Cassi Creek: Normally,
even the most bitterly waged political campaigns have some fragments of truth
in their propaganda output. The nature
of such endeavors is that a small amount of truth leaks in despite the worst
efforts of the speechwriters and ad agencies to remove all truth from the battlefield.
The 2008
campaign was based upon an attempt by the GOP and the teavangelists to convince
their bases that Barak Obama fails to meet the Constitutional requirement that
he be a native-born citizen – having one or both parents citizens of the U.S.,
and/or being born in the U.S.
The
teavangelists, already pumping out lies about the tax structure and health care
proposals, was quite happy to amplify the number and intensity of lies spread
concerning the “birther” insanity. According
to the most extreme “birther” proclamations, Obama was born in Kenya but false
newspaper announcements and a falsified birth certificate were somehow created
and placed into the archives of corporate and governmental entities in order to
create a false claim to citizenship for Obama.
This amazing bit of conspiratorial planning then paid off in 2008 by
allowing a “secret Muslim, foreign born, non-citizen” to be elected as
POTUS.
This bit of
conspiracy supposedly took place before Obama was even conceived. As far-flung as this was, it attracted millions
of idiots willing to believe it and to trumpet it during the 2008
campaign. It is now being dragged back
onto the platforms at nearly every opportunity to use it against Obama.
I find it
impossible to understand the intellectual vacuum that allows anyone to find
such a lie plausible. I find myself wondering if this somehow allows the
GOP/teavangelist base to ignore the hatred and racism that are really at the
heart of the anti-Obama campaign. The
GOP/teavangelist base denies any racism and bigotry in their efforts to defeat
and delegitimize Obama. Yet, there have
been decidedly racist signs at teavangelist rallies and frankly bigoted
campaign speeches by several of the GOP candidates.
There is,
however, still one shred of truth evident in the anti-Obama efforts. Senator McConnell has promised every
conceivable effort by the GOP/teavangelists to make Obama a one-term
POTUS. During the last 3 years, it has
become all too evident that they will destroy the country if that is how they
can defeat Obama. We need to accept this
promise as true. They fully intend to
obliterate the social safety nets, destroy the schools, and wipe out the economy
and the middle class in order to sink Obama.
Wonder how
deluded the teavangelist have become?
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