At Least He’s Consistent

Alternate title to this post: ::Get your Popcorn:: As you know, the right wing has lied for years that President Obama was not born in Hawaii, and was instead born in Kenya. This lie has continued despite the fact that both the short form and the long form birth certificate from the State of Hawaii have been released proving that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, and despite the fact that a birth announcement regarding the young President’s birth was placed a couple of days later in the Honolulu Advertiser. Anyway, the right wing could not handle the fact that a non-white man had been elected President, and they reacted by making the President an “other,” an “alien,” literally.

Well now their tea party champion, Ted Cruz, has decided to run for President. He was not born in the United States. He was born in Canada. No one disputes that. But of course, since he is a Republican, and he looks less black and foreign than President Obama, the tea party right excuses that previously unpardonable sin by saying his mother was an American, born right here in Wilmington, Delaware. Uh, well, President Obama’s mother was also an American, born in Kansas. But Cruz is ok and Obama is not. No one will tell me that racism has nothing to do with it.

But into this fray of hypocrisy comes the Donald, the Birther King.

In an interview with MyFoxNY, Trump said that Cruz’s birthplace, Canada, could be a problem for the Texan’s presidential bid.

“Well he’s got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment,” said Trump. “It’s a hurdle and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. He was born in Canada … if you know … and when we all studied our history lessons … you’re supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. But it’s an additional hurdle that he has that no one else seems to have.”