Man what are they teaching kids @ school these days?

Not that this will go away, conspiracy nutz being what they are.

This, and Pres-Elect Obama’s smoking are the new Whitewater and Lewinsky, as the righwingdominionists continue their drive that only they are rightful holders of the White House. Impeach has already become their chorus though he’s still only Pres-Elect.

Love, C.

You might want to spend some time with Google. Hawaii became a state August 21, 1959. President-elect Obama was born in 1961. McCain is the only one of the candidates who was not actually a citizen at birth. The law making him a citizen was passed the year after he was born, but it had a grandfather clause that made him eligible to run.

Sounds to me like someone is desperate and reaching at whatever crap they can think of to stop us from having a decent president.

Of course, there are people who can’t understand that 1959 came before 1961. Feh!

Thanks to Palin and McCain’s cries of “pro-Americanism”, “socialism”, “terrorism” and other drivel, the “truthers” behind this are going to use any ammunition they can get their hands on to discredit Mr. Obama. The statistic worth noting is that the President-Elect has gotten more death threats than any predecessor before him.

(And isn’t it ironic that Palin, McCain and the rest of the blowhards in the GOP have truly nothing to say about their utter nastiness.)

It’s scary and appalling that this crap is going on right now. Mr. Obama is going to be fighting it throughout his term(s) in office. :(

As for Thomas and Keyes? If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

Yes, Obama was born in Hawaii, and yes, he is eligible to be president. But according to several experts in conspiracy theories, and in the psychology of people who believe in conspiracy theories, there’s little chance those people who think Obama is barred from the presidency will ever be convinced otherwise. “There’s no amount of evidence or data that will change somebody’s mind,” says Michael Shermer, who is the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a columnist for Scientific American, and who holds an undergraduate and a master’s degree in psychology. “The more data you present a person, the more they doubt it … Once you’re committed, especially behaviorally committed or financially committed, the more impossible it becomes to change your mind.”

Any inconvenient facts are irrelevant. People who believe in a conspiracy theory “develop a selective perception, their mind refuses to accept contrary evidence,” Chip Berlet, a senior analyst with Political Research Associates who studies such theories, says. “As soon as you criticize a conspiracy theory, you become part of the conspiracy.”

Sigh.

Love, C.