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Always To The Right on Friday, December 05, 2008 12:43:38 PM
Michelle Malkin • December 5, 2008 11:29 AM
Photoshop: David Lunde
My nominee for worst case of Palin Derangement Syndrome ever:
Please make sure you don’t turn into one of these.
The Truthers are out there.
Alas, Trutherism thrives on both the left and right. Which brings us to the spate of lawsuits
challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship. On Friday,
the U.S. Supreme Court considers one of those suits filed by New Jersey
citizen Leo Donofrio, who maintains that Obama is not a “natural born citizen” because his father held British citizenship.
There may be a seed of a legitimate constitutional issue to explore
here (how is the citizenship requirement enforced for presidential
candidates, anyway?) And at least Donofrio concedes that Obama was born
in Hawaii. But a dangerously large segment of the birth certificate
hunters have lurched into rabid Truther territory. The most prominent
crusader against Obama’s American citizenship claim, lawyer Philip Berg (who, not coincidentally, is also a prominent 9/11 Truther), disputes that Obama was born in Hawaii and claims that Obama’s paternal grandmother told him she saw Obama born in Kenya.