Palin: I'm Not a Birther, I Just Think Something is Fishy About the Birth Certificate

First things first. This whole rotten episode about the president having a fake birth certificate is about as low as it gets.  Republicans should be ashamed.  The president has made his birth certificate public.  Those who refuse this are refusing reality.  A non-partisan group from factcheck.org inspected the document in August of 2008 and concluded:

FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

Republicans just refuse to believe it.  They really believe the whole thing is a hoax. Reading that Sarah Palin wants to keep publicizing it while trying her hardest to publicly back away from it flirts with a level of wingnut conspiracy we've sadly seen before.

In the 90s, Republicans claimed, amongst many other things, Bill Clinton had his opposition murdered. Quite literally, Republican Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana fired a bullet into a melon to test whether or not Hillary Clinton had murdered Vince Foster. Foster's death, by the way, had been investigated by three separate commissions, one of which was the Republican's Ken Starr Commission, and unanimously found to have been a suicide.  Despite three separate investigations, Republicans continued their conspiracy theory politics never accepting the truth.

Today is no different.  They are not interested in truth.  They will never believe the election wasn't stolen from them by a Manchurian candidate.  They are only interested in sensation-filled conspiracy.  The fact that they lost an election is mind boggling to them.  The thought that they are not popular and the American people did not select them to lead this country is foreign to their minds.  The only way possible they could lose an election is because of rampant Democratic voter fraud via ACORN with the help of Obama's pals in the Black Panthers.  Those two things alone led to Obama's victory.

If they can't convince people of that, then surely their backup plan that Obama isn't even a citizen of this country and has fooled millions with a forged birth certificate, should be enough to convince people of the fraud he's committed and the freedom loving liberty that is at stake.  This is how they think.  This is how they want everyone to think.  But before you do, just remember these are the same people that really believe George Bush didn't take us into Iraq under false pretenses.  There's not an ounce of shame or integrity in the whole group.