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Whenever you meet a person, of any political stripe, who invariably explains and defends any and all anamolies in Obama’s records [the few we’ve supposedly ‘seen’], you are dealing w an ideologue, and one on top of that who’s likely insecure on an intellectual level. The ideology being: whatever Obama and his handlers release is defacto legitimate. The intellectual insecurity being: ‘I need to let the world know I’m not as ignorant and stupid as these nutburger birthers’.

Really honest, well informed people of every political persuasion know Obama is playing us. The manner in which he’s released the few items available, and the vast number he keeps under lock and key, tell any sane person he’s hiding something, and probably far more than one thing. Liberals—intelligent, rational liberals—pretend it’s all SOP, and only wingnut racists have a problem w the singular exemplar in the Oval Office [after all, they don’t want to hurt their own guy/party, right?].

Conservative anti-birthers feel a compulsive need to let the world know they’re not associated w the [supposedly] uneducated conspiracy-addled birthers. They think liberals (and others) will respect them for it, and that respect means a lot to them (their not having garnered much intellectual respect otherwise).

There is no reasoning w these people. It’s not about reason and it’s not about facts: it’s about acceptance and approbation. They want and need people to realize how intellectually superior they are to ‘ignorant’ birthers’.

You see a perfect example of this principle in John McCain. He is not very brainy (understatement) but he’s very suggestible. He thought (because he was told) that if he disassociated himself w the ‘far right wing’ of the GOP, the MSM would respect and approve of him. In fact, the MSM despised his gullibility and intellectual mediocrity. They treated him accordingly, and he got what he deserved.

There are three things conservative anti-birthers do not and will never understand: Malignant Narcissism, pathological lying, and the myth of, ‘if you’ll just act like ‘reasonable’ conservatives, we’ll respect you’. For starters, the kind of people who hate birthers will never respect us. As for the other two items, I don’t have the time to spell it all out. But why bother? The info is out there/public/on the Net, and conservative anti-birthers have obtusely ignored it to date; why and how would one more iteration help?

The bottom-line being: this is an emotional/irrational issue for conservative anti-birthers. We (meaning, those of us who see through Barry’s deceptions, and who care about why he’s perpetrating them) need to recognize that, and then ignore them. Their ‘concern’ posts are annoying but not overly so. Let them have their little ‘intellectually superior’ vanity. It’s so desperately important to them that they’re going to have it anyway, and our energies can best be directed elsewhere.