Attention Birthers: What about those newspaper birth announcements?
1 comment July 24th, 2009
One question I have for the “birthers,” who are stoked by black helicopter websites into believing passionately that Barack Obama cannot be president because they say he wasn’t born in the U.S. :
When Obama was born in 1961, his birth announcement was published in two, Honolulu newspapers. I have never read one of these “birthers” deal with the birth announcements.
But I know what they’ll say: How can you trust anything you read the mainstream, government controlled, liberal, socialist media?
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama’s presidency. I think his energy and health care policies would have a punishing effect on American business at a time when we need to re-energize manufacturing.
Obsessing over where the man was born — he was born in the U.S.A. — is a pointless exercise in paranoia based, I believe strongly, on some Americans’ inability to accept that fact that the people elected a black man to the highest office in the land.
Concentrate on the policy debate, not insane paranoid theories stoked for money on the World Wide Weird.

