04-28-2011, 07:03 AM
I think that feeding trolls is generally a losing proposition, but the argument that Obama is legitimizing racist trolling (sorry, I guess the official term is tea partying) by adding even more proof to the already mountainous level of proof that he is American born -- why, this is upside down logic. The argument wasn't that Obama reacts to political stimuli -- of course he does, because he is the politician in chief. The argument raised by the birthers is that Obama is not an American. And they have been hanging out on the end of that limb for two years now, only to have it sawed off. And Obama is right that we don't have the time to devote such a huge fraction of our national energy to silliness. He is actually being overly polite when he uses that word. I use a nastier term.
An interesting historical comparison: I was watching some fairly trite historical take on Queen Elizabeth's relationship with Phillip back when she was a princess. The telling part came in the postwar history of Britain, that included failing energy supplies, the worst winter in half a century, failing exports, and every other manner of misery. And there was the Prime Minister speaking on the radio, saying that they were all in this together and had to work their way out of the situation. I compare this to the Republicans, who revel in divisiveness and tearing the country down, and I recognize them as traitors to American values. I suspect that at one level even they recognize this, because they are obsessive about wrapping themselves in the flag even as they weaken our nation.
An interesting historical comparison: I was watching some fairly trite historical take on Queen Elizabeth's relationship with Phillip back when she was a princess. The telling part came in the postwar history of Britain, that included failing energy supplies, the worst winter in half a century, failing exports, and every other manner of misery. And there was the Prime Minister speaking on the radio, saying that they were all in this together and had to work their way out of the situation. I compare this to the Republicans, who revel in divisiveness and tearing the country down, and I recognize them as traitors to American values. I suspect that at one level even they recognize this, because they are obsessive about wrapping themselves in the flag even as they weaken our nation.