Pic Of The Moment: Dear Birthers: Get Over It Already

[EarlG]

Sen. Owen Hill: "We already have someone from Kenya as President of the United States"

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[Scuba]

1. Keep banging that drum, Owen. It's working real well for your side.

[billhicks76]

45. Birthers are a joke

But mostly because their cause is so inconsequential and because so their theories are actually allowed to proliferate and divide people and just make the extreme right look nuttier in my opinion. But I hate when people conflate them with those in the 911 Truth movement. That event killed 3000 Americans on US soil and led to numerous wars and millions dead. And it was used as an excuse to justify completely changing our world into one big gulag where we should be ok with the state recording and analyzing our every whisper. It was not thoroughly investigated as admitted by guys like Democratic Senator, war hero, triple amputee Max Cleland who called it a lie, sham and whitewash in disgust. The consequences of this lie are epic but the Birthers? To them their 'event' is that a Black man got into high office. Truly pathetic.

[Scuba]

46. 1. I agree with your sentiments. 2. A belated welcome to DU and 3. Thanks for the homage to Bill.

[billhicks76]

47. Bill Hicks

Yeah I love Bill Hicks... And Mitch Hedurg...and George Carlin...and Jim Gaffihan...and Dave Chappelle...and Mark Twain... I'm so diverse and eclectic. Lol

[Quantess]

2. Can we get one of these racially obsessed people

who think it's all cool to measure the volume of people's craniums (to support their preconceived notions about race) to please do a metric on Sen. Owen Hill's cranium?

His skull cavity looks deficient.

[gtar100]

4. And whatever 's up there is densely packed.

No room for reality.

[Quantess]

8. possibly packed too full of shit, or something.

Time to move the furniture!

[AAO]

10. Kind of shaped like, and limited volume of, a troglodyte.

[matt819]

3. A republican doing charity work in Kenya?

I haven't looked up this clown, but I will bet that his "charity" work was as a missionary, probably mormon. Doesn't necessarily detract from his dedication to charity, but it does put it in context.

In any case, what a fucking moron (without the second m).

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. He worked for years with Compassion International, a children’s non-profit.

An organization created by a fundy who was raised in rural West Africa as the son of Baptist missionaries.

Owen's 4 chidren are being home schooled.

Pic of his family is worth a look, at his web site:
http://www.owenhillforsenate.com/

[PrestonLocke]

7. Another crazy religious bigot? n/t

[Treant]

12. Wow, that's bad

It reads like it was written by a second grader (not that I'm any great shakes, but I could probably do better than that given a bit of time).

And he's all unique and stuff like that for being...a Tenther? Please.

[matt819]

27. What a surprise!

Another religious bigot and hypocrite. I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked.

[MerryBlooms]

32. Typical relgious zealot who should not be anywhere near a ballot. n/t

[JHB]

49. Cut taxes, deregulate, the Free Market will cure all ills if we just get bigummint out of its way...

And the only reason we don't have Free Market Paradise yet is because of those meddling kids and their weird dog.

[Piasladic]

5. Repulsive

God only knows what his idea of "charity" is.

[William769]

9. Kick & recommended.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. This douche brings shame...

to all people named Owen, like me and Owen Wilson. So, fuck you Owen.

[AAO]

13. His plan for replacing Obamacare?

"And, I believe that the right way to lower healthcare costs is to find cures for Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes."

um.... OK...

[Drunken Irishman]

14. Yes. Those are the only three illnesses in existence.

WTF?

[AAO]

19. And we are SO CLOSE to solving them!

What a dick this guy is!

[JHB]

50. Great! When does he plan to roll those out? Just polishing them up...

...so the rollout doesn't have all the problems that Obamacare did, and we can start right off the bat helping everyone, right?

Right? And you'll foot the bill for the extra time we're waiting, right? 'Cause how long could it be, right? It's not like we've been trying to find cures for cancer since the 1930s...


...oh, m*th$rF%#@er!

[TNNurse]

15. Glad

that he did not share his ignorance and bigotry with those children. I bet most of them could have corrected him and told him that the current President of the United States was born in Hawaii. Maybe he would know that is a state,

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Wanna make a conservative laugh? Say something designed to piss off a Liberal.

[Coyotl]

17. He's going to be very disappointed to hear Hawaii is part of the USA

and that he lost the election

[LuckyTheDog]

18. Birtherism will never, ever die

From June, 2012

Birtherism Will Never, Ever Die -- Get Used to It

Despite the complete lack of evidence to support their claims, birthers continue to assert that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. When will it stop? It won't. Not ever.

Thanks largely to the efforts of Donald Trump, it is abundantly clear that birtherism has survived the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate roughly 13 months ago. With that out of the way, there is nothing left that can stop it. The birther cause is now destined to join the pantheon of enduring fringe movements like the Flat Earth Society and the folks who insist the moon landings were faked. It is here to stay.

The durable nature of birtherism was not always so obvious. Prior to the release of the long-form certificate, the very nature of their demands seemed to doom the movement to eventual oblivion. In 2010, the birther blog "Expose Obama" summed things up this way: "If you are born in a hospital there are records. It is called a long form birth certificate. Just release it and we go away." It was tempting to believe them.

MORE HERE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-melton/birther-movement_b_1558979.html

[AAO]

20. Oh, but it's a FORGERY.... don't cha know......

[freshwest]

35. This thread needs a dose of the truth. Tired, but still as needed as ever!

This is what they really believe. I have a more ominous version, but prefer this classic from 2009. Sorry if you've seen me post it before...

[BlueJazz]

21. I went to Mr.Hill's website. Mr.Hill has the values of somebody who is totally clueless about life.

"We are going to cut Heathcare costs by curing cancer."

Well, I'll be a son-of-a-bitch !..Why didn't I think of that??

[nyquil_man]

23. Damn, that's novel.

Think of the money that could be saved by making the world perfect!

[JBoy]

25. And cut the number of fall injuries by reducing gravity!

What a goof.

[Ikonoklast]

41. I'll bet his plan to cure unemployment is to ask everyone to go get a job!

This guy is a freakin' jeeneius.

[Berlum]

22. What is it with Republicons and the truth? They just don't do it.

Republicons really need to dump their perverted "family values" and embrace good old fashioned American values like honesty, integrity, and personal responsibility. Sheesh. No wonder no one respects them.l

[nyquil_man]

24. And we have a Neanderthal running for the United States Senate!

Well... now that I think of it, that's nothing new.

[red dog 1]

26. K&R...Thanks for posting, EarlG

From The Denver Post article cited above:
"The fact that my obvious joke is being highlighted today just shows how worried Mark Udall and the Democrats actually are of my campaign for the U.S. Senate here in Colorado."

Another Tea Party idiot shoving his own foot in his mouth.

[mikeysnot]

28. As Ass Coulter said on

Bill Maher, "It's a joke..... ha, ha..."

seems this is the "go to" joke among idiots.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/11/02/ann_coulter_talks_gop_immigration_ted_cruz_birth_certificate_and_more_with_bill_maher.html

[YOHABLO]

37. More like she's a complete joke.

[marble falls]

29. Gotta be some way we can help get this guy out of Congress.

[TBF]

30. Dear Owen,

Is Ted Cruz qualified to be president?
Please think long and carefully about your response.

Your friend, TBF

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. My sister was told that her son can't tour the White House in February when visiting

from California as part of a student rewards package because "when the Obama girls are in residence, they close the White House off to tours". This is his first visit to the east coast. I told her that wasn't true and that it is open now, and was only closed during the shutdown. Obviously the private wing is not available for tours. She's a low information voter who seems to believe 2nd and 3rd hand stories about Obama.

Makes me nuts. I've no idea what all else she's been told or believes. Next time I'll ask for her exact source so that I can check it out for her, since she never will.

[tavernier]

33. Look at his face...

If that isn't positive proof of Darwin's theory, then I don't know what is. I wonder if he has ever made fire?

[SunSeeker]

34. I'm pretty sure when he sees fire he hisses. nt

[dlwickham]

36. douche

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

38. Pathetic......

...POS!

[delrem]

39. Racism, your name is Owen Hill. nt

[MADem]

40. He is so PROUD of his bigotry, too--he has to tout it.

"I held back my snarky comment...." he says.

It's all about the "African" with this guy. It's not about heritage, it's about race.

If he was referencing JFK and was talking to an Irish kid and said "Well, you know what, we already have (had) someone from Ireland as President of the United States" and that was written in an article, no one would think a thing of it. But he's telling on himself, and using the word "snarky"--taking pains to make sure that his audience is quite clear as to his attitude. "Birther" is code for "Black" and "Bigotry"--make no mistake.

I am just amazed that this kind of hate still sells. It's horrific.

[renate]

42. cool story, bro

[Initech]

43. Snarky comment fail.

[47of74]

44. Up yours Owen Hill.

[zbdent]

48. Aren't these the same people who scream about Bengazzi and the like?

Sure, you give them proof that even Repugs have to admit is real ... and they won't accept it.

Maybe we should just tell anybody who hears someone spout the Bengazzi stuff that if they can't understand that Obama was born in Hawaii, they can't accept any reality that doesn't fit their agenda ...