Birthers don't care that he was born in the US. Their problem is

[ashling]

that he was born black ... ish

[Lint Head]

1. Zackly!

[nonperson]

2. Being a birther = an excuse to perpetuate their own racism and ignorance

Birthers are ignorant racists just like the teabaggers who want "their" country back.

BTW, I like the "ish". :)

[ashling]

17. Thank you

I thought it gave it a touch. :)

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. That certificate looks plenty authentic.

http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/acrobat/2011-04/61181767.pdf

I say we keep pushing this one until they squeal, "Yes, we're fucking racists!"

[immoderate]

7. Hah! To them it's more to deny.

Hard evidence does not overcome true belief.

--imm

[cascadiance]

4. I saw a wingnut claiming that because his father lists his race as "African" he's not eligible...

... because him saying his race was "African" somehow proves that he's not American. This is a sample of the craziness these idiots are in to!

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Yes, let's face it. There's a lot of stupidity in the Republican party.

That's why the good ole boy system thrives. They do whatever the fuck they want to do as long as they can form cabals to push their own idiocies.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Birthers think all Afro-American males were born in Kenya

. . . at least when it comes to presidential eligibility.

[99 Percent Sure]

5. Exactly! They hate it that this

half-white, black-looking man is their president.

Besides, Tweety showed PBO's BC to one of them there Congress critters who was trying to introduce a bill requiring proof of birth before seeking the presidency right after PBO won the nomination.

Tweety had a copy of the original BC and he yelled and screamed about them not making the same effort that he did to request a copy from Hawaii state records. The flying spittle was overflowing as he called the birther non-issue ridiculous.

That didn't help, nor will this, because most of it is media driven and they don't do their due diligence, either.

Oh and Donald Trump is a bankruptcy filing, corrupt, untrustworthy sleaze.

*Does the Rosie O'Donnell Donald Trump hair sweep imitation*
That is all.

[Annata4Peace]

6. Not true

They mounted a similar attack on McCain. If he won this would be focused on him. Basically, birthers support Ron Paul and they wanted to short circuit any other candidate.

[blondeatlast]

8. Really? DU speculated in jest about McCain's birthplace to mock

the birfers, but no one here, not a single DUer to my knowledge, thought it was worth more than a day or two of kicks and giggles, and here in AZ, my friends ribbed about it too, then it went the way of the dodo.

In fact, many DUers took great pains to point out the falsity of the claim regarding McCain as some DUers weren't aware that being born in a US Territory counted.

I don't take kindly to the suggestion that we are "just like them." We are far more intelligent and possess critical thinking skills and oh, yeah--we have senses of humor. We're not at all "just like them."

[cascadiance]

13. There's probably more questions on McCain's citizenship now than Obama's...

Read the following Washington Post Article to see the questions his circumstances raise. I would posit that those questions are more valid than any remaining questions on Obama now...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103224.html

[blondeatlast]

15. First, that article is from May 2008. Second, he's done.

He's not president, he's likely not running for Senate again (I'm from AZ, fwiw, and I hear the talk), so why give it a moment's thought?

Besides, he, like Obama is, would have been eligible--as loathesome as I find him.

[cascadiance]

16. I don't care to, but have used this as a way to point out to the birthers that are still...

... on the warpath, on how their arguments are even weaker than the ones here presented against McCain, to hopefully get them to shut up and give it up.

[ashling]

18. I think the poster (6) was saying that the birthers

tried to say that about McCain, not DU

[fishwax]

14. no "they" did not

and no, this would not be as big of an issue with McCain. There was a bit of such nonsense in the campaign, but very, very little, relatively speaking, to what was leveled at Obama.

[ashling]

19. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[spanone]

22. big old crock of shit - there was no mention of it in the media

not a hint.

the media has done everything it could to promote trump 24/7

[Dappleganger]

23. No they didn't ask for McCain's "papers" at all.

Birthers would bring back Jim Crow laws if they could.

Oh, wait...they ARE.

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. Conservative office mate even said

this is all about the president being black. Glad to see there's some on the right who don't buy into this nonsense.

[crispini]

12. True!

[Generic Other]

20. and he has a foreign born father who is African

yes they hate that about anyone who claims to be American.

[spanone]

21. they can't stand a black man in the white house....america is still a racist nation

[BlueDemKev]

24. Their problem is....

...that Obama's a LIBERAL (even if only slightly). The right-wingers will try anything to discredit a Democratic president. Look what they did to Bill Clinton back in the '90s.