Everyone meet Orly Taitz.  This is the face of the “Birther” movement, the organized efforts of a small extremist part of the world community to prove President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and thus not qualified to be president.  Orly is the lawyer for Stefan F Cook.  You may remember him as the US Army Reservist who declined to serve active duty in Afghanistan because he didn’t think President Obama met the qualifications to be Commander in Chief.

Conveniently, a birth certificate has sprouted up proving that Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya.  It has been largely debunked as a forgery, even by Karl Rove himself on his Twitter page.  The nail in the coffin for this document likely came when an Australian citizen publicly LOLed after he realized someone had used his birth certificate as a template for a forged Obama certificate.

I’ve said all I’ll say about the details.  Things that crack me up:

• Orly Taitz is an off kilter whackjob.  I wouldn’t trust her with a butter knife.
• People think he would have been on the ticket if there was any doubt he was a US citizen.
• Stefan F. Cook was fired from his job with a defense contractor after all of this.
• Sean Hannity eagerly jumped the bandwagon and sympathized with the plaintiff on TV.
• Not even Karl Rove will hop on this bandwagon.

Seriously, this whole thing is just laughable.  It all boils down to one thing: racism.  Tell me otherwise.  Go on, try.  I’ll never forget the first time I heard about this conspiracy theory.  I was in a drive-through liquor store in Akron, Ohio buying some cigarettes and the cashier saw my Obama pin.  It was right around election day.  He spoke in a thick midwestern drawl.  “You know he isn’t even from here,” as if in a last ditch effort to avoid having a black president he was completely and totally willing to stoop to the lowest common denominator.  “He wasn’t born here.”  I was surprised he made it through his whole presentation without tossing an “N” word out.  See, I know these people.  I’ve lived around them, worked with them, and seen them in public.  I would call many friends and some family, but it doesn’t change the fact that opposition to this president and racist tendencies often go hand in hand.  For the first time in US history, white citizens look to the top and see someone different from themselves.  Some simply can’t handle that, and they’ll latch onto any hope they can find in regards to ousting him, even if it means believing that anyone in power in the United States would let a non-citizen become president.

If you’re going to disagree with this president, do so on the issues.  He was born here, and if you don’t believe that, you’re a moron.  Plain and simple.  Go read a book.

Happy birthday President Barack Hussein Obama.