Obama Tricked Birthers into acting Crazy

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Dear Jonah Goldberg: Obama did not sucker you guys into becoming birthersby Jed Lewison .

Former Glenn Beck Show guest Jonah Goldberg

Conservative "thought leader" Jonah Goldberg:

I haven’t studied the just released PDF of Obama’s birth certificate. But assuming there’s nothing in there about a birthmark that resembles the numbers “666” or about how his father worked for the KGB and — of course — assuming that the font in question matches typewriters of the time (Let’s get Dan Rather on that): I figure this puts the birther thing to bed once and for all. Good.

But it does raise the perplexing question: If this was possible all along, why did the WH take such sweet time releasing it? Could it be that this White House, continuing a tactic used by Democrats for years, actually liked being able to cast their opponents — often through guilt by association — as paranoid nuts? No, that couldn’t possibly be it.

Obviously, Goldberg's suggestion that there was a grand conspiracy to sucker right-wingers into becoming paranoid nuts is laughable on it's face. At least he acknowledges there are paranoid nuts on the right, but saying Democrats are to blame for their creation? Whatever happened to the conservative mantra about how people are responsible for their own decisions?

As silly as his idea is, Goldberg is not alone: Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich have made the same claim.

It's worth pointing out that the fundamental assumption of this theory is that before today, it was reasonable to have doubts about President Obama's place of birth.

Goldberg, for example, expressed his hope that the long-form birth certificate would finally put "the birther thing" to bed "once and for all." But while implicit in Goldberg's statement is the notion that even this might not be enough, the truth is the question of Obama's birthplace has already been put to bed "once and for all," and nothing we learned today changes that. The long-form birth certificate doesn't prove anything that hasn't already been proven, because the case was already bullet proof.

So while Goldberg (and Rove and Gingrich) think Obama didn't release it before in order to lure Republicans into lunacy, the fact is that with or without today's release there was no basis upon which to believe those birther conspiracy theories.

Put another way, it's no less reasonable to be a birther today than it was yesterday. Nothing fundamental has changed. Note that I'm not saying it's reasonable to be a birther. It's not. It's crazy beyond belief.

But according to these so-called conservative leaders, it was reasonable, and somehow it was Obama's fault. That's simply insane. It's no wonder that lunatics dominate so much of the Republican Party. For the good of the country, they really need to get their act together. America has got real problems. It's time for them to start addressing them. Unfortunately, there's little reason to believe that they will

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Ten suspicious things about Obama’s birth certificate

10. It’s headed “President Obama’s Birth Certificate”

9. The attending physician’s name is listed as “Dr. Demento”

8. The address given for Obama’s mother is actually that of Jack Lord’s house

7. It’s scratch-’n’-sniff

6. The street name, “Kalanianole,” is Hawaiian for “take this, combover boy!”

5. It’s printed on the back of an 8” X 10” of Tom Selleck

4. Curiously enough, both the doctor and local registrar were old poker buddies of Jack Ruby

3. His mother’s occupation is listed as “some kind of academic social-science bullsh*t”

2. It turns out that doctor died under mysterious circumstances last year at the age of 106

1. Obama’s father? Don Ho

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Obama Tricked Birthers into acting Crazy

How do you trick crazy people into acting their part? Or why would you need to?

6. The street name, “Kalanianole,” is Hawaiian for “take this, combover boy!”

Edited April 28, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Ten suspicious things about Obama’s birth certificate

10. It’s headed “President Obama’s Birth Certificate”

9. The attending physician’s name is listed as “Dr. Demento”

8. The address given for Obama’s mother is actually that of Jack Lord’s house

7. It’s scratch-’n’-sniff

6. The street name, “Kalanianole,” is Hawaiian for “take this, combover boy!”

5. It’s printed on the back of an 8” X 10” of Tom Selleck

4. Curiously enough, both the doctor and local registrar were old poker buddies of Jack Ruby

3. His mother’s occupation is listed as “some kind of academic social-science bullsh*t”

2. It turns out that doctor died under mysterious circumstances last year at the age of 106

1. Obama’s father? Don Ho

LOL

[Danno 1,228]

IF this "Birther thing" was working for Dems...... at some point it soon blew up on them.

as USA Today reported yesterday, only 38% of AMericans were certain Obama was born in the USA.

Clearly Trump was winning and it got to the point where the WH could no longer get their items covered anymore.

[Peikko 1,575]

IF this "Birther thing" was working for Dems...... at some point it soon blew up on them.

as USA Today reported yesterday, only 38% of AMericans were certain Obama was born in the USA.

Clearly Trump was winning and it got to the point where the WH could no longer get their items covered anymore.

What exactly was Trump winning? I do not think it's an especially proud moment for the US. This essentially means that 68% of the population are easily manipulated by media celebrities. Not that it's new for celebrities to sway public opinion. Talking of, I see the scientologists have bought some more media real estate in Hollywood. Another financially prudent move

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I cannnot decide which side is happy about this and which is sad. It is probably the most non-issue-issue I have ever heard of politically.

[Peikko 1,575]

I cannnot decide which side is happy about this and which is sad. It is probably the most non-issue-issue I have ever heard of politically.

You honestly believe you didn't have a horse in the race on this issue don't you? The fact that you thought the only way to clear up the 'controversy' was to 'release' the long form of the birth certificate proves otherwise.

Obama is a fool to pander to the likes of people like you who think there was any doubt of his legitimacy at all.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

IF this "Birther thing" was working for Dems...... at some point it soon blew up on them.

as USA Today reported yesterday, only 38% of AMericans were certain Obama was born in the USA.

Clearly Trump was winning and it got to the point where the WH could no longer get their items covered anymore.

If 38% of Americans don't trust the process for vetting presidential candidates, that's just embarrassing. Clearly a lot of people in your country have deep seated issues.

[Pooky 3,848]

IF this "Birther thing" was working for Dems...... at some point it soon blew up on them.

As USA Today reported yesterday, only 38% of Americans were certain Obama was born in the USA.

Clearly Trump was winning and it got to the point where the WH could no longer get their items covered anymore.

If 38% of Americans don't trust the process for vetting presidential candidates, that's just embarrassing. Clearly a lot of people in your country have deep seated issues.

Worse than that, it's that only 38% of Americans do trust the vetting process.

[sly_wolf 199]

If 38% of Americans don't trust the process for vetting presidential candidates, that's just embarrassing. Clearly a lot of people in your country have deep seated issues.

Don't just a little more than that vote?