Its amusing how much obsessive energy goes into questioning the birth certificate of Obama by Tea Party advocates. I didn’t vote for Obama as much out of respect for McCain as for my innate distrust of Obama’s redistribution of wealth plans. That said, I can also smell the whiff of racism in the tea-bagger birthers take back the country campaign which is really synonymous with tired, old white guys who despise Obama’s dark skin. The birther issue, much like the 9-11 conspiracy theory, was fueled as much by distrust, paranoia and wishful thinking by birthers than being based on any real factual information.
Same can be said of Tea Party zeal for going after the unions for all of the nation’s troubles. Of course, all of the fools are just spouting the words of the Rupert Murdoch funded conservative Fox News propaganda machine. You don’t hear nearly as much vitriol regarding the TARP funds and where the money went into billion dollar bonuses for fund managers and widows. The Fox News dogs heed their master fairly well and frankly nobody on either side of the political spectrum really knows what to make of the TARP mess. Like the remains at Gilgo the consequences of the TARP episode will take time to expose and by then the trail will have grown considerably colder.
However; tea part advocates need not fear about lacking appropriate family fare entertainment now that the germaphobic, people firing, liberal entremanurial publicity machine called Donald Trump announced his entry to an already colorful field of Republican presidential aspirants. And boy does he knows how to work a conservative Tea Party audience particularly by stoking this birther nonsense. I give Trump credit for taking China on and how uneven the competitive manufacturing playing field is with China but the rest of his platform borders on sheer lunacy.
Why lunacy? Well, let’s look at one of Trump’s foreign policy initiatives and you can forget about calling Trump a cowboy; his take on the Mideast oilfield strategy would make even a foreign policy cowboy like George Bush blush in its sheer audacity! To quote Donald about the Iraq oil fields, “You’re taking– we’re reimbursing ourselves– at least, at a minimum, and I say more. We’re taking back $1.5 trillion to reimburse ourselves (for the Iraq war).” Let’s see, we are going to invade and decimate your country, kill thousands of your citizens for non-existent WMDs and then charge you back for the privilege because… well we’re America and we can! What a deal and as only The Donald can pitch to a world-wide audience! This guy is a genius, I don’t care what they say about his cross-weaved combover being “an elaborate structure best left to an architecture critic”.
And is that the real problem with going off the political deep end with the Donald , we just don’t get to have the real conversation about social entitlements and how do we go about equitably cutting them back? Instead, we get more side-show snake oil entertainment from a carnival barker. Fret not however; Trump’s team of crack investigators will soon get to the bottom of the Obama birth certificate mystery, whether you gave a damn or not!
Latest News:
“Well I’ve been told very recently, Anderson, that the birth certificate is missing,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday. “I’ve been told that it’s not there or it doesn’t exist. And if that’s the case it’s a big problem.”
Latest word is Trump now wants to see Obama’s college grades in addition to his birth certificate. Obama should agree but with the caveat that Trump must release a video on his hair styling techniques. Enquiring minds want to know!
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA RELEASES LONG-FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE! NOW WHAT WILL BIRTHERS DO!
The GOP is like the “Chicken Littles” always saying that the “Sky is Falling”, like the same ones that were the “Chicken Hawks” (“W” Wars), big talk no courage. The United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We’re apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it’s not the doom of United States leadership, its the triumph of the American way.
Generations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and our unions!), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what the “Chicken Littles” keep saying about our nation. Never Bet Against the United States!
Our current President travelled under a USA passport long before he was elected President, but I guess the quacky BIRTHERS, must believe that the USCIS – United States Passport was in on the lie, please, grow up, you are wrong! Remember when some contractors were busted during the “George W. Bush” administration for looking at our current President passport file (how quick you forget).
http://swampland.blogs.time.com.
The Birthers just HATE and can’t debate!
Have any of the quacky BIRTHERS presented any credible proof that will standup in court? Answer: No
Have any of the quacky BIRTHERS won any Court Cases? Answer: No
They are just mainly backward, uneducated, white people who HATE our half black President.
The majority of the voting public ask “where the proof”, show some proof BIRTHERS or the voting majority will continue to see you as dumb, stupid or racist, maybe all three. Can you blame them?
Still, I really hope one of these retreads and blowhards runs for president, not because they have a chance of winning but because I like to see the train wreck that they will cause.
Faux News Candidates:
former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ”The I graduated Early”,
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. “The I Love The Interns”,
former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “The Huckster Reverend”,
former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. “The I Love the Gays”,
former UN Ambassador John Bolton “The I Love The War ”
I Finance Myself:
real estate celebrity developer, Donald Trump, “I took my Casino into Bankruptcy, just imagine where I can Take the US”
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “The Flip-Flopping Fudger”,
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush “The I Am Not My “Dumb Ass” Brother”,
Employed Long Shots:
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. “The History, I Don’t Need No Stink’n History”,
Mississippi Gov./ former tobacco lobbyist, Haley Barbour “The last White Hope”
I don’t think birthers are necessarily backward and uneducated but they are angry and demoralized and have lost the most to the great recession. Unfortunately, their anger is misguided and their movement is being manipulated by the neo-cons.
You’re right on Pastabagel, the birthers’ are a cerleftion of the breakdown of Truth in the political sphere. There is a basic distrust of public statement of any kind- and this distrust, the total victory of the most vapid and disastrous forms of irony, immediately bled into our legal system. We became a nation that tortured (with a public debate about what torture’ means replacing outcry against it, despite torture being a much easier word to define than the oft ridiculed what is’ is Clintonian dissembling, which certainly helped pave the way for Bush’s insidious truthiness), held prisoners without trial, assassinated enemies of the president, went to war w/out calling it such, etc. Truth, as it is agreed upon by a judicial system (theoretically) upheld and controlled by the people, is the backbone of legal authority in a democracy- the Bush DOJ realized that as truth had failed to prevent them from taking executive power, they could probably get away with war crimes unthinkably grotesque to any president proceeding Bush (and now, with Obama’s continuation, standard Washington practice), as long as they could keep the argument from happening on a field in which truth plays a role.Goebbels’ lie big enough told long enough is not necessary- as long as you confuse the debate to the point of stalemate over semantics, you win the fight. This is a media strategy learned from advertising- the point is not to win an informed argument but to arouse emotional distress to the point of confusion over needs, desire, and truth. Once you reduce truth to a question of opinion, debate to an insuperable conflict between binary desires, you never have to fight on the level of actuality.