Russia Mania Is the Birtherism of the Left | RealClearPolitics
Oh how the world turns.
The birther movement that assailed President Obama represents one of the most unsavory themes of American politics over the last decade. The slurs emanated first from the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008, which smeared then-Sen. Obama as “fundamentally not American.” To his discredit, Donald Trump also took up the cause. Thankfully, he did not mention this issue as a presidential candidate in 2016 until he unequivocally, and properly, put it to rest, fully acknowledging President Obama’s birth citizenship. As a campaign surrogate, I regularly denounced the whole birther theme, both in print and on television.
Now, I forcefully denounce a new birtherism, this time from the left via an entrenched and hysterical fixation on Russia and President Trump. Like the Obama birtherism, there are enough fuzzy facts for totally biased people to convince themselves there is some merit to the fanciful concoction. After all, Trump seems unwilling to vigorously condemn Putin’s misdeeds. Trump also was hesitant to enact harsh sanctions against Russia. Perhaps most importantly, he seemed unduly deferential to Putin in the Helsinki press conference, a criticism I myself levied.
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It's so fun to see the hypocrites on the left suck on their loss.
Well lets see- the author the article you cited- lied several times.
The 'slurs' of Birtherism didn't start with the Clinton campaign- no matter how much Don the Con has tried to blame Clinton for his Birther idiocy.
Donald Trump went full Birther from 2011 to 2016- 5 years- yet the OP excuses Don the Con as not mentioning this as a Presidential candidate.....really?
It wasn't until Don the Con got the Republican nomination that he then - barely- stopped his Birther idiocy.
And of course blamed others for it.
The hypocrisy of starting a thread about Birtherism- and absolving Don the Con is pretty hilarious.
What is hilarious is your baboon like reaction.
First, I think the author states that birtherism was stupid. From the start. Donald Trumps campaign on the matter can be considered no less stupid..
The author gave a very Trumpian denouncement of Trump's Birtherism- not only glossing over it- but at the same time pretending that it was Clinton's fault.
While there were a few on the Left who initially embraced some Birtherism, by 2008 it was entirely the far Right which promoted Birtherism.
Trump jumped on board in 2011, when Don the Con was first exploring running for President.
What was the essential differences between Don the Con's Birtherism- and the Russia investigation?
Don the Con never had any evidence to support any of his Birther claims attacking the legitimacy of President Obama.
We have proof that Russia did indeed purposely attack the American election in 2016- with the intention of harming Clinton's election- breaking actual laws- and also tried to attack the voting systems of various states- not even Don the Con disagrees with that- well not at least this week- who knows next week.
Contrast that with Birtherism- which even when Don the Con saw proof of Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii- even when the State of Hawaii confirmed he was born there- Trump continued with his Birther idiocy- and didn't change his position until he got the Republican nomination.
Remember- not a thing changed from the last time that Trump went full Birther- until he changed to blaming his Birtherism on Clinton- except that Don the Con got the Republican nomination.
Me....I see the left in a shitrhowing tantrum over Russia. It could all be true and would not change the fact that they are behaving like a bunch of baboons.
You included.
Because I guess you think that baboons are always confronting your threads with facts?