This needs to stop.
The fact that the “birther” movement has regained steam thanks to some persistent radical right-wingers is incredibly disheartening to me, and hopefully most rational conservatives. It has really gotten out of control lately, and frankly, I’m mystified as to why this hasn’t died yet. I would mention the main offending site, but I just don’t feel that it deserves mentioning here.
Now, I’m no Obamapologist (sorry for that) but the man is our President for the next three and a half years, so deal with it. That’s how the system worked. We lost the election, and as I’ve said before I think we deserved the outright shellacking delivered to our doorstep last November. I can’t help but feel that this birther movement is just some pent-up frustration looking for any possible outlet, no matter how ridiculous, and it’s found that outlet by insisting that President Obama can’t be president because he wasn’t born here.
“BUT HE WASN’T BORN IN THE US!!! BY THE CONSTITUTION, HE CAN’T BE PRESIDENT!!!”, they say in a completely rational voice, always at speaking volume.
Incorrect, my friend. Actually, I would just call you my acquaintance, I’d rather not be too closely associated with you.
“But factcheck.org is a liberal institution which only seeks to propagate the myth that Barack Hussein Obama was born here so he can institute a socialist government influenced by foreign sources…and his middle name is Hussein, for God’s sake.”
I don’t even know what to do with these kinds of comments. There are people out there, members of the voting public, that believe in this nonsense. HE WAS BORN HERE. Get over it.
I’m so disappointed that this is the level that so many so-called conservatives have stooped to. Yes, I realize that our elected officials are distancing themselves from these people, and that these “birthers” don’t represent the core conservative beliefs, but they are getting a whoooole lot of press. This terrifies me.
I refuse to be associated with this madness. I’m no fan of the President’s policies, but all of the evidence that allows him to be President of the United States is rather clear cut. Some people just love to believe in conspiracies, as we discussed last time. There are people in this country that do not recognize Barack Obama as President because they believe his birth certificate is a forgery – it’s scary how many people believe this.
There are plenty of other reasons to disagree with President Obama – but let’s focus on the policies, not some hacked-together conspiracy theory that only the fringe is following.
Or, who knows, they might be right. After all, the moon landing was faked, LBJ killed Kennedy, George H.W. Bush helped establish the New World Order, and George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld organized 9/11. Oh, and we kept it all a pretty good secret. You know, the same government that can’t fund a cash-for-clunkers program for more than 4 days. The same government with more leaks than a pirate ship made out of cheesecloth.
In closing, any shipbuilder that makes a pirate ship out of cheesecloth should find a new profession.
