Would any of you, while nine months pregnant and about to give birth, consider taking a slow-flying plane (say, 400 miles per hour) to travel halfway around the world (say, 12,500 miles)?
Keep in mind, that's a travel time of over 30 hours (not counting the layovers and transfers). In a plane that was depressurized. On a flight that cost about the equivalent of several months' food and rent...
And how many of you mothers, having just given birth in a substandard hospital in a third-world country, would consider leaving within days to take a newborn infant on the same unpressurized plane on a 30+ hour flight (plus layovers and transfers) to return?
Would any doctor allow a pregnant woman to attempt that, even in these days of faster jets and pressurized cabins? Would they permit a newborn infant to attempt the same thing?
Silly birthers...
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travelwoman
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Aug 15 @ 3:52PM
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You should give a little more background for these questions....
If my life depended on it, I would.
Otherwise..... "of course not"...
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SweetNapaGuy
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Aug 15 @ 4:04PM
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One of the birther allegations is:
1) Two starving college students, both from poor families, somehow scraped up the equivalent of several months' rent and food to get flight tickets to and from Kenya.
2) Obama's mom, being nine months pregnant, was suddenly seized by a desire to fly away from her friends and family, to give birth in a foreign country.
3) Somehow, she convinced a doctor to approve of her "flight of fancy" (if you'll pardon the pun), even though it'd be constant travel over the course of two or more days. On an unpressurized plane, no less.
4) Having flown to Africa from Hawaii, and given birth in one of the substandard hospitals that exist in the Christian portion of Kenya, she somehow has the energy to get back on a plane for the multi-day return trip. With a newborn infant. Whose ears are being popped by the changes in air pressure.
5) Having done all of this, she somehow sneaks an unregistered baby back into the country (where's his travel visa or his passport?).
6) Having done all of that, they somehow falsify records in such a way as to fool experts within the Hawaiian state government, such that the director whose department covers maintaining birth certificates has been fooled not once, but twice.
All of this, simply to have a black baby boy be registered as a natural-born American citizen, thus making him eligible for the ONLY job in the country that requires such (President of the United States of America). At a time when large portions of the country regard black men as good for little more than hard manual labor.
I tell you, these conspirators are wicked psychic...
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travelwoman
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Aug 15 @ 4:15PM
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It's so idiotic that I don't even waste any thought on them or their theories...
(You'd think that SOMEbody in the Rep. party would have thought of checking even before the elections? After all, the Republicans were running against Obama and needed all the advantage they could find....  )
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SweetNapaGuy
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Aug 15 @ 4:21PM
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The McCain campaign investigated, and decided that the whole birther movement was a bunch of nutjobs.
You DO know that the whole birther movement was spawned by an April Fool's joke, don't you? People were questioning if McCain was an American (he was born in the Panama Canal zone), so someone jokingly put out the story that Obama was born in Kenya.
Some Clintonistas picked up on it (some of the lawsuits being filed are from Democrats), then the McCainanites jumped into the act. And it has gone beyond ridiculous.
The only good thing about this conspiracy theory is that it's only about a third as common as OTHER conspiracy theories (e.g., "Bush caused 9/11," "aliens are abducting people," and "Elvis is alive and miraculously young and fit").
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SallyF
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Aug 15 @ 7:38PM
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The Elvis sightings aren't real????
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SweetNapaGuy
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Aug 15 @ 7:41PM
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They're real. At least, the ones that see an Elvis in his mid-50s. (He was abducted by aliens, and through time dilation, managed to skip a couple decades.)
The Elvis seen in his mid-30s are clearly impostors, sent by the Presley family to divert suspicion.
And any of Elvis in his late-70s? Clearly a fake. Elvis would never look that old!
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