The right’s embarrassing uncle
Flat-Earther
Holocaust Denier
Global Warming Denier
HIV Denier
Tree Hugger
The above terms have long been used to describe groups of people who share common views on certain abstract or controversial subjects; these terms are almost always used in a pejorative manner.
Lately, another term has joined this infamous list. The term is Birther.
In order to qualify as a Birther, one must question whether or not our President, Barack Hussein Obama is a “natural born” citizen of the United States, and therefore constitutionally eligible to serve as President.
This phenomenon began during the 2008 Democrat primaries and has snowballed during the first seven and a half months of the Obama presidency. The “Birthers” main argument is based on the fact that Barack Obama has yet to release his original long-form birth certificate. The controversy was amplified early on when “Obama’s people” released what they called his birth certificate and posted it on his website. The document actually turned out to be a “certificate of live birth” and not an official birth certificate. When this ruse was pointed out, the Obama people took it off of the website.
For several months now, the Conservative website WorldNetDaily has dedicated most of its coverage to the birth certificate controversy. It has highlighted the various lawsuits over the issue, as well as the people who have been vocal in calling for the president to release his birth certificate. WorldNetDaily has pretty much been the lone wolf in reporting on this ongoing controversy.
For a long time, the corrupt mainstream media has pretty much just ignored the story completely. Just within the past month or so, they have finally started to talk about this issue, albeit in a very narrow scope. Predictably, the media has used this issue to show how hateful and racist those whacky conservatives are. The stories that they run are filled with mocking sarcasm usually relegated towards people who claim to have been abducted by space aliens.
Much like the mainstream media, the “conservative media” (Fox News, talk radio, conservative pundits and authors) has pretty much tried to ignore the story as well. More recently, many in the conservative media have come out and tried to distance themselves from the issue and the people who are pushing it. Bill O’Reilly has recently poh-pohed the issue and even went as far as to claim that he had investigated the charges months ago and found them to have no merit. What O’Reilly leaves out is the facts from his investigation, and his reasons for considering the charges to be baseless. What happened to “we report – you decide?”
Other “conservatives” who have spoken out and tried to distance themselves from the Birthers are Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Michael Medved, Glenn Beck, and even Ann Coulter.
Glenn Beck and others have said that even if it were proven true that Obama was not a natural born citizen, it wouldn’t matter because he would never be thrown out of office anyway. What………..?
Yeah Glenn, I’m sure that most American people would be OK with the president lying to the whole country about his place of birth!
I fail to understand the logic behind some conservative thinking which claims that Obama is a liar and is deceiving the American people about his intentions and his true beliefs. They claim that Obama has consistently lied about his associations with Anti-American radicals such as William Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. They claim that Obama has lied about his intentions and aspirations for a “single-payer” healthcare system. They claim that Obama is being dishonest about his affinity for Socialism. Yet, these same conservatives somehow believe that he would draw the line in lying about his birth and/or eligibility.
Go figure……
President Obama is the most secretive president in the history of our nation. We really know very little about his life and beliefs before he became a public figure. We don’t know anything about his college days at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. We don’t have access to any articles, papers, or opinions he has written, even though he was the editor of the renowned Harvard Law Review. We don’t have access to his files from his days as an Illinois State Senator, and we don’t have his medical records. President Obama has systematically blocked the media from all access of information regarding his past. Not that the mainstream media is really that interested anyway.
Last, but not least, President Obama has steadfastly refused to release his original long-form birth certificate that supposedly proves he was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. In fact, he has spent close to a million dollars in legal fees to fight lawsuits and to block people from viewing his birth certificate. It’s also a bit strange that the media doesn’t seem that interested in where the money for these legal fees is coming from. Is he using his own personal funds? Is he using money from one of his PACs? Who is paying these legal fees?
I can easily understand why the American-left wouldn’t care about Obama’s eligibility. I’m smart enough to realize that they don’t give a rat’s behind about our constitution. In fact, they despise our constitution and would be very happy if it were scrapped. What sort of baffles me is the refusal of most of the “conservative media” to treat this issue seriously. It actually seems like they’re somewhat embarrassed that some conservatives and constitutionalists are talking about this. It’s kind of like being embarrassed over your eccentric uncle’s belief in the existence of Big-Foot, the Mothman, and the Loch Ness Monster.
I don’t claim to know what the true story is behind the birth certificate issue, but I believe that it’s something that we as American citizens have a right to see. What possible reason would Obama have in not releasing it and making fools of all the “whackos” who have been pushing the issue? Why wouldn’t Obama love to ruin the credibility of the hated right-wing WorldNetDaily? None of the people who mock the Birthers have come up with a reasonable explanation to these questions.
The Left continues to be amused and outraged, while the right continues to be embarrassed. Meanwhile, the concern of millions of Americans for our precious constitution is looked upon as being whacky.
Please Scotty, beam me up already!
