The right-wing nuts who are devoted to challenging President Obama’s "missing" birth certificate have announced a "National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate and College Records" to be held April 3-4 in DC.
Lunatic-in-Chief Andy Martin offers this welcome letter:
We have reserved a room at the Capital Hilton to serve as our headquarters. That will act as our initial point for meeting and information. The Capital Hilton is located a short walk from the White House at 1001 16th Street, NW, just in case we decide to march or demonstrate....
We do have a big "surprise" planned for the conference, of course. That will be revealed at the Saturday morning session.
Oh boy, a surprise! What could possibly surprise a bunch of crazy freaks? Perhaps Obama is an alien invader. Or maybe he’s the incarnation of Satan. It’s so hard to be surprising when you’re just plain insane.
According to Martin,
Anyone is welcome to register and attend. But please, if you want to express a theory, bring some rational, tangible evidence to support your claims about Mr. Obama. Those of you who know me know I am committed to only working with accurate information and, as we lawyers say, "reasonable inferences drawn from the available facts or available documentation." Pie-in-the-sky will not fly.
This is one of the truly hilarious claims. The nutcases who think Barack Obama was born in Kenya and secretly smuggled into Hawaii will only accept "rational, tangible evidence." You gotta love it when Andy Martin tells you that you’re too crazy.
As I note in my book about Obama, Martin is a right-wing, anti-Semitic crackpot and was the original source for the "madrassa" myth about Obama attending an Islamic school in Indonesia. Martin is an unending source of smears.
Martin, who is running for the U.S. Senate in 2010, has named himself the head of The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama, which is roughly 999,900 lunatics shy of that goal right now. Martin claims to be a "Professor of Law (Adj.)," although it’s not clear if any law school is actually employing him (let’s hope it’s just another one of his infamous lies).
So what’s on the agenda for this conference?
Andy Martin’s "Frank Marshall Davis theory," an analysis of Barack Obama's parentage that has the hard left in a quandary.
Hmm, I thought I was in a quandary, and I couldn’t figure out why. This must be the reason!
The birth certificate controversy: why does it matter?
(Andy’s hint: When Obama was viewed as invincible, the mainstream media did not want to ask questions about his past. Now that Obama is increasingly being seen as shell shocked and pockmarked, more and more people will demand answers to questions about who Obama "really is."
Thanks for the hint, Andy! Otherwise, I would have answered, "Because it shows why Andy Martin is a lunatic."
Other suggestions or solutions for seeking access the birth certificate or college records (e.g. alumni pressure?)
Of course, there’s nothing of any significance in Obama’s college records (or anyone else’s, for that matter). Nor could alumni pressure help them out, since it’s illegal to release information from college records. I’ve never quite figured out what they could possibly think is hidden in Obama’s college records.
I came across news of the conference via an email from Alan Keyes’ Renew America. Keyes, by the way, is continuing his crusade to have Obama removed from the presidency based on the loony theory that he wasn’t born in Hawaii. WorldNetDaily published an "exclusive" article a few days ago explaining that Keyes in California is suing the "secretary of state to refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office." Wow, I bet President Obama is pretty worried that they won’t count the electoral votes in California’s that he needs to become president.
Andy Martin reports,
Media are welcome, but we would suggest you let us know in advance. We will be providing twitter.com updates during the conference (twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA).
I don’t twitter, but I’d almost consider starting to read tweets just to get ahold of those fine updates. And alas, I can’t be in DC for this fine conference, but I certainly encourage others to sign up to attend the conference as media and report on the event.
Some people may wonder, "Shouldn’t we just ignore these crackpots?" Well, there are many good reasons not to. First, these nuts are damn hilarious. Second, these nuts have serious influence on right-wing talk radio. Third, these nuts expose the dark, loony underbelly of the conservative movement for what it really is. So, as far as I’m concerned, we should do everything we can to promote this conference and interview every psycho in attendance for eternal YouTube fame.
Crossposted on DailyKos.
