Like when we suggest that Reagan was a meth-addicted tranny, or Wm. F. Buckley was an agent of a Jesuit conspiracy, they just take it in stride, don’t get bent out of shape.
This is precious beyond words. The real problem with “birtherism” isn’t the drooling batshittery of its true-believer proponents, or the fact that’s it’s an absurd lie being promulgated on the naive and racist for purely partisan ends, to de-legitimize a democratically elected President rather than focus on his actual platform. It’s that the Left is somewhat annoyed by it.
Umm…because they are wackos and they are deserving of whatever derision has been heaped on them.
At the very least they’re idiots who aren’t going to let themselves be swayed by the facts. And, even if you could somehow convince them that Obama was born in Hawaii, they’d just pull some other bullshit theory out of their asses about why he’s not a citizen -like the bullshit theory that states since his dad was a British subject, that makes him British. I guess by that reasoning, Donald Trump wouldn’t be eligible for the presidency either, since his mother is Scottish.
Scottish? I thought he was Jamaican!
CMC fnord!
What I don’t understand is why it’s such a big deal to you that you are called a racist? If it’s a bullshit claim, then it’s a bullshit claim and should therefore be easily blowoffable. But no. Just saying that you are a racist sends you into spasms of indignation, hatred, and name calling. If you are so truly convinced that you are in the clear on this, why is it such a big deal to you?
I could keep going, but I’m relatively sure you’ve gotten the point. I’ll also add that I’m not sure why the whole birther thing should only bother people on the left. It’s an attempt to delegitimize a president based on nothing more than iditiotic disproven rumors. It’s also completely fucking wrong. Maybe it’s just because he’s not “your” president or because you’d clearly clean Donald Trumps asshole with your tongue. Maybe it’s just because the loonies that are doing it are on your side of the aisle. Kind of like that kooky molesting uncle that everyone on your side if the family knows is harmless as long as you keep the kids away from him when he’s had a few. Or it’s not a big deal to you because you’re a racist.
You didn’t read what you quoted, did you?
Originally Posted by Susanann
What the heck are you talking about?
Are you saying that a photo of my drivers license posted on the internet is not good enough for the police to use instead of a real copy of my driver license?
Why are YOU! saying that a photo on the internet is not good enough?
I am not sure everyone here completely understands what and who the** “birthers”** are.
Broadly speaking, anyone who does not totally, completely, and exclusively accept a photo image of anyone’s document (including obama) that is posted on the internet to be as good as viewing an original document in person…is a “birther”.
If YOU don’t accept obama’s posted document image and if you dont also accept my document posted electronic image as a totally valid legal substitute for the physical document, then necessarily you are a birther.
Beautiful.
You have, of course, personally verified the birth certificate of every president in your lifetime except Obama. Haven’t you?
Yes. Idiots who cannot evaluate evidence as they are blinded by their psychopartisan nature.
No. People who are birthers are ignoring a host of evidence, both physical, legal, and logical in favor of a ludicrous fantasy that doesn’t even pass the sniff test out of the gate.
Wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. A failure of an argument on so many levels I don’t know where to begin.
While Trump has his army of investigators romping across Hawaii (no doubt staying away from the beaches whilst they work), is he aware of the birth announcement posted in both Honolulu newspapers in August 1961?
One would think that simple fact would cut all this birther nonsense in its tracks. One would think. If one had any common sense. Then one does a quick Google search just to nail down the actual images and dates and whatnot …
The arguments from birthers about the newspapers announcements literally made my IQ drop by a dozen points. Ye gods, people … it’s a freakin’ birth announcement! I used to work in newspapers, I kinda know how this thing works. Claiming it was ‘altered’ or ‘planted’ or ‘warped in from another dimension’ (okay, I made that last one up, but it makes as much sense as the other arguments) is loony talk. How can ANYONE … ANYONE with two functioning brain cells … take any of this seriously?
I weep for our future. Which I have seen, since I’m just here to plant a birth announcement for our President-for-Life, who shall be anointed by mass acclamation in 2056. Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone!
That wouldn’t happen to be President Camacho, would it?
Given that SA twice has jumped into threads to lend his support to birther trolls, it’s presumably not just an excess of Trump-love that motivates him.
Not that I care, but that doesn’t establish much:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/opinion/lweb08trump.html?_r=3
'cause, you know, his Mother being an American citizen wasn’t good enough…
My God, are you stupid to have posted that.
I like the construction “but some feel the grandparents put an ad in order…”.
The idea is so silly not even Trump will actually take ownership of it. He has to attribute it the always mysterious “some people”
Yeah, but you’re retarded. Just like your mother, nah nah nah nahnah 
Although they apparently didn’t want to be a US citizen badly enough for Obama’s mama to simply stay in the US in the first place…
“Man this country is really poor and shitty, what should we do to ensure a better life for our child?”
“I know! Let’s put out a notice in a Hawaiian newspaper to trick people forty years from now that he is eligible to be President of the United States.”