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.
What kind of horses (did your father own)?
A friend of mine often refers to some psychology experiments done years ago in which volunteers were sat in a room with other participants (Unknown to the volunteer, these were all collaborators) and some event would occur, such as a person would walk in and do something or wear something, etc. Then a professor would come in and ask the group individually what they saw, always leaving the volunteer towards the end of the inquiry. The collaborators would say something happened which was very different from what actually happened, and each one in sequence would repeat the same story with individual variation. By the time the professor got to the only actual "volunteer" , most of the time the volunteer would repeat exactly what the other members of the group had said. Only a few people would insist on the truth of what they saw which was in variance with the rest of the group.
My friend always says that were he ever on a jury, he would hang it if necessary, because he will not be swayed by any of the opinions of other jurors in conflict with his own understanding of the evidence.
This I think is the difference between those of us who do not meekly knuckle under and toe the popular line on eligibility, and those on our side who do. A stubborn independent streak is a good thing when justice is on the line.