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Swede

(33,258 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:57 PM Jul 2012

Joe Arpaio’s Birther Obsession Just Keeps Getting Stranger

Something is really wrong with this dude.

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio looked out at a wall of television cameras and started to raise his voice. The rant that followed was confused, rambling and aimed directly at President Obama.

“Show. Us. The. Mircofilm,” he demanded. “I said it a while back. Show. Us. The. Microfilm. And we’ll all go back home and forget this! Where is the microfilm? Where is the microfilm? Is it in Hawaii? The Department of Health? What’s the big secret?”

Even for a notoriously eccentric Arizona politician like Arpaio, the spectacle he created on Tuesday at a news conference in Phoenix was on a whole other level.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/sheriff_joe_arpaio_birther_stunt.php?ref=fpa

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Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
1. He's eighty years old, and he's not all there.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:01 PM
Jul 2012

Sad in a way, he doesn't even know that he's publicly made a fool out of himself.

TlalocW

(15,386 posts)
5. I don't think it's his age
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:09 PM
Jul 2012

He's just a publicity hound, and he's facing DOJ charges this week so he needed to get the birthers and tea-baggers fired up so that when the DOJ makes their move it will look like retaliation from Obama.

TlalocW

atreides1

(16,082 posts)
9. Really
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:11 PM
Jul 2012

I guess I'll have to check my birth certificate...I was born in the Territory of Hawaii and I've always wondered what those numbers in the upper right hand corner meant?

Maybe I my mother gave birth to me in Kenya too?

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
7. What were the chances that he'd come back from this well-publicized taxpayer-funded trip
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:10 PM
Jul 2012

to Hawaii and admit that apparently Obama was born there and that the doubters were wrong?

haele

(12,660 posts)
8. What, does he think someone put clues to a stolen Nazi treasure trove in there?
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:11 PM
Jul 2012

Does he suspect the President one of the "Boys of Brazil" and this was all a secret clever plot by Himmler and the rest of the High Command to put the next Furher in the US White House? Using an American from Kansas for the mother and a Kenyan for the father to throw the Nazi hunters off the trail?

"Is...it...safe?" (Bzzzrzzzrzzzzz.....)

Haele

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
10. Can anyone here produce a "microfilm". They don't use microfilm anymore. Hello Joe computers.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:19 PM
Jul 2012

Microfilm way back sometimes aren't that great. Why is it they will take Mitten's birth certificate of live birth that is the same as Obama's? Why aren't we questioning Mitten's birth?

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
13. Exactly right. I agree with you. I just saying that the sheriff wants him to produce a microfilm.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:18 PM
Jul 2012

How the hell can he do that if one was never issued to him or anyone for that fact. I think if you are going to ask for Obama's then lets see Mitten's.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
12. Since doing things retroactively is all the rage in winger circles these days...
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:57 PM
Jul 2012

Maybe Sheriff Joe should look into getting this whole mess that he's started classified as "performance art", in order to justify all of that tax payer money that he's been spending on this indecipherable melange.

He can confidently claim that he's created a "modern art masterpiece".

That would be a more credible explanation than the ones he's been offering.

Hey, I'm a artist, so cut me some slack, ok?

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