clintonesque drama centered on Obamaâs illegal presidency."
Although we haven’t reached peak wingnut (from the evidence of RedState, the Saudi Arabia of wingnut crazy), the difference between now and the 1990s is that now instead of it being influential crazy, it’s *impotent crazy*, and hence entertaining, instead of annoying or scary.
[At least for the next six months. If the economy completely craters and we’re at U6 of 18%+ and U3 at 10%+, then all bets are off.]
Punchy
Fixed for the real fucknuttery screeds.
PonB
Thanks, John, for Wile E. in the morning…
…and thanks to the commenters, too, that brought up physics…awesome! A great antidote to a cold, dreary morning…
– PonB
JGabriel
@Atanarjuat:
Jeepers, Fast Runner, it’s like you’re not even trying any more.
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Atanarjuat
Incertus said:
And it’s easy, too, since your "playacting" is completely based on thoroughly fictitious, anti-conservative stereotypes.
Pardon me, I need to go urinate some more on the Constitution (it’s what most conservatives do, right?).
Meanwhile, keep fanning the pitiful flames on the "fake Obama birth certificate" conspiracy, Incertus. You might eventually amuse the adults in the room.
Nylund
Imagine if the supreme court TWICE ruled that the popularly elected democrat couldn’t be president.
JGabriel
Atanarjuat:
Actually, I was always under the impression that conservatives were more into the act of shitting on the Constitution rather than pissing on it. Probably because of their fascination with anal sex and the gays.
Seriously, you need to bone up (pun intended) on your cliches and stereotypes.
.
Svensker
There are times when I wish the intertubes had never been invented. Then I wouldn’t know there are people like this out there.
4tehlulz
Fixed
zzyzx
Here’s another good one, "Obama just gave every nut case in America a reason to assassinate him, and this is a horrible thing , the truth of which is shown by US history, especially in the Lincoln and Kennedy cases."
Wow, that takes blaming the victim to new extremes. "Since you didn’t give into our horrible reason to make you step down, we’re going to be forced to kill you!"
J.D. Rhoades
I wouldn’t worry. They’d have to put down the cheetos and come out of mom’s basement to actually revolt.
Roger Moore
@zzyzx:
I think that you’re blaming the wrong guy. Remember that Wile E.’s plans go awry the same way when he faces a different opponent like Bugs Bunny. It’s sad to say, but the root cause of his problems is himself. He’s the one with the reality distortion field that causes the laws of physics to act up at the least convenient time. The only power the Roadrunner displays, apart from super-speed, is the ability to fly, and that’s natural given that he’s a bird.
srv
I can’t believe they haven’t started an impeachment effort already.
demimondian
Remember, boyz and gurlz: it’s a crime to threaten to harm the President, even indirectly, as the "posting guidelines" comment does. Commit that crime, and really, really dangerous folks who take their jobs seriously show up — and they won’t take "first amendment" as an excuse.
Update: Just for clarity, having *been* threatened by someone who meant it, I fully support the Secret Service in this. It’s never even funny to repeat such a threat.
Xenos
@JGabriel:
Ohh… could ‘fast runner’ be a play on words suggesting ‘road runner’? You may have stumbled on the occulted key to the spoof.
joe from Lowell
Now the battle moves into areas where the 0bamunists will be utterly unable to prevail, and FR posting guidelines will not allow me to spell out details.
They’re going to turn into Jem and the Holograms?
I gotta admit, liberals will never be able to match the wankosphere in that arena.
The Grand Panjandrum
@srv: That ship has already sailed.
Atanarjuat
joe from Lowell said:
That’s truly outrageous for you to even suggest that.
zzyzx
The people on Rapture Ready are upset too but they produced this gem:
Yes, you care so little about his race that you created random speculation in order to break down his heritage to three decimal places. Obviously you’re completely above such issues.
Incertus
@zzyzx: Sounds a bit like McCain’s statement about Bill Ayers–"I don’t care about some washed-up old terrorist, but it’s still important because Obama is going to destroy the country.
My friends."
cleek
what’s really awesome is:
Calouste
@Roger Moore:
You mean Wile E. is a wingnut?
Punchy
Not sure TZ’s oft-incoherent rants at you qualify as a legitimate threat…..
TenguPhule
I’m sure they don’t mind.
Cain
@zzyzx:
That is total dog whistle. He’s part of the nut case list. That place is nuts!! Secret Service is probably monitoring that site everyday anyways…
There is going to be some seriously heavy security on inauguration day.
cain
demimondian
@Punchy: There is much win in you this morning.
Screamin' Demon
There’s no Constitution anymore. Nixon rolled it up and used it as buttwipe in the White House. Finished the last of it during the Saturday Night Massacre.
Pixie
I think the reaction among the right will be something to the effect of "well Thomas is black, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised" or some other variation.
cleek
according to the article:
Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.
that meets or exceeds the Awesome Department’s expectations.
(i posted this above, but that comment is in moderation. will this one be, too? i can’t wait to find out! here we go… 1…. 2…. 3…. Submit!)
Vincent
Uh, what kind of birth certificate lists your genetic heritage like that?
Calouste
@Vincent:
And another question, how do you end up with 85/15 heritage? 75/25 or 87.5/12.5 I can understand, but 15% is about 19/128, and I am not sure that the Kenyan birth registration is that accurate going back 7 generations. (7 generations from Obama’s grandfather, so we’re probably looking at around 1700 somewhere. For 128 people.
JD Rhoades
An imaginary one.
Dennis - SGMM
Does this mean that some of the wingers are muttering dark threats? This couldn’t be the same group who soils themselves with the thoughts of what OBL might do to them. Prudence suggests that they knock it off now lest they find out what really dangerous people will do them: their own beloved prez has set it up so that they can be stripped of their rights as citizens and then sent to very harsh place for a very long time.
canuckistani
@Calouste:
Your percentages do not take polygamy into account, or the fact that a black man is 3/5 of a white man for legal purposes.
J.D. Rhoades
I just keep imagining this cubicle in the bowels of Secret Service HQ where the poor schlub whose job it is to monitor FreeRepublic is reading the deranged screeds they’re posting right now on this issue. He sighs, picks up the phone and tells his wife he won’t be home in time for dinner. Then slowly, wearily, he puts his suit jacket on and slumps out the door, headed for yet another round of useless but mandatory dead end investigations of the usual gang of old cranks and dysfunctional twits. Who is this poor bastard? What bureaucratic god did he offend to get stuck on the Freeper detail?
Calouste
Btw, why do these wingnuts hate America so much that they think the nationality laws of a foreign country should decide who can and cannot be President of the United States?
OriGuy
Well, Calero really isn’t a natural-born citizen (born in Nicaragua), and in some states the SWP ran another candidate when they had a law that only US citizens could be on the ballot. Seems like someone could have challenged Obama’s right to be listed on the ballot in those states. Someone who actually knew the law and thought that there was a reason to question his citizenship. Assuming such a person existed.
Calouste
@canuckistani:
Of course! Even though Kenyans were British subjects, the original US constitution applied there as well.
It’s all becoming clear now. (Or maybe it just isn’t.)
bob the hog
Shorter Confederate Yanking:
Produce your original birth certificate, Mr. President, or else.
Cyrus
@Atanarjuat:
This reminds me of what right-wingers were saying in defense of how well Bush handled Hurricane Katrina. Bush, you’ll recall, was at John McCain’s birthday party the day Katrina made landfall, and took part in several publicity stunts to advocate for privatizing Social Security. The following day, he got an impromptu guitar lesson from a country singer.
As far as we know, liberals forced Bush to do none of that. Therefore, today just like back then, we have to conclude that conservatives make themselves look stupid; liberals just draw attention to it.
Delia
@zzyzx:
The thing that’s most impressive about that Rapture Ready site is the rampant use of highly advanced emoticons that jump and dance up and down. If I were prone to seizures I would probably be rolling on the floor right now. Maybe it’s part of a plan to prepare their usual readers for the Rapture. I should think they’d worry less about mundane things like politics and the ethnic composition of their President and more about the glory that awaits awaits them in the life to come, since that’s what they’re supposedly interested in. But what do I know?
Mark S.
With legal reasoning like that, I can’t believe the Supremes declined to hear it. I know it’s a long sentence, so I
boldeditalicized the really important parts:I kind of wish they had taken the case. It would have been fun to watch the Court eviscerate this moron.
maxbaer (not the original)
Was the case literally laughed out of court as it should have been?
It may be that the next brouhaha will be over Obama’s continued smoking. The WH apparently is smoke-free. Impeachable offense? You betcha!
smiley
A little OT and WAY late but does anyone know how memeorandum works? I’ve read their "about" page and it’s still unclear how they do it. This morning, I visited there to see what was going on about the SCOTUS thing. LGF, Malkin, Hot Air, and Atlas Shrugged had all weighed in. Now only LGF (believe it or not, really critical of the truthers on this) and Hot Air are still there. Do they stop linking to sites that no one else is linking to or is it Obama censoring the entire internet? BTW, Atlas Juggs was awesome conspiracy mongering. Laughs, laughs, those were good times…
TheAssInTheHatOnMyCat(Formerly Comrade Tax Analyst)
Ya’ see, 28, ya’ gotta get down to the final 1% or so (maybe as high as 1.5%) before you can effecta-spoof that type of stuff. At 28% there are still some semi-rational folks who just have enormous holes in their ability to process information and draw logical conclusions.
Down at 1 or 1.5%, well, you get the real deal…the quintessential inveterate morons.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Because you’re too damned lazy to learn how to do it right!
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Fixt!