Tom DeLay: Retired Dancer, Birther Ally

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: In The News

Former House majority leader Tom Delay, who last night dropped out of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," has once again expressed skepticism that President Obama is a citizen of the United States.

That aligns DeLay, a Republican once known as "The Hammer," with the so-called "birther" movement. The birthers' claims have repeatedly been shown to be illegitimate.

Newsweek noted in an interview with DeLay that he "got into some trouble for saying on TV that you weren't sure President Obama was born in the United States."

"What I said was, to answer a question from Chris Matthews, I said: Why wouldn't the president of the United States show the American people his birth certificate?," DeLay responded. "You have to show a birth certificate to play Little League baseball. It's a question that should be answered. It's in the Constitution that you have to be a natural-born citizen of the United States to be president."

Asked Newsweek: "Do you think he isn't a citizen?"

"I have no idea," said DeLay.

The Obama campaign released Mr. Obama's Certificate of Live Birth during the presidential campaign. The president's original birth certificate was not released by the state of Hawaii because state law prohibits doing so except under extenuating circumstances; Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, has said she has seen it and that it verifies Mr. Obama's birth and citizenship.

As a State Department of Health spokeswoman pointed out, a Certification of Live Birth "is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii."

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by borderhawk October 17, 2009 5:16 PM EDT: http://www.barack-obama-timeline.com/

1959

At the age of 23 Barack Obama Sr. leaves behind his pregnant Kenyan wife Kezia and their baby son and arrives in the United States to study math and economics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.

February 2, 1961 - Barack Obama Sr., 25, marries 18 year old Ann Dunham, a white American student he meets in a Russian-language class only a few months earlier. The ceremony takes place at Maui. At the time of their wedding, Ann Dunham is already three months pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr., and she doesn't know Barack Obama Sr. has a wife and children in Kenya.

Illegal Marriage, Bigamy,

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588HRS0572HRS_0572-0001.htm

HRS §572-1 Requisites of valid marriage contract. In order to make valid the marriage contract, which shall be only between a man and a woman, it shall be necessary that:

(3) The man does not at the time have any lawful wife living ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama

Is Barack Hussein Obama II an illegitimate child?
Is Barack Hussein Obama II, son of a Britsh citizen, from Kenya, a Natural Born Ctitizen?
Is Barack Hussein Obama II an usurper to the US Executive Branch?; Reply to this comment


by ohiolad October 8, 2009 3:51 PM EDT: ?The birthers' claims have repeatedly been shown to be illegitimate.? How so? Just because the author says so? It has been very difficult for ?birthers? to claim anything; they can only speculate, because all the factual evidence, the actual documentary evidence has been intentionally concealed. There has never been a release of a copy of the original birth certificate which is the only primary document that should matter, containing the name of the hospital and the signature of the attending physician. We are told that it exists, but we just can?t see it. Why? Because Obama refuses to release it. We don?t know under which passport he traveled to Pakistan when he was nineteen. Why? Because Obama refuses to release the passport information. We don?t know whether Obama registered at Occidental College as a foreign student, though we suspect it. Why? Because Obama has had the records sealed. These are just a few of many examples. At every turn it has been found that Obama?s records have either been mysteriously lost, hidden, or sealed by court order. And you wonder why ?birthers? are suspicious? Ha!; Reply to this comment


by jammercat1 October 8, 2009 12:55 AM EDT: WOW, and I thought he quit the show due to stress fractures in his FEET, not his HEAD!; Reply to this comment

by wdh3007 October 7, 2009 11:03 PM EDT

Delay is entitled to his own facts & opinions but one thing is for sure when 2012 does finally arrive and if Obama still has not produced a lousy birth certificate then it will be an issue to voters but for now he is still our good ole fraud in chief until proven otherwise.

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by M_Effect October 8, 2009 8:02 AM EDT: Welcome to America! Please allow me to explain a few things to you since you seem to be from another political and/or legal system: Barack Obama was elected by the majority of voters, the Electoral College and confirmed by Congress. He was sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is therefore President of the United States and Commander in Chief. To say that he is the fraud in chief because you can't handle this reality demonstrates nothing other than the fact that you have no respect for the rule of law and American jurisprudence. This is the United States of America. Obama does not have to prove his innocence here or continue to respond to questions that have been answered just because a bunch of sore losers can't handle reality.


by borderhawk October 17, 2009 5:54 PM EDT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcGt8hQZzg4

Watch closely, as each state vote is counted and following the report Vice President Cheney failed to call for objections as the statute requires.

(See the You Tube video of the 2009 electoral vote count at about the 27:00 minute mark.)

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/
http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=717860373874+0+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve

Under 3 U.S.C. § 15, Congress is directed to be in session on the appropriate date to count the electoral votes for President, with the President of the Senate presiding. The statute further directs that the electoral votes be counted, and then the results be presented to the President of the Senate, who shall then ?announce the state of the vote.? Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. ...

The elected government failed to properly represent the citizens of the USA, during the counting of the electoral vote, therefore we have standing to demand a trial.


by trueblueusa October 7, 2009 10:19 PM EDT: One Thing is " FOR SURE "
Delay lacks ETHICS
& Should Be in PRISON !!!!; Reply to this comment


by mustang91071 October 7, 2009 9:39 PM EDT: All Obama has to do to quell the birthers is SHOW the birth certificate. What some people forget is that one of the first requirements of the presidency is to be an American citizen. So why does he remain silent on the issue. By the way, I am not in the birther group, but it seems like a relatively easy thing to produce. Most of us had to produce it several times in our lives,. why can't he? why won't he? All that does is add fuel to the birther fire. Look it up , not a single verified, certified copy has been shown yet.; Reply to this comment

by reveal5 October 7, 2009 8:27 PM EDT

Okeydokey...time for Ralph Reed to step up...Remember ralph, he as the former leader of the "Christian Coalition" and part of Abrahamoff and DeLay's gang that ripped off Indian tribes...Ok, Ralphie boy, time for the dancin' shoes...By the way, where are all the fringers? are they so mortified by Tom DeLay's pitiful and pathetic performance that they are in mourning?....Betty Boop reruns on the Geezer Channel? Tea Party?

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by stuart-johns2 October 7, 2009 8:59 PM EDT: LMAO!


by Hosheen October 7, 2009 8:20 PM EDT: Anyone that is still a "birther" is either stupid beyond all belief or a person that has no respect for facts, the American Constitution, and is basically a traitor that should be shot out of hand. DeLay is a good place to start.; Reply to this comment


by erasmus111 October 7, 2009 8:16 PM EDT: by hungry1968-16 October 7, 2009 4:51 PM EDT
It's too bad he's off the show.

Cheryl Burke is SMOKIN' HOT, and she's the ONLY reason I watched the show.

I, myself, think that Alex and Max are HOT. : )

I do like Cheryl, but I'm glad that Tom Delay is gone.

LOOOOOVE Donny. : ); Reply to this comment


by freddyfrugag October 7, 2009 7:19 PM EDT: From Wikipedia...."According to ABC's 20/20 television program, Abramoff lobbied DeLay to stop legislation banning sex shops and sweatshops that forced employees to have abortions in the Northern Mariana Islands when Abramoff accompanied DeLay on a 1997 trip to the U.S. commonwealth. While on the trip, DeLay promised not to put the bill on the legislative calendar."

Niiiiiice.; Reply to this comment