Will the anti-Obama zealots give the birth allegations a rest?

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 12/9/08 | Editors

[pissant]

By refusing on Monday to hear a lawsuit challenging whether Barack Obama is indeed eligible under the Constitution to become the 44th president, the U.S. Supreme Court should have put to rest the fanciful rumors about the president-elect.

Yet the justices' action will not end the fringe conspiracy-mongering. David Weigel reported in Slate that Obama's foes have mailed "information" packets to presidential electors in advance of their Dec. 15 vote; right-wing activist Bob Schultz, who has orchestrated the campaign, says electors who vote for Obama are committing "treason to the Constitution."

May we offer some advice? Get a life. It appears that the phenomenon known as Bush Derangement Syndrome - with unhinged left-wingers willing to believe any scurrilous rumor about the 43rd president - has a mirror image on the right.

Some claim that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and his birth certificate was faked. Others concede he was born in Hawaii but say he gave up his U.S. citizenship at age 6 when his mother, who married a citizen of Indonesia, moved the family to that nation.

It's difficult to believe rational adults can take these allegations seriously (and they have in fact been debunked). Obama served eight years in the Illinois legislature and most of one term in the U.S. Senate. If he were not a citizen, don't you think at least one of his campaign opponents would have found the proof to make that charge stick?

Even if the facts were murky, however, what possible point is there to raising them at this time? Does anyone seriously believe a court is going to try to bar from office the candidate chosen as president by a clear majority of voters? What do these zealots want, civil disorder?

[FourtySeven]

Thanks for that completely useless and irrelevant link.

I'm fascinated. Do you really see no relation between your post 117 on this thread, and my post 202 on the thread I linked to?

[usmcobra]

[slowhandluke]

I think Hillary knows the truth behind the BC but she dared not use it because it would have alienated blacks which the Dems covet so strongly.

Very good point.

Both Hillary & McCain had strong reasons to not follow through here. The interesting thing was that Hillary's reasons were in her self-interest. McCains reasons were of the "shoot yourself in the foot" type.

[lacrew]

“The retards don’t know the difference between citizen and natural born citizen.”

I think they do. They know exactly what natural born means. They know Factcheck hasn’t debunked anything. These people aren’t dumb...they are trying to influence the ‘sheeple’.