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August 20th, 2013 at 12:55AM
But it is Canada… they are just like us. Unless he was born in that Frenchie part, it is not the kind of foreign that people fear. Kenya is foreign.
I’m sorry, I’m up too late and it hit me how the birthers would try to spin this.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:31AM
Barbara: But if it’s Canada, his loyalty is to the Queen. His people fought on the wrong side in the war of independence, and you can’t say that about Kenyans.
August 20th, 2013 at 11:43AM
Uh… well, hold on now… You’re saying that Canada isn’t actually part of the good ol’ USA? Even though it’s right there on the map?
August 20th, 2013 at 12:00PM
MattF: I know! I think it’s kind of like Mexico…
August 20th, 2013 at 12:27PM
Also Panamanians. I suspect that an initial source of anti-Obama birtherism was the need to divert attention from McCain’s questionable (by strict constructionist logic) qualification for the presidency. The issue was complicated by the fact that the status of the Canal Zone in 1936 was very much like that of Guantanamo in 2008.