What We Know. and Why We Know It

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 6:28 pm Daniel J. Summers

Over at House of Eratosthenes, Morgan K. Freeberg puts forth a well-reasoned post called “So Does This Make Me a “Birther”?” In it, he examines the larger issue of the precedent set by this particular issue not being resolved for over two (nay, four) years. After the original post, he updated it with noticing how everything we know about the current President, we know because there is a group of people ready to ridicule us if we say we don't know it. For example:

He is a Christian and not a Muslim. Now, I really don't care about this one way or the other. But how do I know He's a Christian? Because He went to Jeremiah Wright's church, of course! But of course that would mean He's also an anti-white bigot. But no. He went to Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years to listen to all the Christian-ish sermons… but was snoozing through all the America-bashing sermons. Yes to Christianity, no to America-hating, because Obama was coincidentally tuning out at all the right times. Again, how do I “know” this? Because someone's ready to ridicule me if I believe anything different. I don't have any other reason to “know” such a thing. None.

Read the whole thing. Whether you're a birther, you think the birthers are loony, or you've just resigned yourself to the fact that it's not going to be resolved (myself in that latter category), the points made in his post are important. Shouldn't the CINC have to show the same proof of eligibility as those he commands?