The Birth Certificate "Issue"

Really, the only issue seems to be WorldNet Daily getting its panties in a bunch.  There are a few independent blogs out there and a few crazy state reps that believe this garbage.  And apparently, 300,000+ signatures (from an online petition) to "investigate" on what authority President Obama is exercising his authorities.  Now, it would seem that most people were satisfied when the LA Times (I think) posted a picture of Obama's birth certificate.  But just as those who once whispered of a vast left-wing conspiracy under former President Clinton had seemingly disappeared...BAM Democrats win another Presidential election!  

 

So now those same crazies that thought Janet Reno was poised outside their house waiting for the precise right moment to steal their guns...are back.  And WND has cultivated this little nutty population over the years with articles about really sinister stuff.  If I read WND every morning as my main news source, I'd be one frightened motherfucker.  I think I'd probably be building a somewhat perverted version of Glenn Beck's "DOOM BUNKER."

 

Now, McCain was born on an Army base on foreign soil.  If you want to be straight up honest about it, yea, we own that land, but it ain't OURS.  Technically, McCain was born on a piece of soil owned by America in a country far away from our own.  That guy definitely wasn't born IN AMERICA.  So what, Obama's birthplace is the only one that matters?  In any case, if he wasn't born in Hawaii, he has damn sure lived in America his entire adult life and most of his adolescence.  

 

If Obama was a secret Muslim Marxist, we'd know by now.  He wouldn't keep up the show, it would be pointless, he has the political capital to do any sort of power grab he'd need to.  What's the point?  I just find the whole idea amusing quite frankly.  But all this really gets down to something dirty that's underneath the bitching and moaning about birth certificates.  There are a few things in America that still get swept under the carpet.  

 

We may have a black President, but racism and xenophobia are most definitely not gone.  There's still a segment of the population (I'd put it at say, three-hundred thousand?) that has a knee-jerk negative reaction towards people different from themselves.  This population is shrinking but it's not dead.