Wasn’t Alabama Al-Obama?
Alabama Senator Richard Shelby (R) this weekend brought up, once again, the question dead issue of President Barack Obama’s citizenship.
Just a few fun figures to mull over while Shelby gets to the bottom of the real problems plaguing this nation:
- Alabama’s overall poverty rate is 16.6 percent, ranking it 10th nationwide
- The state’s child poverty rate is 23 percent, ranking it 9th in the nation
- Its senior poverty rate is 12.6 percent, ranking it 7th
- Alabama’s unemployment rate rose 3 percent, nearly doubling, to 6.7 from Dec. 2007 to Dec. 2008
Shelby is up for re-election next year. It’s never too early.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
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February 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
this country is a disgrace when we elect a man without proper papaers nad i am sick of Naacp and all balck actavist the real racist in this country, obama is not my president and his racist wife is not the first lady
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Hey Michael,
I think I know a little about how you feel. From 2000-2004, I didn’t give Bush credit for being president, seeing as how, you know, he didn’t win the 2000 election. 2004 was a different story, however, sadly.
But as for the “Obama isn’t a citizen” meme, that one’s been put to bed time and again. Here are just a couple of reputable examples:
Snopes
Supreme Court, hardly a bastion of liberalism, turns down the case
FactCheck.org
Washington Post
St. Petersburg Times
There’s simply no credible evidence. And when the highest court in the land (yes, that same body that effectively gave George W. Bush those fraudulent first four years in office) turns down the case, you’ve got to suck it up and accept it.
As fun as conspiracy theories can be, I simply don’t think highly enough of humans to carry them out.