The usual disclaimers first: Yes, Donald Trump is a zillionare blowhard with a bizarre waffle-pattern combover — perhaps if only to make a mockery of the classic Spy magazine prediction from 1990 that he’d eventually be shilling a book called Trump: The Art of Fine Grooming. Yes, the odds of him winning the GOP nomination are rather slim — and heaven help us all if he actually does. Yes, he has the potential to do Perot-level damage to a GOP candidate if he runs as third party candidate.
Yes, the Birther stuff is a bit nutty, and a distraction from the serious issues of the day. Yes, Trump could be some sort of one-man false-flag operation, as the Hot Air readers suggest.
But.
In the middle of “Donald Trump Scores an Important Victory… Over the Media,” Seth Forman of the American Thinker has a good summary of the where Trump’s crusading Birtherism stands:
One of the functions of the media is to protect the public from fraudulent statements made by public figures. The unwillingness of the media to fulfill this role in the case of Obama has led to significant, and probably needless, public tension. Obama’s resistance to releasing the long version of his birth certificate, has served not only to raise legitimate speculation about the circumstances surrounding his birth, but to give fodder to anti-Obama extremists.
Gail Collins, the New York Times’s most reliably uninteresting liberal attack dog, questioned Trump’s sanity just for raising the birth certificate issue. But would she say the same about famed black Vanderbilt University Law Professor and Obama supporter Carol Swain? Swain has said “I think that by not releasing it [the full birth certificate], it makes people much more passionately opposed to the president. Moreover, for a president who was elected on the basis of his personal background, it is troubling that Obama himself would want to withhold such basic information.”
The media’s curiosity about the background of those running for national office seemed to know no bounds when it came to George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard or the sexual behavior of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter. But during and since the 2008 campaign a virtual wall of silence has been constructed around Obama.
Check out new Pajamas Xpress blogger Barry Rubin’s flashback of how, as then-Newsweek editor Jon Meacham would later admit, the MSM made Obama seem like he walked on water in 2008. And then add that to Spencer Ackerman’s now-infamous concurrent threat in mid-2008 to pick any one of Obama’s conservative critics at random, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
Which brings to something Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2004, which we’ll quote after the page jump.
The Birth Certificate issue is not lunatic or crazy. As Trump points out, you don’t spend $2 million in legal fees preventing the long-form certificate from being published, if you don’t have something to hide. Moreover, politics aint beanbag. Obama has ridden the strength of being the exotic, time to make his exoticness and press worship a weakness. Obviously Obama has SOMETHING to hide, and is hiding it. Otherwise he’d release the long form. Since he hasn’t, and spent all that money to prevent the release, something is fishy.
Obama’s lawyers disqualified his mentor from the ballot to win his election to the State Legislature. He won the Senate by forcing the court to open up Ryan’s divorce records, so that everyone would know that he wanted then-wife Actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek to go to swingers clubs.
I am sure something equally icky is afoot with his birth certificate.
Possibilities: No father listed, Muslim as religion, a father listed other than Barack Obama Sr., mother claims no US citizenship, beyond being born in Kenya or someplace else. Certainly there is something that would reflect poorly on Obama (perhaps “White” as his race listed, Obama is as White as he is Black) in his bid for re-election.
Imagine Obama being revealed as “White” on his birth certificate long form. All his “Blackness” posing becomes as ludicrous as Eminem. And he’s laughed at. A joke.
It’s not only the “see-no-Obama-evil” media, it’s the cadre of brain-dead celebrities, pundits, academics and Demoncrat politicians who attempted to deal with any criticism of His Emptiness by dismissing it as racially motivated. That will not be forgotten.
It seems like Trump’s popularity is on the rise since he first mentioned Obama’s birth certificate. According to the latest news he has secured the first place among other potential Republican candidates.