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In Positive Economic Sign, Republicans Starting to Say Obama Wasn’t Born in US Again

S & P Birther Index Posts Big Gains

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report Borowitz Report website) – In what some experts are calling a strong indicator of improvement in the economy, Republicans in recent weeks have begun renewing their claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

While most economists agree that any significant improvement in the US economy is generally accompanied by an uptick in GOP questions about Mr. Obama’s place of birth, there is now an econometric tool for measuring the increase in those claims: the so-called S & P Birther Index.

The Birther Index, established in 2008, measures the occurrences of such words as “birth certificate,” “Kenya,” and “wasn’t born here” in Republican statements about the President, and has proven to be a surprisingly reliable tool for tracking improvements in the economy.

Harland Dorinson, the economist who devised the S & P Birther Index, said that as the economy recovers the index also shows a strong surge in statements questioning the President’s Christianity.

“As unemployment started going down, we saw an increase in references to Mr. Obama being a Muslim,” he said. “This is generally a very bullish sign for the economy.”

But Mr. Dorinson was quick to add that while the surge in references to Mr. Obama being “an Islamic socialist born in a mud-hut in Nairobi” is encouraging, the economy is not out of the woods yet.

“We won’t be fully in a recovery until the Republicans start calling him a Wiccan,” he said. “And if they start saying he’s a Satanist who practices human sacrifice and drinks the blood of children, then it’ll be time to pop open the champagne.”

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That response to the OP is just plain weird

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“We won’t be fully in a recovery until the Republicans start calling him a Wiccan,” he said. “And if they start saying he’s a Satanist who practices human sacrifice and drinks the blood of children, then it’ll be time to pop open the champagne.”

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ORIGINAL: Fellow

What complicated the birther issue was Obama releasing the fake long form birth certificate last year. It was weird thing. It was like a psychopath-villain feeding puzzles info to his chasers (or victims). It was also a basis of the Arizona sheriffs actions. It looks like the White House wants this issue around as a distraction (to drive attention away from their miserably bad performance). I really do not see a connection with the economy.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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That response to the OP is just plain weird

When you take into account that Fellow thinks OBL was killed years ago and last year's death was faked, etc, etc. it makes a little more sense now, doesn't it?

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ORIGINAL: Fellow
It looks like the White House wants this issue around as a distraction (to drive attention away from their miserably bad performance).

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It's the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to take place while the sheriff's taking heat for the several hundred sex crimes his office bungled, and the Justice Department's claim that he's running a shop with the worst-racial profiling practices in U.S. history.

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ORIGINAL: Fellow
It looks like the White House wants this issue around as a distraction (to drive attention away from their miserably bad performance).

Of course, this latest burst of Birtherism from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio could very easily look like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants this issue around as a distraction to drive attention away from his miserably bad and possibly criminal performance as a Law Enforcement Officer and the investigation of his department for racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints, punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish and the murdering of prisoners by Sheriff Department jail guards while in the custody of the Mariposa County Sheriff's office (i.e. prisoner Scott Lonberg murdered while in custody in 1999) which could lead to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and some of his Deputies going to prison.

Is Joe Arpaio's "Birther" Investigation His Worst Publicity Stunt of All-Time?

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It's the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to take place while the sheriff's taking heat for the several hundred sex crimes his office bungled, and the Justice Department's claim that he's running a shop with the worst-racial profiling practices in U.S. history.