Birthers of a Nation & The Paranoid Style of American Liberalism

The National Review ^ | August 5, 2009 | Jonah Goldberg

[2ndDivisionVet]

Do they really think that the short-form COLB ginned up by Kos is real or are they spineless wimps? The Beltway seems to change so-called "conservatives" after a few years.

[hoosiermama]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307989/posts?page=1

[arthurus]

The conservatives in office are far fewer than those elected to office.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's possible that Obama & co. are playing a game of rope-a-dope. That explanation almost makes sense. The only other explanation for withholding the b.c., is that there's something to hide.

[TigersEye]

Dissent is patriotic!

0bama's failed policies demand dissent!

[dr_who]

Perhaps Clinton started this trend, but it seems that this president has pretty much replaced advocacy with agitprop. They really think that they can tar the opposition into submission and come out looking good. They’re all tactics, and they think they can lead the greatest country in the world this way.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It's possible that Obama & co. are playing a game of rope-a-dope. That explanation almost makes sense. The only other explanation for withholding the b.c., is that there's something to hide.

Here's the thing about conspiracies involving more than 3 or 4 people: they don't work. Someone always talks. If there were a particle of truth to it, the Clintons would have run Obama out of the race last year.

There's no conspiracy, there is nothing to hide. Obama wants the birther story to continue to discredit conservatives and grab attention from his own problems with health care and energy policy.

[autumnraine]

I am amazed that this one (at a glance bogus) birth certificate online has caused people go almost rabid in their insults of people who want to know the truth! I mean it’s one thing to say “I really don’t think that he was born anywhere but Hawaii”, but to go to the extremes that these people (including our own?) are going to call ridiculous names...

Am I missing something?

[Kells]

Here's the thing about conspiracies involving more than 3 or 4 people: they don't work. Someone always talks.

Somebody already has:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307989/posts

[Leonard210]

That knife cuts both ways.

[marron]

I don’t really need Jonah to defend me.

It would be nice if he had a clue. He has bought into the assumption that questioning the biography of the O makes you some kind of embarrassing hick from hick-town.

Its a very simple question. Where is his original birth certificate.

And what citizenship did he claim when he was in college.

Is this some kind of magic bullet that makes all our problems go away? Don’t worry about that. The president’s party controls congress. Just worry about whats in front of you. There is a big black hole where the president’s biography is supposed to be, and no one, and I mean no one in the media has any interest in filling it in.

That just strikes me as weird. Goldberg, you’re a big media guy. In between snappy columns (which I enjoy, by the way) how about asking a couple of questions out of turn? They’ll all act like you belched at the table, but what of it? Just ask, and enjoy the response you get as all the right people suddenly go apoplectic on you, and your job is suddenly on the line.

[Kells]

If there were a particle of truth to it, the Clintons would have run Obama out of the race last year.

LOL. The Clintons must have a hangar-size closet to fit all their skeletons.

[Kells]

how about asking a couple of questions out of turn? They’ll all act like you belched at the table, but what of it? Just ask, and enjoy the response you get as all the right people suddenly go apoplectic on you, and your job is suddenly on the line.

Jonah is no hick from hick-town. He knows better than to break ranks with the elite.

[JrsyJack]

It's possible that Obama & co. are playing a game of rope-a-dope. That explanation almost makes sense. The only other explanation for withholding the b.c., is that there's something to hide.

Seem to recall a fellow by the name of Ockham (Occam) had a rule of thumb about competing hypotheses.

[marron]

If you had something to hide you would certainly play it off as rope-a-dope.

[353FMG]

>>Do they really think that the short-form COLB ginned up by Kos is real or are they spineless wimps?<<

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It is not up to Kos to come up with 0’s short-form COLB — the fact that Kos even gets involved should be an indication to the American people, but most of all to Congress and SCOTUS, that there is something very rotten in this whole affair.

Yet, complete silence from our government.

[353FMG]

>>Obama wants the birther story to continue to discredit conservatives and grab attention from his own problems with health care and energy policy.<<

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And all that is worth almost a million dollars out of his own pocket?

[surfing_the_red_wave]

Republicans with conservatism will atleast take back the House in 2010.

[arthurus]

The Democrats will have at least a several % ACORN advantage everywhere and in some places ACORN is worth whatever % of the vote they need. Real voting had better be something like 60-40 in Republicans’ favor. If it is then the official result may be more like 51-49 and lots of elections will be tied up in the courts. I am not encouraged.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

And all that is worth almost a million dollars out of his own pocket?

If a million has been spent, it hasn't come out of Obama's pocket but those of his supporters.