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To: Springfield Reformer

5)Part of a vast left wing conspirancy
6)This is a red herring and they are trying to make all birthers look like nutjobs when they pull out his birth certificate they have had all along.

Concentrate on the fact that Obama is a left wing liberal and the country is center right.


63 posted on 01/24/2011 1:09:18 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963
5) left wing conspiracy

Well, but the left is still composed of individuals. Despite their theoretical utopian collectivism, they are really still ruled by Adam Smith. NA is an individual and is acting in what he sees as his own best interests. Best not to overplay collective behavior theories without better substantiation.

6) the infamous "eligibility is a Red Herring" theory

This is unlikely, IMHO:

A. I agree that theoretically all we need know about him is that he is committed to the death of our Constitution. Why that alone would not be enough to immediately remove him from office escapes me. But if we have another way to debilitate him, surely we can walk and chew gum at the same time; we can, and we must, mount a sustained effort on multiple fronts.

B. The left will always try to make all their opponents look like nutjobs anyway; there’s no escaping that. So why not stick with something that has a proven capacity to induce serious doubt because it corresponds so well to the factual situation and the motivational schema of all the players? Not to mention there's nothing objectively "nutjob" about wanting to see the Constitution enforced.

C. Why not fight back on the linguistic front instead of ceding ground where we don't have to? The "birther" label is inherently focused on the BC, not eligibility. Why not instead call ourselves “eligibility doubters?” It's a few more syllables, but it focuses on the real issue, which is not the bc, but constitutional eligibility, and furthermore it shifts the burden to Obama to remove reasonable doubts.

D. "Center-right" is just another linguistic inroad of the left, a concession to the Hegelian dialectic. Conservatism, in all its dimensions, is good for America; it's the system of principles that brought us to the dance, and it’s the system of principles that can bring us safely back home.

78 posted on 01/24/2011 1:40:40 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: woodbutcher1963

You know, that excuse is getting so tired and old that it’s obviously untrue. No one spends at least 2 million bucks on lawyers for a joke on people. He’s obviously concerned that his nationality/birth status as well as all his records remain unseen.

He’s unraveling faster than a cat playing with Grandma’s knitting bag.


117 posted on 01/24/2011 8:39:39 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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