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Tea Party speaker Farah: Unlike Jesus, Obama has no documentation of birth

February 06, 2010 11:19 am ET

From CSPAN's coverage of WorldNetDaily Founder and CEO Joseph Farah's February 5 appearance at the National Tea Party Convention:

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- by progressiveright (February 06, 2010 11:23 am ET)
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  I do not know hospital birth records, a state issued birth certificate, and news paper birth announcements seem to be documentation of birth. More birther fear mongering.
  
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  - by wolf kotenberg (February 06, 2010 2:01 pm ET)
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    Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts " blessed" this president with the Oath of Office after 65 million people voted " yes ".
    
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  - by Porkeater (February 06, 2010 2:31 pm ET)
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    There is none so blind...
    
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  - by Civic Racecar (February 06, 2010 3:16 pm ET)
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    I think we can all just settle this by stating that Obama is a child of God. I mean, we are all children of God, aren't we? Apparently, being a child of God isn't good enough for Farah. /sarcasm
    
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- by Max Credits (February 06, 2010 11:25 am ET)
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  Updated odds on the Tea Party Convention yielding a policy position:
  
  10,000 to 1
  
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- by cpinva (February 06, 2010 11:26 am ET)
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  i haven't seen jesus' birth certificate, or joseph farah's, for that matter.
  
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  - by worrierking (February 06, 2010 11:27 am ET)
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    Here it is.
    
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    - by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 06, 2010 11:50 am ET)
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      REGISTRATION OF BIRTH ??????? WHERE'S THE LONG FORM ??????
      
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    - by progressiveright (February 06, 2010 12:10 pm ET)
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      Evidence show that Dec 25 was not Jesus's date of birth. It was more likely in the spring or autumn.
      
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  - by calijohn (February 06, 2010 12:42 pm ET)
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    joseph farah is not to be trusted (duh) because he is tied to lebanese and syrian interests.
    with this kind of background, could he be a terrorist??
    is the fbi and homeland security on this??
    where was he on 9 - 11??
    was he the one seen on the grassy knoll??
    does he know danny thomas??
    
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    - by christopher howard (February 06, 2010 12:45 pm ET)
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      Think of the children!
      
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- by loonz (February 06, 2010 11:30 am ET)
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  Is they're really documentation of his birth? Also, can virgins have babies?
  
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  - by the Grey Path (February 06, 2010 11:44 am ET)
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    Hell ... There's no documentation for Jesus' existence.
    
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    - by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 06, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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      Worrierking's document seems to show that He was born in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., making him an American, unlike the Kenyan Usurper. I think his adoptive dad. Joe the Carpenter, moved there for the low taxes.
      
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      - by runt (February 07, 2010 12:17 pm ET)
        
        we will all move there after bama increase taxes!!! SHOW THE BIRTH CERT!!!!!!!
        
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    - by progressiveright (February 06, 2010 12:11 pm ET)
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      Actually they have found more records of Jesus's existence than that of either George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
      
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      - by christopher howard (February 06, 2010 12:43 pm ET)
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        Please tell me you are joking. We have Washington's signature on documents (including a little document called the Constitution) and multiple contemporary historical accounts of his life. We have photographs of Lincoln.
        
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      - by MickD (February 06, 2010 2:16 pm ET)
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        I have his autograph. "To MickD, stay pure. Jesus H. Christ."
        
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    - by eb (February 06, 2010 12:39 pm ET)
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      I want to see the documentation that shows that Mary was a virgin. Medical records would suffice.
      
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  - by whatIthink (February 06, 2010 11:57 am ET)
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    Virgins CAN have babies...that is if they consort with someone claiming they are a "holy ghost"...as opposed to the run of the mill ghosts.
    
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- by pamiety (February 06, 2010 11:31 am ET)
  
  Amazing!
  
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- by Major Tom (February 06, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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  This is just insane.
  
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- by RKAllen (February 06, 2010 12:01 pm ET)
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  Name for me any other President who has put his birth certificate on the internet?
  
  He has shown, quite publicly, his birth certificate. It is up for everyone to see and has been authenticated by multiple sources. The Govenor has said that it was real. The Hawaii officials have refered to it as "prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding."
  
  You make alot of money pushing the birth certificate nonsense, Mr. Farah, and do alot of damage to this country in the process. You will be judged for having done so, sir.
  
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  - by eb (February 06, 2010 12:24 pm ET)
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    He mentioned that the president didn't even have the documents you need to play little league. Wow, what a conspiracy! First he sneaks into little league, then the university, next the senate and now the White House!
    
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- by eb (February 06, 2010 12:38 pm ET)
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  Well there you have it. A good example of a fringe group getting a lot of media attention and consideration as some kind of legitimate new political force. Think of all the other political groups accross the spectrum that have protests, conventions, and spokesmen who do not get the attention these guys are getting. How many progressive and liberal groups get this kind of attention? I am sure PETA has as many members and supporters as the tea baggers.
  
  This birther stuff is up there with the idea that Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster. It is obvious that the mandate for change that Obama's election represented was dead on arrival. Just as with Clinton, these so called conservatives will obstruct and delegitimize any leader that is not there own in any way they can. Somehow we are to believe that things are so corrupt in this country that Obama somehow stole the Whitehouse.
  
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- by Samurai Cowboy (February 06, 2010 12:47 pm ET)
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  Jesus had no Birther Certificate because he did not exist. He was made up to validate a phony, made up religion with no basis of provable facts.
  
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  - by roland (February 06, 2010 1:17 pm ET)
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    You're right. The earliest Christian writers such as Paul in his epistles are remarkably silent on the "facts" of Jesus' life. It isn't until Justin in around 150 AD that the details of Jesus' life and ministry begin to enter into the written record and become widely known. Before that, he is generally spoken of in vague and primarily spiritual terms. His biography comes later.
    
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    - by eb (February 06, 2010 1:35 pm ET)
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      Obama is held up to Farah's standard that Obama's identity should be as solid as Jesus but it is not. What your now saying is that the identity of Jesus is not as solid as Obama's identity. Funny!
      
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      - by christopher howard (February 06, 2010 1:45 pm ET)
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        The non-biblical historical account most Christian apologists point to to confirm the historicity of Jesus is the historian Josephus.
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus
        
        At best, though, he was writing some decades after Jesus' supposed death. There are no non-biblical contemporary accounts of Jesus' life. As an atheist, I'm generally inclined to cede that a historical Jesus may have existed for the purposes of discussion, but that in no way confirms his divinity.
        
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        by roland (February 06, 2010 2:54 pm ET)
        
        Actually, the Josephus "evidence" is remarkably weak in this regard, but we can certainly agree to disagree on this issue.
        
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  - by tbone (February 06, 2010 1:30 pm ET)
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    Unlike those real religions. :-)
    
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- by mjh (February 06, 2010 2:05 pm ET)
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  Tea Party speaker Farah: Unlike Jesus, Obama has no documentation of birth
  
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  - by eweston8542983 (February 06, 2010 6:35 pm ET)
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    Its Scooper Kitteh! Run for shelter quickly!
    
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- by jimbo082 (February 06, 2010 2:24 pm ET)
  
  Obama was born in Kenya. This site sux.
  
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- by bewildered (February 06, 2010 10:05 pm ET)
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  This kind of nonsense imbrues the very nature which America stands for.
  
  Attempts to turn one's President into an illegal immigrant is distasteful to the highest degree.
  
  Then, calling upon the belief in Jesus Christ, who was definitely not born in the U.S., in a feeble attempt to prove one's origin.
  
  The world is laughing at all the gullible Americans now.
  
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