The "Birther" Movement

Eugene Robinson - Obama, Clearly Born in the U.S.A. - washingtonpost.com: "The 'birthers' wouldn't be, either, unless you believe a poll released last week by Research 2000 revealing that an astounding 28 percent of Republicans actually think that Obama was not born in the United States and a separate 30 percent are 'not sure.' GOP officials need to order more tinfoil."

Apart from the health care debate, the absurd movement, the birthers, also seem to divide the US according to the poll cited. I remember a talk given by a Chinese descendant, it was the Democrat response to George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, where he claimed that it takes a 100 years for an immigrant family person to reach a point where he is allowed to give such a talk. Then came President Obama. No wonder there is a birther movement.

For those who by chance don't know this, it necessary to be born on American soil to be a president. Robinson asks whether or not this is an orchestrated campaign to legitimize Obama's presidency perhaps in the same way that the Jeremiah 'God Damn America' Wright story unfolded. And now the latest Obama-gates story that seemed to not want to disappear from the media despite a "Beer Summit". Not to forget the Sotomayor appointment.