Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #95

Posted on May 1, 2011 in Roundup

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mark this as the week when Obama answered the birther conspiracy once and for all — and pretty much found himself in the same place. But you can also mark it as the point at which the birthers lost their cachet of “doing the right thing for the country” and exposed themselves as partisan racists. Would they have raised a ruckus about John McCain whose birth in the Canal Zone makes his fulfillment of the requirement to have been native born in the United States (not its territories, but the United States) questionable? I doubt it.

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