Trumped Up

I almost missed this one.

As Donald Trump ascends ever higher in the estimation of teabaggRs, based only on his enthusiasm for birtherism (so much for those who think Obama had no qualifications to be president -- the same people who love The Donald for none but this), it's fun to look around at what such as those who support him call evidence.

Convincing to those who need no convincing, it's been discovered that an iconic pic of BHO with his grandparents was photoshopped. The president, they claim, was, in fact, never in this picture:

The proof? Looky here, at the real picture: he's nowhere to be seen:





Well, mostly nowhere. If you don't count his knee.

Trump Card

In yet another example of right-wingers' disregard for their people, the intermittently rich man with a monster ego but no self-awareness has gone full birther on us. (Far be it from me to mention certain problems with his own papers.) This, though, is almost too perfect to be believed:

Moreover, Trump’s argument isn’t even internally coherent. First he questions why no doctors or nurses in Hawaii remember Obama’s birth, noting “this is the president of the United States!” (It’s unclear if Trump believes Obama was born the president):

TRUMP: Hey look, you have no doctors that remember. You have no nurses — this is the president of the United States! — that remember. That ad that was placed in the Houston paper — that was placed in the paper days after he was born. So he could have come into the country.

But just moments later, Trump doubts the governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie’s recollection of Obama’s birth, noting it was over 50 years ago. Abercrombie has said, “I knew his mom and dad. I was here when he was born.” Trump called for the governor to be “be investigated” for lying about the memory:

TRUMP: You know what I get a kick out of? The governor of Hawaii says, oh I remember when Obama was born. I doubt it! I think this guy should be investigated. He remembers when Obama was born? Give me a break! He’s just trying to do something for his party.

But thanks, Don, for yet another byte of proof of the deeply unserious arguments presented by those on the right who'd be our leaders. Naturally, it's considered thoughtful and persuasive by teabaggers everywhere.

What a sad, sad lot.