Martin, I have disagreed with a lot you have posted in the past, but this is the first time I would label one of your posts as totally left-wing. This statement/conclusion is just simply asinine.
==I am a conservative, make no mistake about it. My statements in this thread are not a defense of President Obama. My statements are simply relating to this "birther" issue. I am no fan of President Obama. However, to this point, nobody has provided any proof that Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen. If someone could provide some proof, I would be first in line to call for his impeachment. However, to date, nobody has provided any proof. All I hear from the "birthers" are conspiracies.
There is a lot about this man that nobody, NOBODY, except the "insiders" of his ilk know, and apparently want to make sure that it stays this way.
==Thats true about all of them (Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc). I generally don't trust politicians (Republicans or Democrats).
To claim that his name alone is a sole source of dissatisfaction with this man is just burying your head in the sand.
==I did not say that "
his name alone is a sole source of dissatisfaction with this man". What I said was that his name is the source of the birther movement. President Obama's policies, like his predecessor's policies, are immoral and unconstitutional. I have many, many problems with President Obama's policies. However I think the "birther" movement is not based solid evidence.
I would certainly think that any thinking citizen would have some degree of curiosity about his background, especially seeing how he is seemingly intent on nationalizing the entire free-market system of this country.
==He is no more intent on nationalizing the free-market system than the others. If Bush were still in office, he would be doing many of the same things Obama is doing. Just look at the record. President Obama's background is not the issue here, his policies are. I would rather debate his
policies than run around in circles over an theory based on little more than someone's doubts. I would rather talk about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the health care bills, the decline of privacy, constitutional rights, and the growth of government. After all, these are facts. These things are happening and have been happening for 8+ years.
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I have some questions for
many conservatives: Where have you guys been? Some of us have been complaining about these problems for years? Why are you folks only concerned about these things when a Democrat is in the Oval Office? Why was it ok for a Republican to grow the size of government and trample on the U.S. Constitution?