Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Just for the record, I’m resolutely convinced — unless something pops up that compels me to believe otherwise — that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is eligible to be our next President.
Nevertheless, there are some key dates coming up in this little drama and the unfolding of those events is a fascinating window into the minds and souls of the Obamatons. This Hutchinson person, for example, does a remarkable job of interweaving a few true tidbits into his overall meme which is, in sum, a repackaging of L. Frank Baum’s “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” defense.
Good heavens. The requirement that the President be a natural born citizen is inked right in there, Article II, Section 1. It’s right freakin’ in there. It isn’t even an amendment. It’s been a written requirement going all the way back to the beginning. And the Obamatons are addressing the argument with a bunch of name-calling. Now just noodle on this for a moment or two: How much more ridiculous can the situation get? I’m not nearly as worried about this particular constitutional requirement, as I am about the requirements that might happen to fall into the way of Chosen One as He serves out His one or two terms. It’s all going to be addressed by calling his critics a bunch of gun-toting bible-thumping nose-picking rubes?
As I understand it, His Holiness the iPresident Man-God has produced an electronic copy of a Certificate of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii, but not a paper copy. And some folks say there are problems with the electronic copy — which may or may not be the case, I’m not really up on it. I find this rhetoric about dollar figures to be somewhat incriminating though. Getting ahold of a birth certificate you have on file, that’s about you, is a pretty inexpensive and painless affair compared to the other things you might try to do. It’s much easier than registering a car you brought in from out of state. Certainly doesn’t cost anything that approaches half a million dollars.
Unfortunately, Hawaii officials left just enough room for the Obama birth certificate hounders to wiggle through when they correctly noted that privacy laws forbade them from releasing original documents without the authorization of the individual for which the documents are requested; in this case that individual being Obama.
Obama at the time and since then has also correctly declined to give any more ammunition to the birth certificate hounders.
His campaign simply issued a statement that the document released by Hawaii officials is authentic. But that just emboldened the Obama hounders even more.
If Chosen One correctly declined to give any more ammunition to the hounders, HOW did they become “emboldened…even more”? This guy’s supposed to have written a book. It would appear he can’t even keep track of what he’s jotting down.
He was not black enough. He was too black. He was not patriotic enough. He was too liberal, too effete, too untested. He was a Muslim, terrorist fellow traveler, and a closet black radical. The shock of an Obama in the White House is simply too much for many to bear. Obama defies the stereotypical textbook look and definition of what an American president is supposed to look like, and be like; namely a wooden image middle-aged, or older, white male.
And…whoomp, there it is, folks. You just saw it for the first time, many more examples to follow. The iPresident is being held to a constitutional standard applied equally to all of His 42 predecessors throughout 220 years of our nation’s history. And anyone who dares to make an issue of it is a racist bastard. That’s how He will meet it. Not by actually meeting it, but by smearing the opposition.
Even if a justice or two had a stray thought about taking a peek at the issue, the memory of the fury over the court’s meddle in the 2000 election that ultimately tipped the White House to Bush is still too fresh in their and the public’s mind to butt in on such a wacky issue.
Uh huh.
None of this is sufficient motivation for me to put up a post about any of this, though. I don’t think Chosen One has met the requirement, and I don’t know why He is working so hard not to, but it looks to be all smoke and no fire. Until something else emerges.
No, what motivates me to put up a post about it, is the way Hutchinson’s commenters handed him his ass cheeks on his very own blog. Heh. That made my day.
Hutchinson just did a far more impressive job of convincing me there’s something bollywonkers with this thing, than any Republican ever could’ve. Ever. I mean, in a million years. Future reference, Mr. Hutchinson: Don’t talk to the cop about the trunk, or dead bodies, at all. And it’s definitely over the line to say “Oh and by the way, officer, you’re a complete dolt if you think there’s a dead body in the trunk of my car” when the officer wasn’t even wondering about it.
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Even if this birth-certificate business went somewhere, we’d just wind up with Biden. And that would be better, how, exactly?
So what’s the point?
- cylarz | 12/05/2008 @ 01:36State law should not trump Federal law or at least, in everything else it doesn’t. The Constitution says what it says which implies the birth certificate of the President or whoever runs must become public knowledge. Otherwise, the point in the Constitution is meaningless.
- Shannon in AZ | 12/05/2008 @ 06:51