Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

The feeling I got was that people continued to maintain skepticism or
outright cynicism because Obama was an Illinois politician, not a black one.
There is precedent for political shenanigans from Chicago.

Of course, I'm hardly one to defend the Birthers - I've already noted that
they believe what they believe because that's what they want to believe. I
no longer believe they're able to entertain actual proof because they've
already found him guilty in their own heads, and nothing other than a
revelation of skulduggery will track with them (which frustrates me
greatly). I have no problem being skeptical in the absence of proof.
However, when proof is produced, I expect that to be the practical end of
the issue. I'm not a Birther because where I once had questions myself, they
were answered to my own satisfaction as early as the Clinton campaign for
the White House. In my mind, if anyone would turn up a compelling reason to
discredit Obama on this basis, they would have. After briefly flirting with
this issue, they never brought it up again. That was enough proof for me.

Johne Cook
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:37 PM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote:

> If it were possible for someone to provide evidence that the birther
> movement *wasn't* rooted in latent racial anxiety, and all relevant
> agencies agreed that the evidence was legitimate, I would no longer be
> willing to entertain the notion.
>

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