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Obama becoming president has tipped the wingnuts into madness

And out into plain view for all to see:

The shrieking Birthers are sure, just sure that Obama CAN'T be the rightful president. He cheated on his exams! He faked his Illinois driver's license! He was born less than 35 years ago in a foreign land! Like Hawaii! I mean, who knows what foreign island types lurked about in those days planning to lie about the birth of a black child just to get him into the White House 47 (I mean 35) years later?/!!

Excellent overview of the Birthers' conniptions:

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Here is is birth certificate. Hawaii was and is an American state. When Barack Obama was elected, he was 47 years old and had lived in the US since 1971. According to the Constitution, the president must be a natural-born citizen 35 years old or order who has lived in the US for 14 years. Barack Obama is eligible to be the president. It's that simple. Unless you're in America's fastest-growing group of nuts with modems, the Birthers! Then it is much more complicated, and stupid.

Wonkette notes that the government is going to be overthrown by the righteous indignation of the wingnuts:

The person who runs FreeRepublic.com is cold gonna overthrow the U.S. government — that means you, blackenstein — and ho ho, no more taxes on the millionaires! Hooray! Anyway, folks, things are getting Seriously Weird with the wingnuts, birthers, paultards and other middle-aged white suckers who bought into that whole Reagan thing 30 years ago and, whoops, are still poor and doomed.

And then, in 2008, Americans mysteriously voted in droves for a common African Soviet from, er, Hawaii, who has been president now for what, six months? And this NON-PRESIDENT is, uhm, trying to get some health coverage for these poor dumb AM-radio listeners, so …. OVERTHROW THE GUBMINT.

And then we have the breathtaking insights of 'The Family' with its roots deep into the workings of elected officials of Congress:

Jeff Sharlet continues his brilliant reporting on the bizarre christo-fascist cult called "the Family" which counts among its members some of the most powerful people holding elected office in the United States. How bizarre and extreme is the Family?

Attempting to explain what it means to be chosen for leadership like King David was -- or Mark Sanford, according to his own estimate -- [Doug Coe, son and heir-apparent to Family leader David Coe] asked a young man who'd put himself, body and soul, under the Family's authority, "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply.

And Randall Terry decides that domestic terrorism is the best way to show his love of America:

Randall Terry took time out of his twelve-city, "Defeat Sotomayor" tour yesterday to grace the National Press Club's podium. His message? Expect more domestic terrorism in response to health care reform.

Christy Hardin Smith has more:

Randall Terry is at it again. Because apparently the half-skull poster of Sonia Sotomayor and exhortations to his unstable flock about the Angel of Death weren't nearly enough to get him the fundraising haul attention he needed.

In any polite society, his brand of dangerous stoking of the fires of hell would get him shunned by decent people.

In fact, it's well past time that GOP lawmakers were asked -- clearly and without any ambiguity -- what they think of Terry's fire and brimstone violence stoking on behalf of their policy agenda.

Because they cannot have it both ways any more that Terry can.

Using Terry's dangerous rhetoric to push the Republican policy agenda makes them just as responsible for the ends of those means as Terry is.

Not to be outdone, the book burners demand libraries be cleansed of evil:

(CNN) -- A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.

The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Residents have sparred for months on blogs, airwaves and at meetings, including one where a man told the city's library director he should be tarred and feathered.

The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included a float featuring a washing machine and a sign that read "keep our library clean."

"If you told me we would be going through a book challenge of this nature, I'd think, 'Never in a million years,' " said Michael Tyree, director of the West Bend Community Memorial Library.

The strife began in February when West Bend couple Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the city library's young-adult section. They later petitioned the library board to move any sexually explicit books -- the definition of which would be debated -- from the young-adult section to the adult section and to label them as sexually explicit.

Ginny Maziarka, 49, said the books in the section of the library aimed at children aged 12 to 18 included homosexual and heterosexual content she thought was inappropriate for youths.

She and her husband also asked the library to obtain books about homosexuality that affirmed heterosexuality, such as titles written by "ex-gays," Maziarka said.

"All the books in the young-adult zone that deal with homosexuality are gay-affirming. That's not balance," she said.

So... instead of trying to work with our first black president, the rightwingers will ignore any kind of proof that Obama is who he says he is, they plan massive book burnings, the tar and feathering of librarians, domestic terrorism, homophobia, and destruction of the government.

This will show everybody just how much they love America and its freedoms.

Next?

Witch trials and hangings!

Oliver Willis caught the essence

Of the moronic questioning of Judge Sotomayor.

Where did he get those wonderful pics?

Why Ah say Why am Ah allowed the micraphone, hayya?

Sessions on uh ... a ... rampage:





Think Progress has more.

The top ten!

A Sotomayor special!

WTF Tuesday

Why is Bill Kristol's immediate response to anything to bomb it? What is his problem?

Will Cheney really get away with trying to declare that the Iraq war actually saved lives (SAVED lives? Like the almost 5000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?) and blaming 9/11 on one of the only people who was running about yelling about al-Qaeda months before, Richard Clarke? And now confesses that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11?!

Why is no one paying attention to more than 40 law clerks who have signed their names to a letter supporting Judge Sonia Sotomayor?

Why are we surprised at the end result? When we pay cash to impoverished young tribesmen every time they drop a GPS device to mark the Taliban hideouts for a CIA drone strike, they start dropping them all over the place just for the money?

Will anyone listen to the generals... especially when one of them calls for a truth commission?

Why is Norm Coleman destroying his legacy with idiot behavior?

WTF?

Amid all the blather and froth

Suddenly it's OK to call a judicial nominee a racist

Just keep on talking, you guys, you're making it more and more clear what the Republicans actually stand for....

I know you are, but what am I?

Greg Sargent of the Plum Line at Who Runs Gov:

The emerging Democratic strategy on Sonia Sotomayor: Dems will try to make the coming fight not about her, but about the current state of the GOP. On MSNBC just now, Chuck Schumer argued that Sotomayor is a moderate and that GOP opposition will say more about the Republican Party's extremism than it says about any of Sotomayor's legal skills or opinions. Expect more like that.

Okay!

Mouth agape

Digby:

I assume the right will find ways to insult the new Supreme Court nominee's gender and ethnicity in a thousand different ways. But Glenn Beck, always in the vanguard, goes after her in a unexpectedly creative way:


"Does the nominee still have Diabetes? Could the Messiah heal her, or does she just not want to ask?"

Dear god.