All this attention to the ‘Birthers’ is so funny. What is also even more delicious are posters like trumandogz who are in rampant mode about it.
Obama’s political career is not by winning elections so much as finding the opponent disqualified. His Democrat and Republican competitors he had disqualified and thrown out of the race.
He attempted to disqualify John McCain. How? He did so based on the grounds that McCain wasn’t a naturalized citizen since he was born in Panama. Now, this issue came up in 2000 when McCain earlier ran, and McCain’s lawyers went through the motions to show why McCain was a naturalized citizen. All is fine and well.
It would make perfect sense to ask Obama to prove he was a naturalized citizen, as he forced McCain to do. Where there is smoke, there is fire. There is much smoke around this issue.
-Obama flying to Hawaii at the last days of the campaign to seal his birth certificate.
-Appointing a photo from a single website called ‘Factcheck’ as sole authority that it is his ‘birth certificate’ in which there has been no verification and no certificate of live birth.
-Kenyan ambassador and Kenyan grandmother saying he was born in Kenya. Kenyan officials now not letting journalists in to investigate and forbidding the family to talk to journalists.
-Obama spending a million dollars in legal fees just to prevent him from revealing his birth certificate.
-Obama mentioning multiple hospitals at which he was born.
-Obama having odd gaffes such as “57 states” or “my Muslim religion...”
-Pentagon dropping the order to Major Cook just to drop the challenge Cook presented to not have to prove Obama legitimate.
The louder the articles and media goes against this issue, which is receiving far more attention than the kooky 9/11 truther movement, points out that someone is worried.
If birthers were complete morons, it would be best to let them be morons and have them commit political suicide. But since the media is doing all these stories on the ‘birthers’, it shows someone wants these ‘birthers’ to shut up.
Where there is smoke, there is fire...
Bravo indeed . Kudos !
BUMP!
Bugliosi indicated that OJ's dream team succesfully created the illusion that circumstantial evidence constiuted a chain so that discrediting a single link would undo the entire case. Bugliosi stated that the prosecution filed to argue that in fact, circumstantial evidence should more appropriately be viewed as a rope consisting of numerous threads so that even if one or two strands are broken or discredited, what remains may be more than adequate to carry the weight of the case.
We *birthers* need to be very careful that we don't allow the left to sell the public on the chain analogy, and promote the rope theory, as you have so ably done here!
John McCain is not a naturalized citizen—he was a citizen from birth because both parents were US citizens. There were some efforts to question his eligibility last year, but I don’t know if Obama was connected to them (he’s good at covering his tracks anyway).