Political expediency dictates that the President has to say something along those lines: as he's trying to make the debate about policy rather than these other things.
Nevertheless, any reasonable analysis of the 'Birther' position leads rational people to conclude that either the birthers are deluded in extremis, or they just can't cope with the fact that a black man, born in America, could ever be President.
Of course, given there is pretty incontrovertable evidence of Obama's birth in Hawaii, they are probably both.
Or what do you think the 'Birther' position is all about then?
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Date: 2009-09-17 01:56 pm (UTC)Nevertheless, any reasonable analysis of the 'Birther' position leads rational people to conclude that either the birthers are deluded in extremis, or they just can't cope with the fact that a black man, born in America, could ever be President.
Of course, given there is pretty incontrovertable evidence of Obama's birth in Hawaii, they are probably both.
Or what do you think the 'Birther' position is all about then?