[Texas Songwriter]

Why do all of these people....the publisher, Michelle, Obamas grandmother, Obama himself.....why do all of these people keep making the same mistake? Isn’t it more likeley that all of these insiders know exactly where obama was born and have said so. We know obama to be a liar. That is his best feature. But an entire nation is frozen in fear of being marginalized if those certain words are uttered. That is what does not make sense.

[Fantasywriter]

That is a very good point. I would like to add one to it. To wit, the fact that Obama demonstrated complete ignorance when it came to identifying the geographical location of HI. He said it was in Asia. There's no getting around this one: people know where they were born. Do anybody think Obama doesn't know where Kenya is? But he didn't know where HI is. That speaks volumes.

I keep hearing Obama defenders say, 'That was just a gaffe'. As if the word "gaffe" means, 'staggering degree of ignorance'.

I looked it up in Mirriam-Webster:

Definition of GAFFE

1: a social or diplomatic blunder

2: a noticeable mistake

Examples of GAFFE

He realized that he had committed an awful gaffe when he mispronounced her name.

[She] committed a huge gaffe when she started drinking from the finger bowl

Iow, you don't say, when you flunk an exam, 'I gaffed it'. No, you just didn't know the answers. You were, iow, ignorant of the subject matter.

Obama has committed his share of gaffes. But believing HI is in Asia is not a gaffe. It's the kind of mistake a Kenyan would make that a native-born Hawaiian never would.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, indeed. Are we as a nation “Compromised”?