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October 11, 2008
Is this a 'game changer' (Updated)
Topics: Political News and commentariesFirst watch the video:
... then read the article at The American Thinker. I'm not going to express an opinion on what I think about this video and the article, other than to say that I do consider both, at the very least, to be interesting albeit I know nothing about the credibility of Philip Berg who comments in the video. According to the article at the above link, Berg is said to be a lifelong Democrat who has held political office and been a committeeman who has brought suit over what the article claims are "the real questions raised by the absence of a valid Obama birth certificate" (I know you're thinking "oh no, not another birth certificate story," but this has a wee bit of substance to it with a message, of sorts). As for whether or not I see this as a game changer, my answer is that I definitely do not.
Here's an excerpt from the TAT discussion about the video:
10/12 Update: Is raising questions about Obama's birth certificate a smear campaign?His narrative of the various questions Obama has refused to answer is devastating. Graphics and sound are well-deployed to avoid tedium as factual data is conveyed in a way that allows viewers to absorb it. When he contrasts Obama's behavior when challenged (use perfectly valid legal technicalities to delay) with John McCain's full disclosure of all documentary evidence under a similar challenge (remember the flap over his birth in the Panama Canal Zone? -- who raised those questions, anyway?), there is no doubt in a "viewer's mind" that there is something seriously wrong here.
[...] Here's why it's not. The circumstantial evidence for weirdness around this birth certificate is so great that legitimate questions arise -- questions anyone with common sense would ask. The answers to those questions can easily be provided. The Obama-Biden campaign can resolve this now with proof that Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen, as is mandated for presidential candidates anyway.Related: DNC JOINS OBAMA TO BLOCK BERG SUITThe job of a press is to ask questions which have a basis in fact. See for yourself the full chronology here. See whether you are certain there are no legitimate questions worth asking. I am asking the Obama campaign to resolve a factual question which they must already have covered in the vetting process. After all, Obama is running for president, and he is constitutionally ineligible to do so if he wasn't born on U.S. territory. Therefore it is legitimate to ask questions about it.
Update: Ed Morrissey shares my doubts.
Posted by Richard at October 11, 2008 5:37 PM
Thanks for posting this video. I posted it at my blog yesterday at 4:29 PM and also linked it at Real Clear Politics. Some time between 10:30 and 11:00 PM it was SCRUBBED from the RCP website. Concerned citizens MUST keep this video in the public eye.
It is troubling that Obama’s campaign doesn’t care if we find out about his association with ACORN, his support of infanticide or his deep connections with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers but they go to great lengths to quash any reference to his birth certificate.
Why won’t Obama provide a “vault” copy of this birth certificate? What is being hidden from the American public? Let’s stand guard over liberty together.
Posted by: No Sheeples Here! at October 12, 2008 5:35 AM
Please click the link after the part you posted. It goes to this:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/a-smear.html
Posted by: Jim Treacher at October 12, 2008 3:26 PM
I went to the link, and what can I say? The questions and reasons Sullivan raises are similar to those of Jim Treacher's. There is, of course, a difference. Sullivan's are based upon a perceived "circumstantial evidence for weirdness" regarding Trig that flies in the face of facts and evidence already existing in the Alaska media and through interviews with friends, albeit disregarded by those looking through the lens of a mindset far left of reality and common sense.
And did I fail to mention something about really, really, bad taste?
Posted by: Mike in Iraq at October 12, 2008 9:09 PM
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