Too funny by half! However given the source I am going to have to chalk this one up to BS.

But it is a great read!

I'll make mine the 3rd voice to say that I doubt the veracity of this story. And although I'll admit to laughing, I'm embarrassed by my laughter. We would not be amused if such poorly sourced allegations were being made against Obama.

It would be wrong to blanket e mail this 'story' with as much zest and zeal as those who gleefully pushed the send button millions of times to 'spread the word' about Obama being Muslim and/or unpatriotic, etc. !

But isn't sending it to those who continually clog up my inbox with Obama crap really an obligation to join them in spreading the 'facts' reaped from the internet? And that wouldn't be a bad thing. Or would it?

Hmmm. Never mind, rhetorical question.

What a conundrum for Laura. Spend the rest of your life with George and the pathetic Bush clan, or take $20 million.

I think Laura has a better chance at getting $200 million than $20 million, but either way it's a no-brainer.

I see your tabloid journalism report, and raise you with a new, updated report on the fraudulent nature of the scanned image of Obama's birth certificate:

From Israeli Insider

via

Atlas Shrugged blog.

I thought this had all blown over until the customer with whom I was working yesterday - and who knows I'm an Obama supporter from the evidence in my vehicle windows - asked what I thought about the new report from a forensic document analyst stating that the birth certificate is definitely a fraud.

My response was that I usually consider the source of such reports, and my philosophy is that unless a source makes some effort to provide a balanced perspective on issues, I tend to not consider them as valid.

So, anyone familiar with Atlas Shrugged?

My personal take on this is that as it easy for an experienced graphics person to photoshop images to present data that suits their argument, I have no reason to believe this article any more than I did the ones last month.

If Obama had not been born in the United States, reliable mainstream sources would have publicized it long before this.

I think the story is more credible than you think.

The Russians have had a front seat view of the White House inner workings. Remember it was Karl Rove that created a separate, secret, RNC-funded e-mail system where all the important WH staff sent their messages - away from the prying eyes of the US people.

What they didn't count on was the prying eyes of Russian counterespionage directed at the White House.

Had Karl let e-mails go through government systems, they'd be protected. Instead, he rolled the dice. And the Russians, Chinese, and Israelis pounced.

I bet they have tons of material to blackmail the whole Administration with.

Anything that mentions Rense and Wayne Madsen has to be taken with a large block of salt. Perhaps with the Bonneville Salt Flats...

I agree that the story is a hoot in a fun gossip sort of way so I followed your links.

Your first line

The Russian news agency Pravda reports that George W. and Laura Bush will divorce after the upcoming 2008 elections

is quite incorrect.

They don't do that at all. The Pravda piece is reporting that this gossip is in the U.S. supermarket tabloid The Examiner. Not only that, but they report that third hand, they say they read about the Examiner piece in Italy’s La Repubblica, which was reporting what was said in The Examiner piece

Bascially what you have here is a story in Italy and Russia that says "guess what the hot gossip is in those zany American tabloids this week?! We tell you so you don't have to fly to an American supermarket to buy them."

Let me put it this way: American bloggers like to complain about the stupidity of the American public as in how they only care about what Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson is up to. Well, the overall Italian and Russian public? Not soooo very much different; mho, in many ways, worse. Tabloid style "news" is very popular in both countries.

I've been reading reports for some time claiming that George has repeatedly fallen off the wagon in recent years and that his marriage is in trouble. Though the eminence of a divorce didn't occur to me when I first watched the ­video of his Houston fundraiser, the bit about them shopping for a house in Dallas would sure­ fit the story. Maybe the house will only be for Laura? (Inquiring minds want to know...)

For what it's worth:

We have often heard here how Bill Clinton's dalliances are not considered appropriate fodder for making a judgment on his presidency.

It would appear that those talking about GWB in similar terms are wholly hypocritical.

GWB was a disaster as a president -- but you don't need to talk about his marital issues (if any) to make that point. Indeed, his marital issues (if any), didn't tie up the country for 2 years while the business of the president went neglected.