But it’s despicable, none the less. The a*&holes on the right (Limbaugh, Savage, Corsi of “Obama Nation” fame) have concluded that the “real” reason behind Obama’s trip to Hawaii is not to visit his dying grandmother, but to “deal with” his (non-existent) birth certificate “issue.” From Media Matters:
On the October 23 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh said:
Who announces days in advance they’re rushing to the side of a loved one who is deathly ill, but keeps campaigning in a race that’s said to be over, only to go to the loved one’s side days later? See, I think this is about something else. You know what’s really percolating out there? And I’ve been laying low on this because it just — it hasn’t met the threshold to pass the smell test on this program. But this birth certificate business, this lawsuit that a guy named Phillip Berg filed in Philadelphia in August for Obama to produce his genuine birth certificate, and he still hasn’t replied, he hasn’t done so.
Limbaugh later added:
When you first announced this, you’re gonna rush, you’re gonna hurry, you’re gonna make tracks, you’re gonna get over there because you don’t want your grandmother to die before you got there like your mother did, but somehow you keep campaigning, you take three days to get over there, if he’s left yet. And this birth certificate business — I’m just wondering if something’s up. I have no clue, and I — folks, I’m telling you, this has not reached the threshold until now, and it’s now popping up all over the place.
During an appearance on the October 22 broadcast of Liddy’s radio show, Corsi said:
I’m headed out to Honolulu. I am not convinced that Barack Obama is going because his grandmother is sick. I appreciate that his grandmother is sick and he wants to be with her. I do recall that Barack Obama’s mother died of cancer, and he didn’t go to be by her side when she died. He relates that in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father. And I’m going out to do what digging I can on the birth certificate.
Corsi later added:
I think I’ll accomplish something in Hawaii, too. Obama’s headed out there, and I believe there’s a court challenge that if Obama does not dodge, he’s gonna be forced to produce a birth certificate, and there’s gonna be something damaging on that birth certificate, because even at the eleventh hour, Obama refuses to show us the hospital-generated birth certificate when he was born.
As Media Matters has noted, Corsi has previously claimed that the Obama campaign “refuses to release the original birth certificate,” even though WorldNetDaily — where Corsi works as a staff writer — has debunked the claim.
On the October 22 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Savage stated that “[t]here are people arguing that Obama is headed back to Hawaii not so much to visit an ailing relative, but to fudge the birth certificate in question” and said moments later, “There is intense national interest on the Internet about his citizenship, and the question is being asked, could this be the real reason he is headed to Hawaii?” Savage subsequently became more definitive, stating:
Do you actually believe he’s going to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother with 10 days to go until an election? Do you actually believe that? Do you actually believe he’d be going to Hawaii at this time with 10 days to go? You actually believe that? No, no, no — no, no, no, no, no. No. There’s some other reason that he’s leaving the mainland of the United States in the midst of this toe-to-toe struggle right now, and it’s got to do with his birth certificate.
He later added: “And Obama’s leaving for Hawaii — why? Why? What’s he doing there? Why’s he going there, huh? What’s he going there for, huh? Why’s he gonna — the last phase of a race, he’s getting off the track just to visit his grandmother? Don’t be stupid. It’s the birth certificate issue, you fools, you.”
Savage also directed people to his website to “look at the birth certificate and judge for yourself on MichaelSavage.com. We actually have the birth certificate submitted by the Obama camp, and it looks like it’s fake.” Savage’s website currently has a copy of the birth certificate Obama has posted on its “Fight the Smears” website along with a headline stating “Could this be the REAL reason Obama is heading to Hawaii?” The headline links to a post by Andy Martin on Martin’s Contrarian Commentary website. Martin stated in an October 20 press release: “Monday (today) we petitioned the Hawai’i Supreme Court to order Obama’s secret birth records released. How did Obama respond? He suddenly discovered that his grandmother, who had supposedly been released from her hospital a week ago, when he showed no interest in her, needed his immediate attention. Cool, calm, collected Obama suddenly suspended his campaign and headed for Hawai’i.”
Yeah, we knew something like this would come. It’s still stomach turning. No, it’s not racist. It’s just an assault on humanity, on decency, on kindness and generosity. It’s an assault on the Chrisitianity these folks on the “Christian right” say they espouse. It’s a sign of desperation. It’s conspiracy theory at its best. It’s ridiculous and obscence. And people will believe it. Sadly, people will believe it.
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