December 8, 2008 4:00 A.M.
Obama Derangement Syndrome
Shut up about the birth certificate.The continuing efforts of a fringe group of conservatives to deny Obama his victory and to lay the basis for the claim that he is not a legitimate president are embarrassing and destructive. The fact that these efforts are being led by Alan Keyes, a demagogue who lost a Senate election to the then-unknown Obama by 42 points, should be a warning in itself.
This tempest over whether Obama, the child of an American citizen, was born on American soil is tantamount to the Democrats’ seditious claim that Bush “stole” the election in Florida and hence was not the legitimate president. This delusion helped to create the Democrats’ Bush derangement syndrome and encouraged Democratic leaders to lie about the origins of the Iraq war, and regard it as illegitimate as Bush himself. It became “Bush’s War” rather than an American War — with destructive consequences for our troops and our cause. The birth-certificate zealots are essentially arguing that 64 million voters should be disenfranchised because of a contested technicality as to whether Obama was born on U.S. soil. (McCain narrowly escaped the problem by being born in the Panama Canal zone, which is no longer American.)
What difference does it make to the future of this country whether Obama was born on U.S. soil? Advocates of this destructive campaign will argue that the constitutional principle regarding the qualifications for president trumps all others. But how viable will our Constitution be if five Supreme Court justices should decide to void 64 million ballots?
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Now he, or whomever "BOOKWORM" the author of the article is, posts this "There’s Something Deeply Wrong with the Birth Certificate Narrative"??
Interesting.
Horowitz was pandering to Fox News. He didn’t want to be blacklisted from Fox.
Well, the article posted here ends with a slam on the “birthers” so I guess it’s consistent with Horowitz’ game plan:
“I also think there’s something on the genuine Hawaiian birth certificate that Obama finds politically embarrassing. More than that, he’s figured out that conservatives get more heat for asking him to prove his Constitutional qualifications than any heat he gets for refusing to prove those same qualifications. He’s toying with us. It’s not that he’s not a native born American; it’s that he’s a guy with a stupid secret who is using it to make the Right look even more stupid.”
They’re so afraid of appearances. Still think they can appease the media beast. Sad.