THE BIRTHERS ARE STILL WITH US

There is a site, 'Birthers.org' that is spreading its insanity and confirming its members are out of touch with reality.  Unfortunately, many have been voted into office.  Gawker.com writes an interesting history of the birther conspiracy.   The tragedy of these conspiracy theorists is that, while they lost the presidential election, the won a great many state elections as well as seats in the House and Senate. Further, the damage that is done when the false stories are kept alive, they influence people who do not do their own fact checking.

There are 'birthers' in the electoral college who hare challenging President Obama today.  The Washington Times wrote recently:  Arizona’s 11 Republican electors formally cast their votes Monday for Mitt Romney — but not before three of them, including the state party chairman, said questions remain about whether Barack Obama is a natural born citizen.
"I’m not satisfied with what I’ve seen,’’ said Tom Morrissey, head of the Arizona Republican Party after signing the formal paperwork to cast his Electoral College vote for Romney. "I think for somebody in the president’s position to not have produced a document that looks more legitimate, I have a problem with that.’’

Cindy Simpson of Renew America wrote another interesting article about birthers.  You can read it by clicking here.   Those, like Palin who supported Trumps  ridiculousness, deserve the loss of status that brought them. Oddly, in none of the articles I researched was Donald Trump mentioned.  I suppose we will never rid ourselves of stupidity since there is no cure.  However, perhaps there should be more people standing up to the fact that respect due our President is not being shown  Perhaps there should be some media focus on that since there have been many times the media has displayed scorn at his decisions and much criticism about his performance in the past.