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New Twist on Wing-Nut Delusions: the 'Birther with an Explanation' Arrives
August 29, 2009 |
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Politico reports Arizona Rep Trent Franks' complaint that he has been maligned as a birther, when he's really what we call around here birther with an explanation -- he has come to believe, after "a significant amount of research," that Obama was in fact born in the U.S., but is outraged that the President won't produce the double-secret long form birth certificate, which despite the conclusive results of Franks' painstaking investigation he still finds necessary to "put people's concerns about his national identity to rest for good."
The item draws a passel of interestingly passive-aggressive comments in a similar mode.
Roy Edroso is the proprietor of Alicublog.
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