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Conservatives Must Denounce the Insane Birther Movement
As the American public gradually turns away from Obamaism, the Obama Administration is on the ropes. But instead of taking the opportunity presented to proclaim the conservative vision to the American people, some Republican leaders have opted to latch on to wild conspiracy theories promoted by the fringes of the Republican Party. Or, at the very least, some of our leaders have allowed such wild theories to fester by not proactively combating and denouncing them.
Just last month, for instance, Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan Administration Defense Department official and purported conservative intellectual, actually wrote in The Washington Times that Barack Obama might very well be a secret Muslim. Among Gaffney’s “mounting evidence” was the fact that President Obama referred to the Koran as the “holy Koran” during his June speech in Cairo, Egypt. It’s called pandering, Mr. Gaffney. It no more helps prove that President Obama is a secret Muslim than President Bush speaking in Spanish to a Latino audience proves he is a “secret Hispanic.”
Closely associated with this Obama conspiracy theory, is the “Birther” conspiracy theory that alleges that Obama is not eligible to be president because he was not born in the United States. Despite proof from the state of Hawaii that Barack Obama was actually born there, these nuts argue that he was actually born in Kenya.
I suppose all of this could be possible. That is, if you believe that 48 years ago, a group of Islamists conspired to take over America by making Barack Obama president. Having the incredible foresight in the 1960s too see that a black man would be the obvious choice for president of the United States in 2008, their strategy would be to hide his foreign and Muslim identity by having his parents name him Barack Hussein Obama. Somehow, they knew this young child would be smart and talented enough to get into elite colleges and become the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. The men behind this clever movement to take over America wisely encouraged a young Barack to take drugs in his youth and then to later write about his drug-taking days in a memoir because, presciently, they understood that writing about one’s drug-taking past is usually a successful presidential strategy.
Whether people who propagate the Barack Obama is a Muslim/non-American citizen theory realize it or not, this is basically what they are suggesting. It is clinical insanity.
Conservative commentators, leaders and thinkers have a responsibility to denounce idiocy put forward under the conservative banner. And make no mistake, these theories are textbook examples of idiocy.
Republicans and conservatives have a real opportunity to take back the country in 2010 and 2012. But we aren’t going to do it through outlandish conspiracies.
[This post was adapted from my North Star column Conservatives Must Denounce Right-Wing Nuttery]
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Is it clinical insanity for the American people to want to know who their president is and where he came from?
Mr Obama REFUSES to release virtually all his past records. It would be a simple matter to make all the things available that virtually EVERY OTHER President from either party has always done in the past. I personally believe he will never do that because he has too much to hide. People with nothing to hide don't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep "nothing" hidden.
So who is clinically insane? People who simply want to know WHO is the man sitting in the oval office or the people who listened to the pied piper of "CHANGE" and blindly took the nation over a cliff??
You Sir are a liar. The Hawaiian Dept of Health has the original birth certificate on file but refuses to release it without Obama's authority. Nobody has seen it, and certainly not you, CNN, Fact Check, Snopes, Bill O'Reiilly or anyone.
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On October 31st 2008 Doctor Fukino issued the following press release:
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai’i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures. (http://24ahead.com/hawaii-department-health-103108-press-release-about-obama-bi)
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Of course, if Obama would sign a release, this whole thing would dissapear overnight.
If you were even half a real journalist, you would be investigatting as to why he doesn't take this simple step.
You Sir are a liar. The Hawaiian Dept of Health has the original birth certificate on file but refuses to release it without Obama's authority. Nobody has seen it, and certainly not you, CNN, Fact Check, Snopes, Bill O'Reiilly or anyone.
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On October 31st 2008 Doctor Fukino issued the following press release:
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai’i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures. (http://24ahead.com/hawaii-department-health-103108-press-release-about-obama-bi)
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Of course, if Obama would sign a release, this whole thing would dissapear overnight.
If you were even half a real journalist, you would be investigatting as to why he doesn't take this simple step.
We need more real Americans writing blogs, not fancy pants and bow tie wearing fairies like you. You Log Cabin Republicans are a disgrace to the party and to God!
Love the Michael Jackson jokes though. Keep those coming!
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