Following a link from The Huffington Post, I was drawn into an article written by Andrew Walden at FrontPage Magazine.
At first, I was relieved to see that some of these freeper types were coming to their sense about the "birther" nonsense. This one was even calling for others to follow his lead in dropping the meme altogether! But then I got to the meat and potatoes of the article: That the whole birth certificate conspiracy was drawn up by Obama, perpetrated to distract attention from the REAL problem: those far-left wackos Obama had hung out with in his youth.
That article starts:
A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama’s upbringing.
And pretty much goes downhill from there. For a nice writeup on the article itself, click on over to Jason Linkin's nice column at HuffPo. I'll wait.
But the thing that really hit me were the comments following the article. Actually, I was quite surprised on the whole by the rationality of most of the posters there...almost showing that they may have grown a brain between them. That impression, of course, had to wait until after I could regain my sense of balance after reading the first comment there:
Blacks are ashamed of black ancestors.
All blacks wish they were white, or something else, rather than being black. White means intelligence and progress. Even Mohammad Ali is not fully black. Even Wacko Jacko has a new face and a white skin. That says a lot about the black mentality. If Obama did not have a white mother, he would never have been noticed.
But then there are others in the birther movement who will not go quietly into that good night:
BHO Citizenship
Frankly I don't care if Obama was born on the top of the capitol dome in full sight of both of houses of Congress - he's still not a citizen. His mother wasn't old enough to pass on citizenship at 17 when she bore him and his father wasn't a citizen. Period. End of story. He is a phony. Period. ....
The whole thing is done when the appropriate birth certificate is produced. I have had to produce mine several times and so have you. You are saying the wrong thing to the wrong people. Get over it Obama is a liar and a cheat and he hires liars and cheats. Trust but verify.
There is nothing to see here. Andrew has come up with nothing. He has nothing. He has been Pimped by the long-legged Mac Daddy and quite frankly he's made a fool of himself.
So we have just got to continue with trying to get this guy dragged away in chains, just as the constitution would have it, and the sooner you people have a new election the better, so as to stop this Marxist Usurper wrecking your dollar, your country, and your society.
Why am I supposed to believe that this explanation is more compelling than that he has something to hide regarding the circumstances of his birth and perhaps his natural born citizenship status? I don't know for sure that Obama is not a natural born citizen and that is not what I (and many so-called "birthers") are alleging. I'm simply stating that he has not produced the best available evidence - his vault certificate - to so demonstrate. This fact in and of itself is suspicious.
And the list goes on and on and on. Almost makes me feel sorry for them. But not really.