25% of Americans are documented as fucking stupid.

[North_Ranger]

I'm guessing the number had at least three digits...

 

[crono1224]

I was discussing the issue of birthers on the IMDB politics boards (intellectual vacuum though it may be) reccently. One person claimed that "where there is smoke, there must be fire" and the amount of work Obama is supposedly doing to hide his records & the amount of shifty evidence he was born in Kenya are worth investigating. I countered that, since his birth announcement (which is admittedly not proof he was born in the U.S. on its own) listed a Hawaiian hospital as his birthplace, the "conspiracy" to conceal his birthplace would have to have begun almost immediately after his birth. Which doesn't make any fucking sense. When he was born, the idea of a black president in his lifetime would have been just barely plausible but still HIGHLY unlikely. His mother was a U.S. citizen so he wouldn't have had to worry about citizenship (if he was born in Kenya, you could MAKE hay over the phrase "natural born" I guess...it'd be idiotic and futile though), so there is no reason to fake it that early.

Wanna guess how many rebuttals I got?

Being that the civil rights movement was still huge then, I would say there was nearly no chance they would have thought to go through all that to plant a black president. Although, I'm not sure else would require being born on USA soil to do, if there are other things that require that maybe they would have faked it for that (would be a better excuse as to why they would fake it). But the fact that they don't care about him posting his birth certificate means it's useless to argue.