MY SENATOR IS A "BIRTHER"?

From the AP via Google:

Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship in court.

Vitter, who is running for re-election, made the comments at a town hall-style event in Metairie, La., on Sunday when a constituent asked what he would do about what the questioner said was Obama's "refusal to produce a valid birth certificate."

Such claims about Obama's birth certificate have been discredited. But with the crowd applauding the question, Vitter responded that although he doesn't personally have legal standing to bring litigation, he supports "conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court," according to a video of the event.

"I think that is the valid and most possibly effective grounds to do it," Vitter said, although he later cautioned that the matter could distract from policy issues.

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Metairie, where I live, a classic white flight community, and the most conservative place with which I have any first hand familiarity, had at least one individual publicly asserting on the night Obama was elected, "That's it. Now it's going to be white slavery." That is, there is a great deal of racism here. No surprise that Metairie residents attending a town hall with Vitter have swallowed the wacky conspiracy theory that the President, an African American, isn't really one of us.

And Vitter is a douche for playing into these racist and xenophobic attitudes.

My Senator, a family values guy who got caught with his name on the infamous DC Madam's client list, may be a hypocrite scum bag, but he's not stupid. I'm pretty sure he does not buy into the birther thing. I mean, maybe he does. But the guy went to Harvard and Oxford. He was a law professor. Unlike our last president, Vitter reads newspapers and such: he has to know that Hawaii has produced Obama's birth certificate repeatedly, that this was a non-issue from the very beginning.

But here he is saying he supports some kind of litigation, even though there's been plenty of litigation already, and it's all been laughed out of court. What's almost funny is that he soft pedals his support, talking about how "the matter could distract from policy issues." It's like, "Yeah, sure, I'm with you guys on this, but let's not get too carried away with it," almost as though he's a bit embarrassed.

What a douche.

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