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Posts Tagged birther

Trump bows out

By | 05.16.11 | 11:34 am

He was never officially in and now he’s out. Real estate and reality TV mogul Donald Trump flirted for weeks with a 2012 GOP presidential run and came to top Republican voter polls after a high profile proto-campaign in which he rehashed the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States but has been passing off a forged birth certificate for years. Trump said he hired detectives to look into the matter. Trump’s announcement today that he will not run comes with typical bravado.

The tragic return of Terry ‘Col Birther’ Lakin

By | 05.13.11 | 3:21 pm

He is the medal-winning former Army doctor from Greeley who became a hero to “birther” conspiracy theorists like Denver radio talker Peter Boyles when he refused to deploy to Afghanistan, demanding to see his commander-in-chief’s birth certificate. Lakin didn’t get to see any birth certificate. He was court martialed, stripped of his rank, salary and pension and hauled off to Leavenworth. After six months in prison, he is coming home. His supporters are trying to organize a rally to greet him at the airport in Baltimore, where his wife and three children live. As Salon’s Justin Elliot reports, the Lakin saga is perhaps the most tragic story so far to “emerge from the birther carnival.”

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Tancredo: Obama held back birth certificate to make Republicans look nuts

By | 04.29.11 | 11:42 am

Former Colorado Congressman, right-wing icon and talk-radio host Tom Tancredo says he guessed right on the birth certificate. In April of last year on the Alan Colmes radio show, he told listeners President Obama was intentionally delaying release of his birth certificate so that the birther movement would burn hotter and hotter and make the Republican Party and its leaders waffling on the topic appear ridiculous.

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Terry ‘Col Birther’ Lakin backers remain skeptical after Obama birth certificate release

By | 04.27.11 | 11:30 am

“Today’s action doesn’t solve this issue,” Marco Ciavolino, a staffer at the Terry Lakin Action Fund, told the Colorado Independent in response to news that President Obama released an image of his “long-form” birth certificate today. “The first thing is, you know, why did the president wait so long to release this birth certificate? The other immediate thing is that there is no physical copy to inspect, so far. It’s just a pdf. So here we go again,” he said, laughing. “It’s really not that hard.”

Terry ‘Colonel Birther’ Lakin supporters launch action week ahead of trial

By | 11.15.10 | 1:53 pm

In the wake of this month’s historic GOP electoral gains, supporters of “Colonel Birther” Terry Lakin are launching a national drive to demand lawmakers intervene on behalf of the Greeley, Colorado, native. Lakin is scheduled to appear before…

Buck works to shore up tea party support in wake of birther flap

By | 07.27.10 | 2:44 pm

Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck worked to shore up Tea Party support Monday in the wake of news he called “birthers” in the tea party movement “dumbasses” for hectoring him on the issue of President Obama’s citizenship and right to…

‘Birther’ movement finds evidence in Kenya road sign

By | 04.17.10 | 6:00 pm

The so-called birther movement has gained steam again in past weeks as the story of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin unfolds in capital. Greeley native Lakin is facing court martial for refusing to follow orders because he doesn’t believe Pres.…

‘Colonel Birther’ Lakin read miranda rights, Pentagon pass revoked

By | 04.13.10 | 10:28 am

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin yesterday returned to the Pentagon clinic where he has been stationed but this time he was met by his commander, Colonel Gordon Roberts, who read Lakin his rights and revoked his pass access to the building.…

‘Colonel Birther’ spokesperson: Lakin accepts consequences of search for truth

By | 04.12.10 | 6:05 pm

For the first time since declaring his intention to disobey orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he is not convinced Pres. Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States, Greeley native Lt Col Terry Lakin returned to his…

Birther Colonel Lakin posts letter to Obama

By | 04.08.10 | 5:21 pm

Terry Lakin, the Army Doctor who has refused orders to deploy to Afghanistan, has posted online the letter he wrote to Pres. Obama last week explaining his decision. Lakin, a Greeley native who now works at a clinic in…

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