Posted on 04/23/2011 9:37:57 AM PDT by Squeeky
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
I have written on this general theme before, but let me discuss how Scientific Birtherism provides a window in Obama’s soul. I have long held that the REAL Birther Question is WHY Obama does not resolve this matter by providing a copy of his long form birth certificate. I answer that question with the KISS Matrix which provides a framework of possible reasons which analyze WHY:
1. KENYA. He is born in Kenya, or there is something embarrassing on the long form.
2. IGNORANT. Obama is too ignorant to think of the simple answer.
3. SNOBBY. Obama thinks Americans are too stupid to believe the REAL THING!
4. SLIMY. Obama thinks it is OK to make some Americans look crazy if it gets him votes.
Most Obots I have debated with gleefully jump on No. 4, and re-phrase it in Machiavellian robes of “Political Cleverness”. OH, isn’t Obama just sooo smart to let his enemies shoot themselves in the foot and why should he stop them. Let’s go with the Obotski assessment for a while.
This window into Obama’s soul reveals a man who places his re-election chances ahead of doing the right thing and putting America first. This even while he sanctimoniously calls for ending divisiveness in America. And make no mistake, it is a very divisive issue. Feelings run high on both sides. Polls indicate nearly 60% of the country as a whole has some degree of doubt where Obama was born, ranging from Definitely Sure he was born outside the U.S. to Probably but not Definitely Sure he was born in the United states.
At present, Obama has a very uncomfortable fact of life with which he must live. That is, he was shellacked in the November Mid term elections, and the Republicans easily control the House of Representatives. And among Republicans, the belief that Obama was not born in the U.S is even higher and stronger than the above numbers. Any compromise that Obama must work out for the good of the country, will be with a party whose rank and file flatly believe Obama is a foreigner.
Has Obama realized this fact, and coughed up his long form??? No, because making political points and getting re-elected is more important to him than doing the right thing. And Republicans got a good dose of this when Obama made his speech about the budget and blatantly savaged Sen. Paul Ryan who he had invited to the speech. As Keith Hennessey noted in his Internet Article, “Obama squandered chance to reach across aisle“,
"The president’s budget speech was an effective way to launch the 2012 campaign. He has set up a debate about the future of fiscal policy and the role of government.He has poisoned the well for bipartisan negotiations, killing any chance of a grand budget bargain in the next 18 months. With a single speech he has relegated America to two more years of partisan budgetary stalemate, as we drift closer and closer to fiscal oblivion."
Obama’s own political party is going schizophrenic over Obama, unable to believe him yet seemingly impotent to dump him. He promised to close Gitmo, and didn’t. He promised to end the Bush Tax Cuts, and didn’t. He promised to end the Patriot Act, and didn’t. He promised to get a public option through health care reform, and didn’t. He promised to rein in Wall Street, and didn’t. He promised to end the war in Iraq, and didn’t. In fact, the Nobel Peace Prize winning President got us involved in a new one. I could go on. But, what Obama promised to do, but hasn’t done, or caved in on would take volumes. For the Democrats, Obama might want to re-write that “Change You Can Believe In” slogan for 2012 to “Change You Can Bereave In!” because the only thing that “changed” for them was Obama.
Yet, should Republicans, or even the Democrats be surprised??? The Window into The Soul Of Obama provided by his response to “cough up the long form”, paints a picture of a man who could care less what large numbers of Americans believe as long as it has the chance of motivating his base or getting himself re-elected. The Question needs to be asked: Does America really need a “politically clever” and cynically political president worried only about his own re-election and self-glorification at this juncture in our history??? You will get a chance to answer in November 2012.
Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter
So it's scientific now? If scientists kept repeating things that they didn't have proof for we'd be living in the dark ages. After you hear the untrue claim that the US barred its citizens from entering Pakistan in 1981 for the thousandth time, "Scientific Birtherism" will bring a smile to your face, too.
4. SLIMY. Obama thinks it is OK to make some Americans look crazy if it gets him votes.
Undoubtedly, but politics is largely about dividing, deriding, reviling, and discrediting people. Obama looks petty and nasty when he directly attacks his opponents.
Letting the media dispose of the opposition as "kooks" gets Obama's work done without creating a reaction against him. So encouraging Birtherism and letting late night comedians ridicule it makes Obama look less slimy than he would be if he had to do all that cutting and slashing himself.
Because this is his way of flipping the whole nation the bird.
I knew this instinctively but hadn’t had it coalesced in my brain that His Obfuscation is The Issue! Whether or not Obama is eligible, he is highly Unpresidential for mocking this reasonable question.
Indeed the elite Pubbies should be screaming that no candidate should take that arrogant attitude when the American people have a fair question here.
85% chance he is the bastard son of Frank Marshall Davis or some other black commie.
5% chance he was born in Kenya of somewhere else
10% chance he really is a space alien.
Was Stanley Ann born before or after the Roswell Incident?
*******
How about this: 0% chance that an Obama long form Hawaii birth certificate exists.
No, actually I don’t go for some of the myths stuff. What is SCIENTIFIC in the KISS Matrix, is that all possibilities are open. And, out of all the possibilities, being from Kenya is the nicest! The rest really SUCK.
If you would change your focus from WHERE, to WHY Obama has not resolved it, then you will see how this is a GREAT ISSUE for Republicans.
For example, suppose Obama coughs up a long form tomorrow that shows he was born in a manger in Hawaii. The WHERE people are sunk. Its over.
The WHY Birthers OTOH (Which means On The Other Hand), are still in business! You will hear stuff like:
“Well, it only took him THREE YEARS to solve the question of where he was born, How long is it going to take to bring jobs back to America-—like NINE CENTURIES or something???”
OR
“Well, finally after THREE YEARS he coughs it up. How many innocent trees died in the Rain Forest over this debate.”
The possibilities are ENDLESS!!!
Exactly.
Exactly.
“Were you in a coma during the 2010 elections?”
No, in California (arguable as to which is a more brain-dead state).
All it did was inflame the liberal base out here.
IMO there are only three things that matter right now: jobs, inflation and (stopping the spread of) islamofascism. And the third just doesn’t matter here, the very few Muslims around here are more likely to vote Republican as they are mostly wealthy).
Obama will be defeated, or reelected, on the unemployment rate and the price of gas.
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