The Dregs of Society
The Obama birth certificate nonsense refuses to go away. This article at the ledger-enquirer discusses a lawsuit by an Army reservist that has now been joined by a retired two-star general and a reservist lt. colonel. You can read the article for the details, but it revolves around the myth that Obama is not a United States citizen and is therefore an illegitimate president.
Of more interest to me are the comments at the bottom. If ever you need to be reminded of the level of stupid, blind ignorance that pervades American society, you only need visit a web site frequented by conservatives. Reading through their comments nearly takes away any doubts about how the United States managed to get into the mess it’s in now.
How did we elect the same criminal administration to office not once, but twice? How have we allowed the realization of a system in which government officials kowtow to corporate interests at our expense? How is it that we continue to allow thousands of Americans to die every year because they can’t afford health care? I often say that the answer to these questions, and others, is that the American public is largely uninformed and, worse, uninterested. We’ve become sedentary. But comments like this make me wonder if it’s not really because Americans in general really are as dumb as they look on the internet. Some examples:
The question isn’t whether B. Hussein Obama was born in the US. We know he wasn’t. The question is how was he allowed to take office without having to show the requisite documents and how can we show that this process was circumvented.
Notice the use of B. Hussein Obama. Here we have someone simply parrotting the right-wing pundits from the last election campaign. I could be polite and say this person is simply misinformed. But, no, this person is just plain dumb. Anyone who knows that Obama is not a citizen is demonstrating a marked lack of intelligence.
Then there’s this gem.
I would do EXACTLY the same thing as these guys have done, absolutely! In light of what this stinking liberal congress is doing in tying the hands of those who “interrogate” these damn terrorists, and actually are trying to bring litigation against former Vice President Cheney and the CIA for trying to destroy our enemies, yessireebob – it’s only a matter of “CYA”!!! What’s to stop some enemy combatant from filing a lawsuit against them when the “you-know-what” hits the fan and it comes out that this empty suit filling the president’s chair is a phony and should be deported in shackles? Is Nancy Pelosi or any of the other freedom haters going to help them at that time? HELL NO!! The enemy is laughing at us like hyenas, and even holding big recruitment conferences (like the one in Chicago… oops – isn’t that Barry Hussain’s stomping ground?)! So, yeah… keep the lawsuits coming. I think every soldier in America ought to file one too! Then, maybe America will wake up!
First of all, this is a person who doesn’t understand the common usage of quotation marks to indicate irony. Second, this is just one long pile of drivel inspired, once again, by the talking points of the right-wing punditry. Another goon dumb enough to be duped.
The whole comment thread there is filled with one display of stupidity after another. I rarely visit right-wing web sites because that level of stupidity hurts my brain. But you can find it out there online, again and again, at one conservative site after another. One of the most well-known bastions of the dirt stupid is World Net Daily, affectionately known among liberals by the more appropriate moniker, World Nut Daily. If you ever wonder why Americans have gained a reputation abroad for being backwards and ignorant…