Posted on 09/17/2009 12:18:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And you thought birtherism was just for hillbillies and Republicans! David Weigel heard Camille Paglia on NPR yesterday, where the author of Sexual Personae and UArts professor told a no doubt astonished latte-drinking audience that "there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama's birth certificate. I'm sorry, I've been following this closely from the start." Indeed she has; we noticed her railing on the topic as far back as November ("simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction"). Now that they've got a genuine intellectual on board, the birthers just need a popular entertainer to carry their message to the sheeple. Come on, Toby Keith, what are you waiting for?
I don’t think Helen Thomas is a lesbian; I think she’s just unattractive. As for Rosie O’Donnell, I’d bet — seriously — that Camille Paglia’s IQ is at least 80 points higher than RO’D’s.
Ping!!
Both the Dems and GOP illegally nominated their candidates *after* the Texas legal deadline. Bob Barr sued to get them both thrown off the ballot, but a crooked judge threw the case out.
The word “birther” is itself condescending. Downright insulting, in fact.
The only thing that bothers me more than being called by that DU slur is to hear it used by FReepers.
Exactly. I don’t need the support of an atheistic lesbian who slums it as a conservative every now and then in order to feel “legitimate.”
Go get em Camilla~
Yeah, I know. The election laws that the TDP broke go way beyond filing deadlines.
And how could a lesbian atheist Democrat possibly be a genius?
I don’t know much about Paglia, but the more that support exposing Obama, the better.
The conservatives you mention are doubtless under orders not to mention the matter.
One day, the restriction will be pulled. If these people can go after people as dangerous as Van Jones and Mark Lloyd and get ACORN de-funded, the time to deal forthrightly with the eligibility issue may be close at hand.
Trouble is, Beck & co. will have to come up with a decent justification for scoffing at the matter at first.
Rush has been playing “CYA,” as he regularly cracks jokes about it but never has had a serious discussion of eligibility, to the best of my knowledge.
Bingo.
Hey, we ought to be glad that the trolls have largely left this thread alone, which is pretty rare for this subject matter.
OH NO! Camille Paglia too?
Oh the humanity.
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I’ve read Paglia’s books and columns for years. There’s no question she has a lively and engaging mind. But she reminds me a lot of the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan whose writings usually made overwhelming sense yet he voted pure party line Democrat. It made some cynical sense in his case since his political survival, and freedom to think and write, depended on it. I don’t see any corollary with Paglia except she’s an academic and maybe she’s protecting her own sinecure.
Whatever you think of the ineligibility claims, there is a smoking gun here, as Hurricane Camille agrees: Why was a clearly fraudulent BC offered in the first place? What adult cannot go to a desk or filing cabinet in his house and produce a birth certificate in a few minutes? Despite attempts to equate birthers (I am not one, BTW) with so-called "truthers," the simple fact is that the birthers whole conspiracy could be brought down by producing a single, entirely trivial piece of evidence.
Why isn't it?
Thanks. The statute in that complaint is only one of many that the TDP broke. They actually broke about 10 election laws.
To thinking people, yes. But to people who sign onto a candidate because of his "Legend," thinking is too much of a challenge. We must pity them. Most are victims of the American public school system.
Would the long form BC give his race?
He wouldn’t want to be known as white.
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