Update: Publisher changed info on its website two months AFTER Obama announce run for Presidency.

Options:

a) Either the conspiracy theories are true, or;
b) He lied to gain access and recognition at Harvard an/or at his publisher… like Elizabeth Warren.

Either way there is “some splainin’ to do Lucy.”

Ann Coulter’s comments on Warren:

“Warren’s lie is outrageous enough to someone like me, who isn’t a fan of race-based affirmative action programs. Still, she is a liar, and she stole the credit of someone else’s suffering. For liberals, it should be a mortal sin: Elizabeth Warren cheated on affirmative action.”

If true of Obama he will be doubly guilty of this mortal sin. One commentator on my FaceBook post of this story made the astute point that “Either way, Joe Wilson was right! He lies!” I will also share a response by me to a person who challenged Republican racism with this theory that Republicans seem to hold — birthirism:

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This has brought to mind a recent conversation from a lifelong Democrat whom will remain anonymous e out of respect for our conversation (which he has yet to respond to). One issue he thought about mentioning was birtherism and Republicans. I bullet pointed my response and dealt with each point respectively:

Okay. Birthers. One topic, a few points:

✓ Dem vs. Repub % of belief in conspiracies;
✓ what type of conspiracy?;
✓ Who believed these conspiracy theories;
✓ what is my point?

PERCENTAGES
You are aware,I am sure, that the birther story was first started by a Democrat and the story made popular via Hillary Clinton. For instance, Politico says this in one of their classic articles:

☼ …Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there? The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. The theory’s proponents are a mix of hucksters and earnest conspiracy theorists, including prominently a lawyer who previously devoted himself to ‘proving’ that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job. Its believers are primarily people predisposed to dislike Obama. That willingness to believe the worst about officials of the opposite party is a common feature of presidential rumor-mongering: In 2006, an Ohio University/Scripps Howard poll found that slightly more than half of Democrats said they suspected the Bush Administration of complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks…. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53563.html#ixzz1tyIx4HWw

Let us digest this a bit. Let me reiterate the stat I ended with:

☼ Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure. Read more: http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/35-of-dems-say-bush-knew-about-911/#ixzz1tyJZAOgk

To be clear, Democrats by over a majority believed Bush either knew directly or they said they were “still on the fence.” Now, only 31% of Republican think/thought that Obama was not born in the states… 15% of Democrats believe the same, as well as 18% of Independents. However, a third who believe him to be born out of the country approve of him (http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/a-third-of-the-birthers-approve-of-obama-anyway-e-g-are-democrats/ SEE ALSO… LINKED IN MY POST: http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/Birthers_new.pdf.

WHAT KIND OF CONSPIRACY?
So you have two conspiracies to compare, what do they show? One has a belief held that a person was born out of country, and that other people covered this up. In other words… when Obama was a child other adults made this happen, he was powerless to affect it, and may not have known (assuming such a thing to be true) about it until his Presidential run. That’s number one.

Number two deals with a conspiracy that posits a leader of these United States knew of the coming attack and allowed it to happen, thus killing fellow citizens and going to war over it — killing more Americans over an evil conspiracy. Many of these Democrats also believe Bush was involved in making this happen (http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/06/zogby-poll-42-of-democrats-think-bush-caused-911-or-let-it-happen/). So this conspiracy would be considered — if we had an evil scale — much more “evil” because it is an American in the highest office basically directly culpable for the death of innocent people.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist for an outside observer to say, “whoa, whoa, whoa… calm down DEMOCRATS [*not said in yelling tone, but merely to emphasize*]. Yeah this other conspiracy is nuts, but it doesn’t posit such an overtly evil act.” in other words a much larger number of Democrats are on the “fringe” and would I guess (if they were Republicans) be called racists for this assertion, like Republicans are called racist for their birtherism position (which I guess the 15% of Democrats are not?)

CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINES, PUNDITS, AND LEADERS
Here is what the Left believes to be a radical, extreme right pundit, Ann Coulter. Her point is instructive, which is, no one in the major influence of the conservative/Republican believed this (http://youtu.be/a52S1B8_oMM)

Not only that [anonymous], but i listen to talk radio all week. Not a single talk show host believed this (I should stipulate that I listen to Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, and Larry Elder). None of these conservative talk show hosts believed this. In fact, Michael Medved typically takes calls that disagree with him (almost always), which led to some great excoriation of this birther conspiracy.

You can listen to these short clips for yourself on my sister site: http://videorow.blogspot.com/search/label/Bitherism

I tackled it on my old blog (http://religiopoliticaltalk.blogspot.com/2010/04/compilation-of-evidential-arguments.html) as well as my new one (http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/tag/birthers/ SEE ALSO: http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/tag/birtherism/).

The question becomes who in congress or leadership believed Bush knew? Rep. Dennis Kucinich; Rep. Cynthia McKinney; Congressman Alan Grayson, etc.

HUH?
So my point is this: 1) the depth of this subject and complexity of it does not fit well into the “model” presented in talk around the water cooler at work. I know it sounds good if one wishes to make a point without thinking beyond this statement that connects Republicans with birtherism.2) If such beliefs make Republicans racist or bigoted, how much more are Democrats with their larger fringe group pushing a theory that infers Bush was personally involved with this act? 3) Since almost all major conservative/Republican magazines, pundits, radio hosts, and Congressmen reject this theory and many more liberal/Democratic magazines, pundits, radio hosts, and Congressmen believed their own crazy theories AND birtherism to some extent — how does this paint the argument connecting Republicans to birtherism (a birth) and Democrats to a cold blooded killer (Bush)?

Just some thoughts from a bibliophile and someone who looks at all sides, and makes it a habit in fact… to be fair —> SeanG

Now you add this to the above mix… some powerful counter arguments against Democratic bigotry!