Founder Of Obama Swift Boating Group: ‘I’m A Birther’

[Kadie]

Founder Of Obama Swift Boating Group: ‘I’m A Birther’
By Aviva Shen on Aug 17, 2012 at 4:17 pm

On Wednesday, a group of former intelligence and Special Forces operatives released a 22-minute video accusing President Obama of jeopardizing sensitive information in order to take credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. OPSEC, as they call themselves, is one of several new groups dedicated to attacking Obama on military issues, specifically on the Osama bin Laden raid. Now the founder of one of these organizations, Special Operations Speaks, has proudly come out as a birther.

Speaking to Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin, Larry Bailey, a 27-year veteran Navy SEAL, embraced several conspiracy theories about Obama’s roots:

I have to admit it, I’m a Birther … In his books, Obama said his mentor was a fellow named Frank Marshall Davis. Frank Marshall Davis was a member of Communist Party USA, he wrote for the communist party’s Hawaii newsletter, he was a close friend of Obama’s mother, and there’s a strong case that Frank Marshall Davis rather than Barack Obama, Sr. was Barack Obama, Jr.’s father and that Barack Obama, Sr. was just an administrative father of convenience. … Barack Obama’s a born red-diaper baby. He’s a socialist. His beliefs are the very antithesis of my beliefs. As far as I am concerned he is one of the most unlikeable and unprepared politicians we’ve ever had.

Special Operations Speaks claims to simply be concerned veterans trying to stop leaks. But Bailey “admits freely that his extensive efforts to mobilize special operations veterans and their supporters around the country is rooted in his personal dislike of the president and his desire to see him replaced.” He has already produced an ad accusing Obama of leaking sensitive information and hopes to raise over a million dollars to finance more attack ads.

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/08/17/709231/founder-of-obama-swift-boating-group-im-a-birther/

[sharp_stick]

1. It's nice to know

that the Seals don't discriminate against fucking morons. I guess as long as you can hoist a fucking log and then still swim it's all they need to see.

[klook]

2. OMG, what a total maroon

Even if this "commie" guy had been B.O.'s biological father, this would not change the fact that he was born in HAWAII.

Some people really are stuck on Stupid.

I suppose this dumbass prefers the idiot former pResident who played war hero when he had accomplished NOTHING over the president who made an understated, terse, and factual announcement after authorizing a mission to do something hugely important to the security interests of the U.S.

[HangOnKids]

6. The Red Diaper Line Really Killed Me

Who the fuck thinks in those terms in 2012? Jesus, what an ASSHOLE Larry is. FWIW I don't buy any of what Larry is peddling, his problem with Obama is due to ONE FACT: The President Is BLACK.

[mucifer]

3. It would only be surprising if he wasn't a birther.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Then this thing is DOA now if it wasn't already.

They might have been able to gin up some support for whatever phony outrage they're peddling, but almost everyone except the real batshit crazy right-wingers has rejected the birther crap. No birther will be seen as credible.

[AndyTiedye]

14. If the Mighty Slime Machine Decides that it is "News"

Then it will be all over the Tee Vee for weeks and drown out anything anybody on our side has to say. That's how they do it.

[NYC Liberal]

15. Sure but as I've said, fudging facts about something that happened 30 years ago

in a jungle in Vietnam is different than fudging facts about something that happened last year and was covered extensively by every decent-size media outlet in the world.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Kick this one for the idiot freepers

[HangOnKids]

7. Another Kick!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Speaking of which...Obama showed his birth certificate. Where's Romney's taxes?

Sorry, I've been waiting for a birther post to use that

Well, nice to know this one is nothing to worry about. They did a great job of discrediting them self for us though.

[Mz Pip]

10. Where's Romney's birth ceritifcate?

Haven't seen that either. Or his college transcripts or his passport or his college thesis or any of the things the RW twits keep demanding of Obama.

[spanone]

9. hey larry, i think you were born in communist russia and worked for the czar

asshole

the seals are better off without assholes like you

[tanyev]

11. Um, if Frank Marshall Davis was his father, that kind of destroys the whole "Birther" argument.

Seeing how he was born in Kansas, USA.



Nimrod.

[spanone]

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[NC_Nurse]

13. LOL. Last shred of any credibility that he may have had is now history.

[gulliver]

16. Going after some of the Koch money.

"Personal dislike." Sure. He's just trying to say the phrases that pays-es. He "hopes to raise over a million dollars to finance more attack ads." Yup.