Someone should ask the senator if he's been to the moon, and if not; what is his opinion on whether it's made of green cheese.

He should be thrown out of the Senate for this intolerable behavior. This is blatant racism. fr

Alan Keyes keyed the Krackpots again

That this has made it to the GOP Senate Caucus tells you everything you need to know about the political health of the Grand OLD White Peoples' Party

That and Earl K Jindal who will be delivering the Republican response on Tuesday

Keep throwing that red meat to your lunatic fringe base in hopes somebody takes action into their own hands.

Since when was the Obama campaign required to run his birth certificate past Sen. Shelby for his blessing? Even the McCain campaign knew that citizenship dog wouldn't hunt.
Current GOP strategy:
Throw as much chaff in the direction of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh so they can catapult the propaganda and obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.
Aren't there some GOOPers drawing up articles of impeachment on Obama already?

ABC News' Kirit Radia Reports: As President Obama worked the rope-line at the State Department Thursday, a State Department staffer named Charles Silver, knowing the President once lived in Indonesia, shouted out, "good afternoon" in the local language.

Obama responded back in what Silver later told ABC News was "very good" Bahasa Indonesian. The two then chatted briefly about the neighborhood Obama once lived in.

From this point on, every time that Obama has any kind of verbal interaction with Shelby, he should speak in Indonesian. As long as Shelby isn't going to listen anyway, why keep wasting time trying to say things he'll understand. I wonder what "You're an ignorant freakin' bozo" sounds like in Indonesian?

Come to think if it, I haven't seen Richard Shelby's birth certificate.

Shelby needs to show his own birth certificate before he calls on anyone else to show theirs. I very much question whether he was born in America.

This is an important issue that needs to be verified - is Richard Shelby a ILLEGAL ALIEN in the United States Senate?????

Shelby first needs to prove his patriotism. Let's call him on this.

Can we just chute chelby?

Evidence, Senator. Verifiable evidence. Or STFU.

Shelby is the worst kind of politiican, he knows the birth certificate issue is bullshit but he plays into it to brownnose the wingnuts.

Shelby should get leprosy of the face.

You will know our virtues by the vices of our enemies; our strengths by their weaknesses; the breadth of our embrace of reason by the ferocity of their determination to eschew the same.

I welcome suckholes like Shelby at the great marketplace of ideas. Let the madman spout his bile. We as Democrats are better for it.

Small cheer for the Cullman Times of Cullman, AL. They immediately added the relevant information.

"Another local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama’s U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.

“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”

According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.

The nonpartisan Web site Factcheck.org examined the original document and said it does have a raised seal and the usual evidence of a genuine document. In addition, Factcheck.org reproduced an announcement of Obama's birth, including his parents' address in Honolulu, that was published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961."

Glad **someone** in the state of Alabama has some sense.

I am borrowing this from someone who said

"The reason Sen Shelby cannot show his birth certificate is that his parents were cousins"

Too bad Obama wasn't involved with torturing... The GOP would never dare question THAT! Birthplace, however is a whole different story... and MUCH more important....

“It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. I don't think the candidates have to do very much to win votes from those who share their views.”

James Simmons

Are you, by chance, familiar with that region we know as the South. Utilizing any metric, isn't it absurd to assume someone of a quality higher than Shelby's would be chosen to represent the Alabama electorate?

Well then, if they claim distortion, post Shelby's comments in full, with full context. We'll be the judge of whether it's distortion or not.

Wow, there ARE worse Senators than Joe Lieberman.

I left the following message at Shelby's Senate office:

Senator Shelby, as you are well aware, Barack Obama is our duly elected President. If you had any doubts about his legitimacy you had the obligation to answer those doubts long before now.

By claiming to doubt his citizenship and entitlement to be our President (and the Commander-In0-Chief of our military) you are giving aid and comfort to our enemies during a time of war on TWO fronts!

It is YOU, Senator, who has no standing for the job you hold, and YOU should be impeached!

Shelby is still pissed at Lincoln for freeing the Shelbys' slaves. Clearly, the Shelby family is not able to survive without them.

A throw-away line, then why say it? Playing to your audience maybe? "I haven't seen it" as a qualifier is playing into the wingnut conspiracy, which is exactly what he wanted to do.

Say one thing in public, and another in private. Red meat for the lunatic fringe...

I've submitted the following to Shelby.

Your opportunity to object to Obama's election came during the inauguration ratification. You didn't exercise it then. For you to make public insinuations about his citizenship and qualifications which you know to be inaccurate is unbecoming a United States Senator. For you to do so when the country is facing two wars and involved in a severe economic crisis is unpatriotic and subversive. If you have evidence of anything substantial, produce it. If not, attend to the business of the people of Alabama.

Shelby should be worried about his ancestry inbreeding than about Obama who ironically was related to Shelby's hero confederate president....

"Obama ties his mother's family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War".

I'd like to see Shelby's birth certificate just to be sure his parents weren't brother and sister.

see http://www.obamacrimes.info/thebirthcertificate.html

for the real facts about obama's birth certificate and how giving the "alleged" orginal to Fact check .org somehow exonerates the president. This accusation cameout before the election and was filed in a lawsuit that the MSM conveniently didnt report. The lawyer who filed the suit was a hillary supporter and long time democrat who was once the assistant attorney general of pennsylvania.

you sheep somehow believe everything you are spoon fed but the accusations have merit if you look at the facts on the above site or look at the facts on pennsylvania governments courts records site. Factcheck.org is own by annenberg which obama served on its board of directors.

You Obama worshippers never cease to amaze me when calling facts "smears". Mccain produced his birth certificate when asked but obama refused to even at the request of a judge. You all sound like the right wing attack machine when someone mentions facts. The democrat party is losing people because of its memberhips inability for self examination.

What is interesting to me is that some people are satisfied spending their lives spewing out words that bring destruction and forget that time is the most precious asset we have.

Any reasonable person can see that at the time Obama's mom was pregnant with him, no white person would have allowed their pregnant daughter to go to a "Third world country to deliver the child." Do you know the mortality rate of women giving birth in developing countries?

Would any of the people making these accusations be willing to send their child on a journey that even today takes almost twenty-four hours if they lay-over is not too long to the city of Nairobi to deliver a baby.

Stanley Ann's parent from Obama's biography loved their only daughter and although they did not rejoice in her decision to marry a foreigner, respected her and her child. Something that cannot be said about everyone even in 2009.

The more I read of Obama's accomplishments, the more I respect the grandparents who put their private opinions aside to do what was good for their daughter and her son without expecting anything in return, except to raise a responsible, productive and honorable citizen of the world.

It is interesting how the laws that God has put in motion work. These people laid down their lives for this child. Their efforts paid off beyond their wildest dream. History will always mentioned the humble grandmother that raised Obama and the single mother that worked so hard to make sure her son served his fellow human beings.

Unfortunately, this cannot be said about people who choose to sow discord amongst brothers. Obama has been all encompassing as a candidate and a president. He took the lessons he learned to heart. Whether you support him or not, you are disillusioned to refused that he has not gone beyond his duty to reach out to everyone.

None of the people that keep raising the bar for him will do that even in their own homes among family members. He is a human being, but one that has worked hard to live higher than his base nature.

If you want to continue to argue about his birth, you do not need an extensive research. All you have to do is research what Kenya was in 1960 and 61, what it took to travel there etc. and ask yourself if you would have sent your only underage child alone there to deliver the baby.

You will see how rediculous that sounds. There have been some probable reasons given o explain why his grandparents put out birth announcements, no one gives any reason why white parents in the 60's would have sent their only daughter to deliver her first child in a developing world, but then be willing to raise the same child.

I am glad the State of HI has wise public servants that do not want to waste the state's resources in entering this foolish debate. To me, I believe that Shelby and all the others in his bandwagon think very little of the FBI and the CIA's ability. I don't think that these organizations would allow anyone who is not qualified to hold the highest office in the land.

We have the important job of doing our part to pull this country from its knees. If Americans were presented with a choice that was better than Obama, they would have made that choice. Not everyone here thinks so narrowly. Fortunately for America, Obama proved to be head and shoulders above the other candidates. He won and is doing his best to pull us out of an impossible mess.

Spend your time better in making your neighborhoods and the communities safer. Help those struggling and even if you do not gain fame like Obama's mother and grandmother, you will feel better about yourself, which is a greater reward.

Where were all you bleeding-heart liberals when real traitors like Bill Clinton was giving the Chinese state of the art guidance systems for their missles in exchange for re-election contributions? Up until that time the Guidance system of the Chinese were so bad that they would have had trouble hitting the Pacific Ocean. Now they can send a missle down your chimney if they want. And how about Jane Fonda who was a double traitor, both against the nation and against individual soldiers? Where are your comments about them and others? You have hypocrital standards. You have bashed Bush for years, demonizing him on every issue and yet you become highly indignant over some off handed remark by Shelby.
As far as being born in America or elsewhere does not make a bit of difference to me. Being born on American soil does not guarantee loyality.
I cite two of the examples in Clinton and Fonda.
Far more important is the track record of the individual involved: What are his core beliefs; Who influenced him during his formative years; who were the people he chose to associate with; What has he said and done; etc.
I do not hear you talking about the nympomania Clinton or the collaborist Fonda.
Grow up, get a haircut, take a bath, get a life, and get a job.

Why the handwringing! Shelby is from Alabama for crissakes! What would you expect! Look at Bunning! Another southern Senator saying Ruth Ginsburg has only 9 months to live! These a$$holes have no class or style at all. They just demonstrate what the maajority of their constituents want to hear. Shelby tried to back off on his declaration but you won't hear that from Bunning. I doubt he can remember even saying it. In his last campaign he seemed oblivious to what was going on. Even his state's other Senator, McConnell doesn't want him to run again. Fortunately for the Democrats, Shelby switched parties. They could be defending his stupid statements.

Come on Stroszek. You should be able to do better than that. Perhaps you have no logical response. Typical response of a Knee-jerk liberal. If you are going to respond to my statements, please try to do so logically.

Stroszek, So far you have not responded except to
critize my grammar and insinuate that my paycheck in not up to far with your associates. As far as my paycheck goes, you don't know. It is another example of you talking about something that you know nothing about. Also, isn't it a core belief of your kind of self-styled "Intellectual elite" that you should take away the wealth from anyone who has it and give it to the non working useless eaters. As far as my grammar, I wrote in haste, also considering that proper useage might confuse you. I am also sure that your friends with the bigger paychecks probaly work for the government.

But I digress, please try to respond to my original posting. Your failure to do so indicates your inability to do so.

Stroszek, You are the Idiot. I critized both Nixon and Reagon. Your friends are supposed to be held to the same standards. Your pseudo intellectual use of Latin phrases is cute. Check your spelling.
I have tried everything to get you to respond in an intelligent way to my origional posting. Your failure to do so indicates your inability to do so. Your attempt to use logic backfired. The correct logic says that those who did wrong in the past does not justify those who do wrong in the present.
I am glad to know that I look like a "fucking idiot" to you and your kind. I will sleep better tonight in that knowledge. My soul is at peace.

My apologies to the rest of the nation from the State of Alabama for the comments of our Senior Senator. Mr. Shelby is typical of the Republican Party in this country. The Republican Party has become a regional party and with leaders like Shelby, that region will become only the South. GOP-Bringing us recessions and depressions since the 1930s.

PRH