As the front-runner to succeed Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh next year, former Kansas Republican Party leader Kris Kobach should know that his words matter, even those spoken in fun among GOP friends. Yet he seemed surprised that Democrats went after him for joking Saturday at a Leavenworth County Republican Party barbecue that President Obama and God had something in common — the lack of a birth certificate. (He added that the difference between the two was that God only takes 10 percent of a person’s income.)
“Kansans want elected officials who stand above the peddling of partisan lies and conspiracy theory. This is yet another example of why Kris Kobach is unfit for elected office,” declared Kansas Democratic Party executive director Kenny Johnston.
“Lighten up. It’s just a joke,” Kobach told the Lawrence Journal-World, adding, “Are they really suggesting it is forbidden to tell jokes about Barack Obama?”
For the record: The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health has confirmed that Obama was born in Honolulu, and nonpartisan observers have examined the birth certificate and verified its authenticity.
Even Kobach said this week: “Until a court says otherwise, I believe Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen.”
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Obama can make jokes about disabled people (his special olympic remarks) but other people cannot make jokes?
Get a grip!
Republicans…stuck in a rut as usual.
I thought the joke was rather clever. Lighten up, folks. That’s part of our problem here – we take ourselves WAY to seriously.
And yes, I know it’s a joke; I am not one of those fools carping about the mythical non-existant birth certificate.
Kenny Johnston needs to get a life.
And Obama throws like a girl.
Stand up, Chuck!
“And Obama throws like a girl.”
Amen! Hope Putin/Il/Chavez/A-jad/et al didn’t see that weak attempt….:)
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Heckler
Posted July 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Permalink
Kenny Johnston needs to get a life.
And Obama throws like a girl.
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Did you notice that the camera angle didn’t show that it went into the dirt? I saw it on Fox News this morning and all they showed was a rear shot which makes it tough to see.
Can anyone find the video? I tried looking but the only one I could find has been removed.
Very impressed with Kobach. Heard him speak with authority about the importance of safe and secure elections. Will be interesting to watch his career. Note his education, work experience and state party chairmanship. Looks like he’s the real deal and will be a leader. I like a witty politician-his joke and quip are funnier than Letterman.
Get a frickin’ sense of humor Rhonda.
Kobach alias Iv2ryt and situveux1: Your inaccurate misleading “joke” about Obama’s parentage is definitely not appropriate … especially considering you are talking of running for Kansas Secretary of State, the state’s record keeper. Accuracy is important in that job.
My suggestion is clean up your act or move on.
From a moderate Republican. JW
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Heckler
Posted July 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Permalink
Kenny Johnston needs to get a life.
And Obama throws like a girl.
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With…
“Did you notice that the camera angle didn’t show that it went into the dirt?”
Actually, Alberto Pujoles reached in front of the plate to catch it.
But we real Americans are much more concerned with more serious issues.
Like Sam (the Sham) Brownback’s fear of genetically-engineered man-chickens.
Dems, is that all you’ve got, pretty pathetic.
Oh and how about this:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104009
Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez
Major victory for Army warrior questioning Obama’s birthplace
Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez
“His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.
“We won! We won before we even arrived,” she said with excitement. “It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is ill-eg-it-imate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!”
She continued, “They just said, ‘Order revoked.’ No explanation. No reasons – just revoked.””
“Boxlock20″ –
I suspect the military decided they didn’t want a certifiable kook fighting on our side.
Sorta like how the Marines are sending good men and women back to Iraq and Afghanistan for three and four and five tours preferring “Nathaniel” stay half-a-world away from where they’re defending their lives.
(Historians will note that’s been the Marine Corps’ approach since its inception back during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, from January 20, 1777 to January 20, 1781.)
I suspect the military decided they didn’t want a certifiable kook fighting on our side.—Chimpbrain
The military has never rolled over like that when an active duty member has challenged orders. And you know it but instead ignore and divert as that’s all you’ve got.
That’s weak monkey.
And you are even weaker when all you have is a old copy and paste that I didn’t even write, and didn’t correct as it had nothing to do with the subject matter.
What business is it of mine to correct another persons quote.
Shows the shallowness of your position and character, but again, that’s all you’ve got and that’s nothing new.
The idea that someone as firmly implanted in the cuckoo-bananas wing of the Republican party could be given serious consideration for the third-highest office in this state really sops my gravy.
You think it’s an embarrassment to be a Kansan now, just wait until we have him and Pompeo in office.
His next step is a ‘medical discharge’, he no doubt lacks capacity to be in the military.
Kobach knows that like bush saying Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, once said ks. repubs won’t be able to let it go.
It’s not surprising that a nutter like Kobach falls into the birther crowd. What a bunch of loons.
I wonder why if Thornburg has so grossly mismanaged this office why should voters send another Republican to the Sec of State’s office?
And wants it say about Kobachs friends if their ratting him out to the KDP
President Obama and God had something in common — the lack of a birth certificate. (He added that the difference between the two was that God only takes 10 percent of a person’s income.
Now that’s just funny, I don’t care who you are.
monkey……….you as a real American are concerned with more serious issues……like Palin you are so fake..by the way i never heard your answer on the health care options
As a front-runner to succeed Thornburgh next year, Kobach appears to be on easy street at long last with his initiative to require about a hundred forms of I.D. to register to vote. It must be thrilling for the man to be so near to accomplishing a life-long dream. Can he sleep at night? It sounds as though quite a number of birth certificates will need to be gone over with a magnifying glass. Perhaps the new secretary of state and his staff will evaluate on items such as peculiar font size or weird-looking curves in the handwriting of various signers of these essential documents. If people are heavily under Kobach’s suspicion for going around and voting in a fraudulent manner, then how can the earnest politician be confident that some sort of trickery is not being perpetrated on the birth certificates as well? It seems almost inevitable that a (Republican) committee will need to be formed to make sure that applicants to the political process have provided authentic birth certificates instead of fake birth certificates. The committee would then construct a procedure in which suspicious looking birth certificates may be put in a pile to undergo a more thorough evaluation at a later date.
With Brownback in the governor’s chair, however, rules might be added along the lines of requiring potential voters to show proof of belief. People will at least have to show that they don’t have any half-wolf, half-man ancestry in their family trees. Or maybe it will come down to actually tracing one’s ancestry to Adam and Eve. If you can walk your family tree back to Abraham or something (and the last fifteen generations in your bloodline reliably voted Republican), then maybe you’ll be able to cast a ballot when they run a background check on you at the polling place on election day. “As it was in the beginning, so it shall be on and after, forever and ever and after…amen.” (Voters who have a history of voting for Democrats will be given three Our Fathers and Three Hail Marys as a penance.)
Kind of funny to see you DimLibs squirming over the prospect of a conservative republican taking that office, as well as others I might add…..yes, truly funny indeed.