Dispatches from Birtherstan - 3-7 September 2011

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Dispatches from Birtherstan - 3-7 September 2011

The saying goes that when one stares at the abyss, the abyss stares back at them. After three years spent writing about the birtherstani, all the way back to their cult of the COLB days, I think I can safely say that there is no level of willful ignorance, sheer hatred, or utter stupidity that surprises me anymore.

Sad to say.

Whereas the birthers used to amuse me, they now fill me with a deep-seated dislike, meshed with a sense of despair about how bad political discourse has become in his country. Never in my life have I seen the office of the Presidency treated with such contempt by the opposition party. Never have I seen the sheer and open obstructionism shown. Never have I seen an opposing side so demonized. It used to be we were all Americans together, even when we disagreed politically.

No more. Not when you have "patriots" calling for revolt, threats against so-called "Obots" for daring - DARING - to support a lawfully and democratically President. When you have a political party determined to sacrifice everything - jobs, the economy, lives, the very future and principles of this country - if it means making the President a "one term only" President.

I swear the first person who says this is a "post-racial" American will get punched in the throat. AFTER I stop laughing.

Are there things I disagree with Obama on?? Absolutely. Are there things I wish he would do differently?? Yes. In particular I wish he would understand you can't compromise with the current GOP - because the Tea Party and their friends in the right-wing media have driven off every sane Republican out there and replaced them with batch of party-line ideologues that would bring a tear of pride to Stalin.

No matter if Obama wins or loses in 2012, I'm not sure the well of political dialog can ever be cleaned of the poison fouling it. Not when the people we elect continue to add their own ideological feces to it. Not when people can't see past colour or political party. Not when everyday working-class people are bled dry, told everything they earned was an "entitlement", and the people who stand up for their rights called "thugs" or worse. Not when the middle class that made this country what it was has been all but destroyed.

If Obama loses in 2012, I'm not sure our country will survive with its principles and values intact. If Obama wins a second term, I'm not sure he can do more than delay that death for another decade. We're supposed to be better than this as a nation.

But the monster staring from the abyss seems to say otherwise.......

Anyway, today's dispatches has Dr. Orly's spin on her federal case. A motion to dismiss in her Hawaiian civil case. A Dr. Orly transcript that bears only a passing similarity to her claims. Bigfoot expert "Citizen" Larry Wells doesn't like to be debunked. The Pest and eFail wonders why anyone hasn't acted on the "treason" complaints their band of seditionists have sent out.

Dr. Kate seems to think the Democrats are racist, based on strawmen arguments and overshadowed by her own obvious racism. "ObamaFake" acts like, well, "trailer trash". World Nut Daily warns about lies and propaganda, in an article that must make Joseph Farah's nose as big as the Washington Monument.

Pam Barnett is told "no, you can't have federal case, not yours." Lame Cherry tries to attack so-called "Obots". Remember boys and girls, violent rhetoric is A-OK if you're a Tea Party member, but strictly prohibited if you're speaking out AGAINST the Tea Party.

Moran is trying to make a post-military career off of being a nutcase. The birthers need to know that often times, silence means "go away and other someone else with your fairy tale". And Lawrence Sellin continues to urge the overthrow of the US Government from the comfort of his Finland residence.