The Credibility Gap – Moderates United

This might be one way of getting at the essence of the “birther” problem, which is that we know virtually nothing about Obama other than what he tells us in his books, and we are not even sure he wrote those books. How can someone so secretive be credible? The reality, of course, is that the media has CHOSEN to make him credible. Had they chosen to destroy him, it would have taken less than a week. He is a much lesser man than Rick Perry or Herman Cain.

In any event, I posted the following at The Blaze, which I do not believe is an actual conservative site, but rather one run in the hopes of corralling conservatives and preventing them from reading elsewhere. They do what they can to pretend to parrot conservative views–enough to keep people coming–but I think it is in large measure a propaganda operation run by an ex-Huffposter. I don’t believe my comment will appear. I have recently been proven wrong, but it’s been ten minutes, and I don’t feel like checking any more.

Here is the link, on a comment Mitt Romney made. I will actually add in advance that this thesis of Frank Marshall Davis being Obama’s actual father would explain a lot. It would explain how his mother rationalized more or less abandoning him in Hawaii–he was after all with his father–and why the timelines with Obama, Sr. seem so squirrelly (for example why she moved back to Seattle so soon after he was born). It would also, of course, explain easily why the President would not want a literal card-carrying member of the Communist Party and admitted pedophile listed as his father.

Here is what I wrote:

Romney’s father was not a Kenyan national–and a Communist
one at that. He was never enrolled in an
Indonesian school as both a citizen and a Muslim.

You state that Obama has posted his certificate on
line. That is a demonstrable
falsehood. First off, an on-line
document would not count as evidence in any court in the country, and secondly
the document has plainly been tampered with.
Numerous Adobe experts have testified that this is plain and
irrefutable. What he posted is not a
scan of an original document.

In order to become a police officer, school teacher, or
member of the military he would have to provide a multiple of what he has
provided, including a valid Social Security card.

In some future America scholars may well wonder how it came
to be in the year 2008 that asking reasonable questions about someone’s
background was effectively turned not just into a term of disparagement, but a
means to question one’s sanity. One
would have to say that, then, America took a path away from truth and towards
an Orwellian media complex which even infected large segments of the supposed
Right. Why did ordinary Americans lie
down and tolerate this?

It is clear that Obama has proven nothing, and
in my view there are only two possibilities: either he doesn’t have a birth
certificate, which means at a minimum he cannot claim to be able to document a
“natural born” status; or that Frank Marshall Davis is listed as the father.