Over at Big Hollywood, Jeremy Boreing insists that he believes that President Obama in eligible to serve as President, but goes on to defend the birthers:
The question the Birthers are really trying to ask isn’t ‘is Barack Obama one of us.’ He plainly is not one of us. The real question is ‘why not?’ The Birthers think the answer might be as simple as that he is not an actual citizen of this country. They think he must have been born somewhere else, like Kenya, to have the views and values he expresses. Others think that Mr. Obama was born here, but that perhaps his parents renounced his citizenship while he was living in Indonesia as a child, maybe to get him into certain schools or just because they thought at the time that they would live in Indonesia forever. Maybe that would explain how Mr. Obama paid from his Harvard education, through programs aimed at helping foreign nationals get American educations. Which might explain why none of his collegiate records or papers have ever been released. Which might further explain why there is just so much about his past that has been deliberately withheld from the public, or colorfully rewritten in his artificially sweetened autobiographies. I don’t happen to agree with the Birthers or their legal-citizenship cousins, but my question for the Birthers-haters is – When did it become incumbent on citizens asking reasonable questions about their president’s life, experiences, and even his eligibility to be president, to simply accept the that president at his word? Is it not reasonable to expect an elected official, especially one who has promised unprecedented transparency, to simply reveal the documents relevant to answering the biggest questions about his life? Are we supposed to take all of our government officials at face value now, or just this one? Why does the media, whose job it is to hold the government accountable deride the Birthers and not demand the president simply remove the cloak he has so effectively hidden himself behind? Agree with them or not, the Birthers are just trying to answer the perfectly legitimate questions created by the patent dishonesty about and obscuration of most every aspect of Barack Obama’s life. Who can blame them?
I, for one, can blame them.
Despite the fact that Obama has released definitive proof of the fact that he was born in Hawaii in August, 1961. Despite the fact that there is no credible evidence to suggest otherwise. Despite the fact that each of the theories regarding a different place of birth have been shot down as not credible and that the legal theories they advance have no merit. Despite all of that, these people continue to persist in their delusions, and conservatives such as Boerling continue to coddle them, not so much because they believe the conspiracy theories but because perpetuating those theories is helpful to their own political agenda.
These aren’t reasonable people, they are nuts. They don’t deserve to be taken seriously.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
No, Doug: now you have jumped the shark. Everyone of the questions he asks is a reasonable question which reasonably should have been asked by a media not utterly in the bag for Barry. Yet they weren’t. He doesn’t say take them seriously.
As noted previously, you credentials as a strategist are highly suspect. While every political group attracts nuts, not every political group which does should be dismissed because they do.