Here's the deal, Lucille ...

BIRTHERS

“ The Birthers, a group of fringe conservatives convinced that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because of supposed questions surrounding his birth status, have succeeded in keeping their conspiracy theory alive and kicking, according to a Politico.com report. ”

AOL NEWS features the Obama eligibility question on its front page.  Their treatment is identical to the Left media reporting on the Global Warming hoax.  "Look at what these silly people believe.  Aren't they just too, too stupid?  That debate is over."  For a subject that's been all but ignored,  48%  of respondents to AOL's question, "Do you have any doubt about Obama's eligibility to be president because of his birth status?" say YES.  The cited Politico report offers not a word about the rather substantive Birther bill of particulars, but, rather, dismisses them (me) because of  "no grounding in evidence. Courts across the country have summarily rejected the movement's theory —." Politico leads the reader to believe that these court "findings" were founded in evidence of Obama's Hawaiian birth, when. in fact, the courts have  dismissed suits citing plaintiff's  "lack of standing"  to bring the suit.  Yup.  There, evidently, exists not a single United States citizen with standing to question something so elementary as the eligibility of a presidential candidate."  Hawaii officials, along with contemporary birth announcements, affirm that Obama was in fact born in Honolulu in 1961. Oh really?  Then perhaps one of them would deign to identify  the name of the hospital the HIM was reputedly born in?  That's about as basic as you can get. The fact is that all the evidence points to his being born outside the country, including statements by his immediate family.  Duh. If I'm a Birther, they're prime examples of the lack of critical thinking that finds us today in some real pickles, and Al Gore with a Nobel Peace Prize, for G_d's sake!