If you thought the birther nonsense would end with President Obama’s release of his long form birth certificate, think again. Plenty of people are already arguing about the authenticity of the document, while others are now shifting to say that he had dual citizenship and may not be eligible to be president. Personally, I want what some of these people have been smoking.
One point that’s been brought up is that the father’s race is listed as “African”, not “Black”. Of course, the fact that his father was actually from Africa, therefore the term was appropriate, seems to be lost on some folks. Black was a term used for American black people, but people actually from Africa?
As for the issue of dual citizenship, read the Constitution. It simply says a “natural born citizen”. Nothing more, nothing less. Dual citizenship, even if Obama did have it, isn’t disqualifying. However, so far there’s absolutely no evidence to really support the dual citizenship argument.
Many birthers have argued that Obama traveled to Pakistan during a period in the 1980′s when travel to that nation was impossible for American citizens. Sounds pretty damning, doesn’t it? Of course, the same year Obama went, there was a New York Times travel article about going to Pakistan. Um…oops?
The whole birther nonsense is a distraction. Yes, I agree that President Obama has been a bad president. Yes, I want to see him out of office. However, conspiracy theories don’t help anyone in any way. They make the president’s opposition look insane at best.
We have some real problems in this country, and while some will still try to argue that Obama is Kenyan or Indonesian or Martian or whatever, it won’t change a thing. He produced the birth certificate, but like so many predicted, it wasn’t enough. For crazy people, it usually isn’t.