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Birth Certificate Meme lives on and on, but in vain?
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by smkovalinsky | August 12, 2009 at 05:41 pm
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The controversey rages on, but the cause is already lost.
There seems to be no killing off the "birth certificate meme": that idee fixe which among some has swelled into a powerful and daunting obsession. The logic runs something like this: The U.S. Constitution says that a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. in order to be legally sworn in. Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, but Kenya. (Proof? ) Thus, he is a usurper and an illegal president who must be thrown out of office.
Things to bear in mind:
1. It is unlikely, for many reasons, that Obama was born in Kenya.
2. If it could in fact be proven that he was, there is a higher likelihood of the Constitution being ammended to accommodate one who was voted in by an enormous majority, than of ousting such a one.
And Obama's mantra was "Change", and this would indeed be change. Moreover, we live in a global, multiracial, multicultural, cross-gender, high-tech 21st century landscape ; a 'Generation X' mileau ( of which Obama in many ways is symbol, cipher, consequence) : Not the community of "gentleman farmers" who were afraid of British born maintaing loyal ties to the British Monarchy ( hence, "must be natural born citizen.) We are in an America which is a global, borderless, corportate, financial mega-super power: The Republic of the founding fathers is gone, lost to the whirligig of time.
3. President Joe Biden would be even less likely to please them, than Obama.
And so, the controversy rages on, but the cause is lost. Our huge corporate super-power, she of the vast borderless proportions and the pharmaceutical and oil Mid East interests, is so far a cry from the "nation of gentleman farmers", both in deeds and in ideology, that one must have been a poor history student indeed to fail to recognize that this vast Empire, on which the sun never sets, is the offspring of the Civil War and the victory of the Industrial Revolution. The birthers are miscalculating where it matters most; there are moving in exactly the wrong direction, the one which is most diametrically opposed to their genuine self interests. If they indeed cherish the Republic of our founding fathers, and its noble aspirations, the way before them will be clear. (Whispered to the Libertarians: Secession is possible. In some senses, inevitable. )
There seems to be no killing off the "birth certificate meme": that idee fixe which among some has swelled into a powerful and daunting obsession. The logic runs something like this: The U.S. Constitution says that a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. in order to be legally sworn in. Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, but Kenya. (Proof? ) Thus, he is a usurper and an illegal president who must be thrown out of office.
Things to bear in mind:
1. It is unlikely, for many reasons, that Obama was born in Kenya.
2. If it could in fact be proven that he was, there is a higher likelihood of the Constitution being ammended to accommodate one who was voted in by an enormous majority, than of ousting such a one.
And Obama's mantra was "Change", and this would indeed be change. Moreover, we live in a global, multiracial, multicultural, cross-gender, high-tech 21st century landscape ; a 'Generation X' mileau ( of which Obama in many ways is symbol, cipher, consequence) : Not the community of "gentleman farmers" who were afraid of British born maintaing loyal ties to the British Monarchy ( hence, "must be natural born citizen.) We are in an America which is a global, borderless, corportate, financial mega-super power: The Republic of the founding fathers is gone, lost to the whirligig of time.
3. President Joe Biden would be even less likely to please them, than Obama.
And so, the controversy rages on, but the cause is lost. Our huge corporate super-power, she of the vast borderless proportions and the pharmaceutical and oil Mid East interests, is so far a cry from the "nation of gentleman farmers", both in deeds and in ideology, that one must have been a poor history student indeed to fail to recognize that this vast Empire, on which the sun never sets, is the offspring of the Civil War and the victory of the Industrial Revolution. The birthers are miscalculating where it matters most; there are moving in exactly the wrong direction, the one which is most diametrically opposed to their genuine self interests. If they indeed cherish the Republic of our founding fathers, and its noble aspirations, the way before them will be clear. (Whispered to the Libertarians: Secession is possible. In some senses, inevitable. )
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