Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club usually has one of the most thought provoking perspectives on current events on the blogosphere, So I sought him out on the three ring circus that Obama presented yesterday on the story of the emperor's swaddling clothes.
And he didn't disappoint.
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/04/27/the-birth-certificate/"....Will this end the controversy over Obama’s birthplace? Probably not. The birth certificate debate is going to become like a wrangle over the authenticity of a religious relic or an eternal mystery object, like the Grassy Knoll or Area 51. Most documents are accepted based on trust, not their physical characteristics. We are offered a dollar and take it unless some previous predisposition makes us examine in with special light, do serial number checks or look for security threads. For the most part trust suffices...."
Regarding the Gateway doc referred to above by others, this will do as Fernandez says and that is add more ammo to the conflict:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/04/critics-obamas-latest-long-form-birth-certificate-is-a-fake/I have all along been one to believe Obama was born in Hawaii and who really cares anyway but as Fernandez points out this is a matter of trust, not where he was born. But the Gateway piece, if it holds any water, makes this new BC image look as hokey as the previous one, maybe more. I would be interested to hear who it is that supplied their own BC that is shown in the image below (Susan Elizabeth Norlesbian), because as it alleges, it looks like they used hers as a cut and paste for todays BC. If so, Obama might be intentionally jerking this around even more to string it out as Rush said.
The bottom line is the debate eventually devolves in to a "Christmas in Cambodia" standoff. Trump might claim he has irrefutable proof that its a fake, and the left will only cry that he is attacking Obama's poor single mother. As Michael Medved said weeks ago, we know certain aspects of Obama's infancy have been falsified in the book(s) that have continued to make millions for the President. His father was a polygamist, they probably were not married, making him illegitimate, they did not live together for two years in Hawaii as he claims and the father may not have spent even more than a matter of days around young Barack, if even that, since there is proof she left for Seattle in a matter of days after his birth. She was a minor when he was conceived raising questions of statutory rape and there is some evidence that his Granny recomended he be aborted. Barack Sr.'s father sent a racist letter to Dunham's father claiming that Barack would dirty his African blood line and probably successfully convinced his son to do what it takes to quietly handle the matter and get as far away from the crazy socialist teenage girl as quickly as possible. He threatened to have Barack Sr.'s visa pulled. There are no classmates that claim the two lived together or even hung out after Obama's birth.
As Fernandez points out, he may have been born in Honolulu, but there are so many fake stories revolving around his gravy train story of his childhood, that like Kerry, it is best to use this circus to fend off the questions of trust, before some of the provable lies come to light. Obama made 5.5 Million Dollars last year, which is more than all the Presidents elected in his lifetime earned annually, combined. All from a book about a father who may have only gazed upon him a few times, which lead to his campaign book followup. Jim Wright's career was ended for less.
The Bush Air National Guard smear was intended to falsely discredit Bush's biography that he was not a spoiled kid and that he did not in fact volunteer for combat in the most divisive war of the 20th century, and in doing so, de-legitimize his authority to send troops in to harms way. It failed. Kerry's biography was built on his having been a combat hero that having had first hand knowledge of the war, he was the ultimate expert on how immoral it was,...based on the premise that politicians were lying about it. It failed when in fact it was proven that he was a lying politician lying about the war, about himself and his brothers in arms and by proxy about volunteers like Bush.
Obama's carefully manicured cash cow biography has been that he may not have been a slave or marched in Selma, (although he claimed in 2007 to have been conceived because his parents were inspired to have a child by the march which happened 4 years after his birth), but that he grew up in exotic and international places, with confused racial stigmas heaped on him by society and even misguided family members, suffered the indignities of attending a prestigious all white (actually it was heavily integrated with every conceivable racially-incorrect ethnic group, but without a lot of blacks, which made little Barry feel out of place). And through all that Barry was able to recover from all these devastating silver spoons and find his way to Chicago to discover his true race baiting identity.
Just as they tried to sink Bush's bio, and as Kerry sunk his own bio, Obama just poked a stick in to the hornets nest that could unravel his crumbling messiah story.
Its about his lying, hiding, and obfuscating, not about his citizenship.
Note: Above I mentioned the name of the person in the Gateway Pundit Birth Certificate as Susan Elizabeth Nor[D.Y.K.E] and it converted the name to Norlesbian. I love it. I wonder if the software will recognize the name of my favorite TV mom Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke show. ...Bingo!
