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The Inner Crazy of The Birther Lawsuit

Source: Open Left - Front Page

Nov 07, 2009

Summary

Birtherism wears its crazy on its sleeve. For one thing, the demand that Barack Obama produce his birth certificate did not reach anything close to its crescendo until months after Obama had already posted his birth certificate to the internet. And, of course, there's the crazy incarnate of Orly Taitz. So you can be forgiven for not knowing of the craziness embodied in the actual lawsuit that was thrown of of court in Orange County at the end of October. Fortunately, that craziness is captured in the 30-page decision (pdf) itself, perhaps the calmest document you might ever chance to read that is written in response to batshit insanity.

But you don't have to read the entire 30-page document. Just a few paragraphs from the very end should suffice quite nicely. The sad fact is (sad for comedians, at least), the judge threw the case out on procedural grounds, so there was no full bore circus with phony birth certificates and the like. And in the end the judge addresses the plaintiff's impatience with him for actually following the law and respecting cons

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