I'm posting this because my state may pass a requirement that all candidates for President prove they were born in the USA. (How do we invite the UN to liberate Arizona?) For semi-sane birthers who use snopes.com when it validates them:
snopes.com: Barack Obama Birth Certificate. For brave birthers who are not afraid of the reality-based community:
FactCheck.org: Born in the U.S.A.On a totally different issue, the insanity of Fox News. (Hmm. Not totally different. Fox could send one of their propagandists to view Obama's birth certificate if they actually wanted to provide their audience with facts.) If you're in a hurry, skip ahead to about 6:00:
You know, it took me forever to figure out what the Birthers were when people first started using the term. I kept thinking it was a cool new cult.*
ReplyDeleteOf course, I get most of my comedy/news from BBC's Radio 4 so I'm probably in the wrong country right now. :)
*For relative values of cool.
I choose to believe it's people supporting natural home child birth. That's as least as rational as what they choose to believe, and less upsetting.
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