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Liberal mega-blogger Kos has provided a definition for the term “birther,” and provided some thoughts about what’s going through the birther’s heads. He’s gotten ahold of a statistical breakdown of where they live, and is rallying his troops for the hate-fest to begin:
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/27-30. All adults. MoE 2% (No trend lines)
Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?
Yes……….77
No……….11
Not sure……….12So 11 percent of Americans are Obama-hating conspiracy theorists. How do they break down?
………………..Yes……….No……….Not sure
Dem……….93……….4……….3
Rep……….42……….28……….30
Ind……….83……….8……….9Northeast……….93……….4……….3
South……….47……….23……….30
Midwest……….90……….6……….4
West……….87……….7……….6Once again, Republicans find themselves outside the American mainstream. And reality.
Because to Kos’ folk, being outside the mainstream is an offense to nature itself…a major sin…if you didn’t wait for the correct people to lead you out of the mainstream. If you did, then it’s quite alright.
Well, I’m glad to have a definition of sorts of what a “birther” is — even if it’s only implied. I notice the Kos crosshairs haven’t zeroed in on the twelve percent that aren’t sure. There must be a difference of opinion about those, since I know of some folks who would take serious issue with this. To them, if you have a single doubt in your head, you are a birther and that makes you a nut.
What’s nutty, though, is using a poll like this to organize a two-minute-hate session in cyberspace. Seriously, what is the difference between any reasonable definition of “prejudice,” and this?
I don’t want to offend anyone and I apologize to all the good people down there fighting the good fight but the South has always been different and basically it’s a separate country. I think we would have all been better off if we had let them form their own country or at least a Confederation of the 2 sections for common defense but for domestic self governing. They could have their own paradise for guns, god, no gays and private insured health care and the North could have their own gun-free atheistic homosexual agenda socialized medicine area. The North certainly would have been better off.
Hat tip to Melissa.
I said somewhere that I’m not going to directly take this one on. I’m thinking I might be breaking that pledge pretty soon…
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Oh yeah, that even makes me want to get on a roll. And I don’t really do the politics thing. The issue here, though, and people like this Kos jackass seem to give themselves a free pass by ignoring it, is that this isn’t political at all. It’s a people thing. A character thing. You cant blame a paragraph like that last one about the South on someone’s liberal or conservative politics. It is a product of being a poorly adjusted, uncontemplative, unethincal, amoral, glory-seeking cardboard cutout of a human being. And then the stinkiest part of the whole character rot is when someone writes something like that and then insists that there is a chance in hell that it can be ok just because it is the political point of view that he has chosen.
Deciding to be Republican or Democrat is never exoneration for the abandonment of reasoned morality.
- Andy | 08/01/2009 @ 08:45Forgive the misspellings, I was a little worked up.
- Andy | 08/01/2009 @ 08:46Deciding to be Republican or Democrat is never exoneration for the abandonment of reasoned morality.
It doesn’t validate anything, either. Smart and stupid people alike decide to be Republicans and democrats, all the time. And there are some wonderful people and some real stinkers in both camps.
The above is so obvious, that it’s become mere pablum, and it’s not hard at all to find people who agree with it. But it’s also easy to find people who consider themselves fairly moderate, all too eager to live out a real disagreement. Join the most adorable party, seek out an adorable position on this issue or that one…and it makes me an adorable person, automatically. Yup. Well, it doesn’t really work that way.
- mkfreeberg | 08/01/2009 @ 08:56So, a clear minority of Republicans apparently believe that Barack wasn’t born in America. So “Republicans” are “out of the mainstream”. Got it.
30% of them are unsure, and one could argue that those who aren’t sure deserve more respect than those who are sure in either direction.
And then there’s the “if everybody else is jumping off a bridge, does that mean you have to do it too?” argument.
Democrats, of course, are extremely sure of themselves. Of course, they’re also extremely sure that Keynsian Economics works.
Me, not a birther. Enough people I respect are satisfied that the evidence that has been presented is enough.
I’m far more concerned with whether or not he’s actually, you know, American. In the philosophical sense of the word. Every day I am more and more convinced that he is a Marxist.
One of the things I love about defenses of Obama wrt the charge that he is a Marxist is invariably end up being a “no he’s not, you’re a paranoid tinfoil hat wearer”… generously mixed with a vigorous defense of … Marxism.
- philmon | 08/01/2009 @ 09:20Obama has been judged fit to do lots and lots of things. And I’ve yet to be given the name of a real person who has been individually responsible for rendering this judgment. Everything from becoming a professor, to a state senator, to a national senator to a President, to “sort of God” — the decision to authorize Him came from some anonymous but prevailing, incorporeal, amoeba-like entity. All the people with real identities who happen to agree, are just echoing what someone else said.
I’m reasonably sure Obama was born in the United States, but I can see a lot of argumentative merit in drawing the line in front of the Presidency and saying “as He moves His stuff into this particular office, this one time we’d like you to prove His qualifications a little bit more solidly than you usually do.”
- mkfreeberg | 08/01/2009 @ 09:47Never forget that MarKOS Moulitsas is a kid in his ’20s who literally lives in his parents’ basement. In Berkeley. This is who the far Left has anointed as its spokesboy.
And a little child shall lead them…
- rob | 08/01/2009 @ 11:36