I wonder…if Obama is reelected, will the Birther stuff disappear as quickly as the “Angry Guy at a Town Hall Meeting” routine disappeared after the August 2009 recess?
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Yes. They’ll switch to calling the election illegitimate because too many people who aren’t really Americans got to vote.
“not really Americans” as “not REAL Americans”
it’s not necessarily the furriners, but that the wrong sort of people are given the same rights as they are…
I dunno…way too many of them are attached to it.
The birther stuff is just a ruse to hide the racism. I have a sinking suspicion that 2010 may have more overtly racist shit than 2008 did.
Check out this new “post-racial” bumper sticker!!!!
http://twitpic.com/4mv557
Seriously, I’m gonna have to make sure my insurance is paid up, because if I see a bumper sticker like this, I will be hard pressed not to ram the bumper…
As long as the corporate media nod-nods and wink-winks at these “pranks”, they will continue. The clue is the corporate media’s fawning over The Donald.
It is going to take some real pushback from white moderates to get these crazies back in the woodwork. And you know how reluctant white moderates are to be impolite to these nutcakes.
The Southern formulation of the appropriate response, which occurs much to seldom, is “I hate to be ugly but… that kind of dogwhistle racism is completely clear and completely unacceptable.”
Of course, pulling the plug on Rushbo’s megaphone would help immensely. His sell-by date is long past.
No, the birther stuff will follow Obama into history the way that the canard that Abraham Lincoln was the bastard son of John C. Calhoun still persists. (What, you never heard that one? In the 1950s, it was the regular subject of “historical” features in the Sunday supplement to the newspaper.
But, watch. When challenged, the fallback position is the “I don’t know what he is; he’s hidden his past so well.” Blatant lies often repeated soon become seen as truth because “nothing that farfetched could last this long unless it was the truth.”
Like much the GOP does, it’s a bully’s game. Pure middle school schoolyard.
That Donald Trump’s fantasy fling with his new “Political Reality Show” is being taken seriously by the media tells you everything you need to know about the downfall of our society.
Tinhorn dictators as governors in Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin installed by unknown corporate interests, though, tells you even more.
If he wins re-election, and especially if the Dems miraculously regain control of the House someone will try to assassinate him. Not the looney tune lone wolves either.
It didn’t disappear after it was invented by Clinton supporters during the primaries.
Why on earth would anyone suppose it would disappear now? It’s not like we white folks have gotten any less racist.
The birther crap is alive in Indiana.
and the “Angry Guy at a Town Hall Meeting” is currently engaged here in making an ass of himself at our county commissioner meetings.
No, it won’t go away. The Clintons still had Vince Foster killed and ran drugs out of the airport in Mena, Arkansas. Their tiny little minds are made up and nothing is gonna change them.