CBD wrote:
gbaji wrote:
How many of you on the Left would support such a thing? After all, it's pretty much the Dems who keep blocking such legislation (and are doing so now). If this is the right solution, why is it being opposed?
"We" (just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't make the either on the left or a liberal) don't have a hive mind, idiot. Ask them why they oppose it, not those of us who asked why you didn't just do that in the first place. It was never about Obama, after all.
Why should I be the one to ask though? Various members of my party have attempted to pass about a half dozen bills in the last decade to clarify those exact requirements. They have tried to "do that in the first place", as you say. They've been blocked mostly by opposition from the Dems, usually with some implied racial or anti-immigrant argument. I don't think it's unreasonable to put the blame/responsibility for this on those who elect the representatives who oppose such legislation. Certainly it's absurd for people who vote Democrat to insist that it's somehow on my head that such legislation has not been passed...
And it's "about Obama" because the lack of said legislation is why this issue is in front of us in the first place. Had the Obama campaign and the Democrat party been honest about dealing with this instead of blocking it legally (both legislatively and with legal games after the fact), no one would be even talking about it. As it is, while I know many of you love to dismiss the whole issue (with a suitably obnoxious title like "birthers" to boot), there are enough legitimate legal questions here to warrant a closer look. It's not going to go away just because some people don't want to deal with it. Had sufficient laws been passed ahead of time, we'd all know exactly where the law stands and where the boundaries are. There would be no doubt as to the outcome based on various circumstances. It's the lack of legislation, murky facts surrounding Obama's use of citizenship, and questions about the circumstance of his birth, compounded by the incredibly vague statements made about those circumstances which has fanned the flames of this issue.
Burying your head in the sand and just hoping the issue will go away tends not to work in politics. Yet, oddly, that appears to be the *exact* approach the Obama administration and the Democrats, and a whole ton of supporters have taken. It's really really dumb because they are creating the very thing they should wish to avoid. The longer this goes on, the more mainstream will become the idea that no one would work that hard to hide something unless there was something to it. Pat answers and assumption isn't going to cut it...
