You can frame the birther movement whatever way you want, and you can use your straw man arguments to your hearts content, hey, that is all you got, but labeling those who demand that Obama provide important information about his past as nuts, is absolutely and unequivocally nutty in itself. I have never seen such freaking out over a simple request for a 12 dollar birth certificate....its insane and you know it.
He is obviously fighting this simple request so much because he has something to hide, we have a right to know what that is.
“but labeling those who demand that Obama provide important information about his past as nuts, is absolutely and unequivocally nutty in itself.”
I’d like for you to quote an instance when I ever said that. In itself, asking the president to reveal his records is not nutty. It’s commonplace in politics, in fact. But the Birther issue is not all about Obama being open, any more than the Kennedy conspiracy theorists or the Truthers only care about the government being open.
If you haven’t heard the wild accusations and baseless claims made by Birthers, you’re deaf. As a credit to them, they always end by saying Obama could and all the speculation by unveiling his records, and that that’s all they want. They do so to come off in the best light. And they really believe it, don’t get me wrong. But they’d never insist on it as strenuously if they didn’t have some preconceived notion in their head as to why he was hiding something.
I’ve noticed in recent weeks people have backed off on saying just what he’s hiding. Some even say they don’t know what it is, just that it’s “something”. This does not change the fact that it all started with people who thought he was born in Kenya. Without that supposition, there would be no movement. Without the implication that he’s illegitimate, no one would spend any more time pushing for the birth records to be unsealed than for the media to look into college records or medical records or his sketchy Chicago years.