Before reading this article, I’d have sworn on a stack of Kama Sutras that the whole “birther” thing was past and done for. Seriously, wouldn’t you think a birther is defined as “one who births”? I like to call them “crybabies” or “poor losers.” Look, y’all, the rest of us had to suck it down when W beat Gore, and now it’s your turn. Live with it.
But apparently they’re still out there, and still pestering the state of Hawaii for some sort of proof, beyond his already posted birth certificate, that President Obama was in fact born in the US of A. Hawaii’s House Judiciary Committee yesterday heard a bill that would allow government officials to pretty much ignore repeated requests. Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development, said “Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy,” which is a nice, non-accusatory way of saying it.
There have been a few objections to the proposed bill, which would result in labeling those who continue to make the previously-refused request a “vexatious requester,” which is FAR better a term than “birther.” The danger here, of course, is that such a consequence would only serve to heighten the level of suspicion birthers already have for the whole process. There really is no way to win in this case, though, and at least Hawaii wouldn’t have to waste any more time on this ridiculous phenomenon.
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Montana
March 18th, 2010 - 10:24:48 AM
In my opinion this is what the small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. They are good at “Follow the Leader” of their dullard leaders, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think? The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. And as they said in WACO "We Ain't Coming Out".
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Anonymous
April 4th, 2010 - 2:37:51 AM
Okay, so I'm not affiliated with a political party myself (especially since republicans and democrats are the same party anymore) but I did see the posted "birth certificate". If I look at my birth certificate I know it's real since it has a state seal on it. Obama's posted "birth certificate"? That's right, no state seal.
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