Nothing racist about that ad, but saying the ad is racist IS RACIST.

I don’t know if I would say it’s automatically racist, but I gotta go back to the NY Post chimp controversy and ask: Why did so many white people look at a cartoon depicting a chimpanzee with two gunshot wounds to the chest lying on the sidewalk in a pool of blood and immediately think, “That’s Obama being assassinated”?

Again, another case of liberals being the ones to hear “dog whistle racism” when conservatives don’t.

Obama can and should put an end to the questions. Why not? Nobody hides something unless they have something to hide.

I believe he was probably born in Honolulu. However, there HAS to be a reason why he won’t authorize the release of the vault copy of the original long-form 1961birth certificate (and not the 2007 computer-generated printout with only partial information that his campaign released on his website).

The most likely realities are, IMHO:

1. What is purported to be the official 2007 printout from the state of Hawaii is a forgery (explaining his lawyers’ dedication to preventing inspection of it in court), or…

2. The 2007 printout IS authentic, but the data has been altered so that it differs from the 1961 copy of the original in a way that punches at least one huge hole in his well-worn, constantly-repeated life story.

Bottom line is this: Because of the revelation of the birth certs of his grade-school classmates born in the same hospital within hours of him, we know what Obama’s 1961 birth certificate looks like if it says what he says it does.

But he STILL won’t let us see it.

That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s lying. He could be playing possum with a purpose, like Saddam Hussein. Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction in any of the places he prohibited UN inspectors from searching, but he pretended he was hiding something to prevent IRAN from knowing he had none.

Maybe it’s a “Hussein” thing, and we just don’t understand.

I also note that a great many people in the world are not natural-born American citizens, hard though that may be to believe. The notion that B. Obama might be one of them is hardly ridiculous. Insisting that it is makes one sound like one of those people who keep telling us that in AGW, the “science is settled.” We know how well that’s working out for them. Why the huge overreaction unless someone’s afraid that there might be something to it? The legal paperwork might settle the issue. Could be worth a try, don’ t you think? Don’t insist that “the paperwork is settled” – that’s just code for “somebody’s lying …”

Hey GOP members,

You allowed this kind of crap to go unanswered for too long. All we need is one of you to have the spine to publicly admonish the birthers for this crap. I’m willing to bet there isn’t one in the bunch.

Among prominent conservative commentators who reject “birthers” and vehemently refuse to endorse the cause:

Glenn Beck, author of #1 bestsellers Arguing With Idiots & An Inconvenient Book
Michelle Malkin, blogger, author of #1 bestseller Culture of Corruption
Ed Morrissey, HotAir.com blogger
Mark Levin, author of #1 bestseller Liberty and Tyranny
Laura Ingraham, author of #1 bestseller Power to The People
Patrick Frey, Los Angeles County Deputy D.A. and blogger, Patterico.com
Rick Moran, blogger, Rightwing Nuthouse
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

That’s just off the top of my head.

Lucky for you I’m not a betting man. You wouldn’t have anything left in your wallet.

Obama is a fraud. We all know it; just some won’t admit it.

OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US YOUR LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER RECORDS!

You allowed this kind of crap to go unanswered for too long. All we need is one of you to have the spine to publicly admonish the birthers for this crap. I’m willing to bet there isn’t one in the bunch.

Will you correct the headline so that it doesn’t transmit the false allegation that the advertisement “compare[s] Obama to an ape”? Or do you just figure that truth doesn’t matter as long as you’re creating a buzz?

Isn’t that what “birthers” are accused of?

When did I say anything about YOUR race?

I think Pablo summed it up well…

See Ted run. Run Ted, run. Run away from answers you don’t know. Run away from backing up your statements. Run away from making an argument without name calling.

Run Ted, run.

(PS- You said:

LNSMith – Are you related to straitshooter? It seems you are both a couple of dumb ass racists. Congrats!

But ignored when LNSmithee said:

LNSmithee says:
December 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm
In the words of Charlie Brown: “AAUGH!” The disingenuousness never, ever, ever, ever, ever stops!
As a black man, I want all of you (especially YOU, Glynnis MacNicol) to hear me loudly and clearly: THIS IS NOT RACIST.

I guess that makes you a racist… you now, calling a black man names like that. Why are you such a racist?)

LNSMith – Are you related to straitshooter? It seems you are both a couple of dumb ass racists. Congrats!

ImNotBlue – You’re just a blithering idiot. Harmless, but an idiot.

And you continue to run away and dodge the obvious questions. Poor scared little boy.

m says:
December 1, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Kinda reminds me of when “Bill Adkins” said:

Bill Adkins says:
November 24, 2009 at 7:22 am
As a Jew you should remember that in Warsaw during WW II Jews acting as policemen for their Nazi masters helped to herd Jews to the camps (btw, this is another historical reference- you can look it up). It seems you’ve applied for the police academy early.

Of course, he actually suggested it would be something like MY fault for such actions. But where were you on that one? Not calling ol’ Bill an anti-Semite… that’s for sure. But I guess it’s a double standard again.

I can’t believe this. You’re saying its black people’s own fault for being slaves? I’m sorry to say, but you’re a racist.

Now, m, do you see what you did? You just went straight to the charge of racism, instead of accepting straitshooter’s challenge: Who WAS initially responsible for placing slaves on the ships leaving Africa for America?

Earlier in this debate, someone posted the following: “Blacks didn’t have an ugly history of enslaving whites, calling them monkeys or saying they’re not human.”

I was merely pointing out that both black people (in Africa) and white people (European settlers in America) contributed to the slave trade, which is a matter of historical record. If pointing out history makes me racist, then so be it. I’m not afraid of what a total stranger thinks of me.’

Try again, M. You people on the left have played the race card so much, it’s lost all its power.

I can’t believe this. You’re saying its black people’s own fault for being slaves? I’m sorry to say, but you’re a racist.

Straitshooter – You want me to help you understand why you are oblivious? You’re kidding right?

IOW: “Ted, I can’t explain myself. But I don’t have to. I made the accusation you’re a racist — I don’t have to explain WHY you are. You have to explain why you’re not. And every time you say you’re not one, I’ll just repeat, ‘Yes you are.’ And people will take my side because they are too scared of being tagged with the label if they come to your defense.”

Big diff. The football’s not nearly as good at Penn.

Meanwhile, Climategate is absent from the board yet again while we learn:

UK Scientist to step down while being investigated; UPENN scientest is also be investigated.

Yesterday’s climategate thread had nearly 70 posts (is that a record for this board?), and now you have gone silent on the topic again, despite the breaking news on the topic.

HMMMMMM. Is the main board replacing what used to be the link to the gossip stuff you used to post here? Just askin.

Now if you would have said “compare congress, courts and media to apes” you’d have a point.

Regardless, I get the feeling the blogosphere is holding up birthers and Sarah Palin as the voice of anyone who didn’t vote for Obama in order to avoid addressing any real issues.

Straitshooter – You want me to help you understand why you are oblivious? You’re kidding right?

So tell us why it’s racist. Come on, enlighten us.

Nah… you’ll just keep name calling. It’s all you can do, when you’re not smart enough to say something meaningful.

roxsteady says:
December 1, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I guess it’s easier for Republicans and Conservatives to claim Obama isn’t a citizen. This way, they don’t have to face up to the historical ass kicking they took in last year’s elections.

Two points…
(1) Birther’s are conspiracy loons… and the vast majority of Republicans and Conservatives agree on that… no different than the Truthers, or the “stolen election” loons from ’00 and ’04.

(2) Exactly who isn’t facing up to the election? I’ve heard the phrase “Elections have consequences” so many times… FROM SEAN HANNITY… that it’s lost all meaning! I think you’re trying to pat yourself on the back for the ’08 election… but if that’s all you’ve got to hang your hat on, that’s a pretty low threshold.

Great point on that last matter. The fringe element of the left hooked on conspiracies in Florida is exactly the same as the fringe on the right who cling to Obama’s constitutional eligibility.

As an aside, I disagree with the entire “Birther” concept, but I vehemently defend their right to make their case. The First Amendment exists to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech needs no such protections.

I am not saying that there is no racism. I am saying that this ad is not racist, nor is criticizing the president. This constant insistence that criticizing Obama is racist or criticizing Palin is sexist is both sad and counter productive. It tends to minimize actual racism and sexism.

@roxsteady: As a No party Affiliation, I can say the following with total confidence. The Democrats spent at least 4 years trying to discredit Bush’s win in 2000. Not with facts or actual recounts (all of which had Bush winning) but with ginned up nonsense about stolen elections. Just like the ginned up nonsense about Obama’s citizenship. Why? Because the Dems could not believe they lost in 2000.

Oh, also, that was like 10,000 years ago. My grandpa didn’t own slaves. My dad didn’t own slaves. I just went on e-bay, but it turns out I can’t buy a slave either.

Why is it so hard for you to look at a calendar and leave the past in the past?