Butter, you have been on eligibility threads longer than I have, so I will leave it to you to confirm or not my analysis. Fwiw, here it is.
I’ve had countless back-and-forths w so-called anti-birthers. Most of the time, at some point in the exchange, one of two things happens.
1: It becomes clear I’m talking to a true blue conservative who disagrees w me on this one point. They may think that while Obama lies about everything else, for some inexplicable reason he’s been honest about his nativity story. More likely they believe (and in many cases know) he’s lied his azz off, but they still think it’s a losing issue. Attack and underscore Obama’s horrific, destructive record, and leave his nativity tall tales out of it, is more or less their position.
2: It begins to feel as if I’m arguing w a liberal.
When (2) happens, I have a look at the party’s posting history. If it’s a conservative w an anti-birther ax to grind, that becomes clear w’in a page or two. Interspersed among the anti-birther stuff are an array of full-bodied, red-blooded pro-conservative posts and, most telling of all, a delicious litany of scathing Obama critques. At which point I shrug and acknowledge that this, too, is a fellow conservative/brother-in-arms—just one w whom I happen to have a point of disagreement.
Other times several pp of scanning posts reveals nothing even tertiarily anti-Obama. Mostly all that appears is a regurgitation of the material readily available 24/7 on any of the major Obot-moonbat sites: thefogbow, obamaconspiracy or factcheck.
When that happens, since I rarely have the time or inclination to read any poster’s entire history, I ask the question bluntly: have you ever posted anything critical of Obama?
I must say, in all the time I’ve done this, I’ve never had anybody go as haywire-berserk as BladeBryan. You’d think I asked him if he was the last surviving Nazi war-criminal still at large. He lost his cookies. Why would anybody have such a bizarre, disconnected, exaggerated/out-of-all-sane-proportion, frankly unhinged reaction to such a simple, honest, straight-forward question? He’s been attacking me ever since, which is equally weird. Is it a crime, in his eyes, even to *inquire* if one has ever criticized Obama?
Good googly-moogly, Blade, you’ve done far more to damage yourself than anybody else ever could. You act like being asked if you’ve ever criticized Obama is end-of-the-world Dr. Doom villainous. It’s a simple form of honest, legitimate information gathering. Get over it.
What you’re saying is what I have noticed as well.
To be honest, I kind of wonder if Obama wants us kept busy hassling with trolls instead of dealing with Fast and Furious. I think he’s realizing he’s being found out as the lawless thug he is, and I’m wondering if the communist protests are the beginnings of the violence that both Hoffa and Biden in a single recent weekend were signaling the union and communist thugs to begin.