I hope Esquire demands sanctions, and maybe counterclaims for abuse of process/malicious prosecution.

The “birthers” consistently parody themselves without any help from Esquire magazine.

Someone needs to explain to WND what satire is.

WorldNutDaily is a parody.

WorldNutDaily’s reputation worth $250 million? In your dreams, Joe and Larry.

CM, it would be…to Mel Brooks.

Yet again proving that the Radical Right is hilarious and has no sense of humor at the exact same time.

The only folks who know for sure where BO was born are his mother and a doctor. There is enough conspiracy stuff going around – some very credible – that causes us to wonder why people don’t want the truth; whatever that is? Do they really think a hustler/community organizer from – all places – Chicago -who lost his right to practice law – would steadfastly tell the truth? And if he isn’t eligible,then every law he has signed – would be void.

Rose,
Barack Obama is American. He was born in Hawaii. Get over it, and take it elsewhere, you unbelievable lunatic.

Rose,

Barack Obama also never “lost his right to practice law.” According to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Obama “voluntarily retired” from legal practice and never underwent any disciplinary proceedings. One might also note that he received his juris doctor degree “magna cum laude” from Harvard. You need to stop listening to the big fat lies of the extremist right.

Rose, you would better be named Carrion Flower.

Rose, none of this crap is “credible” in the least. The entire story is just ridiculous.

Also, I have to know, why is the term “community organizer” supposed to be so ominous?

“And if he isn’t eligible,then every law he has signed – would be void.”

Including the law that allows people to carry concealed weapons in the National Parks or just the ones the right wing doesn’t like?

Ruslan,

Because everyone knows that ‘community organizer’ is just another way of saying ‘Marxist-Leninist-Fascist who steals all of your votes.’

American is not the same as ‘natural born’ citizen. ‘Native born’ is not ‘natural born’. ‘Natural Born’ citizens have two citizen parents – in other words they are second generation Americans [citizens]. Why is it so difficult to believe the Framers set a higher standard for the President than for any other elected office? Representatives can be naturalized and so can Senators. The POTUS has to be ‘natural born’ – read what that meant in 1787.

Actually Gail, people have tried to make this claim before, and it’s already been debunked. You do realize that many of the Founding Fathers’ parents were not US citizens right?

Natural born means having citizenship at one’s biological birth, whether that means physically born on U.S. soil (including in U.S. embassies and consulates, on an American ship of war anywhere or an American-flagged and registered civilian vessel on the high seas or on military bases abroad where the terms of the lease give the U.S. sole jurisdiction) and not the child of a foreign diplomat or occupying military ossicial, or, as recognized by Congress, born to a U.S. citizen on foreign soil. Jus solis is the primary citizenship recognized by all common-law jurisdictions, while jus sanguinis in such jurisdictions is granted only by a legal enactment. This is the reverse of civil code jurisdictions, whose law is no precedent for ours.

Under our law, there is no status of aubinage. The President is a citizen through biological birth on our soil, an unquestioned class of natural birth. John McCain, born to Americans in the Canal Zone, is also a natural-born citizen. George Romney, born in Mexico to a colony of Americans who had abjured U.S. jurisdiction so as to follow marriage customs legally prohibited and socially unaccepted in their land of origin, had a far shakier claim to natural citizen birth, and if we followed the jus sanguinis doctrine you Obama-haters are advocating for, Mitt, the descendant of these abjured Americans, would be on ground equally shaky.

Official. Before coffee, my ability to type on a tiny keyboard is ossified.

Satire is supposed to be funny, but satirists can go too far in pushing the envelope.

Concerned, truth is defense against libel. The Birthers *are* ridiculous.

Be on the look out for any child from an unwed American female born in a foreign country!

I’m sure many GOP lead states are already at work, desperatly waiting by the fax line for ALEX to show them the way out of the threat this population represents to Hamerica.

gail, whatever the understanding of the phrase in 1787 is completely irrelevent. Just read the Fourteenth Amendment which makes every child born in the United States to non-diplomat parents a natural born U.S. citizen. Parents citizenship doesn’t matter at all – even in the 19th Century when the Supreme Court was hardly a friend to individual rights the racist Chinese Exclusionary Act could not prevent American born children of Chinese parents from being natural born American citizens.

Quite simply if your “requirement” to have two citizen parents to be a natural born citizen was the law, American citizenship would quickly become a shambles. Look back in your family tree – eventually you will find someone who came from someplace else. Eventually no one is a citizen and sheer chaos advanced.

And incidentially, how come nobody was questioning whether Bill Richardson (whose father was born outside of the U.S. to American citizen parents and mother was Mexican – and Richardson grew up in Mexico City) was elgible to be President? Especially given that U.S. citizenship rules are much more protective of children born to American mothers (even had Obama been born in Kenya he would be a natural born U.S. citizen because of his U.S. citizen mother) than American fathers.

Why don’t all of you birther idiots just admit that you are racists who hate President Obama because he has a Black father?

Someone needs to get a copy of Hustler Magazine v. Falwell to World Nut Daily.

Erika, just send them a copy of Hustler, period. They’ll get lost looking for Assawoman and wind up in Onancock.