There’s a pro-Hillary Clinton website out there that is trying to prove that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fraudulent—that it is in fact a forgery to hide the fact that he’s an Indonesian citizen.Wow.I have two reactions to this. One, though I’m no expert, from what little I know about the forensic analysis of documents (from reading textbooks and the like a number of years ago), the evidence behind this argument (as presented by its partisans) looks difficult to refute.Two, the whole idea’s completely insane.Oh, and three: whether this is in fact legitimate or (more likely) the product of the fevered brains of a small group of disappointed Hillary backers, it just goes to show how far people will go these days to try to win an election. If I had to make a prediction, I’d expect this will go the same way as most of the crazy stories I’ve read over the years. (“Did you know Bill Clinton was running drugs out of the governor’s mansion in Little Rock?” Yeah, that kind of crazy story.) Still, every once in a while, one of those stories proves out . . . if this happens to be one of them, the next couple months are going to be a real roller-coaster ride.
Speaking of forgeries and politics, have you heard about the new Ron Suskind book?
What makes my teeth grind is that even if it was proven to everyone’s satisfaction that the Bush administration forged documents to bolster its deceitful agrument for war in Iraq, we still wouldn’t impeach unless it involved oral sex.
A nation founded by Puritans indeed.
No, if a crime was proven, the Republican party would vote to impeach–unlike the Democrats, who wouldn’t impeach Clinton even when he was demonstrably guilty of perjury.
And no, I hadn’t heard about the book, but on a prima facie basis, it seems implausible. If he recorded his conversations, why hasn’t he already released them?