The other day I saw an interview with Alan Keyes broadcast on Keith Olbermann's Countdown where Keyes kept harping on the legitimacy of President Obama's office because supposedly Obama's birth certificate couldn't be found, implying dirty work afoot to prevent the revelation that Obama wasn't a citizen. He even suggested that there were some military officers questioning whether or not they should consider our President their Commander-In-Chief. Keith turned to one of his regular pundits, Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, who played it down mainly because of Keyes' fringe status.
However, I just saw footage of Senator Richard Shelby, a powerful force indeed, also parrot this escalating narrative of the legitimacy of President Obama's station. I got so angry I googled Shelby's email and wrote the following missive:
Your remarks regarding the legitimacy of an elected president, questioning whether or not he is a citizen of the United States, is shameful, disingenuous, dishonest and (dare I say it?) almost treasonous [Richard Wolfe's word, used on Keith]. If a sitting Democratic Senator had questioned the legitimacy of George W. Bush's right to the Presidency in 2001 because he was chosen by the Supreme Court, you might have accused him using the same adjectives I am applying to you.
The same institution which legitimized President Bush also upheld President Obama's citizenship. In case you ignored it, here is the link to his birth certificate.
Using the power of your office to undermine a new President, elected by a considerable majority of the American people, is horrendous. You are only pandering to the vicious mobs that attended Republican rallies during the Presidential campaign, lustily shouting, "Kill him!" when now-President Obama's name was invoked.
Is this how you want to be remembered? Is this your legacy?
Let's get out the counternarrative to this garbage. Write Shelby, who was Chairman of the Banking Committee during President Bush's tutelage and perhaps applied the same scrutiny to the banks as he did to Obama's birth certificate.