Julie Barrett is a freelance writer and photographer based in Plano, TX.

Check Your Meme: Whose Social Security Number?

Fresh when it gets here from Julie Barrett
Friday, June 3, 2016


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Today's tired old meme says the president's Social Security number belongs to a guy born in 1890.


Of course, Snopes has the scoop, but apparently that's some pointy-haired liberal conspiracy blog. (Maybe I'll debunk that one later.) According to the Social Security Death Index, the number belongs to someone named John Paul Ludwig, born in 1890 and died in 1981. The card was issued in 1951, well before Barack Obama was born. Also, the number is differs by a couple of digits. There are other Social Security number conspiracy theories as well. 


But here's the thing that gets me. Back in 2008 John McCain and Hillary Clinton had the money and the resources to look into every single one of those theories, including the one that Obama is not a natural born citizen. Don't you think that would have been a bombshell that changed the course of the election had one of them been able to provide incontrovertible proof of any of this nonsense? Yeah, but it's more fun to sit in your basement and believe all this crap that floats around on the Internet. 

And with that I'm actually closing the comments on this one because I don't want to mess with the conspiracy theory nuts.

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