WASHINGTON, D.C. – The controversy over President Barack Obama’s birthmark continues to be a hot topic in the nation’s capital, thanks to new allegations from prominent Conservatives.
On Friday, reiterating information first reported in an e-mail forwarded from some guy in Shreveport, Alan Keyes appeared on Fox News to discuss this incendiary issue.
“We have received, from a reliable source, startling information regarding President Obama’s birthmark,” clamored Keyes. ”It turns out the President doesn’t have an old-fashioned American birthmark at all. He has a mark commonly known as a‘cafe’ au lait spot‘.”
The increasingly agitated Keyes continued, “Cafe’ au lait! That’s French. The President is a Frenchman!”
The birthmark has been an issue since President Obama disclosed the blemish during his 2008 Presidential campaign. In an interview following an Iowa City campaign stop, Obama addressed the issue stating, “Yes, I have a birthmark. It’s about the size of a, uh, quarter, and it’s about 2 inches above my right hip.”
Since this time, the blogosphere and conservative media have simmered with theories and rumors concerning the birthmark. Viral e-mails have circulated, claiming the birthmark resembles, among other things, the “mark of the beast,” Lesotho’s national flag, and Stalin’s mustache.
Evansville, IN resident Betty Hathaway says she has been skeptical about the president’s place of birth for months, “Well, I was kind of surprised this mark means he’s French. I heard that it looked like Castro.”
Continued Hathaway, “But I just knew that man was not from this country.”
Keyes was not alone among conservative activists. Attorney/Dentist Orly Taitz claims this “spot” demonstrates Obama is not a natural born American Citizen, but instead, a Frenchman. ”This mark proves the President is not only a Communist, but a French Communist.”
Taitz demanded the President ” ‘Drop trou’ in front of the American People and end this controversy once and for all.”
Taitz promised to present more evidence on Monday’s Lou Dobbs’ Show.
Cross-Posted at Gratuitous World.