House of Eratosthenes

I don’t think my eyeballs can roll as much as is called for…but…current theory: Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii. But, being a lifelong left-wing hacktivist just like Professor Elizabeth Warren, He’s had a habit of doing the Elizabeth Warren thing which is to boast of diversity credentials He doesn’t really have.

And, if certain college transcripts and other papers were to be made available to the public, we’d see a whole lot of other professors, editors and clerks ‘fessing up to “fact checking error[s] by me.”

We have the “home country” thing…

We have “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate” — and now we have this.

Somewhere around the 2005 to 2007 timeframe, Obama, just like Prof. Warren, stopped checking the box. And that’s where my thinking is: This is a box that should never have been checked. She’s a white girl without a drop of Cherokee blood in her, and He was born in Honolulu.

But they both did check the boxes. In Obama’s case, there’s just a lot more effort involved in hiding the evidence of what He was saying about Himself…no, I don’t think He was born in Kenya. But I’m not going to presume people are crazy for thinking He was, when it looks like He Himself was insisting on exactly that just a few years ago. It isn’t just one thing. It’s now up to three things. And, it looks like it would be up to a whole lot more than that, were Obama’s life not so thoroughly shrouded in secrecy.

And frankly, people who are trying to perpetuate that stigma, whether they’re being compensated for doing so for not, should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Who the heck are you to call them these dirty names? Were you there, in Honolulu, back in ’61?

Much of this is damage being done to Obama by Obama Himself. He’s got this habit going — and it’s bigger than a personal habit, it’s like a whole culture that surrounds all of the people, who in turn surround Him: “We’re too good to ever directly answer any questions” I guess you’d call it. Why did it take so long to produce the birth certificate? I’ve heard the various litanies about how nutty it is to be asking for it and He shouldn’t have to show us anything…but the problem is, we get that with every little thing we ask. About anything. Still no bin Laden death photo. And, other than the stonewalling, that’s a completely unrelated subject. But the stonewalling is still there. It’s present with every little thing He does, any question He doesn’t want to answer, you get back some snotty monologue about all the things that are wrong with whoever asked. Just answering the incredibly simple question, or presenting the paperwork that was requested, is ruled out from the get-go.

Dude — that’s weird.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I wanna know what happens when Barack Obama is driving a car, and gets pulled over by a cop. License, registration, insurance. What happens next? I have no idea how that goes down. I’d love to find out.

This is essentially a philosophical issue. We’re dealing with the relativism of our left-wingers, with the pliable notion of “truth” that is the spongy building block of their special stretchy universe, on steroids. Their brand of truth is whatever it takes to move the agenda…what’s the word…forward, and since that changes from one year to the next, truth, also, changes from one year to the next.

So Barack Obama can start being born in Kenya, and then stop again. Just like Elizabeth Warren can start being part Cherokee. And then stop again.

Hillary Clinton has been specializing in this sort of thing for awhile now. Her accent changes to suit the occasion…

…and, now and then, she’s named after the famous mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary. Except when she’s not. She’s been shot at by snipers, except for when she’s not been.

It’s important to understand that this isn’t actually “lying.” When an agenda is present and it is held to a higher level of importance than facts, the facts essentially cease to exist. The agenda becomes the new truth. Try this simple experiment: Find a fact that is objectively measurable and therefore undeniable, one that is unfriendly to the progressive agenda. It’s not hard. There are plenty, if you just look. Odds are, if you’re not a proggie, you have more than a few that are among your favorites. The fact doesn’t have to completely shatter their precious agenda, it just has to make some difficulty for it. A failed global-warming prediction will do nicely. Now find a progressive, and try to get him to acknowledge the undeniable, measurable fact. Try it on a weekend so you can make a day-long project out of it, like building a fence or a birdfeeder, if you have the time. Give it a good honest effort.

Seems like it should be do-able. It’s not. Facts don’t mean the same thing to liberals, as they do to normal people.

See how it works? If Professor Warren feels like she’s part-Indian, she must be. If Obama feels like running for President, then He must have been born in Hawaii. Otherwise, if He’s struggling with His ethnic identity crisis that’s been so thoroughly documented by His ghostwriter…maybe, for today, He was born in Kenya. Feel, feel, feel. That’s the lodestar.

Update: One more video…because Boortz is having some fun:

“We’re too good to ever directly answer any questions” I guess you’d call it.

I’ve long suspected that the only crime the left really acknowledges is lese-majeste.

It’s all of a piece with their attitude, which is synonymous with their policies — They are Smart and You are Dumb, and everything else flows from that. Their policies may seem to be failing, it’s true — and spectacularly, in obvious, predictable ways — but that’s just because you lack access to the noumenal realm of transcendent perspectives that only liberals can see. That being the case, why should they bother trying to answer your questions? You can’t possibly understand the answers anyway, because, Dumb.

This is also why liberals insist on the 1:1 equivalence between Smart and Virtuous. It might seem to the layman, for instance, that the numinous transcendental truth that allows Pharaoh Three Putt to be both Hawaiian and Kenyan simultaneously is called “expeditiousness,” a.k.a.”naked self-interest” — he’s Kenyan when he needs to check the Fauxcahontas diversity box., Hawaiian when he needs to briefly meet the letter of US election law. But that can’t be right, since that would be “gaming the system,” and the system — being designed by liberals — is too smart and perfect to be gamed.

Therefore it can’t be rank partisanship that causes people to pretend to believe it’s ok to tell different tales about when, where, and to whom you were born, depending on the audience. It’s gotta be for the higher good.

And who are you to question the higher good? We don’t let dogs discuss astrophysics, do we?
- Severian | 05/18/2012 @ 08:35
PS based on my not-inconsiderable acquaintance with the ed biz, I bet there are a LOT of fraudulent diversity slots out there. Probably not as blatant as Warren’s, but I’m betting that when a “diverse” teaching staff became all the rage back in the 90s, lots of marginal junior faculty suddenly had racial awakenings. Job searches are expensive, and even though they’re Marxists to a man, academics are in practice the most ruthless capitalists you’ll ever want to meet. Real blacks, Indians, etc. with PhDs are hard to find, and huge bidding wars ensued — witness the salaries charlatans like Cornel West, whose “scholarship” includes a rap CD, pull down from places like Harvard. Much, much cheaper just to take the Wymyn’s Studies department’s word for it that every Jane Doe in the place is 1/3 Inuit, 1/3 black, 1/3 disabled…..
- Severian | 05/18/2012 @ 08:44
http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-do-statistics-mean.html
- TMI | 05/18/2012 @ 12:09
It’s that liberals=smart, everyone else=dumb that made me stop being a Democrat. The third presidential election that I heard the opposition called dumb made me think I’d hear this one before. And I’m not sure how you could convince anyone that Al Gore was brilliant. We are already starting to see it in this campaign. And it makes me wonder how anyone could consider Joe Biden smart.

I will take common sense any day over intellectual brilliance (and the One doesn’t have that either.)
- teripittman | 05/18/2012 @ 18:46
Terri,

it’s amazing how many people have that experience, isn’t it? 🙂

Mine was a God-sent bout of in vino veritas. I was at a party drinking with some acquaintances, going off about things as was my wont (oh, how insufferable I was in my early twenties!). A slightly-drunker-than-me friend said, “You know, for such a smart guy, all you ever really do is call stuff stupid. Grow up.”

And that was it. I soon realized that my politics were as puerile as my…. well, everything else, really. Like most young liberals I had all kinds of superficially clever arguments for my positions, but after a moment’s thought they all really boiled down to “look at this dumb dimbulb over here. What a dummy.”

[Which is why I’ve been a heavy drinker ever since — who knows what other insights might arise? — but that’s a tale for another day.]
- Severian | 05/19/2012 @ 08:05

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