FB Meme - Let's Debunk

[JLN]

A FB friend of mine just "liked" a link to Chuck Norris' video posted on "I will not vote for Obama 2012".

How many of these are true?


1. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
2. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
3. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
4. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
Five. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
6. First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party, a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
9. First President to recommend changing our National Anthem as it portrays and promotes violence and is warlike in its theme.
10. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer Breakfast and activities.
11. First President to initiate a Cash for Clunkers Program to clean up exhaust that adds to global warming, then extended it because it was so popular — wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
12. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
13. First President to bypass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
14. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
Fifteen. First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
16. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
17. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
18. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
19. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
20. First President to tell a major manufacturing company which state they are allowed to locate a factory in.
21. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
22. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
23. First President to fire an inspector general of Americorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
24.9 First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
26. First President to pledge complete transparency while campaigning, then hide his medical, educational,and travel records.
27. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
28. First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.
29. First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
30. First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
31. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
32. First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an and tells us that the early morning Islamic call to worship is the most beautiful sound on earth.

[JLN]

Andplusalso, many of the people that "liked" this, also wrote things like "Kick his Muslim Ass", "Keep America Christian" and my personal favorite, "Sadom Obama Bin Laden, A turd that just wont Fucking Flush". :-|

[Deleted]

I do this at #16--is it still 1958? "By GOLLY, we'll beat the Russians THIS time!"

Some of them are stupid and have racist overtones, and the others (the ones that actually have to do with policy), I don't know how terrible it is if, in fact, they ARE true.

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Sept 17, 2012 18:52:16 GMT -5 JLN said:

Andplusalso, many of the people that "liked" this, also wrote things like "Kick his Muslim Ass", "Keep America Christian" and my personal favorite, "Sadom Obama Bin Laden, A turd that just wont Fucking Flush".

Are you going to remain friends with this person? Just curious, for real--no judgment

[JLN]

Sept 17, 2012 18:56:56 GMT -5 @dontcallmeshirley said:

Sept 17, 2012 18:52:16 GMT -5 JLN said:

Andplusalso, many of the people that "liked" this, also wrote things like "Kick his Muslim Ass", "Keep America Christian" and my personal favorite, "Sadom Obama Bin Laden, A turd that just wont Fucking Flush".

Are you going to remain friends with this person? Just curious, for real--no judgment

I will until the election's over for entertainment value.

[basilosaurus]

Wow. That's a whole lot of wrong and crazy.

[charminglife]

"Fuckin' Chuck Norris." - White Goodman

[teflep]

Wait, I want the dog trainer one to be true!

[ttt]

How do people know what Obama's social security number is??

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Sept 17, 2012 20:37:52 GMT -5 ttt said:

How do people know what Obama's social security number is??

That's what I want to know.

I'm sincerely curious how these type of things get legs.

I think #1 started as speculation by birthers. "Well, if he's not a foreigner, let's see his college application. I bet he applied as a foreign student and got aid that way". And I think, through the telephone game, it got stated as fact. (I've also heard this speculated as to how he got into Columbia; birthers think he didn't have the grades from Occidental to transfer, and that Columbia must have taken him as a foreign student - quotas, doncha know!)

But the social security card thing stymies me. I've heard it said that Obama has a CT ssn@. 1) How the heck would anyone know his ssn? Where did this 'fact' come from? I know it's probably not true, but usually there's some sort of whisper thin connecion to reality, you know?

[ttt]

Sept 17, 2012 21:29:19 GMT -5 sandsonik said:

Sept 17, 2012 20:37:52 GMT -5 ttt said:

How do people know what Obama's social security number is??

That's what I want to know.

I'm sincerely curious how these type of things get legs.

I think #1 started as speculation by birthers. "Well, if he's not a foreigner, let's see his college application. I bet he applied as a foreign student and got aid that way". And I think, through the telephone game, it got stated as fact. (I've also heard this speculated as to how he got into Columbia; birthers think he didn't have the grades from Occidental to transfer, and that Columbia must have taken him as a foreign student - quotas, doncha know!)

But the social security card thing stymies me. I've heard it said that Obama has a CT ssn@. 1) How the heck would anyone know his ssn? Where did this 'fact' come from? I know it's probably not true, but usually there's some sort of whisper thin connecion to reality, you know?

The snopes article I read said that the social security number is issued with the state prefix corresponding to the zip code on the mailing address where you request the card be sent. So you could never set foot in Connecticut but have your SS card sent there and they would give you a CT prefix SS number. The article also said that his zip code at the time he requested his SS number was one number away from a CT zip code (with a 6 instead of a 9 or something) so that might explain the CT SS number.

But none of it explains how anybody is able to obtain Obama's actual SS number.

[basilosaurus]

I assume the SS# ws due to some states sharing the prefix.