GOP Rep. Deal, Candidate For Georgia Governor, Asking For Obama's Birth Certificate

All due respect to A. Lincoln, isn't it time we let the South secede? They can revert to whatever olden days fantasy they choose and the rest of us can get on with the business of living in the 21st century.

Come on guys, cowboy up and just bring a motion for impeachment! Don't hedge your bets. Come out and make real fools of yourselves. I'll laugh till I pass out!

Talk about indoctrination camps.

Um, I hate to break it to these idiots, but unless they also think Obama's mother wasn't an American none of this matters...or don't they understand how citizenship rules work in this country?

Obama has committed the unpardonable sin of having a black father and a white mother. They will never forgive him for that.

I want to see proof that Deal is fully paid up on his Klan dues. Let's see the paperwork, Nathan.

WHAT?! WHAT?! Really. Come on. All it takes is a 5 second google search to find that all the proof they are asking for has already been presented.

Apparently there is some controversy as to Nathan Deal's parentage. I heard somewhere he is the son of an alligator or something. I mean, if it weren't true somebody wouldn't be spreading it around, right? I'M not saying it's true, just that apparently there IS a controversy.

The real question is - what kind of racist crazy is Rep. Deal? Is he one of those that says that you need two citizen parents to convey citizenship, so it doesn't matter if Obama was born in Honolulu? That's somewhat less crazy (though still racist and wrong). (Telling that the source for this theory is the Swiss de Vatell and not the English Blackstone).

Or is he one of those that thinks that the President was actually born in Kenya? Because that's a whole different level of crazy. To believe that, you first have to deny the official record, reject the verification thereof by state officials, and dismiss the contemporaneous newspaper announcements drawn from hospital records.

Then you go on the Never-Never land fantasy which starts with a graduate student on scholarship and his young, pregnant wife undertaking a journey from Honolulu to Kenya. Even today, this trip requires nearly 24 hours of flying, multiple airport changes, and a substantial amount of money. It was more arduous and expensive in 1961 (the pre-747 days). And that's just to get to Nairobi - to be born in Mombasa (which all birthers believe because it is the more Muslim part of Kenya), you add on a not short overland journey over unreliable roads. Then, you have them placing a call back to Honolulu to the newspapers to fake the announcement. (Another big expense, and international phone lines to places like Kenya were and are unreliable - it's why mobiles are so popular). Then, they undertake a long journay back after the kid is born and somehow get the State of Hawaii to record Honolulu as the birthplace.

All so that in 48 years, this child of a marriage that was still illegal in, well, most of the states that believe this birther crap, born before the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, born when civil rights workers were being killed in the South, George Wallace was standing in doorways, and Bull Connor was unleashing fire hoses and dogs, would someday grow up and become one of the fewer than 45 people in this country's history that become President.

So, Rep. Deal, which kind of crazy racist are you? That you are crazy and a racist is not in doubt, we just need to know whether you are mildly unhinged or whether you are flat-out whacko.

Please, do not generalize all Southern people. There are those of us with the ability to reason and form rational thought. I understand your anger at the suggestion of our President not being a natural born citizen. I regret that I live in a place where racism, hate and fear lead to such accusations. You must understand that people with intelligence also reside in this part of the country.

I am a progressive living in the south. That is hard enough without all the foul misnomers.

Show me yours, first, asshole. What? you can only get a copy? Tough shit.

Somebody tell this yahoo he can always contact Orly Taitz, she seems to come up with a new birth certificate every few days.

It's hard to believe how dense some folks can be.

It's Georgia!!!

Madmatt: "I want nickle drive thru beer night..."

We're still working on Sunday liquor sales so it might be a while.

What's more important? National security, or the wishes of one man to keep something, that is not even personal information, private?

Why do you think it's so important for Obama to keep the name of the person who affirmed his birth private? Could it be that Grandma Dunham lied, in order to bestowe the benefits of U.S. Citizenship on her Kenyan-born grandchild?

Can you handle the truth? Unless you can tell us who affirmed Obama's Hawaiian birth, you don't know the truth. You only know bits and pieces.

Ack! Did I say enantiodromia? Oy. I meant Cycadophytina. And judging from misha's symptoms, this looks to be a particularly nasty case of it, too.

It is about time Congress opens an investigation on this matter. A "filed" and not "accepted" supposed Certificate of Live Birth sure raises a red flag...

If this was a white man in the white house, would anyone ask for his ID. i don"t think so because bush who have commented criminal acts was the president because he is a white man and no one asked then so why ask now.

If McCAin was the president, would you ask to see his birth certificate too, for it is said that he was not born in the US? Obama is more a US citizen than any of you hypocrite, immature dirty, ignorant, racist Republicans. You cannot stop God's work. No one, but the native Indian, is American by the freaking way. I'm sure if your search your genealogy, you might be shocked to discover that you are more black than Obama. You guys, are a disgrace to the human kind. What do you want Obama's birth certificate for? Do you want to marry him? Sorry, not only is he taken, but he is straight.

If you haven't noticed Wise Mind, Obama is Bi-Racial and there is a huge difference from being black and Bi-Racial. So, get yourself a life and stop throwing dirt on the Republican because most of us out here have a common goal. That goal is living our lives, going to work, paying taxes, abiding by the law, and trying to keep the government out of our lives, our work, our money,etc...as much as humanly possible. The current set of politicians both Democrat and Republican want to grow the government, take away your rights, and get more and more of your money, and run as much of the country as possible.