Let me be right up front and say that birtherism is idiotic and plays right into Obama’s hands. I also am not a huge WND fan. There are so many things we can get Obama on so that to chase our tails on a story that isn’t there is a waste of time and energy.
by John Hawkins
Joseph Farah from WorldNetDaily and Andrew Breitbart got into an argument at the Nashville Tea Party Convention about the birther issue. Not a shock there. But, something Joseph Farah said needs to be rebutted:
—————————— “I was talking to her,” said Breitbart. “She was asking me if I thought it was to bring it up, and I said, no. We have a lot of strong arguments to be making, and that is a primary argument. That is an argument for the primaries that did not take hold. The arguments that these people right here are making are substantive arguments. The elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts were all won not on birther, but on substance. And to apply to this group of people the concept that they’re all obsessed with the birth certificate, when it’s not a winning issue”
“It is a winning issue!”
“It’s not a winning issue.”
I’m not going to go through the whole birther argument again. At this point, I’ll just say that Obama has released a valid Certificate of Live Birth given to him by the state of Hawaii and it lists his birth place as Honolulu. If that’s not enough to convince you he was born in the USA, nothing else I say is probably going to do it either.
But, what I do want to get into is the idea that birtherism is a “winning issue.”
You know what? It may be a winning traffic issue for WorldnetDaily, but the idea that it’s a winning political issue is ridiculous.
Whatever you believe on the birther issue: here’s the reality of it: There’s a small, hardcore element on the right that buys into the idea that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US and really cares about the issue.
—————————— Maybe that’s because the people beating this drum the hardest like Jerome Corsi and Joseph Farah, spent years telling Americans that George Bush was going to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico to form a North American Union with an Amero currency. All of us remember when that happened, don’t we? Oh wait, that was one of the dumbest conspiracy theories I’ve ever heard.
Long story short: birtherism has no place at conservative events or political campaigns and Republican politicians would be very wise to steer clear of it as much as possible.
Read the rest: Birtherism Is A Winning Political Issue? Gimmie A Break!
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