Congressman Tim Murphy(R-PA) sends Birther Conspiracies to constituent in letter

[RamboLiberal]

Video at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32229584

Transcript: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32235649

And a viewer just forwarded us a spectacularly kooky constituent letter from her Republican Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania. Now, I kid you not, this was nuts enough that RACHEL MADDOW SHOW staff members spent way too much of the day today doing melodramatic readings of this letter to each other in order to crack ourselves up.

Therefore, I asked our executive producer, Bill Wolf, to read the thing on tape so that we would have it to use at our Christmas party this year. He's part of it.

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BILL WOLF, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Before being elected president, then-Senator Barack Obama was plagued with questions about whether or not he is a natural-born citizen of the United States as the Constitution requires. To refute these claims, the Obama campaign in June of 2008 released a certification of live birth stating Barack Obama was born in the State of Hawaii in 1961.

Before giving birth, the suits claim, President Obama's mother traveled to Kenya with his father, but was prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy, and therefore, gave birth to the president in Kenya.

At the time of birth, the suits contend, President Obama's father was a Kenyan citizen subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, thus handing down British citizenship to the president, while his mother was a minor at the time of birth, too young to confer American citizenship.

Moreover, critics argue, his grandmother claims to have been present at the birth in Kenya. Other suits claim that even if the president was born in the United States, he lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia.

As a historical matter, U.S. citizenship can be forfeited upon undertaking of the various acts including naturalization in a foreign state.

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[PA Democrat]

1. Thanks RamboLiberal! I've been looking for the video and the letter.

This twit is my congressman and he is holding a town hall meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday at the University of Pittsburgh Greensburg campus. I'd love to have someone ask him about this!

[xxqqqzme]

2. This is the ONLY time I am going to respond to these

insane, wild ramblings.

I don't know about Hawaii but under California law, a woman attains majority status once she is pregnant. Age is no longer the deciding factor. If a girl is 16 & pregnant, she is an adult.

How does one 'confer' citizenship on her child? That is, along w/ all the rest of the ravings, preposterous.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Saw a great cartoon in a post here yesterday

Its about a law being passed requiring people who are born again to provide two birth certificates if they run for president.