Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Actually, Obama was never born, he's a robot

Reality does not seem to be a part of 'birther' universe; where, despite a lack for concern by most Americans, including the Judicial branch of the government, a loud minority ignores actual proof and embraces forgeries. Is it a coincidence that most of these 'birthers' are far-right conservatives adamantly opposed to anything that passes Obama's lips? I don't believe it's likely. They despise our president so much that someone went to the effort to create a forged birth certificate proving he was a Kenyan citizen by birth. It didn't matter that the certificate was quickly decried as a fake, and was actually grafted from an Australian man's birth certificate, it was some kind of proof that supported their position (this reminds me of a certain mode of thinking I linked before).
This kind of thinking and lack of respect for not only the president, but those who already verified his nationality, the mounds of evidence contrary to their opinion, and rationality, really begins to disturb me. I'm hoping for a good dose of sanity to enter our collective conscience in the coming year, before this country starts tearing apart at the seams due to small, radical factions given way too much airtime on places like FOXNews.
The sad thing is, no one will ever be able to please these people, and this will go down for decades as another conspiracy wrought by the government for some agenda or another. It will take another four or five decades to have enough evidence mount to explain it, like the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination. All we can do for now is to try and ignore these small, screaming voices at the back of the crowd and wait for them to wander off muttering and return to their basements to print more manifestos. In the meantime, have some fun and create your own fake Kenyan birth certificate!

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