More birther racism:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Same melody, different tune:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/19/2462473/birthers-ask-is-marco-rubio-eligible.html

This shit was ridiculous enough directed at Obama, given it was never true and those who defended it went out of their way to minimize what it was really all about. Directing it at Rubio is just another example of the racism at the heart of it. To me it's too indefensible, too absurd, and too ridiculous to comment on much past this, I'm curious what ya'll think.

Comments

[404.livejournal.com]

Birthers and truthers are two sides of the same crazy coin.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Except that only one of them ever received media legitimacy and is still plaguing society.

[404.livejournal.com]

truthers have been around since 2001, give the birthers time, they might get a popular mechanics story debunking them too.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

The Truthers never had people like Orly Taitz who could bring the crazee no matter who was debunking.

Stupidity is not a zero-sum game

[404.livejournal.com]

She has plenty more videos, all with the same wonderful thinking processes.

Re: Stupidity is not a zero-sum game

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Years ago, when he was all new and edgy, I went to a David Icke presentation. He brought that kind of crazy that comes with pie charts and random historical facts. It was entertaining but scary, because I looked around and realized that people who think this way are probably standing behind me in grocery store lines and there's no easy way to identify them.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

The fact he's from Ca says it all. ;)

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

Only one of them has a political party that tiptoes around them to avoid losing their votes.

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Crazy people being crazy. It's telling that they go after the person and not the Supreme Court which did the status quo interpretation that gives citizenship to people born here.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Between citing Orly Taitz, everyone's favorite dentist/realtor/lawyer, and then reading the comment section, I've received my daily entertainment.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

I think these guys who are interested in the Constitution,
should actually bother to read it and see what it says.

The interpretations of "He didnt have 2 US citizen parents"
and "His parents were cuban so HE was cuban national"

show a profound ignorance of our Constitution and our Naturalization process.


They may not agree with what it says, but that doesnt mean
they can make it up as they go ... especially when these "armchair scholars"
seem to think they understand things better than 2 centuries of legal precedent.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

These are the guys who can't spell "official" and "moron" so I don't think they'd be able to *read* the Constitution. ;P

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

I'm sure someone can read it *TO* them...

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Is there a simple.constitution.org version?

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Irony. These guys are trying to use a political paper written by a Swiss dude, which has no legal weight under US law, to try and justify this.

On the up side, it's fun to watch the conservatives turn on each other and work to keep some of their more promising leaders out of the White House.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nothing so good for the Dems as a GOP circular firing squad.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

So, now you're saying that Birthers aren't actually Republicans after all then.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm saying that racist fuckery is a bipartisan brand of stupidity.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

As long as we're on the same page that it's not because they're Republican, it's all good.