You know those Birther people – the ones who claim that Obama can’t be a legitimate President because his father wasn’t an American? This despite the fact that he was born in America, and his mother was an American from Kansas (and as we know any child born of an American is a “natural born” American)?
Donald Trump and a bunch of others won’t let the issue go, convinced that this should have kept him from being President.
Well, now there’s another person thinking of running for President. Get this — we have absolute proof that he was born in Canada, and he doesn’t even deny it! Worse yet, his father was a non-citizen from Cuba! Clearly, all the Birthers are falling over themselves to prevent him from being President, using the exact same logic they use against Obama!
Oh, wait. This person, Ted Cruz, is a Republican. And a conservative. And white (well, Latino white, so that’s close enough.)
That makes all the difference in the world.
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Yes, but we all know just exactly how much Republicans actually use logic, now don’t we?
I suppose we’ll soon be subjected to a Carl Sagans “billions upon billions” worth of really convoluted explanations from Republicans about how Ted Cruz running for President isn’t the same as Obama and how Ted’s perfectly fine by them… {shakes head}
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Birthers.
Birthers …..
Ah!!! Yes, I remember now!
Hillary supporters, as I recall ….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/8478044/Birther-row-began-with-Hillary-Clinton.html
Has the Hillary camp come forward to assault this Republican Canadian? If not, expect them any minute now ….
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Nah, it had been around longer than that. Some Clinton supporters jumped on it, and Clinton said “cut it out” and it stopped.
These people were NOT part of the Clinton campaign staff, but a PAC that supported her to the point where they came across as crazy (also claiming a bunch of other conspiracies — see? it’s not just right wingers who believe crap) and eventually had their charter revoked because they were not even obeying campaign finance laws
You’ll not find a single incident of Clinton saying anything of the sort, and apart from those unsanctioned emails you mentioned, there’s no other evidence of it. There are, however, plenty of posts on the right-wing blogs that pre-date it.
Even so, just because someone else started it doesn’t negate my argument in the slightest. I am against hypocrisy in all its forms.
In this particular case, there were prominent Republicans — ones running for President, and not just unnamed “staffers” — who were pushing this lie about Obama’s birth like that was the most important issue ever. These same people are now completely silent about Cruz. You don’t have to be a Democrat to see the hypocrisy.
There were also plenty of Republicans who didn’t make that stupid claim. I am not criticizing them.
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