No Country For Black Presidents

So my president, President Barack Hussein Obama visited my state yesterday. The so-called Republic of Texas. The only one of the 50 states to enter the Union by treaty.

We are a really weird state, populated by really weird bat guano conservative people. I have no idea why the president would spend any time here at all, but then you have to look at his agenda and where he spent his time.

El Paso and Austin.

El Paso and Austin are to Texas as West Hollywood is to the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). As oil is to water.

Barack Obama visited the only two parts of the state that are considered sane. And by sane I mean are Democratic strongholds. And in doing so he put his card in the Democratic ATM and withdrew $2 million. I don’t begrudge him that. If we Texans can’t deliver votes for him in this crazy state, at least we can deliver for him the dead presidents that appear on our banknotes.

So he can get it done in other states that are not so crazed.

Nick Anderson caught it exact I think, on his Chron cartoon today.

Rightwing: He’s Still a Kenyan

Well President Obama caved to the juvenile and inane demands of the far right to produce a “long form” birth certificate and produced his Hawaiian birth certificate earlier today, proving beyond doubt that he is a natural born American citizen.

You would think.

Actually the other thing he proved today is that it never was about whether he is a natural born citizen and not a Kenyan. It never was about that. What it was about is that there are people out there who cannot accept that Barack Hussein Obama is their president, and that a black man lives in the “Whites Only” House.

He also proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was absolutely correct not to produce the birth certificate that they demanded because there was absolutely nothing that this would settle once he did.

Because now, these birthers are singing a new song and its title isn’t “I’m Sorry,” It’s “It’s a Fake.”

From Hotair:President Obama continues to make the mistake that these people are serious doubters, and all they require is serious answers and serious documentation. They. Are. Not. Serious.

“The Smoking Gun expresses some doubts, though these are largely directed at what the site refers to whimsically as the “certers” (the replacement term for “birthers”?)”

“Noting that the document will now receive the same scrutiny as the clearly fabricated Texas Air National Guard memos that ended the career of CBS veteran Dan Rather, the gun points out a few “nutty points about the birth certificate sure to be seized upon by the nonbelievers:”

“Chief among these is the unexplained disparity between the curvature on the left side of the page (seeming to suggests the certificate was taken from a multipage volume) and the unbroken pattern on the green security paper. Shouldn’t the pattern also curve? Is a puzzlement, no?”

President Obama continues to make the mistake that these people are serious doubters, and all they require is serious answers and serious documentation. They. Are. Not. Serious.

They are racists and liars. They will never be silent. They will never give up trying to discredit this man who they revile.

Oh, and by the way, Donald Trump, who famously said that he would produce his tax returns when Obama produced his birth certificate must now make good on his promise, don't you think?

Brace Yourself Teabaggers: He’s Black

Now up until now the ethnicity of President Barack Obama has been somewhat ambiguous.

Some said that Barack Obama is bi-racial, with a nod to the fact that he is the son of a white Kansan native, Ann Dunham, and the son of a Kenyan immigrant, Barack Obama, Sr. who divorced his wife and returned to Kenya when Obama was just a toddler.

Others have said that he is half-white, with a nod toward the fact that while his features most definitively point to an African heritage, he is more culturally aligned with white people, having been raised, for the most part, by his white grandparents.

And then there are the Teabaggers who really are in a constant state of denial. A state of denial that allows them to call into question the legitimacy of his citizenship. How could, they ask themselves, a black man be in the highest office in the nation, and arguably the most powerful person in the world?

It boggles their challenged minds.

Well another benefit of the 2010 census is that the argument is finally settled.

The five permanent residents of the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20006 are now listed as “Black, African Am., or Negro.” That notwithstanding that no known ancestors of Barack Obama ever toiled in the cotton or tobacco fields of the antebellum South.

So get over it, Teabaggers. He’s black.

He’s also the most glib, clever, erudite, eloquent, intelligent President we have had in a long, long time.