Asking Obama to show his long form bc and other records is not nutty. What is nutty is comparing a request for these records, which McCain provided without a fight, to the complex and extremely unlikely and near impossible conspiracy theory of 911 truthers. There is no comparison because THERE IS NO BIRTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY, only the simple request for informaation that the public deserves.
Comparing the two is the ultimate straw man argument.
“There is no comparison because THERE IS NO BIRTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY, only the simple request for informaation that the public deserves.”
You cannot be that naive. It isn’t possible that the allegations that Obama was born in Kenya, with no hard evidence whatsoever, has been advanced, again and again.
By the way, the Truthers, the Kennedy guys too, always boil their arguments down to a quest for openness and the truth. That is, when they’re not advancing their crackpot theories. Like Kennedy being shot with a poison dart from the Umbrella Man, or the occupants of the flights we all think crashed into the twin towers lying in rest deep in the earth, beneath Dick Cheney’s secret bunker. But directly afterwards, they say, “Hey, we’re just askling the questions nobody else in interested in answering.”
By the way, it’s not that the demand for openness and for the American people to know, not simply accept, that they’re commander-in-chief is Constitutionally legitimate is nutty. Nor is debating what constitutes a “natural born citizen”. Insisting he was born abroad, with no evidence is. And it is a huge part of the Birther movement. I’d call it their center, in fact.