Today is the President's 48th birthday and in honor of his newly released birth certificate, I wanted to discuss the allegations that Obama is a usurper and how those allegations are racist in nature.
What provokes these angry and nonsensical cries of a non-constutitionally elected President other than sheer desperation? The nation has changed, it has changed faster than expected. Last month the Census Bureau released a new analysis of the 2008 presidential election results. If found that increases among minority voters accounted for virtually all the five million additional votes cast in comparison to 2004. Black women had a higher turnout rate than any other group, and young blacks turned out at a higher rate than young whites.
This week eleven Republican congressmen have signed on to a bill requiring that presidential candidates produce their birth certificates. This, after Obama has released his own birth certificate, the existance of which has been verified by Hawaii officials over and over. This bizarre “birther” movement is out to prove that Obama is not a naturally born citizen.
As my husband recently pointed out, don't these people believe in the power of the Republican party? If Barack Obama's birth certificate was faked, wouldn't they have discovered this before the election?
Obama’s election, far from leading us into a "post racial America" has only compounded it. There is no purer expression of this hatred than the claim that Obama is literally not an American — or, as Sarah Palin would have it, not a “real American.” The birth-certificate flap is just the latest version of the campaign to strip Obama of his American identity with faux controversies over flag pins, the Pledge of Allegiance and his middle name.
Last summer, Cokie Roberts of ABC News even faulted him for taking a vacation in his home state of Hawaii a few weeks before his grandmother died. She described the 49th State as a foreign, exotic place, and critized him for vacationing there rather than, say, Disney.
When have you heard the same for a white president? How many people know that John McCain was born in Panama?
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