Did Obama Register For Selective Service

Read this and let me know what you think.

Cross Posted at Power and Control

posted by Simon on 11.14.08 at 06:37 PM





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Yes he registered- obviously somebody is playing with copies on a repro machine.

dave   ·  November 14, 2008 07:13 PM

Whether he did or not is a waste of good time and energy.

I somehow you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did not, what next?

There were several good reasons for the people who stayed home to come out and vote for McCain to keep Obama out of office--this was not among them.

Larry Sheldon   ·  November 14, 2008 08:43 PM

Move on! what difference does it make?

Anonymous   ·  November 14, 2008 10:03 PM

Get over losing the election.Nothing better to do?

peterfrazier   ·  November 14, 2008 10:08 PM

I can unequivocally state that this does not change my opinion Barack Hussein Obama one bit. ;) Maybe Vince Foster altered these records right before, or after, he was murdered to cover up his torrid lesbian affair with Hillary.

More seriously, Obama just got elected president. He is soon going to be inaugurated. He is soon going to serve in that office. He might be a success, which means this sort of crap is nitpicking. Or, more likely, he will do unspeakably horrible things in office and we won't need to mention penny-ante crap like this.

Either way, this is irrelevant crap. Move on dot now.

Rhodium Heart   ·  November 14, 2008 10:52 PM

R.H,

Not registering is a crime and opens you up to penalties.

In 1980, young men who knew they were required to register and did not do so could face up to five years in jail or a fine up to $50,000 if convicted. The potential fine was later increased to $250,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System

In reality it is a character issue more than a legal one.

And of course it is all part of my effort to accord him the respect that the Democrats gave Bush.

M. Simon   ·  November 15, 2008 12:04 AM

M Simon:

At the risk of sounding elitist, here's the point: We're better than they are.

We don't stoop to their behavior simply because our side lost an election. Our love of country is not conditional, por ejemplo. You'll have plenty of live ammunition with which to attack after January 20. Patience, my friend. Patience.

Rhodium Heart   ·  November 15, 2008 12:44 AM

RH,

Of course we are better than they are. And in my efforts to undermine the bad policies of the Obama administration I promise not to use foul language to excess.

But investigating the man is not off limits. And if documents were changed I think that bears scrutiny.

I take no position on it at this point. Suspicions have been raised and ought to be investigated.

And if in fact he violated the law I think a simple apology would suffice. However, if some one forged documents they should be prosecuted.

M. Simon   ·  November 15, 2008 01:02 AM

The "document" is a digital image, and it could be anything, done by anyone, for reasons unknown. Without seeing the original, there's no way to know. Either you take Schlussel at her word or not that the following is true:

A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to me.
I'd like to see some independent confirmation before taking it seriously. Has anyone trustworthy examined the original?

Words on a blog aren't enough to convince me, let alone a federal prosecutor.

And even if you trust Schlussel, I think Reagan's rule of "trust but verify" applies.

Eric Scheie   ·  November 15, 2008 01:18 AM

I agree with Eric.

BTW I blog about what interests me. I find this interesting. I'm not convinced it is true. However, I'm not convinced it is false either.

M. Simon   ·  November 15, 2008 02:12 AM

It certainly looks interesting. I'm always skeptical, but where it comes to documents, my natural skepticism is compounded by my legal training -- in this case establishing a foundation. Saying a document was posted by a blogger who says it came "from a friend" is not enough. Even if it were a paper document, Schlussel would have to show that it was an authentic government record, and provide names and titles of the people who prepared it. But here it isn't even paper. Without more, an image is the equivalent of art.

There are too many unknowns, because even if we assume Schlussel is a reliable journalist, what do we know about her anyonymous source? Or the source's source?

If someone created a digital image of a Kenyan birth certificate showing Barack Obama's birth there, then forwarded it (say, from an IP in Africa) to a reliable blogger who posted it on his website, lots of people would believe it, and it would be a big hit in terms of traffic, but that wouldn't make it authentic. You'd need an official piece of paper.

Eric Scheie   ·  November 15, 2008 10:51 AM

I understand that there's an element of "it's not the crime, it's the cover up" to your intrigue, M Simon. The failure of a teenager in 1980 to register for the draft is not nearly as important as a presidential campaign creating phoney government as part of a cover-up. I just don't want any part of a grand mal conspiracy theory that claims Obama didn't register for the draft because he wasn't a U.S. citizen. 'cuz you know that's next.

I just think that fighting over penny-ante stuff detracts from the fight on legitimate issues. And a Democratic Party that is hell-bent on subsidizing failure in Detroit, and protecting obscenely high compensation packages for the highest-paid industrial workers in the world, at the expense of people who tightened their belts when tough times hit, that's going to be significantly more important to fight about. (The willingness to subsidize obscene compensation packages for the idiots who destroyed AIG and the Wall Street investment banking houses appears to be disgustingly bipartisan.)

Rhodium Heart   ·  November 15, 2008 12:36 PM

RH,

My take (assuming it is not a citizenship issue which is probably a good assumption) is that he was philosophically opposed to the draft and didn't register.

BTW forging documents is not a petty issue. It gets us a "memory hole" government where trust in government records is gone. Which is to say it is a corruption issue.

M. Simon   ·  November 15, 2008 02:01 PM

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