‘Birther Queen’ Orly Taitz to Run for CA Sec. of State

If elected, plans 'investigation' of Obama birth certificate

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In case it seemed as if California Republican primary politics weren’t quite weird enough, “Queen of the Birthers” Orly Taitz has lurched into the breach. From The Orange County Register:

‘Birther’ Lawyer Taitz Running for Secretary of State

Laguna Niguel lawyer Orly Taitz, who’s gained a national following for efforts to prove Barack Obama’s presidency is illegitimate, has qualified to run for California secretary of state, said Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley.

In launching her campaign to be the state’s top elections official, Taitz is alleging that fellow Republican candidate Damon Dunn, a former NFL player living in Irvine, is ineligible to seek the GOP nomination. She says he’s committed voter and election fraud.

RAW STORY reports that if elected, Taitz plans to “use her office to pursue an investigation of Obama’s citizenship.” Insert your own punchline here.

If the Israeli-born Taitz receives the nomination in the state’s June primary, she would face presumptive Democratic opponent Sec. of State Debra Bowen in November. Bowen is running for her second term as California’s chief election official.

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‘Birther Queen’ Orly Taitz to Run for CA Sec. of State

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  1. 2)
    AnotherBird said on 3/18/2010 @ 5:37pm PT: [Permalink]

    In a twisted way I would love for her to become CA Sec. of State, and the tears of laughter seeing Orly Taitz finally have to admit that Obama is a natural-born citizen would be classic. However, I wouldn’t wish her on any state.

  2. 3)
    Dean O'Gowan said on 3/18/2010 @ 6:19pm PT: [Permalink]

    When McCain was asked for his birth certificate, he released it rightaway. Why does Barack Obama spend over $1.6 million fighting the release of his birth certificate? What’s he hiding?

  3. 4)
    Chris Hooten said on 3/18/2010 @ 8:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really believe that? How could you honestly believe that, Dean?

  4. 5)
    Richard Kreig Allen said on 3/18/2010 @ 8:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Laguna Niguel lawyer Orly Taitz… has qualified to run for California secretary of state…

    Obviously the qualifications for California secretary of state is a bar that was set very low.

  5. 6)
    Nunyabiz said on 3/18/2010 @ 8:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Dean must be off his meds again.
    See what lack of health care does?

    Obama put his birth certificate out for every one to see, he has been vetted more than any president in history.

  6. 7)
    Glix said on 3/19/2010 @ 1:13am PT: [Permalink]

    @Dean – Obama has not spent $1.6 million fighting the release of his birth certificate. None of the “cases” have ever gone to trial and the birther “lawyers” have resorted to suing each other. That $1.6 million figure was made up by someone on Free Republic and the freepers liked it so much they have been using it ever since.

  7. 8)
    Brian R said on 3/19/2010 @ 1:21am PT: [Permalink]

    What ever happened to never say never?

    We are living in the 21st century. Why don’t people think it is possible to create wars under false flag operations like 9/11? Or install puppet regime’s or Presidents.

    How many readers know of the 1,100 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth? (I’m sure here there are many)

    I don’t want to follow the birth certificate story too much but I do acknowledge that it is possible the man was not born in Hawaii.

    What. You think you have it all figured out?

    Again, even with me wanting to say that Obama didn’t produce a birth certificate, but a “certificate of live birth” (yes there is a difference), I don’t even think it matters with all the real, out-in-the-open-shit Obama and past Administrations have done. But of course everything does matter-some more, some less.

    My opinion:
    Look at the War of Terror and the bailouts with the Central Banks of the World. Is your life getting better?

    All the false flag terror operations…

    Some sort of coup de tat didn’t happen on November 22, 1963? Then the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident to start the Vietnam War. A coup that still has power to kill 3000 Americans with demolitions in broad daylight on 9/11 only to invade countries for a decade plus?!

    Really. C’mon.

    Where are you all at?

    Forget the nonsense and start breaking through the left/right paradigm.

    9/11 Truth Ya’ll!
    -and TRUE elections, thanks for your work on that Brad.

  8. 9)
    Ancient said on 3/19/2010 @ 3:44am PT: [Permalink]

    Hey Brian R, and how about that 3.2 trillion dollars rumsfeid announced 9/10 missing from the pentagon that BOOM was never investigated? I quite agree, screwed up, distracting priorities keep the news cycle’s going and important issues buried!

  9. 12)
    Big Dan said on 3/19/2010 @ 8:08am PT: [Permalink]

    I always noticed this: in this clip, the announcer says: “…joining us now from Tel Aviv, we have Orly Taitz…” Why was she in Israel right after her case was thrown out? How come NO ONE ever asks this? I have never been to Israel, I don’t personally know anyone who was ever in Israel my whole life…and she’s in Israel right after her case was thrown out. Why was she in Israel?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42vW9UTsC8

  10. 13)
    ellenbarrons said on 3/19/2010 @ 9:43am PT: [Permalink]

    You said:

    “When McCain was asked for his birth certificate, he released it rightaway. Why does Barack Obama spend over $1.6 million fighting the release of his birth certificate? What’s he hiding? ”

    First, the birth certificate that is online is NOT McCain’s. It is a forgery. McCain claimed in his book to have been born in the Family Hospital on the Naval Base, but the online document says that he was born in Colon Hospital, which is not even in the Canal Zone.

    Second, McCain never showed his birth certificate to anyone. Not to the Senate, not to a court, not to a Senate Committee. And his campaign never posted it.

    For that matter, neither did any previous president. No president ever showed his birth certificate before Obama.

    In contrast, Obama showed the OFFICIAL birth certificate of Hawaii. The Certification of Live Birth is now the official birth certificate of Hawaii, and it is the ONLY birth certificate that Hawaii sends out. Hawaii no longer sends out copies of the original birth certificate, so it is the only birth certificate that Obama can show.

    However, it is official, and accepted as proof of birth in the USA by the US State Department, and in Obamas’ case the facts on it have been confirmed twice by the officials of the Department of Health of Hawaii.

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    colinjames said on 3/19/2010 @ 9:48am PT: [Permalink]

    AW, F me! I grew up in Laguna Niguel. Pains me to see her name and my home town in the same sentence. She’s friggin nuts. And Brian R., glad you question 9/11, but do you really think that somebody faked a birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper 40+ years ago just in case that baby grew up to president someday?

  12. 15)
    BlueHawk said on 3/19/2010 @ 10:15am PT: [Permalink]

    Orly Taitz…She’s riding a wave of racist ignorance right into public office…

    Hell it’s the American way…it’s how Ronald Reagan got elected President in the first place…

  13. 16)
    Brian R said on 3/19/2010 @ 1:45pm PT: [Permalink]

    Colin James-
    Faking a birth announcement in papers is not the only option.

    And to be realistic, this was right around the time of Operation Northwoods and a generation after the Manhatten Project.

    So to answer your question,

    I do think that a newspaper article can be faked, whether it was faked then or now.

    I also believe that another scenario is finding a Family that you can, or has on its own, disappear(ed). From there it is an old story of identity theft.

    I am just not sayng it is impossible. Again, what year do think we live in? Drones are attacking civilians with operators thousands of miles away, 9/11 in broad daylight, JFK, etc.

    A newspaper article? Not too tough

    It’s clear to me I don’t know the truth.

    What is funny to watch is people who THINK they do.

  14. 17)
    Paul McCarthy said on 3/19/2010 @ 3:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    It’s clear Obama’s short form birth certificate is genuine and here’s why. The short form was released when Obama was still a candidate in the Democratic primary. The Hawaii Health Department has long been a full employment place for the families of the old-line machine Democrats, and those folks were Hillary Clinton supporters at the time. They would have had no reason to cover up a fake birth certificate.

    One thing that never comes up in the birther debates is any mention of when Obama’s mom first got a passport. How come? She would have needed one to travel outside the U.S. (but not to Hawaii, which has been part of the U.S. since 1898.)

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    FreedomOfInformationAct said on 3/20/2010 @ 12:36am PT: [Permalink]

    yeah, good luck with that one oily!

    oily taintz, the only candidate most likely to lose to sarah palin!

  16. 20)
    Jill said on 3/20/2010 @ 5:00am PT: [Permalink]

    After watching “Be Good Johnny Weir”, I can’t look at Orly Taitz without thinking of Weir’s “Viachyslav Romanov” faux-journalist character. I wonder if Taitz was the inspiration?

  17. 22)
    MsKitty said on 3/20/2010 @ 7:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    After listening to Orly Taitz speak, I couldn’t help thinking that she doesn’t sound like she’s from around here. So I looked her up.

    Orly Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, (present day Moldova) and emigrated to Israel in 1981. During her residence in Israel, Taitz obtained a dentistry degree at Hebrew University. In 1987, she met Yosef Taitz who proposed four months later. Taitz lived for some time in Romania, Orly emigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying Yosef in Las Vegas, Nevada; Taitz became a citizen of the United States in 1992.

    WTF!?! SHE is not a natural born citizen at all, not even close. So what is the point she is trying to make? How is she more American than our, born to an American woman who met his father in the US -then born in Hawaii, President?

  18. 23)
    Phil said on 3/21/2010 @ 3:35am PT: [Permalink]

    When will Orly Taitz be releasing her Naturalization Certificate fo public viewing???

    Free the NATURALIZATION CERTIFICATE

  19. 24)
    Samson said on 3/21/2010 @ 4:10pm PT: [Permalink]

    When McCain was asked for his birth certificate, he released it rightaway. Why does Barack Obama spend over $1.6 million fighting the release of his birth certificate? What’s he hiding?

    I’d dearly love to know the same thing myself. If he was in fact a natural born citizen, he shouldn’t have had any trouble providing his real birth certificate.

    Of course, since he doesn’t have one, he has to spend millions fighting every court case that comes up about it. I’d tell you to go ask his grandmother in Kenya what she has to say on the subject, but she conveniently died shortly after his November 2008 victory.

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    MartinStone1 said on 3/22/2010 @ 9:32am PT: [Permalink]

    Samson said: “When McCain was asked for his birth certificate, he released it rightaway.”

    But ELLENBARRONS has shown that McCain never released his birth certificate. The one that is online is not McCains and it certainly was not released by him

    You also said: “Why does Barack Obama spend over $1.6 million fighting the release of his birth certificate? What’s he hiding?”

    But Obama HAS released his official birth certificate, the Certification of Live Birth of Hawaii, and the facts on it were confirmed by the officials in Hawaii. As to the allegations that Obama has spent money on hiding the document, he hasn’t. None of the lawsuits were just for the birth certificate or just for documents. Virtually all of them tried to stop the election, stop the vote by the Electoral College, stop the certification of the election or stop the Inauguration.

  21. 26)
    Shiva said on 3/23/2010 @ 3:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    man, running agaisnt her could be a simple call in campaign. She has been slapped so many times for being a fraud the whole campaign might take a day or two.

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