Posted on 07/24/2009 8:11:57 PM PDT by pissant
n case you don't watch cable news (an excellent idea), you might have missed the explosion of stories on the birthers, those folks who are determined that Barack Obama can't be president because there's a massive commie conspiracy involving his birth certificate. Somehow very respected conservatives have decided to throw in their lot with them.
These people are nuts. If Republicans want to be a national party and not a repository for wingnut conspiracy theorists angry about everything, they will loudly denounce the birthers and move on. Say, with actual health care, climate change and economic proposals.
Here's a quick roundup of the insanity. Feel free to post more in ye olde comments (which also tends to be a repository for wingnuts):
Poor U.S. Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), who would make a great senator.
There is an actual birther bill in Congress with something like 10 sponsors.
Liz Cheney stokes the flames.
Convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy is somehow still treated with credibility.
Let's overthrow the government because our guy lost.
Count the alleged Holocaust Museum killer as a member.
Fox News gives them credibility.
Lou Dobbs dons his best tin-foil hat.
Even Wikipedia is against them. (They're all against you).
Thank God for Jon Stewart.
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OK, Dumass, the BC is out. Kindly provide his scholastic records, from the madrassa in Indonesia through Harvard Law. Don’t forget the scholarship applications, and the financial records showing who paid for his education.
Easy enough to make it go away.
Lol, some really great images of obozo showing up more and more lately. Can’t imagine them getting any worse - but we can hope!
“Convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy is somehow still treated with credibility.”
Libs are champions of second chances
unless they don’t like your politics.
Connections problems on FR again too
It's getting old
I had an email ‘run-in’ with my brother’s wife today. She wrote and said two of my political email were proved lies by Snopes!!
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She is a leftie/enabler
She will never change
I would not waste my time on her
We all have relatives or aquaintances they are missing in the gray matter department or that are sleeper or - “moderates” - lefties that will always blame you or a conservative
Send them a Christmas card and move.on
You are going overboard, she is not, nor has she ever been a leftie enabler. They are as against Obama as we are.
They are very conservative but they don’t stay on the computer reading all that we do. She trusted Snopes to tell the truth as probably the majority of people have.
And - I’m sure that many things we are reading and believing right now may turn out not to be true.
The ‘grey matter’ involves much more than politics devolve. I don’t toss away family or friends who are good to me and love me.
Oh man, good one. Dumb ass. The crow should change her name.
AOL commie news is running a poll cited elsewhere showing around eighty percent of respondents presently want Obama to show his birth certificate. Most objective people would answer that way.
And as for their term “birthers,” used as a putdown like “Birchers” used to be, that won't have the punch the latter term had in a time of media fragmentation and the unwillingness they have to show to protect the messiah. They aren't sure of the truth either, and their reaction is purely partisan.
Most Republicans are playing both sides of the street on this, which is very smart. That's why the Dems and their water carriers want them to renounce and denounce. Ultimately, it hurts O, because it's one little hanging issue that will continue to linger.
Leftists have always been about diversion. They have gotten good at it since Saul Alinsky. They can use the color of the sky or green trees it doesn’t matter.
exactly!
I am inclined to believe there is nothing to be gained by it but shouldn't we at the very least change the way politicians run for office such as properly checking the credentials from now on?
Agreed.
The other point is the Dems were already running hearings against McCain since he was born in Panama. They would have gone crazy on this issue as well so they are being hypocritical. I saw Matthews on youtube interviewing Cong. Campbell who lightly touched on this point - he should have attacked Matthews hard on the double standard.
Frankly, I think Barack is hiding too much history - and that is a real issue. This should be framed in the secrecy of his past because there are things he is hiding about his record. There seems to be a potential for bad info on his family which he is also hiding. Where’s all this ‘transparency’?
At first I thought the Birth Certificate thing was a tin foil hat thingy too. Now, I am beginning to think there is a real story here. And the more the communists label birthers right wing nut jobs, the more I am inclined to side with the birthers. What really gets me, is not just the sealed long form B.C. it’s all the sealed documentation from B.C. to grad school. That’s alot of documentation to seal, and curious minds would like to know why? What is Obama hiding?
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