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Mainstreaming the Birthers

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SanFranciscoZionist12/14/2009 5:55:38 pm PST

re: #51 brookly red

course not, but those who questioned were not somehow racist.

Probably because they didn’t come up with a dramatic conspiracy theory to go with it, that suggested he wasn’t a ‘real’ American, and that his whole family had been lying about his origins for generations.

“Maybe McCain isn’t legally allowed to run because he was born out of country” is a different kettle than,

“Maybe Obama isn’t legally allowed to run because even though he was born in the US, we’ve got a theory maybe he was secretly born in Africa, and the birth certificate is forged, and it’s a conspiracy, and maybe he’s lying about his age, and Hawaii isn’t really a state, because Kamehameha secretly forged HIS birth certificate…”