Wiley Drake has played a central role in keeping the Birther conspiracy alive, as he and his running mate, Alan Keyes, are among the few members of the movement who can claim “standing” in the various lawsuits filed by Orly Taitz by alleging that they were directly harmed by the fact that Barack Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States.
So despite the fact that Hawaii’s health director released a statement yesterday attesting that she has personally seen President Obama’s birth certificate in the Health Department’s archives, it comes as no surprise that Drake remains unmoved:
Hawaiian officials have again attested to the veracity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, but Pastor Wiley Drake of the Buena Park Southern Baptist Church is not convinced.
Nor does he believe it will affect the lawsuit he is a party to in Orange County Superior Court, challenging Obama’s eligibility to hold the nation’s highest office.
“We’ve been there, done that before,” Drake said of Hawaiian authorities. “They’ve sworn to the validity of it before, then they’ve backed off, so we don’t know what they’re doing.”
You know else is unsurprising? That fact that Drake insists that he is not, in fact, “a nut”:
Obama’s supporters “want to brand anyone who questions him as a nut, and they’re not. Alan Keyes is not a nut. I’m not,” Drake said.
If praying to God to kill Barack Obama does not qualify someone as a “nut” then I don’t know what does.
