There’s Republicans and then there’s Texas Republicans
May 22, 2012 5 Comments
Via the Burnt Orange report:
Yowza!
That’s right, 60% of [Texas] Republican primary voters believe that the President was not born in the United States. Another 21% “aren’t sure,” which is the response you give if you don’t think the President was born in the US but don’t want to sound like a totally racist cracker on an IVR poll. Only 18% of Republican primary voters know that the President was indeed born in the United States, because like it or not, Hawaii is part of our country.
Now, to be fair, the Republican primary electorate skews old: 73% of respondents were age 60 or over. Hawaii was only admitted to the union in 1959, so evidently for Texas Republican primary voters, the State of Hawaii is still a new-fangled notion worthy of scrutiny, as is the President born there.
About Steve Greene
Have you seen this news item?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
No they don’t believe that he was born in Hawaii nor do I. Hawaii has not released a birth certificate but a certificate validating that he was born. He had a foreign passport as a child.
Steve did you even bother to download the link and read it?:
Of course, on Feb 6, 1990 the NYT ran an article describing the man who was the first elected black president of the Harvard Review, and guess what? It says he was born in Hawaii. So we have a mountain of publications and documents asserting that Obama was born in Hawaii, and at least one source saying he was born in Kenya. And yet there are people who disregard all contrary evidence and put all their stock in the one source that supports the conspiracy. Such is life. There are people who think the moon landings were fake, that Kennedy was murdered by Johnson, extraterrestrials built the pyramids, and the earth is less than 10,000 years old. These beliefs are impervious to any and all evidence that contradicts or fails to support the belief.
As they say, its a shame you can’t legislate against stupid.