Today in US politics

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Obama releases birth cert

 

why? Did he really need to?

 

who cares about policies anyway?

 

At the bitter heart of Trig birtherism, its adherents cling to one major assumption: former Alaska governor Sarah Palin should not be elected to higher office. On that they and, if polls are to be believed, a majority of Americans apparently agree. But from that starting place, it all goes terribly awry. For Trig birthers don't believe that Palin's minimal governing experience, divisive political persona or her array of deeply conservative policy positions on everything from drilling to abortion to equal pay to healthcare should inspire their opposition to her. Rather, they believe that what did – or, in their ill-informed opinion, did not – once emerge from her mysterious and hidden womb should make the rest of us nervous enough to disavow her.

 

Trig birthers? In the stubbly nether regions of the internet untouched by Occam's razor, a dedicated group of (mostly) men seeks to prove that the Palin family drama is more soap operatic than the family has already acknowledged. That is, they seek to convince the rest of the world that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sarah Palin wasn't really pregnant in 2007 and 2008, and did not give birth to her son Trig three years ago. Many of them believe Palin's pregnancy was a ruse designed to shield her teenage daughter, Bristol, from the consequences of a teenage pregnancy – conveniently ignoring the fact that Bristol's actual teenage pregnancy culminated in a live full-term birth a mere eight months after her brother Trig was born. Oh, those mysterious lady parts! How do they ever work?

 

If the best "reason" one can come up with to oppose a national Palin candidacy would have regular soap opera watchers snarking about unbelievable plot lines, then one is just not that interested in politics beyond the "personal destruction" part. Palin's rightwing politics alone ought to be enough for liberals; her "blood libel" video and the defence thereof garnered her a new share of critics among independents; and her political persona – and popularity – is built around appealing to her fan base and not those who are unsure about her. One doesn't even have to debate the issue of her womb to oppose her politically … and yet, some critics continue to insist that, without a full accounting of her gynaecological records, they won't be convinced.

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Edited April 27, 2011 by Des

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