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Monday 10 August 2009

I have been appalled of late by the antics of the far right. There seems to be a solid group — perhaps 20% of the electorate — who are adamantly, vociferously, and very conservative. These are the same people who think that Mr. Bush was a great president, that torture is a good thing, that invading Iraq was a great idea, and that Mr. Obama is a socialist. Their latest craze is the “birther” craze, in which they insist, despite documentation to the contrary, that Mr. Obama is not eligible to be President of the United States because he is not a natural born citizen. The crazier members of this sect claim that the birth certificate in the records is not reliable; the brighter ones claim that, while Mr. Obama was in fact born in Hawaii, he is not a “natural born” citizen because his father was not an American citizen. All of which is utter nonsense. Chris Crawford

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