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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Origin of the "birthers".....

One of the really crazy, bizarre and weird truths about today's political climate is how everything is jumbled up. One of the craziest elements of this mess is the fact that the "birther" group, which claims Obama was born in Kenya, and therefore not eligible to be president, actually was born in the DEMOCRATIC party.

The original "birthers" were not Tea Party Palinists, but a bunch of Hilary Clinton supporters, furious at what they saw as a power play among the party elites to deny her the nomination. They called themselves "PUMA"s (Party Unity, My Ass), and published reams and reams on the birth info on Obama, long before the election. Their leader legal investigations was Phil Berg, a lifetime Democratic activist and a 911 truther.

In the run-up to the election, my wife discovered a few of these sites. We were goggle eyed and astounded at how many of these women wound up being supporters of Sarah Palin. (Estrogen trumps all, for many of them).

Anyway, the next time someone mentions how wack and weird the birthers are, you might mention that that charge actually originated with the original "O" haters, Democratic Party activists.

Life is grand, just because it is so weird.

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