I’m not a birther, but the left is not helping their cause by hysterically mischaracterizing anyone who disagrees with the President on policy – or even asks why it took him three years to release a birth certificate – as a racist.

Yesterday morning during our CNN discussion on the birth certificate issue, James Carville said that the birther issue is a census of idiocy for America. I disagree. Playing the race card is the census of idiocy in America.

Yahoo has graciously provided the example.

The article begins by acknowledging how many Democrats questioned John McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal zone. Apparently, it isn’t racist to question that of McCain. Despite Yahoo’s best effort to sweep this forced acknowledgment under the rug with a simple “but that died down,” it in fact, did not die down because the left was satisfied with the answer (they made a sensational amount of hoopla over the issue). It died down because the left was both faced with the hypocrisy of making a charge while claiming offense over the same charge and they wanted to be the only victim for sympathy and fundraising. The media did more to cover John McCain’s birther story and George Bush’s SAT scores than it did evaluating Obama’s backstory, like they’ve done with past presidents. That’s what this is truly about.

A vast array of evidence attests to Obama’s citizenship–including a certificate of live birth, signed affidavits from people who viewed Obama’s long-form birth certificate, confirmation by Hawaiian officials, and independent investigations by news outlets. Nevertheless, “this thing just keeps going” as Obama said this morning.

Frankly, I couldn’t give a damn about the birth certificate. However, the only thing that has “kept this going” has been the President himself, by dragging it out for three years when he could have shut everyone up during the campaign. But seeing as Democrats launch fundraising emails every time the word “birth certificate” is uttered and seeing how they, in conjunction with the government propaganda machine, has been able to use this to increase Obama’s sympathy factor, they didn’t want it to go away. From a strategic standpoint, I don’t know why he at least didn’t hold it out for an October surprise.

Many critics of the birther movement say its core tenets–and its stubborn resistance to evidence disproving those beliefs–can be traced to racial hostilities. The fundamental birtherist conviction, these critics say, is that an African-American can’t have legitimately won the presidency–and that his elevation to power therefore has to be the result of an elaborate subterfuge.

“There is a real deep-seated and vicious racism at work here in terms of trying to de-legitimate the president,” Peniel Joseph, a professor of history at Tufts University, told The Ticket.

If that’s true, then birthers would hate Allen West, Cedra Crenshaw, Issac Hayes, Michael Steele, Condoleezza Rice, and so forth, but they don’t. The people who do hate the names I just mentioned are the left, who’ve spoken at length calling black conservatives “uncle Toms.” So yes, race is absolutely an issue, and it’s well-documented from the left towards black conservatives.

Of course, the left will seize on any dissent as a way to inflame racial tensions so that they can cast their political opponents as racists and emotionally blackmail minority communities into voting for Democrats – who’ve done such a fabulous job governing the cities which they represent. Just look at education and the high employment in St. Louis, Detroit, DC, Baltimore … oh, wait.

The new definition of racism is simply disagreeing with the President. According to this logic, simply disagreeing with the policies of a black politician is racist. This would make most everyone in the media, all the Democrats, and this woman, Nicole Sandler, racists.


Ah, but disagreeing with, say, Allen West, isn’t racist though. Why? Because he doesn’t support the patriarchal Democratic party, the home of the KKK. We live in an era where the party that bore white hoods and lynching has convinced the very communities it persecuted and the females it oppressed that its dressed up policies are different from what they were in the era of segregation.

What a mindjob.

Of course, when you point this out, you’re racist. Or a sexist. An istist. It’s the laziest go-to argument. The left has successfully adopted a Marxist-term and used it as a shield in formulating solid debate against ideological differences. It was the left that made the campaign all about race despite its insistence that it would not, it’s the left who called dissent “patriotic” yet now label dissent as racist.


When the left and their friends, the media, measure the underscoring of mainstream bias as being more offensive than calling for the murder of a black Supreme Court justice, beating a black man in a parking lot because he’s profiled as a conservative, or regularly slurring black conservatives as “uncle Toms,” no one can ever take their attacks with the birth certificate seriously.