Some websites provide one with a valuable service of sorts. The valuable service to which I refer is a glimpse into how some of the most extreme individuals "think." Evidence of this can be found among the members of a movement known as the birthers. For those who have not been following, the birthers are a group of people who are intent upon proving that Barack Obama was born outside the United States, is not a natural-born citizen, and is thus ineligible to hold the office of Commander in Chief.
Birthers are a curious lot. Marginalized by the rational members of the right, they nonetheless persist in their "plight." So many "arguments" have been brought forth concerning Obama's alleged birth in Kenya, that I consider it worthwhile, for the purposes of keeping genuine comedy alive in our somewhat negative society, to publicize them. Here go some of the most absurd birther pronouncements:
1. Obama's mother gave birth to him in Kenya because they have free health care over
there.
2. The birth announcement in that Hawaiian newspaper is for a different Barack Obama. Just
because a Barack Obama was born on that day in Hawaii doesn't mean it's the Barack
Obama.
3. McCain (or "McLame" as some posters have taken to calling him) was too stupid to pick
up on where Obama was born. If he had, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in right now.
Analyzing the birthers has been done umpteenth times, but there is a perverse amusement in going back and looking over the utterances of such individuals. Assuming the Internet is not plagued by more trolls than usual, such sources of "insight" can be found generally on sites such as freerepublic.com, hotair.com or any news' article on Yahoo that features a comments' section. Amusing, yes, but frightening at the same time.
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