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Date Posted: 19:14:20 07/31/09 Fri
Author: Paul Davis
Subject: The Obama birthers have had their day again

Stars and Stripes reports that the reserve Major who was going to go to Afghanistan and didn't had volunteered, and that was the reason his orders were cancelled.

Essentially, if you request deployment and then change your mind, it's off. In this particular case, the Army brass is pretty pissed, because this guy was using deployment as a means of making a political statement, and you don't use your army position to do that. But if he didn't want to deploy, all he had to do was send an email saying something came up, and they'd have cancelled it. That he went to court in such a fashion is the problem, it dragged things out to the point where the guy currently in that slot in Afghanistan is going to have to stay over another month.

The birthers have slipped a cog. Hawaii officials have repeatedly stated that Obama has a legal birth certificate on file, and the instrument they have issued to confirm this is the same instrument they'd issue to anyone born in Hawaii that requested a birth certificate. (I myself have a birth certificate from Kentucky. It is a forty year old coal black electrostatic transfer with white writing. If I needed a new one, and I really do, I'd get a plastic card from the state. Should it be claimed that I am no longer a citizen of the US because the state changed a process?)

Like flying saucers filled with aliens (ie, modern angels), this isn't EVER going to go away. The birthers have "special knowledge", and that's impossible to combat with simple facts.

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