This is the last paragraph of a great review of the Birthers:
As for those of us who don’t subscribe to the conclusion of the Birthers, the truth is that even worse questions remain for us. After all, if the answer isn’t that Mr. Obama is not a legal American citizen, then the question that remains is how is it that a young man who was born here, was raised here, is from among us could be so foreign in his views of who we are as a people? What weakness in our system has allowed to fester on our own streets beliefs, loyalties, and sensibilities so antithetical to the ones that have so long defined, propelled, and strengthened us? And perhaps even more troubling – If the President of the United States really has nothing at all to hide in the past he has so sought to conceal, then why has he concealed it at all? Is it simply distrust of his fellow citizens, or dislike? Does he think himself so far above the rabble that he is simply beyond having to expose himself to our judgments? Or is it that Barack Obama simply wants to be left alone to define his own life, to continue writing his own narrative unencumbered by fact or evidence or inquiry, leaving history to believe about him whatever he himself conceives or constructs? Is he a leader whose legacy is his own declaration? If so, he may be even less American than the Birthers themselves fear.
For Full Post: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdboreing/2009/08/11/in-defense-of-the-birthers/
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August 23, 2009 at 9:49 am
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
Seems to me that Obama could stop all speculation if he’d simply release the documents.
He refuses to do so, and all this does is show the people that he isn’t really sincere when he pledged to bring the Country together.
If a man is proud of what he has accomplished, then why would he not want the people to see the proof of his accomplishments?
August 24, 2009 at 3:43 pm
HistorianDude
He cannot release anything until the Birther lawsuits have all been dismissed. As long as any of them are active, any release of documents would set a disastrous precedent for the American civil legal system.
August 24, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Interested Bystander
HistorianDude,
Obama CAN release the documents; the “precedent” should have NOTHING to do with it.
Morality has EVERYTHING to do with it.
The man is morally corrupt, and he’s taking the Country along on his Alinsky/Davis/Ayers taught destruction tour.
Get off your “legal” mumbo jumbo. It gets tiring. No matter how many times you comment “you’re wrong”, or “you’re misinformed”, or “that is a fake”, or “it will set a precedent”, you can’t get past the FACT that Obama has kept his documents secret, and he signed an EO to keep them sealed.
His whole campaign was based on:
“Just words”
There were many of us out here trying to inform the public, but we were ignored.
Now we all have to live with the consequences.
August 25, 2009 at 6:46 am
HistorianDude
BI:
YOU WROTE: Obama CAN release the documents; the “precedent” should have NOTHING to do with it.
RESPONSE: We can talk “should, would, could” all day. It does not matter. What matters is what “is.” And precedent has everything to do with it.
YOU WROTE: Morality has EVERYTHING to do with it.
RESPONSE: Morality has nothing to do with it. But if it did, you would not occupy the moral high ground here.
YOU WROTE: The man is morally corrupt, and he’s taking the Country along on his Alinsky/Davis/Ayers taught destruction tour.
RESPONSE: Then do not vote him in 2012.
YOU WROTE: Get off your “legal” mumbo jumbo. It gets tiring. No matter how many times you comment “you’re wrong”, or “you’re misinformed”, or “that is a fake”, or “it will set a precedent”, you can’t get past the FACT that Obama has kept his documents secret, and he signed an EO to keep them sealed.
RESPONSE: You have no idea what you are talking about. And this is sad, because I have corrected you a number of times previously.
1. The EO he signed has exactly NOTHING to do with keeping his records sealed. It does not cover any of the documents Birthers have been screaming to see. And (as you have yourself admitted) the EO actually makes it easier to access presidential records than was the case before he signed it. Odd how you forgot that. Or have you just decided that the previous story was better for your position, even though it was a lie, and you intend to keep using it? What was it you were saying about morality?
2. He has done nothing to keep any documents secret. They are already protected by privacy laws, just like yours and mine. He hasn’t had to raise a finger for the laws to do what they were intended to do.
3. It is certainly within his power to release documents… but cannot do so without setting a disastrous precedent. You don’t have to care about that because you’re just a nobody on an Internet Blog. But Obama is President of the United states… so he HAS to care about things that you don’t.
You consider it “legal mumbo jumbo,” but that is entirely a reflection on you, not on the law. It is a very good thing that your personal and self admitted ignorance is not the basis by which we enforce the law of the United States of America.
YOU WROTE: Now we all have to live with the consequences.
RESPONSE: Yes we do. That’s the way our government works. Ain’t it great.
August 25, 2009 at 6:55 am
JAMES
HD: Might you have a link to the EO? I had missed that discussion between you and IB. And, yes, our government is great, so long as we still have a government in 2012 that will allow us to vote him out of office…………… I think Reid and Pelosi will already be in the unemployment line, along with a few others.
August 25, 2009 at 9:39 am
HistorianDude
Sure, James. here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/
August 25, 2009 at 10:06 am
JAMES
Many thanks
August 25, 2009 at 10:14 am
JAMES
If I understand this correctly, the EO covers the records and documents of the Administration, and would not cover his personal records prior to his election. Those, as you have stated, are covered by various other laws applicable to all of us.
August 25, 2009 at 10:37 am
HistorianDude
You understand correctly.
Also, for what it’s worth, this EO restores the standard set by Ronald Reagan, and reverses the much more restrictive and secretive EO of George W. Bush.
August 25, 2009 at 11:03 am
JAMES
With the exception of anything pertaining to national security, everything should be available through the archives under whatever timetable the archive laws prescribe.
August 23, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Ben
Regarding the question “how is it that a young man who was born here, was raised here, is from among us could be so foreign in his views of who we are as a people? What weakness in our system has allowed to fester on our own streets beliefs, loyalties, and sensibilities so antithetical to the ones that have so long defined, propelled, and strengthened us?”
The answer is simple; he is a product of subversion.
Yuri Bezmenov, a Russian born, KGB trained subverter tells about the influence of the Soviet Union on Western media and describes the stages of communist takeovers. This interview was conducted by G. Edward Griffin in 1984.
” The main emphasis of the KGB has not been in the area of intelligence gathering. Only 15% of time, money and man-power is spent on espionage. The other 85% is spent on “ideological subversion” or “active measures”. It is a great brain-washing process. It takes a long time.
The process consists of 4 stages, one of which is called “Demoralization”. This stage takes between 15 and 20 years. This is because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students. The process exposes the students to the ideology of the enemy i.e. the Marxism-Leninism ideology and is pumped into the soft heads of young students for at least 3 generations without being challenged or contra-balanced by the ideology of the basic values of American patriotism.
Most of the people who graduated in the ’60s, the drop-outs, the half-baked intellectuals now occupy the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media and education system. America is now stuck with them.
The process of demoralization is then complete and irreversible. It will take another 15 to 20 years to wash away the intellectual contamination and corruption of values. A person who is demoralized is unable to process truth.”
You can watch and listen to the interview of Yuri Bezmenov, in addition to other interviews from experts about the dumbing of America through our education system, here.
http://rightamerican.wordpress.com/thelongroadtoobama/