Alabama GOP Chair Goes Birther, Says Obama’s Communist Upbringing ‘Verified’

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

The head of the Alabama Republican Party this week threw his support behind one of the most far-fetched theories of the already bizarre birther movement.

Speaking to a group of GOP diehards on Wednesday in Fairhope, Ala., party Chair Bill Armistead raved about a film called “Dreams From My Real Father.” The movie claims President Obama’s grandfather was a CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she’d been secretly impregnated by a communist.

The Mobile Press-Register reported that Armistead’s comments came after he was asked by someone in the group about another film, “2016: Obama’s Presidency,” which also weaves elaborate theories about the president’s upbringing.

“If you haven’t seen it, you should,” Armistead said, according to the newspaper. “But I’m going to tell you about another movie. The name of it is ‘Dreams From My Real Father.’ That is absolutely frightening. I’ve seen it. I verified that it is factual, all of it.”

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[demosincebirth]

1. It must be something they eat.

[valerief]

16. It's the GMO Frankenfood, I think. nt

[reACTIONary]

48. It's the fluoride in the water. Doesn't affect most people but for right wingers... (NT)

[appleannie1]

51. The sun cooks brains of those that do not wear proper hats.

[NOLALady]

2. It's such a shame.

You can't make this stuff up.

[WCGreen]

3. Romney is a mormon who believes in getting a planet when he dies if he wears his

special underwear and no one is saying a word...

[Blue Idaho]

7. It's worse...

Bishop Romney believes he will "rescue" America and install a Mormon government to lead the nation during the final days before Jesus return to earth.

Don't forget Queen Ann gets to be a goddess wife when Willard gets to be the god of another world.

Think that's crazy? Welcome to the real LDS church.

[central scrutinizer]

21. when one of your angels is named Moroni

what do you expect? At least it wasn't Morani.

[ashling]

24. The Angel's first name is

Rice

[klook]

53. RiceMoroni

Common diet of those who live in their kids' basements.

[Iliyah]

11. I have a question, WCGreen

What happens to Ann?

It must be something in the H20. You have Gov Perry blaming Satan for the US Constitution. GOPpers believing that women automatically have some rape sperm detector which seeks out and destroy and if that fails it must be God's blessings or as VP Lyin'Ryan have stated its another form of conception.

I have noticed that most of the GOPpers off the wall notions usually concerns women.

[WCGreen]

32. I don't know...

That's the Mormon way not the GOP way although I suspect that a lot of true believers on the other side of the aisle still hanker for a time when women knew their place.

[phascismisphun]

33. Most of America believes in Mythology

And it is ruining this country

I am of the opinion that all religions are cults and those that follow them are suffering from mental illness and it is not nice to call out the mentally ill.

[PDJane]

52. I partly agree with you.

Although I think that calling them out is the only way to beat this stuff into submission.

[freshwest]

4. Thank you, Koch Brothers, Alex Jones, Joseph Farah, Jerome Corsi, your work is done.

Did I forget anyone?

[tanyev]

5. It's factual that Obama's American mother was secretly impregnated by a communist born in Kansas?

You realize you just imploded your whole argument there, right?

[defacto7]

25. Does it matter?

When stupid sees it, stupid will believe it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

47. What is so hard to believe about that?

[reACTIONary]

49. "I verified that it is factual, all of it.” I mean, what's not to believe? (NT)

[rurallib]

6. what happens when you play football without your helmet

for a decade or so.

[jonesgirl]

8. The things they do to make a buck. smh

Are wood sheds still around? If my grandpa was alive, he'd grab that fool by the ear, and take him to the wood shed! Then the fool would have to face grandma with the rest of the scolding.

[brooklynite]

9. So, Communism is genetic?

Who knew?

[zeemike]

10. What you did not hear the latest?

They discovered the commie gene...so they know....his a a gene carrying commie.

[csziggy]

46. That would explain why Russia is still our biggest enemy!

Just like Willard claimed.

Edited to add

[Don C. Nuttin]

12. Try a little harder.

I am not all that into using politically correct language. But correct usage of local idioms can be terribly helpful to understanding one another. So next time, please refer to the Fairhope, Ala., Republican Party Chair as the Grand Dragon of the Fairhope, Ala., Republican Party.

If we are ever going to come together as a people, it will be only after we start making that extra effort towards respect and understanding.

[defacto7]

27. That clarifies things very well.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Shows you how bright they assume their Republlican voters are,

tattered brains eaten away by bad moonshine.

[center]

GOP chair for Alabama, Bill Armistead[/center]

[Bolo Boffin]

14. His twitter accounts: @BillArmistead and @ALGOPChairman

How many have broken themselves trying to bring Alabama into the world of the sane?

[olddad56]

15. I think I heard this guy speak once at the Annual Alabama Inbreeding Festival.

He was proposing a law for the state of Alabama that would make it illegal for a divorced couple to remain siblings.

[defacto7]

28. haaaa

[Indpndnt]

31. Rofl!!

[longship]

17. DU verifies AL GOP chair ready for rubber room.

Get 'em outta here!

[highplainsdem]

36. +1,000,000

[Solly Mack]

18. Wow

Damn

lololol

Fucking idiots.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. They must have a lot of tin foil down in Alabama

at least in the GOP HQ

[defacto7]

29. yeah, and they just can't seem to cook it!

[SoapBox]

20. W...T...F?

Another Batshit crazy Bagger.

[Politicub]

22. That's about they all have left. Resorting to birtherism

is a sign of desperation.

[magic59]

23. Did any of those dumb ass GOP heads learn anything in school?

Or did they all get a FOX news lobotomy?

[defacto7]

30. Yes, they learned their ABCs

They just couldn't get passed K... then they start stuttering.

[alp227]

26. A southern conservative saying something incredibly dumb and racist?

In other news, books are made of paper.

[socialist_n_TN]

38. Really. And water is wet........

It's not that much different in Tennessee, although Nashville is better. Unfortunately, since we are the state capitol, our city's collective IQ goes down 20+ points when the state legislature is in session.

[alp227]

44. Nashville is better? But its member of Congress (Jim Cooper, TN-5) is a Blue Dog,

while Steve Cohen (who represents Memphis in Congress, TN-9) is part of the Progressive Caucus. How can be so sure that Nashville is the "liberal" part of Tennessee then? Harold Ford (both Sr. and Jr.) preceded Cohen in the district with Memphis. Surprised to know that Nashville elected a Democrat to Congress. I thought Nashville (the home of country/western music) would be more conservative. But looking up TN-5 in Wikipedia I found that the district has always elected Democrats for the past 150 or so years. (And the district actually elected guys named Loser and Boner!)

Did you know that the 6th TN cong. district, the district with college towns Murfreesboro (Middle Tennessee State) and Cookeville (Tennessee Tech), elected a Tea Partier in 2010 after nearly 25 years of Democratic representation (first by future Vice President Al Gore, then by Bart Gordon, who retired instead of running in 2010?)

TN-2, the district that includes Knoxville (home of the University of Tennessee flagship campus), has elected Republicans for the past near 150 years (of course 150 years ago the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln not the party of Bush/Romney/Santorum/Bachmann/Tea Partiers).

[socialist_n_TN]

45. Yes I knew all of that......

And yes Nashville IS better. It's still conservative compared to many parts of the country, but compared to the rest of Tennessee it would qualify as a "People's Republic". I look at the local government more than the national or even the state representation. Local government is pretty progressive, but the state representation is more Blue Dog as is the aforementioned Jim Cooper. Even Cooper is pretty good on most social issues. His economic policies suck.

Finally, I'd LOVE to have Cohen as my rep. He's not as left as I am (not NEARLY so), but he's a LOT better than Cooper.

[mwooldri]

34. Says a member of the Red Party, in a Red State.

I think we used to call the Communists the "reds".

IMO Mr. Armistead is more communist than Mr. Obama. And only by virtue of the fact he is in a Red State.

What evidence in that film backs it up? Of course it is a work of fiction, just as much as "It Happened Here" is fiction. The only problem is that Mr. Armistead seems to believe this alternate fictional reality actually exists.

[lunasun]

35. Alabama GOP Chair

not just any member-this party's leaders are all crazy or greedy or both!

[Tom Ripley]

37. Bless his motherfucking heart

[Ken Burch]

40. In rural Alabama, motherfucking happens more often than you'd think.

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

39. They're showing "2016" at the main downtown theatre in Juneau.

Bastards.

[Ken Burch]

41. My favorite quote in the article was towards the end

when one of the "film"s producers said it featured "recreations of PROBABLE events".

Think about that for a moment.

[Kurska]

42. "impregnated by a communist. " Is communism now inherited?

wtf

[PD Turk]

43. Yeah well

That's what happens when brothers and sisters have sex, you wind up with this guy

[2ndAmForComputers]

50. Unsurprising State is unsurprising.

[kimbutgar]

54. Expect more of these asshats sprouting this shit they got their free dvd's

In the mail saying the presidents father was a guy named frank Marshall Davis a communist.

[lolly]

55. And his point is?

If I were a lawyer in a courtroom, I could go ahead and agree to stipulate that all this was true. Obama's mother slept with a Communist CIA operative or whatever, and Obama Sr. wasn't the real father.

Then I would ask--now what? Is there anything in the constitution barring illegitimate children from the presidency?

Anything that requires that one's parents adhere to (or abstain from) any particular political philosophy?

No?

So who cares?

All he's just done is argue against the one all-consuming obsession of the First Wave Birthers, which is that Obama's father was Kenyan, and therefore Obama can't be a "natural born citizen."

[cbrer]

56. Desperation, Thy name is Republican nt

[JDPriestly]

57. Obama's mother was not a Communist.

She worked to help people in Indonesia start small businesses. She was the opposite of a Communist. Watch the video on the endowment in her honor. It's posted here on DU. Sorry I don't have the link.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

58. He forgot to mention the part about Obama and Muldur meeting when they were both abducted

by the same space aliens.