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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust when you think you've seen it all: Obama can't be president because he's 'mulatto'
No I'm not shitting you, this isn't a joke or satire...
If we thought President Obama silenced all the birthers by releasing his long form birth certificate last year, think again. Apparently, some folks still have doubts and are taking it one step further: to court.
Tuesday, Gordon Warren Epperly filed a lawsuit in Alaska challenging President Obama's inclusion on the 2012 presidential ballot. What's Epperly's beef? Apparently, he feels Negroes and mulattoes can't be president because they aren't really citizens.
His lawsuit states:
Barack Hussein Obama II, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, a.ka. Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a "mulatto." Barack Obama's father (Barack Hussein Obama I) was a full blood Negro being born Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya and raised in the Colony of Kenya. Barack Obama's mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) was a white Caucasian woman being born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942 and raised in the state of Washington and in the state of Hawaii.
The petition concludes:
As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a "natural born citizen" of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the "mulatto" race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of "Negro" or "mulatto" had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.
*snip*
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/lawsuit-claims-obama-cant-be-president-because-hes-mulatto.php
No words.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Bat Shit Crazy!
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
rexcat
(3,622 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Can't wait to see what they have to say when November comes around and Obama is re-elected.
Richardo
(38,391 posts)Is he asserting that Barack Obama was born before the 14th amendment was ratified?
Or is he asserting that no part of the constitution adopted before the 14th amendment (bill of rights, etc) applies to those whose citizenship is defined under the 14th amendment?
fucking idiot.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I can't stomach the whole thing, but here is his challenge to the National Archivist (:wtf) about that:
Took out the link - Google "Gordon Warren Epperly" and it's the first hit.
The site where that is posted has a lot more of this crap.
Maybe I shouldn't post this stuff here - it is definitely a hate site.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)I suppose he wants to round up all the decedents of all those illegally freed slaves.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Aside from having no attention span, there seemed to be breaks in his logic. It reminded me of some of Orly Tait's lawsuits.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)that when there are no breaks in their logic, and if you get them to state their argument in a logical line, you end up in a very dark and disturbing place.
liberalhistorian
(20,821 posts)Especially not with the current crop of repubs, I wouldn't put it past them to consider something like that. They're getting bolder and more in-your-face with their hate and racism. Can't believe how they're all coming out of the woodwork and crawling out from under their rocks.
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,811 posts)The Stupid always finds somebody willing to flaunt it.
Ohio Dem
(4,357 posts)Never mind just for a minute how disgusting this is. What the hell is the argument? The 14th Ammendment was ratified. So what's the point? Can someone explain the argument to me?
Richardo
(38,391 posts)....since they were not one of the United States when the Constiution was adopted.
liberalhistorian
(20,821 posts)for becoming a state and how to admit into the union those territories that meet such criteria, and that they're then to be considered a full, participating part of the nation. Gah. Sometimes I wonder if we've all fallen into a backwards-moving time machine.
saras
(6,670 posts)Bat shit is a perfectly respectable source of nitrogen when sterilized.
You couldn't grow anything on this. It's too toxic.
mulatto
One thing I never, never, never thought I'd recycle from my parents is the belief that there are people whose mouths need to be washed out with soap.
athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)I think this sentence should be ebough to rebutt the petition.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I say FUCK YOU.
JNathanK
(185 posts)Whoever wrote that lawsuit is a genuine fuckwhit.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)Not in this century or the last one!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)If that level of stupid was immediately and excruciatingly painful to the person involved, there might be less of it.
2labslib
(48 posts)They are getting closer to telling us the real reason they despise him.
Racist pricks.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)nanabugg
(2,198 posts)Obamacare
(277 posts)BattyDem
(11,075 posts)Once an amendment is ratified, it becomes part of the Constitution. It becomes the law of the land. In other words, Gordon ... it's a swing and a miss!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)At least this person isn't hiding behind code words (like "blah people" and dog whistles.
I hope whatever judge gets this piece of crap of a case throws it out, and deals this awful man some kind of penalty for wasting limited public judicial budgets with worthless cases.
liberalhistorian
(20,821 posts)filed in a state that challenges Obama's eligibility to be on that state's presidential ballot needs to be immediately thrown out and the filers slapped with Rule 11 sanctions and declared vexations litigators. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. IN. EVERY. SINGLE. STATE. PERIOD. ENOUGH ALREADY. STOP THIS SHIT ONCE AND FOR ALL. Enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, ad infinitum.
And even after years of (formerly by now) being in the legal field and after four years and counting of being married to an attorney, I have almost NEVER read such utter, complete, total, absurd, Alice-in-Wonderland bullshit as this pig vomit. They're not even hiding their hate and racism anymore. Apparently, this idiot has never heard of or understood "amendment", nor does he understand that the constitution he claims to revere provides for amendments and spends a good deal of time mapping out the possible processes for them, And how in the holy fucking hell is the 14th Amendment NOT ratified? What all this increasingly-convoluted and idiotic birther bullshit it basically boils down to is that he and his ilk simply cannot handle the fact that there's a black man sitting BEHIND the desk in the Oval Office instead of cleaning it.
friedgreentomatoes
(321 posts)craigmatic
(4,510 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)My wife would make both of us proud as the girl can do some kind of cooking. You know the kind that makes you go back for seconds and even thirds when there's any left.
I love my President
Shit like this does have a tendency to piss one right the fuck off doesn't it
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)The article says the actual text reads "the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment"
So this imbecile is implying that the 14th amendment wasn't even officially ratified.
Talk about racism. Sheesh.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)Racist knuckledraggers.