Evidently there were some fireworks at The View last week when Donald Trump showed up to talk about his political aspirations and suggested that Obama had something to hide by not showing his birth certificate.
Do you ever remember any other presidential candidate who was asked to show his birth certificate? I don’t. Not even Barry Goldberg, who may have been born in Arizona and who may have been born before Arizona was a state. Or how about McCain who was born in Panama?
But along comes the first black president, (who wins by a landslide, by the way) and all of a sudden there are dentists from California clogging up the courts with bogus cases claiming that he can’t be president because he was born in Kenya. She doesn’t even stop when she gets hit with a contempt of court citation for continuing to file bogus suits. The U.S. Supreme Court, which has been on a tear recently supporting all things right-wing, refused to listen to the nonsense.
In order to believe that crap, you first must believe that when he was born his white mother was so sure that she was giving birth to the future president of the United States that she planted bogus stories in the Honolulu newspaper from an undisclosed location in Kenya. Or maybe that she pulled a Palin and hopped on a plane after her water broke just so that Kenyan officials could refuse to let her fly so the poor tyke came out screaming “I’m an American.”
Oh, and then there is the certified copy of the birth certificate that Obama did show to anyone who wanted to look. It seems that a certified copy of a birth certificate is acceptable to Homeland Security if you are applying for a U.S. Passport—in fact it is the only thing they will accept post 9/11. But to the “birthers” the fact that a state certifies that the individual was indeed born in their state—and even goes to the extent of passing a bill in the state legislature about the birth, is meaningless.
If you BELIEVE that Obama was born in Kenya, no proof otherwise is ever going to suffice. It’s like religion. You have to suspend the things you can see, taste, feel, smell, hear in order to have faith that there is an invisible God. “Birthers” have to suspend the things they can see, taste, feel, smell, hear in order to just BELIEVE that Obama is not really president. Whoopi suggested that it is because he is black, and they don’t want no stinkin’ person of color in the People’s House.
And now people like Trump, who is rich enough to know better, are pandering to the crazies. Makes you wonder what other reality they are ignoring.
Homework
Huffington Post Article About Trump Vs Whoopi
Do you ever remember any other presidential candidate who was asked to show his birth certificate? I don’t. Not even Barry Goldberg, who may have been born in Arizona and who may have been born before Arizona was a state. Or how about McCain who was born in Panama?
But along comes the first black president, (who wins by a landslide, by the way) and all of a sudden there are dentists from California clogging up the courts with bogus cases claiming that he can’t be president because he was born in Kenya. She doesn’t even stop when she gets hit with a contempt of court citation for continuing to file bogus suits. The U.S. Supreme Court, which has been on a tear recently supporting all things right-wing, refused to listen to the nonsense.
In order to believe that crap, you first must believe that when he was born his white mother was so sure that she was giving birth to the future president of the United States that she planted bogus stories in the Honolulu newspaper from an undisclosed location in Kenya. Or maybe that she pulled a Palin and hopped on a plane after her water broke just so that Kenyan officials could refuse to let her fly so the poor tyke came out screaming “I’m an American.”
Oh, and then there is the certified copy of the birth certificate that Obama did show to anyone who wanted to look. It seems that a certified copy of a birth certificate is acceptable to Homeland Security if you are applying for a U.S. Passport—in fact it is the only thing they will accept post 9/11. But to the “birthers” the fact that a state certifies that the individual was indeed born in their state—and even goes to the extent of passing a bill in the state legislature about the birth, is meaningless.
If you BELIEVE that Obama was born in Kenya, no proof otherwise is ever going to suffice. It’s like religion. You have to suspend the things you can see, taste, feel, smell, hear in order to have faith that there is an invisible God. “Birthers” have to suspend the things they can see, taste, feel, smell, hear in order to just BELIEVE that Obama is not really president. Whoopi suggested that it is because he is black, and they don’t want no stinkin’ person of color in the People’s House.
And now people like Trump, who is rich enough to know better, are pandering to the crazies. Makes you wonder what other reality they are ignoring.
Homework
Huffington Post Article About Trump Vs Whoopi
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