TYT: 2/3 Of Republicans Believe Obama Born Outside Of United States

[pokerfan]

"According to this poll, an even larger proportion of Republican respondents who said Iraq had WMD -- 64 percent -- said they have either always believed (or have come to believe) that Barack Obama was born in another country, which he was not..." Should anyone take the Republican Party seriously? Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on The Young Turks.

[immoderate]

1. Though some might think Hawaii is outside US...

Ah Republicans!


--imm

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Translation: 'He's...black...you know'

2/3 of Republicans couldn't find Hawaii -let alone Kenya- on a map if their life depended on it.

(Probably true of people of other political parties as well but they are not questioning the President's birthplace.

[PatrynXX]

3. This is all of course totally silly

Since once upon a time they figured Arnold would be the first non american (and Republican ) to be president....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Here's the bottom line

McCain ran a campaign that called Obama a Socialist and acted like the country would fall to Communism if Obama got in so it's no surprise those losers feel they are defending America by being against Obama and embrace anything they think will damage him.

Face it. It was their worse nightmare to watch THEIR White House get taken over by ni**ers and Jews.

I mean REALLY! Nancy Reagan's nice clean china is in there!!!

[freshwest]

5. Cenk's analysis of the media correcting this is wrong. There are millions who listen to CT daily.

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Obama being born in Kenya is just the tip of iceberg with the parameters of their alternative reality. They believe income taxes are illegal, and a host of things I won't bore people with.

This stuff is addictive, they have to get their fix of it every single day. It fires them up to vote. Their belief in a coming global fascist state is in part dependent on Obama not being an American, thus the precursor of the End Times.

There is no way to reason with them because they think they have all the answers. They grasp every bit of bad news to prove themselves right. No matter what proof or logic you have to refute them, they snag something from their 'top secret' knowledge.

It makes them feel very proud and more clever than everyone else, to have an inside line on stuff, that they think is hard to find but it's propaganda. When they run out of that, they get angry or say you are either a mindless sheeple or a paid disinformation agent. The stuff is great fiction full of terrifying visions, and they won't let go.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. What is the birthers end game?

Pretend for a moment that the birthers win. They are able to get one federal judge to agree with them, and then their appeals work their way up to the Supreme Court, where Scalia et al. rule that Obama does not meet the constitutional requirement that a president be a "natural born citizen."

Then what?

Here's what I think they'd do: the argument would be that since Obama was ineligible to be president, his inauguration would be null, and everything he had done since then was moot. This would include "Obamacare," ending "don't ask, don't tell," pulling our troops out of Iraq and planning to end our involvement in the war in Afghanistan, any laws he has signed or executive orders he has issued, and voiding all regulations promulgated under his administration.

In other words, the clock would be set back to the moment before he raised his hand to take the oath. All of Bush's policies would remain unchanged.

Even if it meant Biden would have been president since 2009, it wouldn't change the result. Biden hasn't signed any laws, etc. And now it would be virtually impossible for him to overcome Mitt Romney's money machine.

Just a thought.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. two-thirds of the GOP think that the value of the circumfrance of any circle divided by it diameter

. . . is an even three.

Also, two-thirds of the GOP are positive proof that Neanderthals are not extinct.