The term "birther" doesn't bother me. I treat it the way the Founding Patriots did the British's attempts to mock them with the song "Yankee Doodle." It was written by a British doctor as an attempt at Propaganda and Psy-Ops. British troops would sing it at gatherings of Americans to impugn them and call them unmanly. (The song refers to effete and unmanly characteristics of the "American Dandy." The "Macaroni Club" was a famous gay bar in London at this time.)
Americans turned the tables on them when they started singing it at defeated British troops after a victory. They threw the taunt right back in the British faces, and made the song a piece of our National Patriotism!
PS: I am wondering more and more about the Soros connection. Most of the anti-birther research can be traced back to one or another group funded by Soros. Since when do so many conservatives take leftist talking points and regurgitate them unexamined? Something strange is going on here, and I hope we eventually find out what it is.
I have long pondered this phenomena myself. There are people who are rock solid conservative who are absolutely "hatter mad" loons when it comes to Obama's birth certificate and eligibility. From 2008-2011, I regularly argued with the Denizens of "Ace of Spades HQ" up to and including Ace. Judging by Ace and co's posting of articles, they are by no means liberal. They are die hard Fiscal/Social conservatives, yet on this particular issue, they are foaming at the mouth rabid defenders of Obama.
My best theory to explain this is better said by this man and his article. I think this guy nailed it. Excellent article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/confessions_of_a_birther_evangelist.html
Cascade and herd theory seem to fit the facts perfectly.
I have the article you cited framed and hung on my wall in a place of honor, illuminated twenty-four hours a day by a special golden-hued light.
Okay, slight exaggeration, but that really is one of my favorites. As for Ace, I am a daily visitor to his site and I get where he’s coming from. There are some, Michelle Malkin included, who are very smart yet on some level insecure about their reputation in liberal and GOP-lite ‘intellectual’ circles. Iow, they’re terrified of being considered ignorant rubes, in part because of their conservative affiliations. So, to demonstrate their sophisticated brilliance, they seldom miss a chance to scoff at the poor, deluded folks who’ve fallen for birther conspiracies. They think it burnishes their uber-intelligent credentials, to be both conservative and yet ruthless in their mockery of birthers.
I have the advantage of them in that area. I know my IQ, and while I don’t want to boast, I never have to worry about being stupid. I have educated myself on Obama and his lies, and drawn some conclusions that preclude taking his birth narrative at face value. I don’t know all the details of his deception. There are many clues and I have some theories. Mostly I just want more openness and transparency with the original documents, so we can get definitely to the bottom of his lies.
Anyway, I’m glad you came over here. I love Ace, but life is too short to argue ‘birtherism’ with him. He’s not approaching it rationally; he’s approaching it from an emotional need to protect his reputation for brilliance. As such, no argument will ever permeate his psyche; he’s just not operating on that level.
Thank you for posting the link to the recent American Thinker article. I read it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was ammusing, especially the reference to the heard mentality. My family has always had cows and horses and their social structure is so similar to humans that my dad used to name certain cattle after people that they rmeinded him of.
This time through the article I realized that the author was making more serious points than I had realized the first time I read it. It actually does help to explain some of the behaviors we have observed, especially from people you would normally not expect to be defending Obama on any level. I hope that a few of these people might read the article and begin seeing the world from outside of the box that they have trapped themselves in.