Paul Waldman has an excellent rundown of Republican obsession with making sure President Obama gets vetted this time around. "Yet even at this late date, conservatives are still hoping that within Obama's past lies a blockbuster secret that will change everything once it is revealed, even if it's not so secret or not so new, " writes Waldman.
Vetting is absolutely the wrong word here. Republicans don't want Obama vetted. They want their alternative reality to go mainstream. As Waldman notes there have been thousands of news article about the young man Obama. There have been numerous books including two written by Obama himself about his youth and his upbringing. None of this, however, is acceptable to Republicans. Why? Because they discredit everything and anything that doesn't coincide with the false narrative they have created about the president.
That false narrative goes something like this. He's a Muslim that was born in Kenya to an unmarried black Muslim father and an atheist mother. From there his mother and father split up where he went with his mom to live in Indonesia with her new Muslim boyfriend. While there he attended a madrassa and learned violent extremist Muslim ideology that still guides him to this day. After his loose mother got pregnant again and broke up with the Indonesian Muslim, she moved her two kids to Hawaii where his white grandparents consulted with their domestic terrorist friends (probably Bill Ayres) to conspire with the local media to have their black grandson documented as a legal citizen so he could later become President of the United States and wage religious war against his adopted Christian nation. It all makes perfect sense. This is what they believe!! It's what they think the media is covering up. The is the TRUTH they demand be told.
It's not vetting they want. They want him legally proven to be disqualified as president. In their eyes, anything short of that is not going to be a proper vetting.
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