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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSee what happens when a washed-up has-been "star" gets old and decrepit?
As in Pat Boone, of course.
Pat Boone is a longtime birther and Obama-hater, so it's no surprise he would keep up the Obama-hate. But he's also decided to ignore the reality of the wholesale abandonment of birtherism -- even by the main outlet that publishes him, WorldNetDaily -- if his March 8 WND column is any indication, in which he adapts "The Emperor's New Clothes" to shoehorn Obama into it:
At his first public appearance, to the shock and anger of the emperor, a young lad named Bob said loudly, where millions heard him, The emperor is naked! Hes lying to us! Why is he doing this?
And rather than being shocked into silence, increasing numbers of previous supporters began yelling questions at the startled, suddenly embarrassed ruler.
Why are you keeping all your early school, passport and travel records sealed permanently, so that we can never know how you came to this position? And whether you are actually, legally entitled to rule over us this way?
Your Highness, since no hospital in this country claims you were born there, why do you not produce an actual birth certificate or some verifiable proof of your citizenship, as the Constitution demands? Whats with your Social Security and Selective Service numbers, that first belonged to other people?
And immediately another voice cried out, Yeah, you told us on national TV you were putting a copy of your birth certificate on the White House website, making fun of anybody who doubted you. But when we went there to look, we found a photoshopped creation, a fraud, not a copy of anything! Just something you had somebody make up! You think were too dumb to notice, or afraid to do anything about it! Why are you doing this to us, to our country?
Ah, so much fail. First, Obama "early school, passport and travel records" are "sealed permanently" to the same standard as every other U.S. Citizen.
Second, Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu has acknowledged that Obama was born there, as demonstrated by its publication of a letter from Obama stating he was born there.
Third, Obama did release a birth certificate. In fact, he released two.
Fourth, the idea that Obama's birth certificate is a Photoshopped fraud has been discredited by John Woodman, among others.
Boone, it appears, still isn't about to let the facts interfere with his Obama-hate.
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2308928
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...never grows up.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Oopsie!
Raine
(30,540 posts)to send money to PBS. Boone is such an idiot he doesn't seem to realize how much his side hates PBS and Big Bird.
Cha
(297,686 posts)The Dynamic Duo of heads up your ass birtherismitus.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Is a nut.
Rhiannon12866
(206,038 posts)He did it for the Republican who ran against my Democratic congressman, who I was working for. When we were discussing it at campaign HQ, the college-age volunteers had no idea who he was, LOL. But we were lucky enough to have Joe Biden!!!
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Pat Boone started out singing songs by black musicians. The first one he did was Ain't That a Shame...which he recorded twice. The first time he sang Isn't That a Shame because ain't is bad grammar. He recorded it as written when no one liked the first try.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... brings out the worst in a person's personality. Most often, old folks turn very mild, agreeable and kind. But sometimes they turn out mean and vindictive. Add politics to the mix and you've got people like Pat Boone and Anita Bryant (remember her?) I used to work a job that put me in contact with geriatric patients.
I remember coming home one time and telling my family "If I am mean when I get old, shoot me."
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Well, his essence and also the need to keep up the income streams after his musical career went belly up in the 60's.
Anita Bryant was in her late 30's when she engaged in her most virulent anti humanity politics. She's elderly now, but the worst in her personality was front and center when she was young. Same thing for Boone.
Your post is ageist and not really accurate at all.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)No one who knows me personally would say I suffer from ageism. I just don't care for the mean ones.
llmart
(15,553 posts)is only magnified as you age. I guess in essence it's basically the same thing, but keep in mind that people don't just get nasty because they get older. Usually they were nasty people when younger but able to keep some of it under wraps.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)I didn't know the geriatric folks personally, i.e. I had no way of knowing how they behaved in their younger years.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)A familiar pattern...