Forged Kenyan Document Splinters ‘Birther’ Movement

Eligibility Lawyers, Activists Worry That a Hoax Will Wreck Their Cause

By DAVID WEIGEL 8/3/09 7:58 PM

Jon Chessoni, a first secretary at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, can’t understand why his office gets so many baseless questions about whether Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

“It’s madness,” said Chessoni on Monday. “His father, in 1961, would not even have been in Kenya. When this matter first came up, the Kenyan government did its research and confirmed that these are all baseless claims.”

Nonetheless, Chessoni spent part of his day fielding inquiries about an image posted at the fringe conservative web site WorldNetDaily–a purported “certified copy of registration of birth” belonging to “Barack Hussein Obama II,” submitted by attorney Orly Taitz in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, part of her undying quest to get a judge to listen to the conspiracy theories about the 44th president of the United States. “I’m forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond,” Taitz told the Website. “I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy.”

Chessoni didn’t understand what Taitz was talking about or what her discovery (the gift of an “anonymous source” who’s “afraid for his life”) was supposed to prove. He showed the image to other embassy employees, who rolled their eyes at what was, for some, only the latest forgery being passed off as an official document from Kenya. “It’s a red herring,” said Chessoni. “Maybe there are not enough facts out there.”

More: http://washingtonindependent.com/53654/forged-kenyan-document-splinters-birther-movement

People like them have too much money and too little sense to be left alone. I have an old typewriter from the 1950s and some musty old paper from grandpa's roll-top desk, but I just need to raise a few more funds to be able to do the research footwork in Kenya. If you get an e-mail from a birther, will you let them know about my search to uncover the truth? Let them know that their money will be well spent with me on the case.

saying the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x347359">Shuster interview with Oily made them into a birther. It's unbeleiveable how easily these fools are swayed & have such a lack of real intellectual curiosity.