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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:45 PM Jul 2012

Arpaio: Obama birth certificate issue needs further investigation

Source: Arizona Republic

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's investigation into documents related to the birth of President Barack Obama has ended just as it began: with the sheriff's supporters convinced that the president has posted a fraudulent birth certificate on the White House web site.

Arpaio held a press conference Tuesday to share the findings of a long-running investigation his volunteer posse conducted into documents related to President Obama. The team of volunteer investigators, supplemented by a sworn sheriff's deputy, traveled to Hawaii in May, leaving with lots of questions about Obama's birth certificate.

The team could not get answers to many of those questions, and their request to view Obama's original birth certificate was denied, leaving Arpaio with one conclusion to his high-profile probe: "It's time for someone else to look into this situation," he said Tuesday.

While the investigators were in Hawaii for 10 days, it was explained at a Tuesday news conference, they discovered the existence of a former local registrar who might have written on the copy of Obama's birth certificate posted on the White House web site.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/17/20120717arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-issue-needs-further-investigation.html

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Arpaio: Obama birth certificate issue needs further investigation (Original Post) Newsjock Jul 2012 OP
Big talk ,7/17 has come and gone ,He should wear orpupilofnature57 Jul 2012 #1
Oh for the love of fucking god. liberalmuse Jul 2012 #2
Arpaio should be in jail. SunSeeker Jul 2012 #3
No, he doesnt belong in jail for this. cstanleytech Jul 2012 #6
He is a criminal. SunSeeker Jul 2012 #15
I agree, he belongs in jail for a ton of other reasons, tho. eggplant Jul 2012 #16
This will never be over, they haven't got anything else. This is their logic: freshwest Jul 2012 #4
Arpaio goes on trial this week for his illegal racial profiling of Latinos in Arizona. Swamp Lover Jul 2012 #5
wheeeeeee proud patriot Jul 2012 #7
Code for another vacation in Hawaii on the tax payers lunch money. We're sponsoring detectives and lonestarnot Jul 2012 #8
Yeah, I would love to see the receipts for this boondoggle. nobodyspecial Jul 2012 #18
Yesterday I heard them say something re 10 k for just one of the trips. lonestarnot Jul 2012 #20
He's fundraisin -- aimin at the crazies in CA FL & TX, who send him most of his moolah struggle4progress Jul 2012 #9
Lol they are still at it. dkf Jul 2012 #10
There's nothing like beating a dead horse proReality Jul 2012 #11
Joe Arpaio's supporters are nuts, just like him Jessy169 Jul 2012 #12
Indict Arpaio now! bluedigger Jul 2012 #13
Dear Maricopa County, please vote this clown out of office so he can stop it with this PRATT alp227 Jul 2012 #14
I listened to some of the presser.. Punkingal Jul 2012 #17
when he dies can we have the long form engraved in the top of his coffin? snooper2 Jul 2012 #19
No but we can hope someone paints "I WAS AN ASSHOLE" on it! Joe Bacon Jul 2012 #21
Oh, c'mon, that's what you call breathtaking, Joe? tanyev Jul 2012 #22
We're Witnessing The Final Days of Conservatism in America Yavin4 Jul 2012 #23
when is this scumbag warrprayer Jul 2012 #24
This Idiot titanicdave Jul 2012 #25
wonder if he had any trouble finding volunteers to go to Hawaii for 10 days . . . DrDan Jul 2012 #26
Going anywhere with that clown would not be pleasant Bluzmann57 Jul 2012 #27
Honestly, did anyone expect anything different from the idiot sheriff? Hugabear Jul 2012 #28
I don't get it. Nine Jul 2012 #29
 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
1. Big talk ,7/17 has come and gone ,He should wear
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:49 PM
Jul 2012

a sandwich sign that say's Racist on one side and Capone's Safe on the other.

liberalmuse

(18,670 posts)
2. Oh for the love of fucking god.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:54 PM
Jul 2012

These people need to be locked away for good. Do they not see how crazy they've become??? Racism and bigotry will eat your soul, and this is positive proof of that.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
6. No, he doesnt belong in jail for this.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:04 PM
Jul 2012

Jail is for criminals after all and this isnt criminal its just nutty which means of course that the state should commit him to a mental facility.

SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
15. He is a criminal.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:32 PM
Jul 2012

He refused to prosecute child abuse complaints in the latino community. And then there are the dead latino inmates under his watch. Then there is the blatant racist profiling.

And his birther investigation might be criminal; he fraudulently diverted state resources in furtherance of his private hobby. At a minimum it shows he's a piece of human garbage. He should definitely be civilly liable to pay back all taxpayer money spent on his birther investigation.

But I'm fine with him being in a mental facility as an alternative, especially if they make him wear pink jumpsuits and sleep in a tent out in the AZ heat.

eggplant

(3,893 posts)
16. I agree, he belongs in jail for a ton of other reasons, tho.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:36 PM
Jul 2012

For his treatment of prisoners in his jail, to say the least.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. This will never be over, they haven't got anything else. This is their logic:
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jul 2012


Not one element is missing from that, even though it''s funny, this has been their story line since 2008. They tell it in different versions, but it's really about the black man getting a white woman, that blacks can't possibly be American, said by those (whose ancestors emigtated to the Bronze Continent, thank you very much) and of course, no blacks are Christians, thus they can't be American, all of them want communism.

It's the line of lies on Prison Planet, World Net Daily and other sites and is pushed by Jerome Corsi and the rest of them. Oh, no, they won't give it up. Even though, I was hoping for a stay in the Graybar Hotel for Joe, but he seems to have slithered outta there.

 

Swamp Lover

(431 posts)
5. Arpaio goes on trial this week for his illegal racial profiling of Latinos in Arizona.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:02 PM
Jul 2012

This recent "Press Conference" to share the findings of his "possee" that has uncovered "proof" that President Obama is a foreign born usurper is a naked attempt to try to muddy the waters. Note: he has no proof of this whacko theory.

When his professional malfeasance and illegal, narrow minded bigotry result in his conviction, the equally moronic Freepers will be screaming, "he was too close to the truth!!!!".

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
8. Code for another vacation in Hawaii on the tax payers lunch money. We're sponsoring detectives and
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:06 PM
Jul 2012

their staffs, plane tickets, meals, hotels, cars/taxi's, whatnot and what all else. Fucking outrage!

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
9. He's fundraisin -- aimin at the crazies in CA FL & TX, who send him most of his moolah
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:11 PM
Jul 2012

Nobody sane believes this, and Arpaio hisself don't care whether the sane folk debunk this or not, cuz he's just after the crazies' moolah

alp227

(31,961 posts)
14. Dear Maricopa County, please vote this clown out of office so he can stop it with this PRATT
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:27 PM
Jul 2012

(Point Refuted A Thousand Times)

I say email Arpaio this RationalWiki article I started:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Obama_citizenship_denial

Punkingal

(9,522 posts)
17. I listened to some of the presser..
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:47 PM
Jul 2012

Arpaio insisted a deputy go with them for protection! They are a bunch of delusional paranoid freaks.

tanyev

(42,360 posts)
22. Oh, c'mon, that's what you call breathtaking, Joe?
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 08:44 AM
Jul 2012

You might want to make an appointment with your doctor.

Yavin4

(35,357 posts)
23. We're Witnessing The Final Days of Conservatism in America
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:32 AM
Jul 2012

When I was younger, conservatism had some principles. They were anti-communist. They were against some of the largess of liberalism, but they had some sanity to them.

Today, the movement has devolved into nothing more than pure racism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and of course, sexism. They no longer have any principles. They no longer have any reason to really exist. Their only mission is to decrease the already low tax burden on the wealthy. They have no answers to any of our problems. None.

The movement is nothing more than old, fat, and angry White guys.

They are done.

titanicdave

(429 posts)
25. This Idiot
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:45 AM
Jul 2012

is a total embarrassment not only to Arizona, but to the entire country..........the entire world laughs at this jackass......with the nut jobs in political office such as this ignoramus, it is no wonder some of us who thankfully do not live in Arizona have dubbed the state as "The People's Republic of Arizona"

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
26. wonder if he had any trouble finding volunteers to go to Hawaii for 10 days . . .
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:55 AM
Jul 2012

probably not . . . and on the taxpayers' backs

not bad work if you can get it

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
28. Honestly, did anyone expect anything different from the idiot sheriff?
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 10:14 AM
Jul 2012

Arpaio had already concluded the birth certificate was fake even before he began his "investigation".

Nine

(1,741 posts)
29. I don't get it.
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:55 AM
Jul 2012

I always assumed the birther claim was that someone created a fake birth certificate for Obama retroactively once Obama became an up-and-comer and possible presidential candidate material. After Hawaiian officials confirmed the existence of the birth certificate, I assumed the new birther claim was that someone slipped a forgery into Hawaii's state documents vault fairly recently.

I'll admit I've never paid much attention to all the birther stuff. I always thought the newspaper announcement of Obama's birth was a nearly indisputable piece of evidence in favor of him being born in Hawaii because the only other explanation is that some powers-that-be decided back in the 1950s that this mixed race baby would be a great presidential candidate in half a century or so if only they could pretend he was born in the US.

Now the birthers seem to be saying this woman signed an actual certificate back in the 1950s but there was something fishy about it? So, they ARE saying the conspiracy started right after Obama was born? I'm so confused...

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