Churning The Swill
by digby
So the new Democratic Governor of Hawaii has decided to enter the birther fray:
Somehow this certificate of live birth isn’t enough for the ‘birthers.’ And it’s bugging Hawaii’s new Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie. He told the New York Times that he is looking at ways “to put this particular canard to rest” by changing state law so that more information about Obama’s birth can be released. His reasons for doing so are the height of honorable.
“It’s an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father; they were my friends, and I have an emotional interest in that,” Governor Abercrombie said in a telephone interview late Thursday. “It’s an emotional insult. It is disrespectful to the president; it is disrespectful to the office.”
So, have at it, Gov. Abercrombie. Make those birthers choke on the facts. But we all know that — and that New York Times story goes to great lengths to point this out — birthers never let facts get in the way of their version of the truth.
That’s the problem, of course. This just feeds their delusions, especially since the governor is a Democrat who says he’s doing it because he knew Obama’s parents. A 50 year conspiracy!
I wonder if it’s going to take the crack investigative skills of Darrel Issa to finally get to the bottom of this.
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