Would you trust a "birther" to teach your child?

Baracko find me wrote:

We know exactly where Bush was born. Grace–New Haven Community Hospital in Connecticut. Do you know where Obama was born? Get back to us, with something more specific than Honolulu.

Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.

You're welcome.

911 was an inside job!!!!

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

This issue has been hashed over hundreds of times. No, you do *not* have to be born on US soil to be a natural born citizen (although it is sufficient). However, it is not enough to have a US citizen as a parent. There are rules about the age of the parent and the number of years they have spent in the US, etc, etc. If Obama *had* been born in Kenya then he would not be a natural born citizen because of these rules. However, he was not born in Kenya, so it's a non-issue.

It is a little known fact that one of the candidates for President in 2008 was not born on US soil and has refused to make his birth certificate public.

That candidate was John McCain.

The citizenship acquired by birth on a military installation or consular facility is through the US Citizenship status of the parents. John Mcain's parents were US citizens.

bootsie wrote:

Baracko find me wrote:

We know exactly where Bush was born. Grace–New Haven Community Hospital in Connecticut. Do you know where Obama was born? Get back to us, with something more specific than Honolulu.

Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.

You're welcome.

It depends on who you ask. In a UPI article published Nov 4, 2008, Obama indicates that he was born at Queens Hospital.

Some past news stories say that Obama claims Queens as his birth hospital, while other news stories say that Obama says he was born at Kapiolani. His step grandmother says neither, he was born in Mombassa, Kenya.

Oh Barry wrote:

It depends on who you ask. In a UPI article published Nov 4, 2008, Obama indicates that he was born at Queens Hospital.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/04/Sen-Barack-Obama-Democrat-of-Illinois/UPI-33901225647000/

Some past news stories say that Obama claims Queens as his birth hospital, while other news stories say that Obama says he was born at Kapiolani. His step grandmother says neither, he was born in Mombassa, Kenya.

Umm.... did you actually read this article? It confirms what I stated.

Can you really trust anyone to teach your child?

Oh Barry wrote:

It depends on who you ask. In a UPI article published Nov 4, 2008, Obama indicates that he was born at Queens Hospital.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/04/Sen-Barack-Obama-Democrat-of-Illinois/UPI-33901225647000/

You may want to read your own link more carefully.

Did I claim otherwise? No, I did not.

I would not want one capable of such paranoia overseeing anyone's education. It speaks of such abject disassociation from reality that one wonders how such a person may view other areas such as morality and what constitutes a decent education. I would see it as my duty to my child and to others to discredit such a person and prevent any passage on of his/her views, willful ignorance being the first among them.

I am gonna bite and say that teachers are human. I had a HS teacher who taught German who was an athiest and didn't have a problem trying to convince us the irrationality of the belief in the christian god. The class ended up being a debate between teacher and students and had nothing to do with learning a foreign language and I have to say that I actually learned alot that day. Was this appropriate? Was it legal?

One of the main problems with public schools is that they want to teach critical thinking, but they themselves have to censor themselves on what and how they can teach.

concerned mom wrote:

Just found out my son's 6th grade teacher is a birther. Should I be worried? I always felt those people were either racist or a few fries short of a happy meal.

neither of you have any proof one way or the other on the topic but you just "know" you are right and they are "wrong" sounds like a typical lib on just about every topic

Again, yes, there's proof one way.

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

so cal is real wrote:

T-man wrote:

Just because two people have a difference in opinion doesn't mean that both opinions have equal merit.

are you trying to say that one person's opinion is more important than someone else? who determines that? according to human resources departments, all opinions are the same, everyone is equal, and everybody is the best at everything.

Suppose I told you that the Earth was flat. You disagree with me on the basis of a goddamn mountain of factual support. I respond by saying, nope, it's flat - I guess we just agree to disagree. Guess what? Our positions do not have equal merit. I am a f***ing horse's ass for thinking that the earth is flat, and you will either 1) be infinitely frustrated by my outright denial of obvious facts, or 2) draw the immediate conclusion that I'm a f***ing moron and a waste of your breath. Welcome to dialogue in America.

marke wrote:

neither of you have any proof one way or the other on the topic but you just "know" you are right and they are "wrong" sounds like a typical lib on just about every topic

Actually there are tons of proof that Obama was born in Hawaii, so there's zero doubt who's right or wrong in that case. The birther argument is the same argument as the people that don't believe men were on the moon, which is why I'd never want one as a teacher. If you're willing to deny very simple basic facts because of your political ideology then you're unfit to teach. Simple as that.

Obama produced a certificate of live birth that was sufficient in authenticity to get him a US passport. That is a known undisputed by rational people fact. There was also a birth announcement the Honolulu newspaper. That is also a fact no one can deny.

No actual sane person believes the "birther" myths. Even the Republican leadership admits that the birthers are delusional morons with IQs in single digits, but that's why they vote conservative.

I do agree the point "how do you know they're a birther" is a very good one. If they are a birther they should get the same treatment as a child molester and banned from any teaching institution for life. No one that believes that could be qualified as a teacher. It's the same as believing the earth is flat, or that magical pyramids aligned on true north-south (not magnetic) will heal all your ills if you sleep in them.

However, there's a damn good chance the "teacher is a birther" is crock. In addition to the very plausible devil's advocate theory earlier children are better than most expect at hitting the hot buttons of parents. In town just a few months ago a teacher disciplined some students for not completing their work in class and what do you know, just a few weeks later he's accused of sexual advances towards a student, then another student comes forward, and another, but then after he's suspended and it hits the newspaper it turns out they all lied because he made them do their classwork.

I only want my kids to be taught by teachers who love Captain Zero and slobber when speaking of him and all he did to earn the Nobel Peace prize. I would hate to have them exposed to view points from across the spectrum. As a matter of fact, I have banned them from ever accessing LetsRun because a troll once offer an argument that would have required my children to have to work to put together a counter argument. They shouldn't have to critically think. They should just be spoon fed non-contradictory opinions from all angles.

This issue is very easily resolved.

Just show us a f-cking borth certificate and get on with it.

quite honestly it doesn't matter if obama was born in the US, kenya or whereever...he is still just as sucky, and just as horrible a leader/president, no matter where he was born.

Holy cow...HE DID!! Have you not read this site?

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

It has been posted on here about four times already. And people still doubt that he was born in the US???

Keith Stone wrote:

No actual sane person believes the "birther" myths. Even the Republican leadership admits that the birthers are delusional morons with IQs in single digits, but that's why they vote conservative.

Aaah, yes, people vote for Republicans because they're stupid. That explain why the unprivileged, undereducated, impoverished urban centers of our great country vote Republican without fail and without question...

Replace urban with rural and you would be correct.

drivel wrote:

Aaah, yes, people vote for Republicans because they're stupid. That explain why the unprivileged, undereducated, impoverished urban centers of our great country vote Republican without fail and without question...