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Posted on | April 16, 2011 | 12 Comments

by The Blog Kitty

It all clicked. I get it. The point of the Obama/Trump birther conspiracy. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Hawaii’s most famous son. Jon Meacham, useful idiot par dreck-sellance gives us the clue here:

But that’s another story. Little is known of the story of the native-born clause. As reconstructed by Akhil Reed Amar of Yale, the provision is rooted in the framers’ fears not of immigrants, who were allowed to hold any other federal office, but in anxieties about imported noblemen.

Now, it can be revealed. The Obama birther business is all merely a front. To what end, you ask? To trick states like Arizona into writing legislation that could apparently cause difficulties for a sitting President, and whip his followers up into a froth. Then, like Meacham, they scream about the need to amend the Constitution to remove this archaic restriction. It all seems so nice. So reasonable. So only-the-most-raaaaacist-twit-in-the-country-could-argue-against-it.
And so it is done. And then what happens? Does the Ruling Class install Prince Charles over the old colonies, to tidy their atrocious accent? No, something more. . .spooky. . .

Soros


Past all this nonsense, here is the rub: we have 330+ million citizens. The argument that the Constitution should be amended should be built upon the argument that the opportunity costs of such an awesome candidate existing elsewhere in the world outweigh the political costs of Amendment, even in the face of all of the other issues currently besetting the country.
No, I don’t think such an übermensch exists, and I hope that this post has blown the idea out of the water on both silly and practical grounds.

Update: Memeorandum thread.
And it looks like Da Tech Guy is playing this one straight:

Trump’s shots have become body blows that are lowing the president’s defenses and Public Television that has always been there to help defend the democrats who fund them are going to try to soften the blows.

Trump is not my choice for the nomination, he’s not even in my top 5, but he has done serious damage politically to President Obama and as long as he is in play he will continue to do so. As Rush Limbaugh has said, the media will tell you who they fear, right now they fear Trump.

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  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    The media fears Trump, huh? And why would that be? Its a story, one that has people’s interest enough people want to turn in and follow the story. Why should they be afraid of that? They would probably love for Trump to get the Republican nomination. Trump versus Obama. It wouldn’t be just another presidential election, it would be an event. A star-studded, celebrity event, starring the man they promoted for president in a re-election contest against one of the media’s most successful reality tv stars. I’m not sensing the fear here.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    The media fears Trump, huh? And why would that be? Its a story, one that has people’s interest enough people want to turn in and follow the story. Why should they be afraid of that? They would probably love for Trump to get the Republican nomination. Trump versus Obama. It wouldn’t be just another presidential election, it would be an event. A star-studded, celebrity event, starring the man they promoted for president in a re-election contest against one of the media’s most successful reality tv stars. I’m not sensing the fear here.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Let me put it another way. Anybody that thinks Donald Trump is a conservative is being sold a bill of goods. Trump is a liberal. No, he’s not another Leon Trotsky, but he’s appreciably to the left of center, at least on balance, probably more so than Mike Huckabee. Does Trump strike you as Pro-Life? What about DOMA, or gay marriage, or gay rights in general? Do you think he’s really that concerned about repealing Obamacare? This is a man who seriously considered running for president in 2004-as a Democrat. Wake up!

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Let me write Trumps acceptance speech at the Republican convention-

    “America faces a clear choice in direction, but its time now for us to put aside the rancor of the past. I look forward to a respectful campaign and a positive debate of ideas and ideals, but a debate based on mutual respect and appreciation, one that acknowledges the inherent patriotism of all Americans, Democrat or Republican, liberal or independent. Its time now to put aside the extremism from both sides and relegate the hateful extremes to the sidelines where they belong, as we all join hands in a meaningful compromise, one that does not diminish our respective ideals, but which heals the fabric of this great human experiment called America. One that shouts, United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”

    And I will be the first to extend the olive branch of healing. I would like to announce here and now, after extended research, that yes, Barak Obama was born in Hawaii and is a native American. I hereby disavow any and all who deny his citizenship, and decry those who question his patriotism.”

    That’s just an example of the double talk you’ll hear if you nominate this clown.

    In Donald Trumps mind, the Tea Party is synonymous with Birtherism. Donald Trump isn’t just campaigning for your support.

    Donald Trump is laughing at you.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    I’m just remembering the last time there was a push to remove the “natural-born citizen” requirement: right after Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in California’s Gray Davis gubernatorial recall election eight years ago. Yeah, that one went far, didn’t it?

    And Pagan is right: the media don’t fear Trump. They’re snickering up their ink-stained sleeves at the idea. I am too (and I have no idea how my sleeves got ink-stained, so don’t ask) but for entirely different reasons — not least of which is that I don’t trust anybody whose hair has to wear a vaccination tag.

  • Anonymous

    Quite the obsession with Trump’s hair.
    For the record if the choice is between O’Sputnik and some dead Prussian, I’m voting for the Prussian.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    It goes for Blago too.

    And if Trump’s hair were to dump him and run on its own, I’d at least want to hear what it has to say.

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  • http://twitter.com/alwaysfiredup alwaysfiredup

    I think they fear Trump, but not for president. They fear that he’ll be able to normalize the birthers. And that’s a very bad thing for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The wilder and more extreme views that become acceptable political discourse the better. The object being to move both the left and the right banks of the discourse stream to the right. What is now considered by the average Joe Sixpack to be the middle must become the far left, what is now the far left must become…..um extinct.

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