The really odd thing is that it appears a lot of people answered "no" to all the possibilities. Maybe they should have asked about Mars or Jupiter.

We are doomed. Doomed I tell you. The repuke war against education obviously is paying dividends. Unbelievable.

I think we need a free-response question. Just ask "where was Barack Obama born?" People may be less willing to volunteer an outside-the-U.S. location if the question hasn't prompted them with an opportunity to "be difficult".

They were all guessing; they couldn't find the "country" of Africa on the list. You betcha!

Obama was born on the planet Bipartisan where the inhabitants solve all their problems just by joining hands and singing Kumbaya. ;)

I actually heard a guy on msnbc who had a valid point. The king lost to gore and he barely beat kerry, or maybe not. However, he governed like he had a mandate and rammed sh*t through. Obama won a freaking landslide and he is acting like he barely won. Ram it through and govern like he has the mandate that he has. One termer so be it. Get sh*t done for pete's sake.

Medicare for all is a great bumper sticker slogan. Single payer and do an exec order waiving the age limit for medicare. Screw all this stuff.

Jesus Christ just because Birfers are bat-shit crazy racists doesn't mean their stories don't have an underlying coherence. This is typical of all conspiracy theories from LaRouche to Area 51 to the Grassy Knoll.

Even not crazy people know that Obama's mother married an Indonesian name Lolo Soetoro and that he has a half sister named Maya Soetoro-Ng. We also have pictures of Obama as a little boy in Indonesia. If a Birfer is going to pick from a list that includes France, Indonesia and the Phillipines OF COURSE they are going to pick Indonesia. This should be no more surprising than Trekkies being able to name Spock's mother or a tween being able to pick the Jonas Brothers favorite snack food from a generated list.

The basic Obama/Indonesian story is plausible. Totally wrong in the end, but plausible. Mostly it doesn't start with him actually being born in Indonesia, the result of the cited poll is just a spillover from the regular narrative. It goes like this.

1. Lolo Soetoro marries Ann Dunham in Hawaii in 1964 and moves with her and her young son to Indonesia in 1967.

2. While in Indonesia young Obama is enrolled in school. In an apprantly authentic copy of his school records he is enrolled under the name 'Barry Soetoro' with a religion of 'Islam' and a nationality of 'Indonesia'
http://obamaimpeachment.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/boindsch2.jpg

Okay to this point the narrative is still anchored in reality. From here on it is all speculation and misapplication of relevant law.

3. Birfers claim that the name on the records and the nationality stated prove that Lolo adopted Barack and in so doing caused Barack to lose his citizenship.

Now there is no evidence put forth that affirmatively shows that Soetoro formally adopted Barack or that under Indonesian law that would automatically grant young Barack Indonesian citizenship but no matter the Birfers are off to the races.

In response we don't have to deny the validity of the record as shown in the JPEG. After all a man legally named Leslie Lynch King went all through grade school, high school and University under a different name, becoming an Eagle Scout and an All-American football player along the way. You can just imagine the fun Birfers would have with comparing the 1913 birth certificate and the school and scouting records of the man who wouldn't become legally known as Gerald Ford Jr. until 1935.

Is it possible that young Obama was known to family and friends in Indonesia as 'Barry'? Sure, why not. Is it reasonable that his step-father enrolled him in school under the name of Soetoro? Certainly, just as young Gerald/'Jerry' 'Ford' was probably happy not to have to explain why his real name was Leslie and that his mother was a divorcee. The school records correctly list Obama's place of birth as Honolulu, Hawaii, listing his nationality as 'Indonesia' and his religion as 'Islam' might be easily explained by security concerns for a young American is a country being roiled by political violence.

So people who claim that a one point in his life Obama was Muslim and Indonesian are not crazy in the same way the Kenya Birthers are. It just turns out that none of that would matter. Children are not competent to renounce their citizenship and under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 their parents and guardians cannot irrevocably renounce it on their behalf.

From and after the effective date of this Act a person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by -- (1) obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon his own application, upon an application filed in his behalf by a parent, or duly authorized agent, or through the naturalization of a parent having legal custody of such person: Provided, That nationality shall not be lost by any person under this section as the result of the naturalization of a parent or parents while such person is under the age of twenty-one years, or as the result of naturalization obtained on behalf of a person under twenty-one years of age by a parent, guardian, or duly authorized agent, unless such person shall fail to enter the United States to establish a permanent residence prior to his twenty-fifth birthday:

I am not saying the Indonesia brand of Birfers are not acting in bad faith or motivated by racism and hatred of Islam because many of them are guilty of both. But this brand of Birferism is a different and somewhat less deranged form of crazyness than that of Orly et al.

Krypton! He's from Krypton!