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Not to pile on ...but you posted #491

.... best tactic birthers can take is to shut up completely about Obama's birth place.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Right. As a tactic, I think it is counterproductive. I think the far more productive angle is to focus on his substantive views (especially) and personal history as an adult, which provide a very strong indication that he is of a Marxist bent and opposes the entire concpet of American Exceptionalism.

I've handled plenty of cases where I've ditched a weaker argument so as not to detract from the appeal of an argument much more likely to succeed. From what is being argued in this thread, all nine members of the Supreme Court, including Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, and the entire Republican contingent of the U.S. Congress, is complicit in covering up this birth issue despite people banging on it for years.

At some point, if you can't take the hill with a frontal assault, you need to consider flanking maneuvers rather than giving your opponent propaganda victories.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Right. As a tactic, I think it is counterproductive. I think the far more productive angle is to focus on his substantive views (especially) and personal history as an adult, which provide a very strong indication that he is of a Marxist bent and opposes the entire concpet of American Exceptionalism.

I've handled plenty of cases where I've ditched a weaker argument so as not to detract from the appeal of an argument much more likely to succeed. From what is being argued in this thread, all nine members of the Supreme Court, including Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, and the entire Republican contingent of the U.S. Congress, is complicit in covering up this birth issue despite people banging on it for years.

At some point, if you can't take the hill with a frontal assault, you need to consider flanking maneuvers rather than giving your opponent propaganda victories.