Birthers: We don't mind grasping for straws...

...we just wanna stay relevant...

Talk about strange, your humble blogger friend, Dr. Asten, agrees with Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. I'm gonna get in trouble with some of my more conservative leaning friends based on my opinion about Obama's birth certificate. I believe conservatives have more valid grounds in going after Obama other than proving whether he is a citizen or naturalized based on the 14th Amendment. If his mother was an Amurican citizen, Barack Obama is a citizen as well. End of story. John McCain is a citizen, like any child born to military and civilian parents who live overseas. To continue to pursue this silly story makes Obama appear more credible and will make it that much harder to scuttle his disastrous agenda. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, and they often distract from our main goal, which is to keep our politicians honest.

Like the 9/11 Truthers and the deniers of Bush's election as president in 2000, Birthers come off as unhinged, and rightfully so. All of Barack Obama's ducks are in a row on this issue, it would be best if those on the Right (and possibly the Left) dropped it, and instead turned their efforts elsewhere. John Hawkins at Right Wing News, wrote an article about the Obama birth certificate, and I believe he's right when he says that based on all the evidence we have thus far on this issue, no minds are changed then it's best to let the issue go down the memory hole like the North American Union. I'd like to add when Alan Keyes is the de facto leader of the movement, that's reason enough to let the issue die a slow death (perhaps he's still reeling from being beaten by Obama in the Illinois US Senate race in 2004...).

I suppose it'd be easy to jump on this bandwagon in light of Obama's declining popularity, just like liberals, who thought that any given action by former President Bush was a scandal. With ObamaCare seemingly on the skids, the administration backtracking on its Porkulus rhetoric, and Obama believing that Emperor Hirohito signed a treaty on the USS Missouri in 1945, Obama opponents have a plethora of things with which to hammer him. So, for those of you who thought I, an ardent Obama opponent, was going to side with you on the Birther issue, you were sadly mistaken.

That doesn't mean we still can't be friends, though...

Have a great day...