Great article from Steven Thomma on the claims about President Obama not having been born in the United States. It includes the complete interview Bishop Ron McCrae had by phone with Obama's grandmother where he tries to get her to say (through a translator) that he was born in Kenya. He used some editing tricks to make it appear she said he was.
It's an unfortunate shame that politicians would try to use a sham like this for political gain (imagine that!), but Representative Bill Posey of Florida plans to take it one step further with H.R. 1503, which would require candidates for the office of President to prove their citizenship. On it's face that doesn't sound like such a bad idea, but which of the following do you think is more likely to be the correct driving force behind it?
a) No one else in Congress was smart enough to think of a measure like this before.
b) We have to be careful in this day and age when it is more likely for citizens of the United States to have been born abroad.
c) In this era of rampant illegal immigration, it only makes sense for people to have to prove their origins.
d) A certain political party is still upset their white bread war hero/GILF ticket lost the election to a black man.
Leonard Putts chimes in as well with his thoughts being if this is the best the GOP has to offer, the party is in deep doo-doo. Personally I think the country would be better if the moderates split off from the conservatives, then you'd have the right-wing purity so many seem to crave even if they end up representing 12% of the population. The moderates would appeal enough to the Blue Dogs and their supporters to convince them to leave the Democratic party, which would finally allow a strong Centrist movement to build. Imagine how much fun a realistic 3-party system would be.
Sorry, Libertarians and Greens.
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