I've said this in at least one past post, but butter is almost singlehandedly responsible for my having come to the conclusion that there is a "there, there" with regard to the validity of unanswered questions related to 0bama's birth/life narrative and hence eligibility to hold office. I had never paid this issue any mind at all until Trump started going on about it last spring. I thought it was interesting that there was so much vitriol coming at him from the press over the supposedly non-issue, so I decided to start looking into the matter online, just by searching for articles and blogs on the subject and then reading material from the associated links, and butter's cogent, thorough blog was one of the first that I encountered, luckily.
Asking questions about 0bama's past has truly become the "new third rail of American politics" as a commenter put it at another site earlier today.
You guys can’t know how timely your encouragement is, and how much it means to me.
I was with my extended family today and though I only made a couple cryptic comments about this issue, it was not well-received. We’ve always been a close family, all of us conservative. But they don’t research beyond what they hear on Fox, and there is such a chasm between what they know and what I know that they just can’t even open themselves to what the research is already showing.
Maybe they just think it’s a waste of time because the political class has circled the wagons around the issue. And maybe that’s true. But if that is the case - and this has been my point all along - then this country is willing to accept utter lawlessness, and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
I was telling my parents about Fast & Furious this morning; they listen to Fox all the time and knew nothing about it. I hate to trouble them, and I was both glad that it looked like they understood that I’m documenting the connections between the eligibility issue and the lawlessness of Fast & Furious and the way the DOJ and DHS are treating Sheriff Joe.... and sad that they understood because especially my Dad is in weak health and very, very troubled about the prospects for America.
Even conservatives don’t really want to know how bad it is. Maybe it would be a kindness to let the boa’s final squeeze come as a total surprise to everyone. I just keep thinking that there’s still time to get loose from the boa before that happens. I alternate between hope and despair for America.
I keep coming back to Theoden’s response to the comment that too few had come to defeat Mordor. He said, “No, we cannot defeat them. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”
Those who trust Fox are being deceived about how bad things really are. They may think we’re crazy right now, and try to distance themselves from us - like we’ve seen here on FR, and on this thread even. When the orcs are at their throats they will come around. I will do my level-best to see that it never comes to that, if possible. To any ridicule that they might give in the meantime, I think Jesus’ words are appropriate: “Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.”
All too soon they will probably be like Frodo when he realized that Gollum had set up Sam in order to divide Frodo from Sam, to keep Sam from being able to protect Frodo.