The Birther Disgrace (David Frum)

[Drunken Irishman]

http://www.frumforum.com/the-birther-disgrace">The Birther Disgrace

Any last lingering doubts that maybe, perhaps, a pregnant Stanley Ann Dunham in the summer of 1961 boarded a propeller plane from Honolulu to Los Angeles, then from Los Angeles to New York City, then from New York City to Gander, then from Gander to London, then from London to Nairobi – and then repeated the trip backward a few weeks later – all so that her baby could acquire Kenyan nationality – those doubts are definitively squelched, as they should have been three years ago.

Now the more haunting question: How did this poisonous and not very subtly racist allegation get such a grip on our conservative movement and our Republican party?

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Yet even now, the racialist aspect of the anti-Obama movement has not subsided. Trump has moved from the birth certificate to questioning the president’s academic qualifications for the Harvard Law School. Trump himself was a troubled student (at one point he attended a military school) who nonetheless gained admission to Wharton. His father’s wealth and business success cannot have hurt with that application. Yet he feels himself qualified to pronounce on who is and who is not smart enough to attend Harvard Law. Barack Obama graduated magna cum laude. (And to anticipate a new line of attack – yes, Harvard Law School exams were blind-graded.) He was elected editor of the law review. And his classmates, left and right, universally admired his abilities.

[CakeGrrl]

1. It's all good. The specter of racism is in the mainstream now.

Next up? Reminding everyone how brilliant the current POTUS is compared to his vocal detractors and C-student Ivy Leaguer Bush.

If Trump turns out to be a ringer, I won't be shocked.

[polichick]

4. I agree, it's good that the ugliness of the other side is becoming so obvious.

[Bjorn Against]

2. It is a sad day when our discourse has gotten so insane that Frum is considered a voice of sanity

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Did anyone doubt that people are just proven racist. That is all it is.

[ProSense]

5. The question is

why did it take so long for the media to reject a claim made by this lunatic? Should have been done on day one.

The irony is Taitz came to the U.S. in 1992. Yet she has the GOP/media establishment's aid in making outlandish claims about the President. Seriously, WTF?

[denem]

6. The difference is that Frum knows Blow Back when he see's it.

If it was working well for the GOP, he would be silent.

[Keith Bee]

7. David Frum making sense

Okay, I'm rejoining my church and begging to be Saved, for, yea verily, the End is Nigh.

[Daphne08]

8. +100

:D

[marlakay]

9. The thing that makes me sad

is all the people who will still believe the worst even though its not true. Like how they destroyed Kerry's military record.

I agree with Bernie Sanders who was on Jon last night, when he talked about how the right has their own very large news channel Fox. For me its not just that they have Fox but that they give it free
to the cable companies and that is why it is on basic cable. And everywhere you go throughout the US unless you are in a very lib city Fox is on most offices and waiting rooms.

I hadn't watched them in years and the last month I have forced myself to watch a few min here and there to see what they are saying. It is all complete lies but said in such a way
that you know all their faithful customers believe every word.