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The Birthers and the Citizeners …. A Letter From Aunt Gladys

In 2008 US Presidential Election brought in the 56 President of the United States. The Election, carried out every 4 years, was completed on 4 November with the new president officially sworn in on 22 January of 2009

Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received a sweeping mandate by winning 365 electoral votes vs. 173 for his Republican opponent John McCain. This mandate would have been sufficient to give Obama unprecedented powers should he have been the candidate with the necessary skill and experience to use it. H was not.

Barak Obama ran on a simple platform promising sweeping change in the machinery of government and gave his popular constituency a hope that he was neither able to, nor did he actually have any intention of carrying out. It was a great disappointment in the man and his agenda.

This election packed so many firsts that it stands out in US political history as the most significant since WW II. It was also the first U.S. presidential election, in which a non-white person received the nomination of one of the two major parties as well as the first election in which a non-white person was elected President,

During the early stages of Obama’s campaign, the negative noises, normal in US elections in general, were focused on his color, his liberal agenda and his inexperience. His opponents in the racist South, dismissing him as one with little to no chance of going anywhere in his bid for the top boss job, were only rattled by the precedence he had set for Non-Whites to run for the great office of president of the United States.

But once the real sweeping popularity of Obama became so obvious and his chance of winning the election loomed larger than what his detractors thought it comfortable level Conspiracy theories began to be weaved and emerge. Accusations ranging from his religion, his origin, and oddly enough, his membership to terrorist organizations flew left and right propelled by the nutter machinery of over the top radio talk shows.

But perhaps the most outrageous and most significant attack designed to discredit Barak Obama and render his bid for office illegal and his winning unlawful was the question of his US birth. A conspiracy theory of sort concocted by his most implacable enemies purported that he was not born in the United States, a constitutional condition that must be met for anyone to run for the office of president of the United States and occupy the White House.

Mr. Obama. Confident of his position and aware of the hidden hatred, elected to remain aloof and dismissed his attackers as unworthy of the dignity of response. However, the attack escalated and the Obama advisors had enough of the nonsense and showed his official birth record in the state of Hawaii.

This is where the resemblance is to a case that is taking Egypt by storm. Mr. Hazzem Abu Ismail, an accomplished lawyer and a conservative Muslim from the group known as the Salafi Muslims. Mr. Ismail does not mince his words when he speaks of America as the reigning Lucifer over the dominion of the Earth. His strong position towards taking Egypt out of the subservient role of the United States and building it to full independence economically, politically and militarily has ruffled the feathers of the Neocons and the Zionists who rule the United States.

History has repeated itself. At the behest of the Obama administration a story was concocted claiming that Mr. Abu Ismail is not lawfully entitled to run in the presidential race in Egypt. Why? His mother, the Egyptian authorities allege, was a naturalized United States Citizen. This, according to Egyptian law, precludes Mr. Ismail from running in the race.

Mr. Ismail demanded proof of this allegation and countered by saying that his deceased mother had been holder of a permanent residency status in the US but had not been actually naturalized. When pressed, the Egyptian Government produced a nonsensical letter it claimed came from the United States Department of State claiming that the lady in question was naturalized in 2006 but presented no material evidence admissible in at law, nor presented any credible facts other than a perfunctory purport that the US does not tell a Lie! Ridiculous and retarded as this may sound, it is actually all the evidence that the Egyptian government presented to support its case against Mr. Abu Ismail.

Judging by the similarity of the cases between both Mr. Obama’s detractors, who came to be known in the US as the Birthers, and Mr. Ismail’s detractors, whom I am dubbing the “Citizeners”, it appears that this seemingly fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegation was cooked in the political kitchen of the US Department of State.

Regardless of whether the allegation has any merit, surely someone in the US negative rumors machinery must have known that if they make the allegation they must produce the supporting evidence, and that the supporting evidence should be more than a letter signed by Aunt Gladys swearing that she was a friend of Mr. Abu Ismail’s mother and she had seen her with her own very eyes applying for US citizenship.

Shame on you Mr. Obama, and Shame on you Hillary Clinton. I expected something a little more professional out of both of you.