Well the dear old crazy aunt in the attic has been doing a lot of painting of late. Huge amounts really. And I like to paint, reminds me that I really do work in the theater after all. Anyway, when you are painting, way upon a ladder and all, well, you have lots of time to yourself to think. So. This is what I think.
One. The original point is well taken. This deal has been gone over and over. Face it, in all these years, no one has ever thought of what exactly was meant - even at the time - as to what some of that language meant. But, his mom was an American. Born in the United States, in like the Midwest for god's sake, and that's good enough to be a natural born citizen in the US for me. Your mom was American. So are you. Plus, Hawaii was a state by that point, so that's just silly.
And, at the absolute worst, that mom (remember, she is an American, born in Kansas, a highly rated scholar, doing overseas research for her PHD from some Ivy League college by starting micofinance banks in very poor sectors of the third world as a way for women to gain some sort of financial independence and encourage growth) was overseas as part of an American Policy of trying to create growth and culture change in third world nations.
People pursuing this course of thinking are just dumb. They are so dumb they make the people around them about 15 IQ points lower on the average just in guilt by association. Now I'm all in favor of letting them go on and on, because the very thinly veiled racism
(Like this would even be an issue had mom been given a Brit Royalty class sperm shower with that every so noble spunk during their year overseas as a Rhodes Scholar. Don't see that as a problem? Neither do I. So, its only because dad was a real African - as opposed to the native American-Africans who came over for that all-expenses-paid lifetime tour of the Antibellem South - that anyone has any issue with it.)
And that racist stuff plays very poorly among the independent voters in the swing states, which is the key. And unlike the Democrats in the past, Obama is playing politics like, well, like he was a Republican, and he's doing a damn good job. Funny, how when this shoe was on the other foot the Repubs were all about "elections matter" and now that they have had their electoral ass handed to them on a platter not just once, but twice - an'd a looking like a possible third strike coming up - in four years, they now cry "Bi partianship" while imposing a potential filibuster (*Are you SURE these are the very same fracking guys who just a few years ago wanted to DO AWAY with the filibuster, calling it "The Nuclear Option? THOSE GUYS, yeah, right...) without ever voting for the bill no matter how much it was changed after getting a can of voter whoop ass opened on them from coast to coast for the almost epic failures of the last eight years, and now you frickin want some accountability? You got some nerve.
I'll buy the Rush Drug Bust Story, if what you're saying is that the real leaders of the 'Pub party are going to set him up. That I can see. I sure don't see the Dems doin' it. Rush is like the Democratic Gold Rush, the more he talks, the more vote the 'Pubs continue to lose. The Dems are having wet dreams about Rush and Sara being the new Jimmy Carter's of the 'Pub party.
As for the money, here is the real deal. It means nothing. It's not real. We can change that stuff at any time we can all agree to it. Its almost time to try to get beyond it anyway. I'm sure its way to early for that thought, but we are going in that direction, that much I'm pretty sure about.
