Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever

Chart: Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever
Fake birth certificates, ghostwriters, teleprompters, a teenage trip to Mars, and more of the most paranoid and bizarro Obama conspiracy theories out there.

By Asawin Suebsaeng and Dave Gilson / Illustrations by Steve Brodner
Barack Obama's presidency has been an inspiration to many Americans—especially nutjobs. Ever since the first-black-president-to-be appeared on the national political stage, a cottage industry of conservative conspiracy theorists has churned out bizarro, paranoid, and just plain racist effluvia—some of which has trickled into the political mainstream. Below, we've charted some of the Obama-baiters best (i.e., worst) work. (Scroll down for more detailed descriptions of the conspiracy theories in the diagram.)

The Conspiracy Theories

Disclaimer: It should go without saying that none of these are true. Follow links at your own risk.
Obama is a secret Muslim: This one began right after he took the stage at the 2004 Democratic convention, with chain emails alleging his "true" religious affiliation. The rumor soon found its way onto the popular conservative online forum Free Republic, and took on a whole new life in the years to come. Related: Obama secretly speaks Arabic, attended a madrassa as a kid in Indonesia, referred to "my Muslim faith" in an interview, and was sworn in on a Koran. Steve Brodner
Obama is bringing 100 million Muslims to America: Avi Lipkin and his PR outfit Special Guests claimed to have evidence of a scheme to bring roughly 100 million Muslims from the Middle East into the United States, converting the country into an Islamic nation by the end of Obama's second term and making it easier to obliterate Israel.
Obama once aided the mujahideen: Harlem pastor and professional race-baiter James David Manning contended that in his younger days, Obama went undercover as a CIA agent to facilitate the transfer of cash and weapons to the Afghan mujahideen in the '80s, thereby aiding what would become the Taliban.
Obama is in the pocket of the Muslim Brotherhood: Billy Graham's son Franklin wants you to know that Obama is allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the federal government.
Obama redecorated the Oval Office in Middle Eastern style: Driven by his fierce sense of anti-American interior design, Obama got rid of the red, white, and blue decoration scheme in his White House office.
Obama married a Pakistani guy: World Net Daily correspondent and conspiracymonger extraordinaire Jerome Corsi posted a video in which he claimed to have "strong" evidence that Obama was once married to his college roommate from Pakistan. The smoking gun: Photos of the chums in which the future president is "sitting about on the [Pakistani roommate's] lap." Related: For years Obama wore a gold ring on his left hand. Was it his gay-wedding ring?
Obama's ring has a Koranic verse on it: The very same ring, which Obama now wears as his (straight) wedding band, is allegedly emblazoned with a key phrase in the Islamic declaration of faith: "There is no god except Allah." (It's not.)
Obama was funded by a Saudi prince: Another fairy tale courtesy of Corsi: In late-'70s Chicago, Obama secured political and academic funding from a variety of sketchy Arab sponsors, including a Saudi prince. Which may explain why President Obama bowed to the Saudi king when they met in 2009.
Obama was born in Kenya: In early 2008, fringe theorists began a push to prove Obama was born on foreign soil and was therefore ineligible to live in the White House. The theory gained national attention thanks to the efforts of perennial GOP candidate Alan Keyes, "birther queen" Orly Taitz, and Corsi. Related: Obama's birth certificate is a fake, he killed his grandmother in Hawaii because she knew the truth, sealed access to his birth certificate and other damning documents, and did pretty much everything horrible you could possibly do for the sake of a phony birth certificate.
Obama lost his US citizenship: According to Corsi, Obama became a citizen of Indonesia while he lived there as a child.Steve Brodner

 

It took 3 posts to cover them all...

Michelle's "whitey" tape: During the 2008 campaign, rumors surfaced that a video of Michelle Obama using the word "whitey" would be released to sink her husband's campaign. It's never materialized. Related: The time Glenn Beck called Barack Obama a racist.
Obama was a Black Panther: Well, only if you're not very good at spotting photoshopped images.
Obama is the son of Malcolm X: Because, you know, black people. This charmer popped up on Atlas Shrugged, Pamela Geller's anti-Muslim website. (Geller is also known for obsessing over Shariah turkeys she believes are destroying Thanksgiving.)
Obama is the son of Frank Marshall Davis: The conspiracy film Dreams From My Real Father espouses the theory that Davis, a leftist activist, was not only Obama's ideological mentor but his biological father. Related: Obama got a nose job to make his nose look less like Davis'.
Obama's mom and dad were communists: That would be his real father, Barack Obama, Sr. And you know that communism is an inherited condition.
Obama's ghostwriter was Bill Ayers: Conservative commentators claimed they uncovered evidence that ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers was the true author of Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from my Father. Beyond their shared radicalism, Obama asked Ayers to help because he had writer's block.
Obama trained to overthrow the government: In 2008, leading Obama conspiracy theorist Andy Martin declared on Fox News' Hannity's America that the then-presidential candidate had trained for "a radical overthrow of the government" during his time as a community organizer in Chicago.
Obama wouldn't say the Pledge of Allegiance: During the '08 campaign, Obama was rumored to have refused to say the pledge during a town hall meeting. A photo of the incident was actually taken while the national anthem was being sung.
Obama removed the flag from Air Force One: …and replaced it with his campaign logo.
Obama ordered soldiers to swear allegiance to him: In April 2009, a clearly satirical report detailing how secretary of defense Robert Gates was growing "extremely frustrated" with the White House's plans to scrub the Constitution from the military oath of loyalty made the rounds on the right-wing blogosphere.
Obama secretly gave away American islands to Russia: Texas House candidate Wes Riddle endorsed this theory and noted the relinquishment as grounds for impeachment. However, the seven Arctic islands were actually given away in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush.Steve Brodner
Obama caused the recession—in 1995: According to a recent Daily Caller story, Obama's efforts to force banks to lend to African Americans in the mid-'90s led to the subprime mortgage crisis that killed the economy in 2008.
Obama's youth reeducation camps: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned that "young people will be put into mandatory service" at politically correct, billion-dollar camps run by the Democrats.
Obama's coming for your guns: Extreme gun-rights outfits, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), alleged that the Obama administration is supporting the (nonexistent) United Nations Small Arms Treaty, which would lead to nationwide gun confiscation. Unfounded fears of gun confiscation have multiplied since the Newtown massacre.
Obama's coming for your gold: This theory was floated by Glenn Beck—and the gold company he shilled for.
Obama is planning FEMA concentration camps: Again with the camps. This theory got a big boost from Glenn Beck (who claims he didn't mean anything by it). Related: An executive order titled, "National Defense Resources Preparedness," was issued in the middle of March 2012. Conservative commentators saw it as a martial law power-grab that allowed the president to commandeer farmland, steal everyone's food, and draft any American into slave labor for a war of aggression against Iran. Also, he has a "secret vault" at Interpol's headquarters for imprisoning Americans. (Chuck Norris is on the case.)
Obama wants to confiscate your IRA: Townhall.com sent out an message ad claiming that Obama wants to seize your retirement account by force.
Obama caused the BP oil spill: Conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones promoted the theory that the Deepwater Horizon spill was all part of the administration's plans of oil nationalization and global government.
Obama was behind the Aurora massacre: In July, Gun Owners of America blasted out a press release claiming that the mass murder at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was suspiciously timed. "Someone in Washington" was probably behind it, paving the way for Obama-led firearm confiscation and "government genocide."
Obama personally caused Hurricane Sandy: It wasn’t global warming that made Sandy so intense; it was Barack. Alex Jones' site reported the president engineered the storm using a Pentagon weather modification project. The mayhem caused by the hurricane would afford Obama the opportunity to score points by briskly managing disaster relief a week before the election.
Obama had Andrew Breitbart killed: In March 2012, conservative media impresario Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure. Less than a month prior to his death, he had announced that he had uncovered footage of Obama's formative years as a radical. So obviously, Obama had him offed. (The tapes were later revealed to contain things like a young Obama hugging a black college professor.) Related: People—like a Rod Blagojevich fundraiser and an Obama impersonator—died between 2008 and 2012. Obama was in office between 2008 and 2012…coincidence?!?!
Steve Brodner

 

Finally! These wing nuts have been busy...

Obama spiked the jobs report: "Jobs truthers" (like former GE CEO Jack Welch and Florida tea party congressman Allen West) accused the Obama administration of cooking the September unemployment numbers to manufacture a rosier picture of the economy and boost the president's chances of reelection.
Obama faked bin Laden's death: Since no photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse were produced, the Al Qaeda leader must still be out there. Fox News' Steve Doocy and Andrew Napolitano entertained the idea that Operation Neptune Spear was merely a ploy to revive Obama's sagging approval ratings. Related: Obama was photoshopped into the iconic killing-OBL White House photo.
Obama's plan to fake an assassination attempt: A false-flag operation would create urban tumult and give Obama the pretext to declare martial law, thus suspending democracy, postponing the 2012 election, and prolonging his stay in office. The theory was flagged by Tenn. State Rep. Kelly Keisling, among others, after circulating online.
Obama's planning a third term: The dust from the 2012 election had barely cleared when this one popped up.
Obama the brainwashing hypnotist: As a master of neurolinguistic programming, Obama convinced Americans to vote for him via subliminal messages. Related: Rush Limbaugh pondered if hypnosis was the reason that so many Jewish voters were in the bag for Obama. In October, Georgia GOP lawmakers held a briefing on the president's secret mind-control plot.
Obama's teleprompter: Obama's eloquence is a myth! The 44th president is incapable of speaking in public with his teleprompter.
Obama had a ghostwriter for everything: Jack Cashill over at WND had a hot scoop on how Obama's love letters to his college girlfriend were ghostwritten.
Obama's anti-Semitic poetry: However, according to the American Thinker, Obama's ghostwriters did not write his youthful poem "Underground," which compares Jews to fig-eating underwater apes and echoes Koranic verse.
Obama's exiled lover: Obama was supposedly fooling around with an attractive young staffer from his 2004 Senate campaign. Michelle Obama had the temptress packed off to the Caribbean before the '08 campaign.
Obama is gay: Which explains why he joined Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church. No, really. (Via Corsi, of course.)
Obama's crack cocaine/gay sex/murder orgy cover-up: In 2008, a small-time conman named Larry Sinclair and his kilt-wearing lawyer held a press conference to tell the world of the future president's murderous, drug-and-sodomy-fueled crimes.
Obama's campaigns were funded by drug money: During an October conference call organized to oppose pot legalization, a writer from Lyndon LaRouche's magazine asked about "reports [that both Obama's] 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns have been financed in part by laundered drug money."
Obama is the Antichrist: Obviously. Related: If you play his 2008 Democratic nomination acceptance speech backwards, you can hear him instruct listeners to do Satan's bidding.Steve Brodner
Obama is a lizard overlord: According to codes hidden in Biblical verse, Obama is a reptilian humanoid. This idea has found its way on to some right-wing radio shows, and two Daily Caller reporters recently published a (satirical?) e-book on the topic titled, The Lizard King: The Shocking Inside Account of Obama's True Intergalactic Ambitions by an Anonymous White House Staffer.
Obama's adventures on Mars: As a teen, Obama participated in a CIA initiative to teleport to Mars using a top-secret "jump room." Self-described time travelers William Stillings and Andrew Basiago claim to have met the future POTUS at American space bases on the Red Planet. In early 2012, a spokesman for the National Security Council actually acknowledged these claims, and issued a fairly convincing denial.

And this is just since November 2012

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/chart-obama-conspiracy-theories

 

Wonder why Benghazi, Fast & Furious, spying on US citizens & the IRS targeting political opponents aren't mentioned? Kinda weakens your point when these scandals aren't addressed, dontcha think?

 

You beat me to it!

 

Great parrots think (or don't think at all) alike. Perhaps the latest conspiracy theories do not show up since this was, "AS STATED" only since Nov 2012.

 

Your ilk sure can imagine some whoppers but have any of these imaginative theories actually been proven to be true yet? Hum? You'd think that there would be a lesson to be learned in that answer.

 

Well, you still missed;
IRS targeting (it was known, but not publicized yet)
Fast and Furious
Black Panthers
Obamacare
Solyndra
Benghazi
Evergreen Solar
Fisker Automotive
Obamacare
Mascoma Corp.
Johnson Controls
Obamacare
Babcock and Brown
Sebelius
Richard Windsor
Obamacare
FBI targeting
OSHA targeting
EPA targeting
Isreal
GSA parties
Obamacare

etc.​

and so forth​

and on​

 

I have to disagree that "Is the Antichrist" should be in "Sham/Weirdo/Pervert", as I've heard of a local republican who gave serious thought....lol....to whether or not Obama was indeed the Antichrist, or simply one of His minions...seriously, he seriously believed it had to be one of the two! LOL

Yeah, He's a Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck fanatic listner, and that's where he gets his info from. A total idiot, through and through. Also a successful businessman....because he inherited his daddy's business and money.

 

That would be Carter and Reagan.

 

That began with Reagan, with de-regulation (Savings and Loan crisis), possibly Sr., definitely Clinton, who chose to allow people of limited wealth own homes (the obvious result is massive defaults), and Jr., who also deregulated and allowed dirivatives in the banking industry, I believe.

Combined....deregulation, poor-people's access to home-loans, and banking dirivatives....caused the crash.

BTW, it was predicted to happen, as far back as the late 80's, but money was being made left and right, so they let it happen. You want to blame someone? Blame the people who knew it was going to happen, but didn't care, because they were making $$$.

 

Well, I know for a fact that Obama is attempting to eliminate Katsung...because Katsung said so on the internet, and the internet is always right, right?

 

You are close to being right (for the first time in your life). But it wasn't about a person's individual wealth necessarily, it was a new gov't policy that specifically forbade mortgage lenders from requiring income verification of applicants.

 

Right, it's never the Republican in office at the time but his Democratic predecessor and/or his Democratic successor.

George Bush, proud parent of the mortgage crisis

The traditional media apparently have very short memories. At least, that's the only reason I can think of, short of outright moral corruption, that would explain why George Bush's rhetoric and policy centered on an 'Ownership Society' hasn't received any scrutiny whatsoever.
For example, in his 2004 nomination acceptance speech, Bush said:

Another priority for a new term is to build an ownership society, because ownership brings security and dignity and independence.
Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all- time high.
Tonight we set a new goal: 7 million more affordable homes in the next 10 years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, "Welcome to my home."​

That wasn't just verbiage, it was policy. Indeed, after the catastrophic job losses of his first term, expanding home ownership was the one bright spot Team Rove could point to in an otherwise dismal picture. Expanding home ownership by any means necessary was Bush administration policy until roughly Spring of 2008.

A White House Fact Sheet titled America's Ownership Society: Expanding Opportunities amplifies the point that risky mortgages were the implicit foundation of the administration's approach. It starts with a Bush quote:

"...if you own something, you have a vital stake in the future of our country. The more ownership there is in America, the more vitality there is in America, and the more people have a vital stake in the future of this country."
-President George W. Bush, June 17, 2004​

The nauseating bromides come accompanied by actual policy meat.

Expanding Homeownership. The President believes that homeownership is the cornerstone of America's vibrant communities and benefits individual families by building stability and long-term financial security. In June 2002, President Bush issued America's Homeownership Challenge to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to encourage them to join the effort to close the gap that exists between the homeownership rates of minorities and non-minorities. The President also announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. Under his leadership, the overall U.S. homeownership rate in the second quarter of 2004 was at an all time high of 69.2 percent. Minority homeownership set a new record of 51 percent in the second quarter, up 0.2 percentage point from the first quarter and up 2.1 percentage points from a year ago. President Bush's initiative to dismantle the barriers to homeownership includes:
- American Dream Downpayment Initiative, which provides down payment assistance to approximately 40,000 low-income families;
- Affordable Housing. The President has proposed the Single-Family Affordable Housing Tax Credit, which would increase the supply of affordable homes
- Helping Families Help Themselves. The President has proposed increasing support for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunities Program; and
- Simplifying Homebuying and Increasing Education. The President and HUD want to empower homebuyers by simplifying the home buying process so consumers can better understand and benefit from cost savings. The President also wants to expand financial education efforts so that families can understand what they need to do to become homeowners.​

The National Homeownership Challenge referenced above might as well be a how-to manual for the mortgage crisis we're seeing right now, and also neatly derails the emerging talking point that the crisis stems from irresponsible minority buyers who just didn't know what they were doing (Emphasis in the original).

- Establish a national goal of at least 5.5 million new minority homeowners before the end of the decade.
- Challenge the private sector real estate and mortgage finance industries to dramatically increase their efforts to reduce the barriers to homeownership faced by minority families and to work with the nonprofit sector in a concerted effort to achieve this goal through national and local partnerships.
- Convene a White House Conference on Increasing Minority Homeownership, to highlight the homeownership barriers faced by minorities and develop proposed solutions.​

There was in fact such a White House conference on October 15th, 2002.
A 2004 press release from the City of Wichita, celebrating National Homeownership Week - subsequently expanded in 2006 to National Homeownership Month, celebrated most recently in June 2008 - explicitly lauds Bush administration policy and shows how White House policy trickled down to the most local levels of government.

Some statistics from President George W. Bush’s agenda to expand homeownership opportunities include:
* U.S. homeownership rate was at a record high of 68.6% in the fourth quarter of 2003, the highest ever.
+ Census estimates an increase of 1.53 million minority homeowners, which means for the first time a majority of the minority households own a home with 50.6%.
* Increased housing prices and new home construction have added nearly $4 trillion to homeowner wealth since the start of 2001.​

In the 2004 campaign, Bush used the expanding rate of homeownership to club John Kerry in swing states.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- President Bush traveled Friday to New Mexico, the state that was decided by the closest margin in 2000, where he hailed a "growing" U.S. economy and record home ownership.
The president's speech laid out his positive view of the economy just minutes before Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry, in Michigan, unveiled part of his economic plan, saying America "cannot afford" four more years of job losses under Bush.
"Thanks to being the most productive workforce in America, and I might say, thanks to good policies, this economy is strong and it's getting stronger," Bush told supporters.
Noting that 68 percent of Americans own their own homes, Bush said, "Home sales were the highest ever recently. That's exciting news for the country."​

Now, anything that happened in 2004, in terms of the traditional media's gnat-like attention span, might as well have happened before the Norman Conquest. But that doesn't change the fact that it happened, that the Bush administration encouraged the rapid expansion of homeownership for political and ideological reasons, and that they did so with the same sure command of policy and deep understanding of policy consequences that brought us victory in Iraq.
So it's up to us to spread the word. The mortgage crisis is not the fault of a few bad apples. It's the outcome of policy decisions made by the White House. People need to remember that, because the republicans and their toadies in the media sure as hell ain't gonna tell them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/23/607383/-George-Bush-proud-parent-of-the-mortgage-crisis#

 

Well before Bush, Clinton had legislation passed that said lenders could not require income verification of mortgage applicants. So, I'll ask you, which is worse? Bush helping folks attain home ownership or Clinton subvening mortgage fraud?
Yeah, the Daily Kos can spin it & re-write it any way they want.

 

I would love to see the language of that particular legislation but as a realist I know you will not be able to produce it. Besides, it's a better talking point without actually having to know what you're talking about. All Clinton did was sign a bill that the majority of Republicans passed in congress that made banks have to lend money to low income areas and not just wealthy areas. The wing nut spin would have us believe that it took until the end of Bush's second term for this legislation to finally crash the economy. And whatever happened to the popular wing nut talking point that the current president owns whatever happens during his presidency? Does that only apply to Democrats? Hum?

 

Here's a piece I've hung onto for a few years:

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204464404577117091015102330.html

You'll have to excuse me for not being able to pinpoint the exact verbage but as indicated in the piece, the Clinton plan has long been removed from any gov't website.

 

Don't forget Reagan's (and republicans in general) desire for deregulation, starting in the early 80's. That set the tone that still holds today "Deregulate, it'll spur growth!" bs. What it does is destabilize, for the benefit of the few who are a position to rake in $$$, as in Donald Regan and company. Regan steered Reagan into this, and as such, deserves a lot of the blame for the mess we are in today. Reagan's policies and practices in regard to deregulation are the norm among the republicans of today. In other words: They never learned the lessons of the Savings and Loan crisis, or of the recent recession, they just keep on believing because they don't know any better.

That's why, they gotta go.

 

WOW! Reagan-era policies have withstood 2 2-term democRAT presidents? Why didn't Clinton fix it? Why hasn't BO done nything about it?

 

Conservatives stop feeding this troll and falling for his diversionary threads!!!! Turn every thread he posts into Bengazi, the debt, unemployment, fast and furious etcetc!
Libs are EXPERT at putting you on defense and deflection!
Nail this pig to every problem he has helped create. Turn every single discussion into progressive failures......IGNORE the attempt to change topics!@
Libs feed off of baiting you and on this site you fall for it. Treat mr gosnell nation like the enemy of the state he is. He lies with abandon . He twists words. When caught he name calls and then posts a distraction thread. I cannot believe you fall for this crap!
NAIL this commie to current garbage !!
This is the reason I pretty much left this site, good conservatives falling for lib tactics.
NAIL THESE FOOKERS TO ISSUES AND STOP GOING ON DEFENSE!!!! IGNORE THE POSTS AND COMMENTS MEANT TO DISTRACT YOU!!!!! NAIL !!!@