I understand that one of this week's talking points is to cry racism over the birth certificate issue. Like the Gates fiasco, you have to wonder (a) how dumb they actually think people are, and (b) why are they bringing out the heavy artillery if it is so open and shut? I realize that to Obama, and some of the leftwing drones here, everything is racial, but most people do not feel that way. The real heroes of the Gates thing to me were the black police officers who spoke from the heart about how wrong the president's accusations were. I'm just guessing that they have suffered more real racism as black cops in Boston than Obama has ever dreamed of in his privileged life. Anyway, claiming the birth issue is thinly disguised racism is pretty much an admission that you are incapable of rational thought. If insisting that a president meet the constitutional critieria for holding the office is racist, what else is now off the table? I'd have to say pretty much everything, which of course is what they want. Criticize obama on the government takeover of health care? Racism. Criticize obama's weak foreign policy? Racism. Cap and tax? Obviously racism.
The House feels the same about Obama "However, it appears Congress has moved on and has accepted Obama's island birthplace. The U.S. House on Monday unanimously approved a resolution recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii becoming the 50th state. A clause was included that reads: "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."
If I am not mistaken, you are referencing a House "resolution" which is nothing more than a Hallmark "greeting card" for the record..........There are resolutions extolling the virtues of a ham sandwich.
Not the birthers. The birthers will not accept Obama as their president. Perhaps now would be a good time for Palin to give her "real Americans" speech. (Remember that one?) Quick, someone get a flag.
Nah, there's no racism in America and there never was. Like "organized crime," it's just a mythical concept. So when a group of like minded "real Americans" decides that someone who is...not quite like them, not quite as "real" as they are, could not possibly be their president, well, it could not possibly have anything to do with race. The very idea is preposterous. All they want is for each and every birther to have the opportunity to see and touch Obama's birth certificate in person for him or herself. Maybe rub the paper a little. That sort of thing. What could be more reasonable?
I really don't see racism here. If his father had been a white South African for example, I think people would be having exactly the same reaction. You are acting like there is nothing unusual in the fact that his father was a kenyan student who abandoned his 18 year old mother and returned to kenya where he already had a wife and children, and his mother apparently was a free spirit who may have traveled to kenya while in the late stages of pregnancy. The fact that Hawaii seems to have an odd system of recording births without actual birth certificates is also relevant. I can see people saying nothing will ever come of this, i can see people saying it's been settled, and I can see reasonable people saying it hasn't been settled. What I can't see is saying the skeptics are racists.
I do love your wit, TDog..... Possibly some of my "birther" brothers would like to rub and touch the birth certificate, I will give you that. I would, however, offer that the overwhelming majority of "birthers" would settle for a system that checks for eligibility and compliance with the constitutional requirements for all federal office seekers, and that the system be transparent and open to public review. You know, sort of like when we "birthers" and our "regular people" socialist cousins try and cash a check, open a bank account, procure a drivers license, obtain professional licenses and credentials, etc., etc..