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richardhutnik said:

Rush Limbaugh and other media talking heads and tea party leaders are saying they are being infiltrated.

It does happen:

It's hard to be shocked by the presence of stupid and/or misspelled signs at any sort of rally, though.



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Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:

Umm, are you serious?

Sure I can see what you're getting at, but I don't think people would go out of their way to attend an opposition rally with a mispelled sign to make stupid people look stupid.

Look man. There are people in the tea party that still believe that Obama isn't a citizen, and there are others that believe that he is a muslim.

Is it that hard to accept that some of these people can't spell for shit?

Outside of the fact that there was a website designed to specifically organize people to do just that?

And there have been people interviewed who specifically did that?

Also, you know... photoshop.  Some likely are misspelled though.  You can find that kind of stuff EVERYWHERE.

Though, the Obama isn't a natural born citizen thing... actually their is still some weight behind that.  He never really did prove he was a natural citizen. 

The only birthcertificate he prodived is one that can also be given to people born overseas in foreign countries.  When given the oppurtunity to provide the full birthcertificate that would shut everybody up... he didn't.  Even though it would be easy to do, and would shut everybody up who thinks he isn't a citizen.

If this were a Republican doing it, I'd gurantee the entire matter would be flipped with democrats thinking he was born in another country, and republicans defending him.

People forget, the Republicans wanted to remove that requirement for being President back when they thought Swartzneggar was going to be the next Reagan.

Had he run, suddenly with the same kind of birth certificate... Democrats would of been pissed.

As the rules are the rules.  (why they need to be that way though.... got me.)

this isn't a democrat/republican thing. It's a tea party thing. 

But yeah, it shouldn't be so shocking that there is a website of pictures with people having poor spelling. There are website that people take pictures of shit in their toilet and have others rate them. There is also a book and website on the worst family photos. Why shouldn't there be one for this? It's not some conspiracy, it's an entrepreneurial person making a living off the foolishness of others. 

"people interviewed who have specifically done that". So you're willing to believe one person that says something but not another? What if those interviewees then came on and said, "I only said that in order to make the dems look like they were trying to demonize the republicans" would you still believe that person? ANd then what if they came out again and said, "I only said that I said that to make republicans look bad by setting up the dems"... etc etc etc. The point is, you trusting someone on their word probably because you're inclined to but also because it hints at discrepancy, which to most people comes of as trustworthy. 

And I would be sorely disappointed if you actually believe the birther movement has merit. I'm a natural citizen and I have the "born in a foreign country" certificate. It's a valid certificate. It's a legal document that I'm a citizen. That is all that's needed. Period.

If he gets a different one (which I don't even have proof of any of this by the way. I'm taking you at your word that my legal document is actually insufficient, and I'm deferring to you that that certificate is the only one he has presented) would it REALLY end there? Honestly? If so, then i owe the other side an apology, but that's going on the assumption that all the other rumors and jibes and lies are all based around an actual concern.



theprof00 said:
richardhutnik said:

Rush Limbaugh and other media talking heads and tea party leaders are saying they are being infiltrated.

that's a typical response actually. It's Karlrovian actually. 

You know karl roves first election in high school? He won it by putting up signs making derogatory remarks about his own candidate. Then they made the claim that they were being insulted rather than debated.

Similarly, the right is saying the same thing. 'the libs care too much about spelling than the message'. It's typical "elitest" criticisms. They know we have a point. These protesters are uninformed, uneducated, and really just...sloppy. But that follows everything the way they've been acting already. the birthers, the hussein-ists, and the myriad of other movements within the tea-party coalition are as such in spades. And let's face it, the tea party is one of the most unfocused, hypocritical groups around. Only fractions of the group believe what other fractions believe, and oppose each other in various arguments yet they put that behind them in order to get their message out. They get together, allow each other to be completely misguided and lied to all in the name of the end-goal.

 

wow that powerful



Hey badgenome there's a lady that works next door to me and is always talking about the tea party and what's his face crybaby douche and I humor her by listening and she'll say something like "niggers are ruinin our country". Maybe she's a plant.

Also, about your first video, how do you know that HE'S not a Republican plant? How did they figure him out so easily? There's no video of him talking to the conway crowd, and he jsut appears at a conway rally being filmed by the same guy. Don't you think that's a little coincidental?

In politics the thing you have to look at is "who is benefiting in the end". That's usually the people behind it.

That's how it is almost every single time.



theprof00 said:

Also, about your first video, how do you know that HE'S not a Republican plant? How did they figure him out so easily? There's no video of him talking to the conway crowd, and he jsut appears at a conway rally being filmed by the same guy. Don't you think that's a little coincidental?

The dude's name is Tyler Clay Collins, and he's a Democratic activist who was volunteering for the Conway campaign. There are screengrabs from his Facebook page out there if you care to go and find them.

I'm sure there's no shortage of stupid racists in the tea party, just like there's no shortage of stupid racists everywhere. But if the tea party was as thoroughly stupid and racist and intellectually bankrupt as you make them out to be, there'd be no need to infiltrate them (Crash the Tea Party, etc.)



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badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

Also, about your first video, how do you know that HE'S not a Republican plant? How did they figure him out so easily? There's no video of him talking to the conway crowd, and he jsut appears at a conway rally being filmed by the same guy. Don't you think that's a little coincidental?

The dude's name is Tyler Clay Collins, and he's a Democratic activist who was volunteering for the Conway campaign. There are screengrabs from his Facebook page out there if you care to go and find them.

I'm sure there's no shortage of stupid racists in the tea party, just like there's no shortage of stupid racists everywhere. But if the tea party was as thoroughly stupid and racist and intellectually bankrupt as you make them out to be, there'd be no need to infiltrate them (Crash the Tea Party, etc.)

I don't put on a play for anyone. You're right. There are racists everywhere. I don't care to affiliate the tea party with racism when they already show how ignorant they are.

Like I said before, this isn't a republican thing. It's a stupid people getting together thing.



Rath said:

@Kasz. He released his birth certificate. It was checked in person by the staff of Factcheck who confirmed it was really there in Honolulu. It says 'County of Birth: Honolulu' on the certificate.

You cannot get a birth certificate saying those things unless you were born in Hawaii.

 

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

From what I recall, that birthcertificate is the "limited" birthcertificate.  There are two in Hawaii.

One of which you can get by being born in another country by american parents, but moving here within a specific time.

For example on my birth certificate it also tends to list the hospital you were born at and who delivered you... etc.

Could be wrong.  But I don't think that I am.

Ah, practially say about as much on Factcheck.  The problem lies in it being the short form.



badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

Also, about your first video, how do you know that HE'S not a Republican plant? How did they figure him out so easily? There's no video of him talking to the conway crowd, and he jsut appears at a conway rally being filmed by the same guy. Don't you think that's a little coincidental?

The dude's name is Tyler Clay Collins, and he's a Democratic activist who was volunteering for the Conway campaign. There are screengrabs from his Facebook page out there if you care to go and find them.

And that proves that he is a democrat? I ask again, how do you know this isn't a republican plant?





theprof00 said:
Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:

Umm, are you serious?

Sure I can see what you're getting at, but I don't think people would go out of their way to attend an opposition rally with a mispelled sign to make stupid people look stupid.

Look man. There are people in the tea party that still believe that Obama isn't a citizen, and there are others that believe that he is a muslim.

Is it that hard to accept that some of these people can't spell for shit?

Outside of the fact that there was a website designed to specifically organize people to do just that?

And there have been people interviewed who specifically did that?

Also, you know... photoshop.  Some likely are misspelled though.  You can find that kind of stuff EVERYWHERE.

Though, the Obama isn't a natural born citizen thing... actually their is still some weight behind that.  He never really did prove he was a natural citizen. 

The only birthcertificate he prodived is one that can also be given to people born overseas in foreign countries.  When given the oppurtunity to provide the full birthcertificate that would shut everybody up... he didn't.  Even though it would be easy to do, and would shut everybody up who thinks he isn't a citizen.

If this were a Republican doing it, I'd gurantee the entire matter would be flipped with democrats thinking he was born in another country, and republicans defending him.

People forget, the Republicans wanted to remove that requirement for being President back when they thought Swartzneggar was going to be the next Reagan.

Had he run, suddenly with the same kind of birth certificate... Democrats would of been pissed.

As the rules are the rules.  (why they need to be that way though.... got me.)

this isn't a democrat/republican thing. It's a tea party thing. 

But yeah, it shouldn't be so shocking that there is a website of pictures with people having poor spelling. There are website that people take pictures of shit in their toilet and have others rate them. There is also a book and website on the worst family photos. Why shouldn't there be one for this? It's not some conspiracy, it's an entrepreneurial person making a living off the foolishness of others. 

"people interviewed who have specifically done that". So you're willing to believe one person that says something but not another? What if those interviewees then came on and said, "I only said that in order to make the dems look like they were trying to demonize the republicans" would you still believe that person? ANd then what if they came out again and said, "I only said that I said that to make republicans look bad by setting up the dems"... etc etc etc. The point is, you trusting someone on their word probably because you're inclined to but also because it hints at discrepancy, which to most people comes of as trustworthy. 

And I would be sorely disappointed if you actually believe the birther movement has merit. I'm a natural citizen and I have the "born in a foreign country" certificate. It's a valid certificate. It's a legal document that I'm a citizen. That is all that's needed. Period.

If he gets a different one (which I don't even have proof of any of this by the way. I'm taking you at your word that my legal document is actually insufficient, and I'm deferring to you that that certificate is the only one he has presented) would it REALLY end there? Honestly? If so, then i owe the other side an apology, but that's going on the assumption that all the other rumors and jibes and lies are all based around an actual concern.


That's... not all you need to be President though.

Not every citizen CAN be president.

Civics 101.  You need to be born on US soil to be president.

He's definitly a citizen.  Whether or not he actually fits the requirements to be president... (no matter how stupid they may be.)

That's still out there.



theprof00 said:
badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

Also, about your first video, how do you know that HE'S not a Republican plant? How did they figure him out so easily? There's no video of him talking to the conway crowd, and he jsut appears at a conway rally being filmed by the same guy. Don't you think that's a little coincidental?

The dude's name is Tyler Clay Collins, and he's a Democratic activist who was volunteering for the Conway campaign. There are screengrabs from his Facebook page out there if you care to go and find them.

And that proves that he is a democrat? I ask again, how do you know this isn't a republican plant?

 

Because plants are easy to discover when you bother to look at them for more then a few minutes.

If a plant is identified, they're screwed.  All it takes is basic background research to reveal if the person is a plant or not.

That's why plants use fake names.  So they can get in, say 1 thing stupid, then can't be tracked down.