I know you’re probably all just sick to death of all this birther nonsense, but there are a couple of things I feel compelled to point out. One I find hilarious, the other is yet another surgical slicing-and-dicing of the seriously twisted birther logic.
First, and quickly, the nickname for these lunatics – post-release of birth certificate – has morphed into “the afterbirthers.” Too rich.
Second, I find it exquisitely ironic and illustrative of how willing these people are to tie themselves into Gordian knots of faulty logic that on the one hand they are willing to make the argument that, birth certificate be damned, Obama can’t be a citizen because both parents weren’t born on American soil (overlooking the fact that at least seven other US presidents suffer a similar inadequacy), while on the other hand one of their highest legislative priorities is to overturn the 14th Amendment (the so-called “anchor-baby” provision), which allows that anyone born on US soil is automatically a US citizen (e.g. the spawn of Adolph Hitler and Margaret Thatcher would fit the bill, if the Iron Lady popped the kid while on holiday in Waikiki).
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