My Reaction to "NOT Born In The USA?"

There is NO doubt in my mind that the majority of "Birthers" are individuals who are angry that America elected a person of color to the highest office in the world. Some may be racist, but I'll hesitate to generalize on that scale. These people are genuinely frightened and desperate to hold on to what they feel has been taken from them and on the verge of being destroyed. I will say that if there was an individual born to an Irish father attending Harvard University and a mother from Maine, this would be a non-issue. This is the basis of their argument (once people began calling them idiots)....he isn't a "natural born citizen" because his father was a Kenyan in America going to school, which doesn't make him a US citizen, and therefore makes his child Non American because you have to be born to two AMERICAN parents. Are they serious? I don't know the percentage, but I would think that that would make an enormous chunk of the American population Non American. Someone born abroad to foreign parents who moves here as a child, grows up to marry someone born in America to American parents - their child(ren) aren't American? ....which would mean that their grandchildren wouldn't be American either? It's crazy and reckless and dangerous. This careless rhetoric perpetuates hate and breeds anger and fear, which is what happened in the case of Timothy McVeigh and what George Wallace did during the Civil Right Movement.
This is America....this is not behavior becoming of the most powerful and influential power in the world. I don't even know what to say. I'm angry, disappointed, ashamed, and maybe even a little scared. This is supposed to be America - the country who unfortunately consistently falls short of its ideals.

Is this America?

NOT Born In The USA?

The Birthers' stance is that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. of A. and therefore was NOT even eligible to become President of the United States.

It's been going on for a while - people....Americans willing to bet their homes and would probably swear on the lives of their children that the 44th President of the United States of America is NOT A CITIZEN of the country he is leading. I mean, really??? Okay, let's go back to the US Senate, the Illinois State Senate, the IRS, employers - you're going to tell me that no one knew until now?

His birth certificate and statement of live birth, the announcement in two Honolulu newspapers, and the conformation by Hawaii's Dept. of Health just don't appear to be enough. Factcheck.org, along with many other journalists and organizations, looked into the matter and concluded that Barack Hussein Obama is indeed a US citizen. Hopefully the chatter is coming to an end.