Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Nothing New Under The Sun...

Well, I've heard it all now...you've got to be fucking kidding me...I'm mean, really. It seems that there are conservative voters out there who are disputing Barack Obama's place of birth. They are known as "Birthers" and they allege that the president was not born in the U.S., presumably because he has a foreign-sounding name, and again presumably because "he don't look like us'n." Even more incredible is the fact that these people have some backing in Congress, at least on the face of it...and none of those Congress people want to talk about it, while they are being hounded by reporters. I suspect it's that these politicians just CAN'T piss off ANY constituents no matter how wacky their voters' viewpoint is...it's just not in their genetic makeup to tell a voter, "well no, you're wrong. He has a birth certificate to prove that he was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i ." These politicians don't have the balls (or in some cases, the ovaries) to say these words.


And this kind of muckraking is not new with the Republican party. They did it most recently in Clinton's administrations. Granted, old Bill gave us all enough sexual fodder for a thousand porn websites and a million jokes, but the GOP was not able to come up with any evidence of any malfeasance of his office...unlike a previous notorious Mr. R. M. Nixon. And Newt Gingrich was on the verge of stroke and heart attack every single day he was in office, trying to come up with something, anything, to torch the Democrats with...and he couldn't do it. It was ironic that he was later found out to be an adulterer, a philanderer, and a liar, but of course he was lily-white, wasn't he?