Sheriff Joe "Look at Me" Arapaio to hold a birther press conference tomorrow

[Hugabear]

Apparently, Sheriff Joe "I Hate Brown People" Arapaio is planning a press conference tomorrow to announce the findings of his "Cold Case Posse" investigation into President Obama's birth certificate.

Hmmm, I wonder what his kangaroo court decided?

I also loved this quote from Arapaio: “I don't have press conferences just to get my name on television”. Riiiiiiight.

I think a better question is, why haven't Federal Marshals led this clown away in handcuffs for routinely violating people's civil rights?


PS - I'm not linking to the story because it's from a right-wing nut site. For anyone who's really interested in reading up on it, it's linked on Drudge, or you can just Google it.

[lonestarnot]

1. Only mirrors get more face time than that pile of our piehole.

He's always doing something to watch himself on the TV box. Old people, the scared ones eat him up the racist fuckers.

[CAPHAVOC]

2. Sheriffs have a lot of power.

They just do not use it. But the Birther lawyer has got to be the worst lawyer on the planet. All this is about is technicalities. Minor technicalities.

[Hugabear]

3. And some, like Joe "Future Tea Party Governor" Arapaio love to abuse their power

From humiliating prisoners (even those who have yet to be convicted) to racial profiling to this stunt, Arapaio seems determined to impose his far-right views on as many people as he can.

[lonestarnot]

5. Joe RPieHole lover?

[izquierdista]

4. Another coming out?

What is it with Arizona sheriffs?

[DearAbby]

6. People of his county must ask themselves

Just who in the hell is he working for? This in his job description to take on crack-pot birther ideas instead of being the head law enforcement officer of his county?

[Hugabear]

8. He claims that members of a local Tea Party asked him to do it

Of course, any sane sheriff would have either laughed them out of the office, or at least explained that it wasn't within their jurisdiction.

But then, Sheriff Teabagger never met a publicity stunt he didn't like.

[liberalhistorian]

9. Yeah, but that's oh-so-much-more-important

than the sex assault and abuse cases he's been routinely ignoring for years, especially those against immigrants legal and illegal. Give the man a break, he's got priorities, doncha know!!!!

When will this idiot be stripped of his office and when will the people of his county finally wise the fuck up and get him OUT?

[Hugabear]

11. When Pres. Santorum appoints him to Attorney General

Or knowing how much Arapaio craves power, maybe he'll just take over as Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and head of the FBI.

[2ndAmForComputers]

7. You know the one thing I like about this POS?

He's old. Turns 80 in a few months.

[center rising]

10. I like to see Sherriff Joe's birth certificate

I gotta have some proof he is human!!

[Kwarg]

12. Odd claims

They're claiming that Obama's ss number is a Vermont number though he has no connection.

And more unusual... They claim Obama's ss number wont pass e-verify

[Hugabear]

13. Odd, only in the sense that they are total bullshit

Only those on the farthest extreme of the far right give the "birther" controversy any merit whatsoever. Even most rethugs have denounced this smear campaign.

[jberryhill]

14. Connecticut

...which is no great surprise, since it is where you end up if you mistake the leading 9 in a Honolulu zip code for a 0.

On the E-verify thing, not only did the person who ran it violate the law by doing so, since the terms of use are limited to employers, but there are a number of reasons why a number will fail to confirm. Those reasons include the data being locked for security reasons. Gee... with this batshit group of people publishing Obama's ssn, I wonder why the record would be locked.

If one finds anything intriguing down Orly's rabbit hole, then one is an idiot.

[Kwarg]

16. Thats innaccurate

Obama was born in 1961 and postal codes were implemented in 1963.

[jberryhill]

17. So effing what

It wasn't until recently that you needed an SSN to claim a dependent on your taxes.

I was born in 1963 and didn't get an SSN until I was in high school in the 1970's.

Barack Obama didn't need one until then either. He would have gotten an SSN whenever he got his first job as a teenager.

It should be painfully obvious to you that Barack Obama WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER IN 1961.

How old are you, and how old were you when you got a social security number? I will bet you it was not in the year you were born.

[Hugabear]

20. Do you believe Obama's birth certificate is fake?

Just curious

[Kwarg]

23. Do you believe the moon landings were faked?

Just curious

[pampango]

15. They've obviously never checked Snopes.com (or didn't believe it to keep the CT going)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ssn.asp

[fascisthunter]

18. another right wing nut job

[Initech]

19. These fucking morons have had their asses handed to them over this issue 1,000,000 times now.

How much longer will they continue this bullshit?

[yellowcanine]

21. So how does this dung heap get to use public resources on a political witch hunt?

I don't get it. How is it possible for him to investigate a "crime" which did not occur in his jurisdiction?

[lonestarnot]

22. Federal District Judge did it.

Federal Judgie, Ciebel or something like that, Montana.