I'm so sick of anything birth certificate related, whether it's in support OR debunking.

[Bicoastal]

I could take Michael Jackson dying.

I could take Sarah Palin quitting.

I could even take the Rick Warren brouhaha from half a year ago.

But this crap is like a broken record. There's no substance. No arguments. No defense or offense or anything.

It's like trying to argue with someone who lives in a desert whether rain is wet or not.

It's more than just a non-issue. It's an UN-issue. It's a nega-issue. It's where issue itself goes to die.

ARRRRGH!!! x(

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Go rent Persecution of the President

then put it in that context.

It will make sense...

And I must say, this is not funny.

[SleeplessInAlabama]

3. I googled that

and nothing specific came up for a movie....

Who produced it?

Anyway I have to say *I think* it is not an 'un-issue' because it's so pervasive. It would be one thing if it was just freepers bitching about the BC. But it's not. It's "regular people" (term used loosely) at town halls, teabag parties and Republican luncheons. They live in Delaware and they live down the road from me. And the sheer hatred is blinding.

[Bicoastal]

5. PLEASE. That's the media perception...

...the last time I saw a poll about this, the number was about 8% of the country went along with this nonsense.

[SleeplessInAlabama]

9. I don't know

Maybe I'm biased by my location. Maybe it is only 8% nationally. But one in twelve people believing something so patently ridiculous to me, is kind of a big deal.

It's a nonstarter as far as real legal action, and we all know that, but to me, I can't marginalize one in twelve when they're so rabid about it.

[Bicoastal]

16. 8% of the country also approves of Bernie Madoff.

8% of Americans are morons.

[SleeplessInAlabama]

17. Maybe n/t

[Mrs. Overall]

18. I'd up that to about 23%

being morons.

Remember the Bush years and the various polls.

[kestrel91316]

21. 8% of the country has IQs under about 65, too. Don't let the mouth-breathers

who believe the birther crap bother you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. The hunting of the president...

my bad

Now go rent that one, watch it, the birthers will make sense in a sick way

It is the same process and the media is going there, willfully so

[ROFF]

2. Suggestion

Anyone who makes any claim and chooses not to back it up should be ignored. Simple really.

[Lasher]

4. Try to appreciate the comic relief.

The Family and the neocons, those are some real sinister people. But birthers, Palin, and 'pious' GOP scandals, that's for fun.

Quick, how many birthers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Wheeeeeee!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. THe problem is that they are connected

just my view.

Of course some of this connection is in a very crazy Marxist way... and means of control

[Lasher]

24. Good point.

I heard on TV yesterday that James von Brunn, who killed the security guard at the holocaust museum, was a birther. All the same, birthers are usually a source of amusement for me these days. When I reply to their emails, I have even stopped linking to the many sources that soundly refute every one of their fantasies. I just make fun of them because they're stooped.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Get used to it

Once this crap starts, it never goes away. No matter how stupid the CT, there is always someone to believe in it.

[Bicoastal]

7. Why drag Connecticut into this? nt

[Ohio Joe]

14. Have you ever been there?

heh, just in case - CT = Conspiracy Theory

heh, that was pretty funny though :D

[MazeRat7]

8. Ohhhh, someone else who feels the same as I....

This whole mime is a BS distraction... Why? Cause they got nothing else to talk about.

Peace,
MZr7

[Mrs. Overall]

12. Didn't you start a thread wanting Obama to show his birth certificate?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6125797

[MazeRat7]

13. Yup, that was me. And ? n/t

[Mrs. Overall]

15. Well, you are agreeing about not wanting to hear anymore about it , yet you started

a thread calling for Obama to show his birth certificate.

Pardon me if I see a conflict of interest in that.

[MazeRat7]

19. No conflict really...

The OP said, "this is stupid". I'm frustrated that this kind of crap gets attention when it should be easy to debunk. Of course, I would never have guessed that there were actually a percentage of the population that didn't believe we went to the moon. But alas, I'm a scientist and engineer, sometimes what is natural logic to me is lost on so many.... *sigh.

Peace,
MZr7

[kestrel91316]

22. "They"?? You mean your friends? Because you are posting

birther talking points all over DU and ignoring factual responses......

[kestrel91316]

20. Get used to hearing THIS from me:

Barack Obama has produced, and displayed on the internet for all to see, a certified copy of his HI birth record, which is a "true and correct copy" and constitutes FULL LEGAL PROOF of his birth in HI in 1961. Case closed.

Anyone stupid enough to pursue this in court WILL lose, BTW. Because a certified copy is the gold standard of legal proof.

[deaniac21]

23. Yep, when you get to a certain age, birth certificates should be

court protected records!

[redqueen]

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