I mean, seriously, how is there even an argument? How can anyone question whether or not Obama has a birth certificate? Even if he wasn't born on American soil, his mother was an American citizen. Therefore, even if he was born on Mars, Barack Obama is an American by birth. The end.
But that's the problem. It's not the end. Some still demand that he has to produce a birth certificate every time anyone wants to see it.
The funny part is that I'm pretty sure no one wanted to see George's certificate. No one asked to see McCain's, and he wasn't even born in the US. He was born in Panama. His parents were Americans, though, so he was an American. No one wanted to see Mitt Romney's. No one cared to even see Sarah's, and she's GOT to be an alien.
The truth is that this push to see everybody's birth certificate is racism. It's easier to believe someone's American, apparently, if their skin has a low melanin content. People will insist that isn't what's going on, but I'm inclined to think they've got their heads so far up their asses that it's getting hard to breathe.
In Arizona, and now in Utah, you can be asked by police to produce a birth certificate if you're pulled over. If you don't have that document, you get to spend some time in the hospitality of the state.
My guess is that there aren't going to be very many Caucasians being locked up as a result of that, but here's the catch; the probably don't carry around their birth certificates, either. I certainly don't. I'm fairly sure it's still in Idaho. But I'm citizen. I was born here. My parents were born here. Some ancestor or another has been born here since before this was an ctual country that handed out birth certificates. I'm pretty proud of that, and even if your parents were off-the-bot, you're just as much of a citizen as I am.
To make things even more adorable, someone had apparently proposed that we pass a law saying the citizenship of candidates must be verified before they can run for president. I find this fascinating, and I propose we pass a law stating that all representatives shall be forced at gunpoint to read the entire Constitution before taking office. You see, if they had, they would know those clever founders have already put that bit about citizenship in there. Somehow, though, I'm pretty sure they all already know about that. I think they just want to reassure the logically-challenged teabaggers out there that they're taking Donald Trump very seriously.
We have seen this pathetic xenophobia in one form or another since some well-dressed men signed the Constitution. This too, I am confident, shall pass, if only so that we can begin to be blatantly horrible to a new minority. Because discrimination is, after all, the American Way.
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