Since the Obama’s birth certificate is real, birthers are now claiming that his Social Security number is fake and are trying to get him thrown off the ballot in Ohio.
This is from WND, the home of all things nutty,
If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 35 years than from his birth certificate. Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels has seen to that. On Monday, July 2, she filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court demanding that Jon Husted, Ohio secretary of state, remove Obama’s name from the ballot until Obama can prove the validity of his Social Security Number.
Daniels, who has vetted thousands of Social Security Numbers for numerous other clients, has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number.” To acquire appropriate standing in court, Daniels has gone to the trouble of establishing herself as a valid write-in candidate for president. Before she is through, this 70-something mother of seven, who has been a licensed Ohio PI since 1995, may cause Obama more trouble than the Romney campaign.
Granny Birther is basing her case on the her claim that the first three digits of President Obama’s Social Security number were only issued to people born in Connecticut.
Oh no, cue the spooky music. Boy those birthers have got Obama this time.
Except that Granny Birther was wrong, very wrong. Media Matters did a bit crack research via Google I am guessing and quickly discovered this on the Social Security Administration website, “Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the State in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the State where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant’s mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.”
If Granny Birther would have done a Google search of her own, she would have seen that the whole theory that her legal petition is based on was debunked in 2011. It actually gets worse for our birther hero as she had been investigating Obama’s Social Security number since 2009, and in order to establish legal standing she has declared herself a write in candidate for president.
If you have ever wondered who falls for this nonsense, you now have your answer. Scared white senior citizens who can’t believe that a black man could be legitimately elected president are the people who are most prone to believe this birther silliness.
Granny Birther is the latest victim of another right wing chain email. (Does every right winger get all of their false information from Fox News and forwarded chain emails?)
These people will literally believe anything negative about Barack Obama, but I am sure that once the judge stops laughing, it will take about four seconds to toss this out of court.
The Social Security thing might not pan out, but I hear that there is a suspicious Obama library card that needs investigating. Here comes the Sarah Palin tweet, “Obama Lies, Libraries Dies.”
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Reynardine
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Thanks for reminding me to pay my library fine.
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mary aseltyne
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
birthers make me feel so smart, god bless them
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Linda Meullion
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
This is terrible. It seems that the rascists will do anything. It is time for all this mess to stop. This behavior is taking the USA back to slavery. I ponder what other countries are saying about our country. No respect!!!!
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George
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 5:38 am
I tell you what other countries are talking about. I’ve been living in The Netherlands the past 2 years because I couldn’t find a job in my field in Ohio for almost 2 years. Had to make the move. Anyway, back to topic.
At least people in Europe, are laughing their asses off at how their theory of “How stupid Americans are” is proven every day by behavior like this. The US has become the laughing stock of the world! Too bad CNN doesn’t report on that. The US should be ashamed of itself every time someone stupid speaks. The US really need to focus on intelligence more than popularity, or it will be the laughing stock for many years to come, unfortunately.
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Paws
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 7:21 am
I don’t blame them for laughing. I’d laugh at it, too, if I didn’t have to put up with the consequences. :)
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SinghX
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 8:30 am
So, in essence, what you are saying, without my being taken out of context or accused of being politically incorrect, Americans are becoming the “Dumb Pollack” joke of the world.
I can’t wait to hear how comics around the world tell the “Two fat Americans were walking down the street fighting over a Twinkie…” joke…Or “How many dunb Americans does it take to…”
Soon, when anyone with an IQ above their library fine (pay up Reynee)leaves the US of A to live within “civilization”, we’ll repeatably use the phrase, “Yes, my PARENTS were both Americans, but I’m from here…No, no they weren’t crazy fundamentalist in straw hats or obese”.
That’s how we’ll wind up; defending ourselves from our heritage.
Great…sigh…
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Johnee
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Unfortunately it’s true. I have family that lives in the U.K. and friends that live in Norway. The stereotype of the “ugly American” has morphed into the “stupid American”.
Frankly, most of the western world can’t believe that a huge voting bloc of one of our two major political parties denies (among many other things) evolution and takes the bible literally.
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A Walkaway
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I’m worried that obesity will become the new hate target. Not all people who are obese are gluttons (I argue it’s just the opposite), and there is such a thing as medically-caused obesity. Also don’t forget the connection between poverty and obesity.
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Johnee
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
There certainly are some medical conditions that cause obesity. However most of the obesity epidemic is caused by what we eat and how much we eat (your example of the poor eating cheap high carb white and sugary foods is a perfect example).
No one should degrade or discriminate another human being because of their weight but there is wide spread denial that is being encouraged by certain groups. Imagine if an alcoholic or drug addict tried the same “there’s nothing wrong with me, love me the way that I am” tact. Obesity and food addiction can kill someone just as fast as drugs or alcohol.
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A Walkaway
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Well, I’d accept your argument except I’m obese – because of a radiation-burned “system” (aka downwinder), and have significant medical issues (which are still unrecognized by the US government and which went denied by the doctors for decades). I catch some of the nasty comments (on top of everything else), and while I admit that obesity is unattractive – I’ve had to accept that I’m ugly and don’t have much choice in the matter – I do get tired of being blamed all the time for it. (If my wife or I decide to have a treat, or even a decent meal while in public, there is a good chance some skinny twit will make some sort of nasty comment – even if it’s something that we haven’t had in weeks or usually months.)
Plus, with maybe one or two exceptions, every REALLY obese person I know has medical problems that appeared before the obesity. Things like thyroid cancer, hypoglycemia, type 2 diabetes, etc.. They all to a person also don’t eat as much as the skinny people around them, and in some cases their diet might even be better. One of the worst things ever fostered on the American public was the idea of “calories”… eat more than you burn and you gain weight. Eat less and you loose weight. That’s been disproved time and time again, but it’s still a dominant paradigm.
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Reynardine
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Quite so. People may overeat, and I have observed they do it instinctively (a) if they’ve ever been food-deprived, or (b) in advance of a crisis that may leave them so, but it has become part of the “ril uhMericuhn” culture to push this food on us, on the ground that only eevil libruls are concerned about food safety, food purity, or nutrition. Additinally, good-quality food is becoming increasingly expensive at a time when fewer and fewer people can afford it. Add to that the weird hormones, enzymes, additives, and glopatives that are in food, water, containers, and utensils, and that more and more Americans are on more and more permanent medications than ever before, and people are having problems who wouldn’t have had them fifty years ago. That is leaving out the question of obesity genes. It can’t be said that those of us who are overweight, especially in our later years, are gluttons. Nonetheless, the Hammerhead culture has made such a point of consuming mounds of barbecue and fried foods as well as pyramids of Budweiser cases, just to spite the eevil libruls, as to turn themselves into the (fat) butts of jokes.
I doubt, Walkaway, that either you or your wife deserve to be called ugly. I’ll save that appellation for the ugly-minded Hammerheads that drop in from time to time.
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Pepper17
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
you are right except that it’s not new. It’s always been okay to make fun of fat people.
Obesity is a symptom, not a cause. If it were an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved a long time ago.
There are many contributing factors, the main one, I believe, is stress. When my stress is too much to handle, there is very little I can do to control my eating. And that’s because stress throws hormones out of whack and actually cause food cravings, often for chocolate and/or salty/crunchy food.
Until about 50 years ago, the common belief was that low carb was the way to lose weight. Then someone came up with this stupid calories meme, which we still have to deal with. It might appear to work, but have you ever tried to lose 100 pounds? It is a difficult plan to maintain for any length of time.
Gary Taubes has written a book called Why We Get Fat. It is an eye opener. He says eating less makes people hungrier. Exercise makes people hungrier. Think about it for a minute.
I have lost 40 pounds so many times, only to get it back. When I’m losing, I think, I can eat like this forever – chicken and veggies – love them. When I start gaining, I always used to wonder what happened. then someone told me about another book called The 7 principles of Fat Burning. It’s the first place where I read about what happens I am stressed.
I have identified periods of time when I am typically stressed, the last few years – Dec – June. I’m definitely less stressed now, healthy food choices are easier. But even during my high stress phase, I made changes and lost 26 lbs. during the time I normally gain that much or more. I still had and gave into my chocolate cravings, but I gave up all wheat and gluten foods, which was huge.
This is probably totally off topic, but I get really frustrated with the way fat people are treated and talked about in our society.
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kte
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 6:26 am
We are looking on.
Wondering when stupidy overcame sense in the USA.
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Eddie
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
You got to be kidding me. The guy if a fraud and you all sit here and bag people who want to get him out. Racism is supporting a guy just because he is black.
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Johnee
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:55 am
Yeah… that’s it. The White House has a time machine that they used so that they could put in Obama’s birth announcement in that Hawaiian newspaper.
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majii
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:58 am
Genius,
I’m a Black American who has voted for presidents since 1972, and all of them were white-until Barack Obama ran in 2008. I voted for President Obama for the same reason I voted for all of the white presidents: I thought he was the best candidate for the job. This is something that you birthers don’t understand–Black Americans have voted for white politicians since the Voting Rights act was passed in 1965, and we didn’t hear you question why we voted for any of them until 2008. You’re a good example of why more Black Americans don’t vote for republicans. You demonize us and insult our intelligence, but we’re smarter than you think we are. We’re smart enough to vote for politicians who value our citizens and our country more than money and corporations. Don’t play the projection game. It’s easy to see who is the racist here.
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Hdj8501
Jul. 8th, 2012 at 1:13 am
Thank you. I could not have said it better myself.
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dragonpuff
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 4:56 am
Good news Eddie. The Affordable Care Act will allow you and your birther buddies to get affordable psychiatric care. Now thank President Obama . . .
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Sandy Cunningham
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
dragonpuff, Thanks for the info. I’m a manic depressive and no longer have to worry about sleeping under a bridge. It’s a wonderful thing. SHCCCC
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SinghX
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 8:42 am
…”Racism is supporting a guy just because he is black…”
High-larious, Eddie! You almost had me going there for a minute…
Best cognitive dissonance sentence I’ve heard in a long time. That makes Frank Luntz the guy in “Dinner for Schmucks”, Zack Gafalakis (SP) character who has the power to “control minds”, over the idiot character played by Steve Carrell…now I get how they “do it”…ohhhhhh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxenMLJ1tDs&feature=relmfu
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Kimbutgar
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Hey Eddie were you demanding a birth certificate for John McCain who was born in Panama?
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MarkB
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Suddenly I don’t feel so bad for working at WALMART……
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Christi
Jul. 7th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
This has to be the best comment…ever!
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Leah DiMarco
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Every day of the week Republicans exhibit behavior that proves that we need to improve our educational system here in the USA. When are the birthers going to STOP making fools out of themselves!
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 15th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Does that make it true?
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Debs
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:57 am
Palin’s Tweet will read: “Obama lies, libaries die.” And all the right will go nucular.
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Grace
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Palin won’t tweet that because she’s not quite sure what a library is. ;)
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 15th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
You do know thats complete BS right?
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labman57
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 2:29 am
Next up, they’ll demand to see his Civics grade on his middle school report card.
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Constantlyconfused
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 5:23 am
How the hell did she get his full Social Security number? Wouldn’t that be considered identity theft of some sort, even if she doesn’t actually steal his identity? All the websites I’ve gone to that require me to put in a SS or credit card number x out all but the last 4 digits. And say I call my bank’s customer service dept – they only ask for the last 4 digits of my SS number for proof of identity. How did she get at least the first 3 numbers, if not the entire number?
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Reynardine
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
In more innocent days, many universities used student ID numbers based on your SS#, and you can probably still get it off transcripts.
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George
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 5:42 am
Don’t forget to draw some blood sample to prove he’s not from Mars too.
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motorfingaz
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 5:42 am
People, do not be fooled. These people want Civil War II!
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buckeyewill
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 6:46 am
Still angry about losing the first one.
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A Walkaway
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
I know that was meant as a joke, but there are a lot of people in this county alone, for whom that is absolutely true.
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Paws
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 7:30 am
These people just won’t quit, will they? It’s almost comical.
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wealthylady
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 8:18 am
In tbe US they need to start giving Degrees in ‘Stupid’ Tea Party, Tea Baggers what ever you call yourself line up. Here this fool is 70 years old with one foot in the grave stirring up nonsense. The US is a joke to other countries. What a waste of time.SMH
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Johnee
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
LOL Now now…70 isn’t that old today. My Aunt saw your post and let out a howl (she’s 72).
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 15th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Can you name both Dems int the tea party?
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Ruth
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Yes, HOW DID she get his FULL SS#???
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Kimbutgar
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
I didn’t get a social security number until I was 16 and got a job. This was in 1973. When my son was born in 1992 I had to get him a social security number before I filed my taxes to list him as a dependent.
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Dan Skinner
Jul. 6th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
These people need to return to doing what they were best at: hunting Big Foot.
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wes baggett
Jul. 7th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I was born in tennessee in 1942 and got mt SS card in Florida in 1955
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Echelon
Jul. 8th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
I was born in (Texas)— and was issued a SS# that was reserved for the state of New York. While purchasing a vacuum cleaner from a company that just so happened to do a nation-wide ID check, it was discovered that I and a lady in Orinskany, NY had the same SS#. We also had the same first name and middle initial.
So I being the good citizen that I am, reported it to the SS Administration. The lady got to keep the number because it was issued to her first. But I was then issued a SS# that falls within a group of numbers normally reserved for California but shared by only a few people in Texas. It can happen to anyone, even the president!
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