Posted on 08/02/2009 6:16:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If nothing else, the Internet gives voice to the fringe. Any nut can find a following in the new media. There is a small but passionate fringe on the right that continues to insist that President Obama is not an American but was born in Kenya. I have read everything I have come across on this and the evidence is overwhelming that there is nothing to this theory. His birth announcement was carried at the time in Honolulu newspapers. Certified copies of his birth certificate have been produced.
Like people who believe that an alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell, or that man never really went to the moon, or that the intercity drug problem was purposely created by the CIA, there is no talking some people out of stupid things they believe.
Now, It is not that I would not like to believe it myself, but the evidence is overwhelming that it is not true. For an explanation of this topic visit Fact Check, where you can see the proof that disputes this crazy theory. They thoroughly debunk it. Unfortunately, Lou Dobbs continues to fan the flames and promote this theory. Liz Cheney openly promotes it and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity keep hinting that it may be true and use humor and off the cuff comments to encourage this nuttiness.
Meanwhile, most conservatives who have spoken out on the issue have ridiculed it including American Spectator editor Bob Tyrrell, National Review, Bill O’Riley, Joe Scarborough and even firebrands like Michelle Malkin. Ann Coulter called the birthers “just a few cranks out there.”
To all the birthers who are keeping this alive, please put aside your contempt for Barack Obama and rationally consider the evidence. There is nothing to this. You are giving liberals a gift. It is things like this that allows the mainstream press and Obama's cheerleaders to dismiss the Tea Party movement and conservative activist as irrelevant malcontents and it is things like this that keep more sane people from joining the movement.
And who in the world is "Bill O'Riley?" Does he mean "Bill O'Reilly" on Fox News?
BTW, if the "birthers" were truly destroying and embarrasing the GOP and the conservative movement, the word would go out from Axelrod's laptop to leave us alone and let us have at it. No such e-mail has ever, or will ever be sent. They are deathly afraid of this issue, no matter what they try and make you think.
Read the comments.
There’s a point where marginalization backfires, I think. We may see it.
“Don’t complain about the farmer with your mouth full!”
Huh?
First time I ever heard that one. How does this relate?
still agnostic.
I think it means that it would be OK if Charles Manson was president as long as the economy was working.
How do you know he’s a RINO?
He’s complaining about the Internet while blogging on ... wait for it ... the Internet!
RINOS are embarrassing.
alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell,the intercity drug problem was purposely created by the CIA,——————————————————————————————————————— Well who on earth hasn’t wondered about that at one time or another????
Rod, Please KMA.
They’re becoming really frightened.
Absolutely! It provides fodder for all kinds of rhetoric. "He wants my health records available to every imbecile and crook in the Federal gov, but he doesn't have to produce his BC."
The answer could be one of two things — There is something in it he doesn't want anyone to see
or
The brou-ha-ha itself serves a purpose
I'm on the fence as to what the game is here for him — there IS a game, I just don't know what it is
He’s a self-described “centrist” which is code for mushy-middle RINO (see Juan McCain, Mitt Romney, et al), just as “progressive” is code for socialist.
Here we go again.
You know you are winning when the opposition is forced to begin their arguments with a lie. For the record: THERE ARE NO KNOWN BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR BARAK OBAMA. Period.
They certainly have! LOL!
If there was nothing to hide Obama would display a copy of the Original Birth Certificate.
All the rest is BS....
There was an article in American Thinker about the birthers at http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/obamas_birth_debate_its_about.html . The point the article makes is that the birthers sense what a growing number of other people feel: even if Obama had been born in the White House, his values are not American. We are having a foreign, alien ideology rammed down our throats by Obama and company.
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