Obama and the Birthers

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by TheGame

I think in order for this issue to die, and no longer have any association with the republican party, all of the republican representatives need to do exactly like the democrats are doing now and dismiss the issue as false. If you watch the video that I posted, you can see how he was trying to use political BS to maneuver around saying Obama is a legitimate US president.

Hmmmm, so Dennis Kucinich believes in aliens. Well following your logic the entire Democrat party need to speak out against the belief that aliens exist, or else we can freely assume they believe in aliens themselves. See how silly that sounds?

Furthermore, if they actually did so speak out against alien belief, wouldn't this non-subject suddenly be considered a major news story again? You don't make a story disappear by continuing to talk about it. People have said their piece about Birthers, but the media has chosen to give air time and press to the 5% of Republicans and independent wackos who actually think this is a huge issue. Continuing to address it as though it were serious would only add more fuel to the fire, IMO.

All the Republican party can do is what they've done so far: Reject this idea as a whole. If you want to assign blame to an entire group because of the beliefs of the fringe few, well then thats more your issue than the Republican party's. And quite honestly, this issue already seems to have gone away for lack of addressing it and the fever pitch healthcare insurance debates are bringing, so I doubt denying what has been already been denied will accomplish much more.

You mention 9/11, both Republican's and Democrats dismiss that issue and claim confidently that Bush knew nothing about it beforehand.. even though that's technically a lie since most people don't KNOW this for sure, and there are some OBVIOUS questions about 9-11 and Bush's relationship with the Bin Ladens.. both sides just dismissed it so they didn't look like jackasses. So it didn't get much major media play even though lots of people out there think there's a conspiracy.

We also don't KNOW Elvis is dead. You can either believe his friends, family, doctors, legitimate news agencies and dig up his rotten stinking corpse... or listen to the fat bearded lady that saw him in 7/11 buying a Slurpee in 1986. Wait... 7/11... 9/11... ELVIS AND THE FAT LADY PLANNED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACKS!!!

On a related note, Bat Boy just graduated from college. Hey, I read it in the Weekly World News, it must be true!!

And thats all I have to say about the 9/11 "debate". It's already been done to death on this forum, and elsewhere and I have no interest in discussing such nonsense further. It saddens me.

When Mccain's eligibility was brought back up in early 2008, both sides of the isle dismissed it. They both said confidently that its not an issue, So it became a non issue, and didn't get much major media play.

Exactly, but this nutter birther group is. Why do you think the media is/was spending so much more time on a subject that makes the Republicans look bad? It's because the Republican party itself wants to look like morons or is it that the media wants to concentrate on the handful that believe in the tooth fairy BECAUSE it makes the Republicans look bad?