Posted on 08/08/2009 5:34:48 PM PDT by pissant
We've all had our fun watching people stand up at town hall meetings and loudly assert that President Obama was born in Kenya. It was a giggle to see the anonymous online hordes argue that an obvious forgery - apparently done by a kindergartner, with crayon - is the president's real birth certificate. There's an undeniable majesty in the pretzel logic employed to argue that Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate, two newspaper announcements, and repeated statements by the state's Republican governor are all part of a 48-year-old conspiracy.
But the grand prank that is the "birther" movement needs to be wrapped before it overstays its welcome, before it sullies the president's credible opponents, before it makes the South into a laughingstock, and before it does real damage to the nation's conservative movement, where it finds its home on the farthest reaches of the furthest fringe.
For those who don't spend time watching the TV shouters or reading the more paranoid precincts of the Internet, here's the birther belief: Barack Obama wasn't born in America and therefore is ineligible to be president.
It's a completely ridiculous assertion, of course, contradicted by evidence, testimony and common sense. Ordinarily, it's the kind of conspiracy theory that wouldn't bear mentioning.
But a new robocall survey by Public Policy Polling shows that only 53 percent of all Virginians believe the president was born in the United States. Among Virginia Republicans, the number is 32 percent. A full 41 percent of Virginia Republicans believe Obama was born elsewhere.
According to a similar survey by DailyKos/Research2000, 77 percent of all Americans believe the president was born in America. In the South, though, that number is a mere 47 percent. Among Republicans nationwide, believers in the president's Hawaiian birth amount to just 42 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
I’m not distracted. In fact I think I thrive when I’m juggling lots of different issues.
Dear Leader & the Dem’s own behavioir in spending millions and millions to suppress any objective inquiry into the birth cert issue is indirect proof Dear Leader is most likely an illegal President.
Be nice if our elected Repubs would show a spine.
Conservatives big problem: strong enemies and weak friends.
Hells bells. Certifigate is about the only thing about Obama that is even partially enjoyable.
Who is the SRM?
Stupid remedial media?
Consider the source.
The odds are pretty good that he is an Obama Obot. 98% of the African American population voted for Obama.
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/new-publisher-newspaper-takes-over-uncertain-time
Just sayin.....
Agree, I can chew gum and walk at the same time also..
Can’t we just have a “journalist” curious enough to ask why Obama Sr’s race is listed as “African. “
Ya think they are over telling us to shut up? LOL
Agreed PA, nothin better than multi-taskin...takin care of business and at the same time being a blue ribbon, five star, card carrying, Gadsden flag flyin, tea party attendin, "BIRTHER".
not to mention, hangin out on FR
“But a new robocall survey by Public Policy Polling shows that only 53 percent of all Virginians believe the president was born in the United States.”
I’ll have to move Virginia up to #1 for smartest people in the U.S.
Why aren't they answered, Why is evidence hidden of his college and other things.>
Why not call Hawaii and tell them to turn loose the documents.
“We’ve all had our fun watching people stand up at town hall meetings and loudly assert that President Obama was born in Kenya.”
Clever what they have done with this article. It is designed to make it appear that the people going to the townhall meeting are bringing up thw BC issue and nothing else.
It changes thw narrative from the real issue of the government takeover of our healthcare industry to the BC issue and as I mentioned makes it sound like only birthers are at the TH meeting.
You know they are indeed sweating it when they say that they worry about our political well being.
The Honolulu Advertiser has already published the name and date of birth -- forget the long form b.c. -- just let the hospital add one word to what has already been printed and spread around the world.
That one word? The hospital name.
Otherwise let the Obama defenders struggle to find original ways to express their contumely and avoid sounding like an inferior substitute for other defenders of the magic O.
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Yes, and in addition:
1. Why can't a journalist be curious enough to ask Obama what passport he used to travel to Pakistan in the 1980s?
2. And why can't a journalist ask Obama if a doctor signature and a hospital name are on his long form birth certificate?
3. And why can't a journalist challenge Obama to release his Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard college records?
4. Have journalists suddenly abandoned their mission to seek the truth no matter where the search led them when it comes to writing stories on Obama and his administration?
Any questions the white house doesn’t want to answer are called conspiracy theories anyway. A reporter asked about reporting “fishy things” to the white house the other day and Robert Gibbs sarcastically refered to it as a “Nefarious plot” and got a big giggle out of it.
'cause they'd be forever labeled a "racist" within minutes, if not seconds.
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