You know, I agree with you here. I have two problems with the birthers.
First of all, it reeks of conspiracy cliches. It’s all about the “lone voices in the wilderness” (patent pending) who know “the ultimate truth” (tm), but they’re surrounded by the sheeple who meekly bow to “the evil powers that be” (Copyright expired). Never mind the fact that for this to have any merit, Obama’s parents would have to have psychic powers that would make Nostrodamus look like that weird hippy chick who gets drunk and stoned and then go around read people’s palms in a slurred voice at the Lilith Fair concert. It’s just that the birthers make such an easy target. Their rants are badly spelled and even more badly expressed. They’re inarticulate, they’re angry, and they give the rest of us a bad name.
Which brings me to the second problem I have with the birthers: Everything I listed above plays RIGHT into the hands of Obama (whom, let me remind you, I despise) and his cronies. Right. Into. Their. Hands!
I mean, I keep reading people’s posts asking why Obama just doesn’t release the documents. Why should he? The birther movement is a dream come true for this guy. Every post about his birth certificate is a post that’s not about the economy. Or the stimulus package. Or his plans for rogue nation states that are going to call him on his bad plays and not give in, even after he asks pretty please with Dane’s Geld on top. Moreover, every member of the military who refuses to follow orders reflects poorly on the rest of us. No, let me take that back. Not poorly. Abysmally. Yes, I know the guy’s a Freeper, and if you think that’s not going to come back and bite us on the recticular area, you are sadly mistaken. There aren’t many things scarier to the populace of a free country than the specter of the members of armed forces rising against a democratically elected government, and if Major Cook had actually intended on scaring Americans into voting for Obama in 2012, he could not have done a better job.
If you’re at all interested in my opinion, I think there are two possible reasons Obama isn’t releasing his birth certificate yet. One, he’s waiting for the birthers to majorly overextend themselves, after which he merely produces the certificate and makes us all look like fools even more than we’ve made ourselves. Two, I’m not sure what hospital staff names are on the birth certificate, attending doctor, midwife, clerical staff, but whoever has his or her name there is going to be hassled, harrassed, and hounded every bit as much as anyone whose name was connected to 9/11, however indirectly, has been tormented by the truthers, and Obama wishes to avoid that. On that, he and I are in perfect agreement.
So short version of the above: Birthers, if you want to hand the country to Obama in 3 1/2 years, then just keep it up. If you want to do something constructive that might actually get common sense back into the White House, then just grow up.