I'm sure you can find proof other than that video, right?

haven't looked nor do I have any intention to.

This again? Wake me up when there is tangible proof that hes not a USA citizen. Even if he brings out the offical birth certificate, that won't stop people from picking holes in that too. Haters gonna hate.

I'm not sure if you mean to imply it takes expertise to criticize this video. I don't feel that it does. Even an amateur can easily hear the poor quality splicing.

it's all done by the same liberals that can't face being wrong about him...the liberals might have messed with the video just to make it look like it was edited, disinformation...

so your an expert on video splicing?

I knew a guy when I was in High School who looked just as white as I do. When I met his blood parents though I found out he was actually born of BOTH black parents. Seems both parents had slave heritage somewhere upstream of their heritage and the recessive white genes came out and produced a black hared white guy. He had a tough time with that not racially. He knew who his parents were. No one believed he really was black. Genetics is a strange twizzler!

I would not mind seeing an original document instead of an after the fact copy! It is funny to me who Libs can scream that one thing the government does like go to war is a conspiracy when it is someone they don't like like Ol' Bush Jr but when it is their BOY Obama (coming to you from the STREETS Yalls!) going postal on Libya for European oil interests its OK cause he is our BOY! So when it is quite possible some money traded hands and some documents were forged post haste and made to look official when some of us cry foul WE become the conspiracy nuts. So has anyone posted the complete speech in question? It would be interesting to see for sure if there was a cut remark to be fair. The ultimate fact is though that Obama is a liar! He cannot keep a promise. Says he is against war but here we are engaging Libya now! Sells us out to the Insurance industry. I mean where is his malarkey going to end? Oh but he can do no wrong like your beloved Democratic Party!

Party Politics swallow and are Fuquing up our nation. Unfortunately if it was not for the Republican Party we would be just like Greece NOW! PONDER THAT!!!

Thats the biggest piece of troll bait I've seen in awhile, but I will bite. The Republican party lately has done nothing but try to destroy any public funded broadcasts, while still giving money to NASCAR for promotions. Also, they are obsessed with the part in between women's legs because they want to redefine rape, incest and pedophilia. Yet they still want to outlaw gay marriage because its evil or something.

All politics are stupid, but the Republican Party is making a new low.

thats' pretty hard to resist.

The reason Greece is the way it is is because income tax evasion is Greece's favorite national past time. Nobody pays their taxes, but rich Greeks, in particular, have taken all their money offshore so as not to have to pay taxes in Greece, very much like what Republicans in America are doing.

I couldn't resist either..

So what's the problem in Greece?

Years of unrestrained spending, cheap lending and failure to implement financial reforms left Greece badly exposed when the global economic downturn struck. This whisked away a curtain of partly fiddled statistics to reveal debt levels and deficits that exceeded limits set by the eurozone.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/02/10/greek.debt.qanda/index.html


Why is Greece in such a mess?

For years, Greece has been spending money it doesn't have.

The government there took advantage of the economic good-times to borrow money and spend it on pay-rises for public workers and projects such as the 2004 Olympics.

It began to run-up a bigger and bigger deficit (the gap between how much a country brings-in from tax, and what it spends).
Greece enjoyed high public spending during the boom years, including an expensive Olympics.

After the world economy went bad, Greece suffered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/10100201


Doesn't this sound familiar?

"It's a war against workers and we will answer with war, with constant struggles until this policy is overturned," Christos Katsiotis, a representative of a communist-party affiliated union, told the Associated Press.

Union leaders called the action in protest at Papandreou's plans for spending restraint including cuts in public sector pay and bonuses, and a freeze on hiring new employees.

Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of the public sector union ADEDY, accused Papandreou of targeting the wrong people in his efforts to fight the debt crisis that threatens Greece's financial stability and raises the spectre of contagion across the eurozone.

"They had promised the rich would pay but instead they take the money from the poor," Iliopoulos said. ADEDY also accused the Greek government of planning "permanent austerity" and "the bankruptcy of employees and pensioners".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/10/greek-workers-strike-eu-bailout?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

The party is over.

After years of overspending by both the government and ordinary people armed with credit cards — and now flush with credit-card debt — Greeks know the party is over. According to a poll released on Feb. 14, nearly two-thirds of people support the government's proposed austerity measures to cut the soaring deficit. Many even believe they don't go far enough.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1964689,00.html#ixzz1HzK1Veaa


I could keep going, but I think I made my point.

Of course not.

So, you're saying that if Greeks were to pay adequate taxes, they would still have this same debt crisis.

This is how Conservatives have the world thinking. They think that, when the world economy is in trouble, the thing to do is to ensure that governments will have inadequate revenues to keep their economies running.

Typically, not one of your sources mentions Greece's tax policies. Only spending.

Iceland threw off its Conservative government for this very reason after the financial ruin it experienced in 2009. Greece's fate has been sealed by the Conservative worldwide fad. Iceland, and the other nordic countries are the ones to watch. Not Greece. The Icelanders have made the unfortunate choice of going with a flat tax, which will be highly regressive, but at least they will probably be able to bring their debt problems under control.

Yeah, actually it's very possible that this was done completely as a troll, possibly by a liberal.

Tell me what you mean by 'expert' and I'll answer your question more thoroughly.

I'm competent at video editing.

Also, no one is claiming that the video splices match the audio splices, nor that the video splicing was intended to deceive. Its the audio splicing which has him seeming to saying things he didn't say.

Now that you have bitten how about this, What have we got going now? Sounds just like what goes on here too!

Greece is the example of what we are heading into now since voters got it in their head they can vote themselves more money! Greece VOTED themselves into the hole they are in just like we are doing! Now in crunching numbers many have determined Greece's Spending outstrips their means so if they were indeed to collect all taxes due they would still have a shortfall of almost %200! That is the most conservative estimate presented of all the estimates I have seen!

The hole Greece is in is so deep that the EU conference addressing the problem is hitting one issue, they want to give Greece German money but Germany does not like that idea at all. Why? They see it is a BAD risk, not a bad investment. Germany wants them to straighten out their budget before giving Greece anything.

What I see is that Liberals cannot see reality no matter how hard they think they are trying! Social Spending is not an investment when there is no kind of positive return! Paying for people to live is not a return. Getting people back to work through training, that is an investment. Helping people back on their feet, that is an investment. People treating disability like some kind of retirement program is not an investment. I met a Vietnam Vet who lost both arms and both legs but he had a job at the local VA as a councilor for vets who lost limbs in combat. He had to undergo training but his attitude was that he himself was disabled but he was going to help others cope with being suddenly an amputee. He wanted to be useful and not a useless mound in a bed hating the world. So why is it so many people who can retrain and find alternative jobs refuse to do so? There are people who get so fuqued by life they have no choice and that is what disability was for. I am sick of all these "Disabled" people who are not really that disabled milking that system and taking away from those really in need!

But digressing back to Greece. The Greeks dug their hole and jumped in head first. They have to dig themselves out becasue if the EU bails them out they will do nothing to fix their financial mismanagement.

Sorry to break this to you liberals, Look harder at Greece! You are not seeing the whole picture yet. Go ahead and blame the rich there too. It isn't just the rich but the PEOPLE of Greece being too demanding and wishful embracing a social philosophy that has failed them and everyone else who did!

We have social programs but so did Communist Russia and so did Nazi Germany! If they broke their banks why is it we think we can do any better than the others who fail?

Just keep doing the wrong thing until we get it right?

FAIL!

Two things about the audio that stand out to me are 1 the tone remains consistent throughout its duration and 2 the cadence of speech also remains consistent throughout its duration.

I think you should be filing all kinds of law suits.

what stands out to me is that its FRAUDULANT/HOAX, because the audio OBVIOUSLY doesnt match the video

his gestures dont go with what he is saying nor does the audience expressions,,,


the audio is pieced together, even when he says 'I am not an american.' it is not a crisp complete sentence that it would need to be in the context it is show,, it is obviously trailing off into something after the last syllable in american,,,

Oh my goodness... who really cares about this? It's like the "chicken or the egg?" There are far larger thing that our government is doing that we should be worried about. One man alone, be it Obama, Bush, Clinton or Regan, is not the cause of all the turmoil in our country right now. The President is simply a figurehead. Both sides need to stop bickering over things that don't matter and focus on REAL problems.