Where is your evidence that the AP made the assertions in question? The links in #147 point to a Kenyan newspaper that I’ve never heard of and neither have you (and which misspells Obama’s name), not to the AP. Your first link points to the Kenyan article through some fringey little site that seems to have invented the AP connection ex nihilo; your second points directly.
Obama did not say in the debate with Alan Keyes that he was born in Kenya, and the Kenyan article, credible or not, makes no such claim. InfoWars, credible or not, says that Obama pointed out, altogether correctly, that birthplace is legally irrelevant for a Senate candidate. It then concludes, through a gross non sequitur, that he said he was Kenyan. Since InfoWars seems to have invented its AP citation, it may have invented the quote itself. Keyes was an unqualified loser who was trying to run off into trivialities because he wasn’t prepared to face off against a pro.
I don’t think any sort of credence ought to be given to Obama’s god damned lying about this that and the other thing, especially with regards to his birth certificate and using his Kenyan ancestry to get into Harvard and who knows what to become the President of the United States. I’ve also read an article that claimed that Obama was a Muslim but got converted to Christianity (with having to renounce Islam) shortly after taking office. Seem that man (if you want to call him that) will try to lie his way out of anything, so long as he can gain power from it. Bosch Fawstin is a FB friend of mine who is an illustrator who has been focusing on current affairs that are newsworthy, especially with regard to Islam and Obama. Here is his blog with his take on the Obama birth certificate controversy.
I would accuse most politicians of this level of dishonesty however. What do you expect, that we are going to get a liberal president as principled as Ron Paul is?
The American people are incapable of electing a good president for so many reasons, a few of them being mechanical and the other being that when it just comes down to it most people out there have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to politics. Even when they are trained in thinking about politics, their ideas usually take a turn for the worse not the better.
Besides its not like it matters that Obama is the president and not some other liberal of the same breed. All of his decisions are made by advisers and lobbyists. He is just the prettiest sycophant to the American people.
Just recently saw this and thought it was hilarious. (It’s a clip of Obama making fun of the fake birth certificate allegations at the WHCD. Watch out: His birth video is pretty explicit.)
I’m curious how those Cruz supporters who used to be “birthers” will rationalize his eligibility for the presidency, given that he was born in Canada. They could make (completely valid) case that Cruz was a natural-born U.S. citizen under long-existent law (dating from 1790) – albeit never tested in the SCOTUS when it comes to presidential candidates. By my reading, Cruz is eligible. Legal genius Donald Trumphas doubts about Cruz’s eligibility, but at least he’s being consistent with his earlier position against Obama.
BTW: Don’t make this a Cruz thread. Start a new one to discuss non-birth topics about the 2016 election.