Whack Jobs

The Birthers are a growing group in this country that is nothing more than the largest collection of Whack Jobs I have ever seen in my whole life. The fact that the Republican Party and some of its members, even want to associate themselves with this movement, is outright nauseating to me and shows the total disarray the party is in. This excerpt, from an article on Politico.com, illustrates the ignorance being touted about the Obama Birth certificate issue;
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19450.html
By BEN SMITH
A quick reality check, before we dive in: The challenges to Obama's eligibility have no grounding in evidence. Courts across the country have summarily rejected the movement's theory — that Obama can't be a citizen because his father wasn't —as a misreading of U.S. law; and Hawaii officials, along with contemporary birth announcements, affirm that Obama was in fact born in Honolulu in 1961.

The following article pretty well states what the official rulings are on the Obama Birth Certificate and how I feel about this whole movement;
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/03/06/birthers_court/
Obama "Birthers" slapped around by federal judge
By Alex Koppelman
Finally, a judge has given the "Birthers" -- the people who argue that President Obama is not eligible for the presidency -- the spanking they so sorely deserve.
In his opinion dismissing one lawsuit filed on behalf of a retired Air Force officer who argued he needed to see even more proof that Obama was born in the United States, U.S. District Judge James Robertson wrote:
This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do. Even in its relatively short life the case has excited the blogosphere and the conspiracy theorists. The right thing to do is to bring it to an early end.
Robertson also wrote dismissively -- even angrily -- about Philip Berg, the man pulling the strings behind this lawsuit. Berg, who's also a 9/11 "Truther," has been at the forefront of the Birther movement and has advanced various nutty theories about Obama's birth and citizenship. In his opinion, Robertson notes that imposing civil penalties against Berg would only provide him fodder for his crusade, but does threaten such penalties against a local lawyer Berg brought in to help with this case.
As the judge noted, and as I wrote in an article examining the psychology of this conspiracy theory specifically and conspiracy theories generally, even an opinion like this is, unfortunately, unlikely to bring an end to this particular madness.

So, for all you Whack Jobs out there, including CNN’s Lou Dobbs, get a life! Get over yourselves and as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said about the 2000 election results, Get over it! We have too many issues in this country and around the world that require our attention. The birther issues are a waste of time and quite frankly are a waste of oxygen on those individuals that have nothing better to do than be a Whack Job! Maybe those people should get a real job and be part of the solution in our world instead of a big part of the ongoing problems.

That’s How I See It.

Websites of reference;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/liz-cheney-defends-birthe_n_242555.html
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/the-birthers-obama-conspiracy-theory/363461
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/03/06/birthers_court/
http://www.thebirthers.org/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/birther-boom/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19450.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/23/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5182746.shtml