I am vacationing this week, so this is coming to you from Fort Carson in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, right next to North American Aerospace Defense Command [NORAD] and Cheyenne Mountain. So conspiracy theories are on my mind.
First off, let me just say that I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. Indeed, I love a story filled with intrigue and espionage with good guys and bad guys and every cliché spy gag that can be found. But I confine those enjoyments to my leisure time, and then I let Ian Fleming take me on a trip through the dark world of conspiracy. Sometimes I like my conspiracy fix through movies and I pop in No Way Out or Fahrenheit 9/11, but I always keep in mind that it is make-believe. Entertainment for those mindless times. If I want my brain stimulated, I turn to one of the many educational channels on cable. They regularly have conspiracy theory shows on. But again, I know it is for entertainment.
Now there is a certain segment of our civilization who will believe most anything and the tales of conspiracy flow through American culture like water. Everything from the grassy knoll in Dallas to our government being responsible for the attacks of 9/11 to the now infamous Dan Rather-Bush Document fiasco, have been latched on to by folks with way too much time on their hands.
In keeping with that tradition we now have the Birthers, led by Lou Dobbs of CNN, who obviously learned nothing from Rather's downfall.
Hey, I am sorry that many of the folks on the right side of politics are so unhappy that Obama won. Look, you should have ran somebody with a snowball's chance to beat the guy. I didn't want him to be president and I still believe in my heart that he does not possess the good judgment to do the job. Just look at his latest snafu in involving himself with the Gates arrest in Cambridge, Mass.
He is screwing up with his Afghanistan policy and is about to repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union. I hate his foreign policy, I hate his domestic policy and I would not vote for his reelection if they ran Bozo the Clown against him (which given the Republicans' most recent candidate selections is a possibility).
But the truth is, he is an American, born in Hawaii. Yes his father was a legal alien from Kenya but his mother was American. That (his mother's nationality) in itself gives him birthright, if nothing else. I mean are you telling me that a child born in a foreign hospital, to say a diplomat's daughter or a vacationing mechanic's daughter, isn't an American and can't be president? If you are then you are wrong.
Obama was born in the U.S. It has been shown with documents from Hawaii and repeated official statements from the state as well. We just have some folks so caught up in the fact that he won the election that they can't let go of the anger and now it has manifested itself into the Birther Movement. I really wish they would stop because it's embarrassing to me, as an American, to hear foreign news services reporting on the crazy Americans who think their president isn't a citizen. Not only that, but you are wrong!
Looking at it from another point of view, ask yourself this question: Would the Democratic Party really be so collectively stupid as to not ensure that their candidate was eligible for the office? I mean really, would they? Regardless of what you think of individual Democrats, the people who run the party behind the scenes and cook up all the campaign strategies and so forth get paid to make sure things are right. With all their hatred of Bush and their conspiracy theory that he was an illegitimate president because of the 2000 election, do you really think they would risk something like running someone that is not eligible? It would be suicidal for the party. If you do you may just be more unstable than James Carville.
Like it or not, the man is president, the man won the election fair and square, just as Bush did in 2000, and the man is an American. If you want to fix that Birthers, drop the nutty conspiracy junk and start working on getting him replaced in 2012. Of course, if you believe the Mayan Calendar conspiracy, the world ends in December of 2012 so we don't have to deal with it for much longer anyway.
So what do you say, how about putting all this wasted energy into finding a good replacement for Obama and then we'll see what conspiracies pop up about the new guy or gal. Just please, please, by all things holy and right, don't run a loser again. Yes, I mean Sarah Palin. Because nobody likes a quitter.
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