Donald Trump: Natural Born Birther/ Part One

Donald Trump possesses many of the characteristics that are required in order to be a full-fledged, raving Birther.
The primary characteristics include the following:

* A hypersensitive "us vs them" mentality

* A fanatical, religious-like fervor in the belief that you and the people who think like you (the us) are the only people with the courage to call America "the greatest, best," most noble "country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth." This courage, in turn, confers to all Americans who recognize this fact (and only Americans who recognize this fact) that very same greatness and nobility.

* The belief that people who don't agree with you (the them) are, conversely, the worst, most ignoble people in the world.

In this belief system there is a direct line of goodness which starts from God, who bestows His own goodness to Jesus and the other heroes of the Bible, then to the early Christians who promoted Christianity, then to the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, then to the present day "patriots" who declare themselves the inheritors of this Godly goodness.

All of this leads to a situation where reality must often times be "shaped" in order to make it conform to the belief system.
This is why "patriots" like Michele Bachmann feel that they must "shape" certain facts in order to convince their army of "us" that, rather than merely paying lip service to the notion that slavery was wrong (they didn't even bother to free their OWN slaves), the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more", and that "men like John Quincy Adams ... would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

Certain other facts must be ignored. Like the fact that John Quincy Adams was "resting" in his grave for nearly two decades before "slavery was extinguished".
Or the fact that the real credit for ending slavery should go to the abolitionists, who really did work tirelessly with activist slaves and former slaves, until slavery was no more.
These abolitionists were the radical liberals of their day who were opposed tooth and nail by the conservatives of the time.

Here are some other things that must not be pondered;
Why did the bible condone slavery?
Why did slavery flourish in these Christian societies?
Why did it take America (the last Christian country to end slavery) until well past the middle of the 1800's to do so?
And why was the pious Christian South willing to fight a bloody civil war in order to hang on to it?

Donald Trump said that he couldn't understand why the Birthers were so ridiculed and maligned. All they want is to see the long form version of Barack Hussein's original birth certificate.
Either Trump had not been following the long sordid history of the Birther Movement or he possesses yet another trait of Birthers; the ability to forget the recent past whenever it proves your beliefs to be wrong.

The Birthers have circulated and promoted a host of cockamamie rumors, every one of which has been thoroughly debunked by numerous sources. (Google it, it's actually very entertaining reading)
Every time a charge has been proven false, they move on to a new one. Then, after a period of time, they revive the old disproven charge.
It's hard to give up a false accusation when repeating it over and over again makes you feel so good.

This is exactly what Trump has been doing, repeating stuff that was disproven a long time ago. Like the one about his Kenyan grandmother saying that she was present when he was born in Kenya. Please look that one up, it's a hoot.
Not only has Trump been repeating old disproven charges, he has added some new ones. Like,
* Obama's own family members don't even know what hospital he was born in.
* Not a single person remembers him growing up in Hawaii.
* He spent 2 million dollars trying to hide his birth certificate.

It's endless. And it becomes very tedious to go through every single stupid fucking charge. But let me go through these last three because they are not mentioned on Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com or Wikipedia.

The first one; being that Obama's mother and grandparents are all dead why would any other family member know what hospital he was born in? Other than my mother, no one in my family knows what hospital I was born in. I don't even know what hospital I was born in (more on that later).

The second one; there is not much on the net about this other than countless allegations. On Hardball, Chris Matthews showed a picture of Obama posing with his high school basketball team and I found an article about Obama visiting a childhood friend in Hawaii after becoming President.
But I'm sure the photo was doctored, the visit was staged and the "friend" was paid to lie.

The third; again nothing much on the net other than countless allegations. I googled "proof Obama spent 2 million to hide birth certificate". Guess what? Nothing came up offering proof despite 387,000 results. One site explained that this rumor probably morphed from an allegation that he spent 1 million in total legal fees, for every reason, since he started running for president. And even this amount was said to be wildly exaggerated.

Now we all know that Trump is "a really smart guy", right? So how can he sit in front of a camera and spout this ridiculous nonsense and risk looking like a complete asshole? Well, I guess when over 50% of Republicans believe the same things, he's got some cover.
But shouldn't he have looked into this stuff before he started flapping his gums? I mean, he claims to have hired investigators to go to Hawaii to look into the birth certificate. So couldn't he have done a simple google search to make sure he wasn't presenting falsehoods as certain facts? Or at least ordered someone to do it for him?
So what's the explanation?
I guess he's just a natural born Birther.