The Rare Political Rant: Birth Certificate Madness

[matrixrefugee]

For the record: I'm not much of a fan of Barack Obama. I think it's awesome that an African-American man has been voted to the highest office in this country, and I think he's a good speaker, but I don't think he's really done a good job putting verbs in those sentences, as it were, in my opinion (operating word being "my").

But one thing that bugs me to no end is the whole debacle over the man's birth certificate. I'm personally glad he came out and released the document in an bid to silence the whiny babies on the Right who inSIST he wasn't born on U.S. soil.

Only now those damn fools are claiming it's a 'fake document'. I swear, these people are so entrenched in believing what they want to believe, that (fandom craziness ahead) The Doctor could take them into the TARDIS, whisk to them to hospital where Mr. Obama was born on that very day and hour, and they could be standing right there in the delivery room as his mom is in labor, and hear the obstetrician in attendance tell her she has a beautiful, healthy son, and they *STILL* wouldn't believe it, just because they don't like the guy. I'm anything but his #1 fangurl, but I believe it. What next? Are we going to doubt anyone and everyone's birth certificate? Where will this paranoia end?!!?

Come on. There are other things more pressing. People in Haiti are still living in tents. Japan is still recovering from tsunami and earthquakes and is now dealing with a nuclear catastrophe. People in the Midwest lost their houses to tornadoes. *THIS* Is what we need to be getting upset over, not some niminy-piminy piece of paper. If people want to be passionate about something, get passionate about helping your fellow man or taking care of the planet we all live on.

Comments

[jezebelesque.livejournal.com]

I want to know why he paid millions of dollars to keep his birth certificate from being released, only to have it released now?

I think it is very important that the president be a natural born citizen. I can't believe how many people are saying it doesn't matter. Do we get to pick & choose which parts of the Constitution matter & which ones don't?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

That raises a thought that I had last night. Wouldn't the need for a presidential candidate to be a natural-born U.S. citizen retroactively invalidate the presidencies of the first several presidents? Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson were born British subjects.

I'm not saying that the citizenship issue is meaningless, I just think people are getting their knickers into knots over things that may not be as important in the grand scale of things.

[jezebelesque.livejournal.com]

It would but they're dead & there's nothing we can do about it. I think this matters in the grand scheme, at least for America. It's a Constitutional issue.

[veilofveronica.livejournal.com]

I think the whole birth certificate debaucle is ridiculous, too.

As for Obama, I am not American, but from what I can see, he's not much of a president.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Trust me, he isn't much of a president. Won't be the first time we've had a do-nothing in the Oval Office (Millard Filmore, anyone?)