Friday, April 15, 2011

Obama was born in Hawaii? Is that in Indonesia?

I finally figured it out. I figured out why some people don’t think that President Obama was born in the United States. Back prior to 2010, someone read that if Obama were to be elected he would become the first President not to be born in the contiguous United States. This person didn’t know what “contiguous” meant, so in keeping with the manner in which many proud Americans deal with things they don’t understand, this person ignored it. Then he went and told all of his friends that if Obama was elected he would become the first President not to be born in the United States. Someone put this information in their blog, and then, in keeping with another fine American tradition, the knowledge was repeated without any worry about where it came from or whether it might have a shred of truth to it. This makes sense to me, or at least it makes more sense than believing that a man was elected president without having been born in this country … or that the fact that Obama is black has nothing to do with this nonsense … or that the refusal by Republicans to denounce this nonsense isn’t politically calculated.

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