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January 8, 2009

Natural-Born Character Assassins Welcome!

Filed under: Uncategorized — keelyem @ 8:52 pm

I started a blog because I like to write. I’ll occasionally reprint something, with full attribution, in order to provide context to a comment. Still, I believe that the best blogs sprout from the mind, and keyboard, of the blogger. You don’t get a lot of quantity at Prevailing Winds, but the quality, or lack thereof, is all mine.

Now, this isn’t the approach of Moscow’s uber-blogger, Dale Courtney, who produces in his Right-Mind blog an astonishing number of posts daily, almost none of which include anything written by the blogmeister himself. Right-Mind was named last year as Idaho’s most influential political blog, which is quite an honor. But the honor is Dale’s as an archivist, or a news clippings clerk, and not as a writer or analyst. While I congratulate him on being #1, I would prefer that whatever kudos I get are in response to something I’ve actually written. That’s the journalist in me; it doesn’t die out easily, even with cutting and pasting and hyperlinks.

If, however, I were to have a blog whose contents rely on reprints of cartoons, articles, publications, statistics, and whatever else, I would still be discerning in what I include, because my blog would reflect not only my opinions, but my character as well. I wouldn’t crib stories from the paranoid Right, the loony Left, the gutter-skimming tabloids or the pompous posers of pseudo journalism. With a blog, you don’t have to include what you don’t want to, and there are elements in the print media and on the Internet that I’d slam the door shut on. The one who hosts a banquet of weirdness, paranoia, obsessive and dishonesty ends up, well, looking weird, paranoid, obsessive and dishonest himself.

So why post yet another breathless report from World Net Daily.com, informing us that once again, the courts will take another look at an issue burning only for the exceedingly odd among us? Yes, it’s this: Whether or not, and please stop me if you’ve heard this before, President-elect Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States.

This one’s had a long life — longer, even, than the Religious Right’s shameful, sinful speculation that Obama is the Antichrist. But the issue that enflames Obama’s enemies survives only because malice and bigotry can be relentless. I’m quite sure that a white guy named Patrick O’Shaughnessy, if born in Oahu and not Omaha, would still never be nagged by people screaming that being born in one of the 50 States, while it was a state, nonetheless makes his citizenship suspect. I’m entirely certain that, brilliant as Barack Obama is, he was not capable, in utero, of devising a plan to print public records, publicly distributed, announcing his birth two days after he emerged from the uterus of his American mom. And I’m absolutely sure that faux-journalists who pronounce dire warnings and drop deep, dark innuendo about something that isn’t true deserve the contempt with which they and their organizations are treated by those who tend not to foam at the mouth when discussing politics, even before they embraced the writings of the Rabid Badger of Right-wing Bigotry, Ann Coulter.

But Dale invites WND and its conspiracy whispers and character assassinations to litter his blog a few times a week. WND’s analysis of questions into Obama’s status as a natural-born citizen includes reminders that “for whatever reason,” he hasn’t produced his actual, paper birth certificate. (Here’s my non-paranoid, entirely rational guess at the reason: Individuals do not have their original, paper birth certificates in their possession). I can’t imagine what WND’s and Dale’s guesses would be, but I pray they don’t involve trench coats, numchucks, Jimmy Hoffa, space aliens or Vito Corleone.

The article concludes with the solemn reminder that IF this man takes office as an imposter, interloper, or imp of Satan, it will have happened “on our watch.” “On our watch”? Goodness. I think I’ll decline to take responsibility for the Obama presidency happening on my watch, but I’m left wondering why in the world an elder at a Christian church would allow such malicious drivel to proliferate on his.

5 Comments »

  1. Obama can’t be POTUS.

    Since no congressman and senator objected on 1/8/09 to Congress’ count and certification of the electoral vote which would have turned resolution of Obama’s eligibility issue over to Congress, rendering moot both the Berg and Lightfoot cases, Berg finally does achieve standing on the issue of actual harm, to be addressed at the 1/9/09 SCOTUS Conference on Writ of Certiorari. Obama’s failure to submit evidence of his constitutional qualification for the 1/9/09 conference will mean he cannot thereafter challenge Berg’s request to enjoin the 1/8/09 Congressional electoral count and certification, albeit retroactive, scheduled for SCOTUS conference 1/16/09. Moreover, Chief Justice Roberts has scheduled a full Court conference on the Lightfoot case 1/23/09 in the event there needs to be a Constitutionally mandated action, the Inauguration itself, to enjoin retroactively.

    Checkmate! (WHERE IS THE NEWS MEDIA?)

    Comment by Ted — January 9, 2009 @ 7:47 am

  2. Clearly, Ted, this is an issue that you and your comrades won’t let go. I regret that you don’t believe that he has met the Constitutional requirements, and I pray that what motivates your outrage is love of the law as you see it, not any kind of prejudice against or hatred of the man himself. Thank you for your comment. Keely

    Comment by Keely Emerine Mix — January 9, 2009 @ 7:13 pm

  3. Are you suggesting that Dale Courtney is a character assassin? As far as character is concerned, for Obama, who does not want to see people punished by producing offspring, and who thinks that only the government is capable of saving people, the spending of $800,000 to prevent a $10 piece of paper from coming to light is among the least of his worries. A Google News search on obama supreme court birth certificate brings up 95 unique hits, including a few hits from WND. Not exactly a major source of excitement for the world at large, judging by the relatively small number of unique hits. However, the news organizations discussing the matter include the AP, LA Times, AOL, Washington Independent, Indianapolis Star, NewsWithViews, John Birch Society, Townhall.com, and Canada Free Press. I think it is pretty clear that Dale assumes his readers are capable of thinking and reaching their own conclusions, rather than accepting everything they happen to read uncritically.

    Comment by Dontbia Nass — January 10, 2009 @ 2:17 pm

  4. “Dontbia Nass”? Funny.

    Yes, I do think Dale could be called a character assassin. He’s tried to do quite a number on mine, and I’m not even a national figure. My difficulties with Dale are exhaustive and well-documented, and he’s resisted any attempt I’ve made to talk face-to-face. Fortunately, he cares not a whit what I think. Thanks for reading, Keely

    Comment by Keely Emerine Mix — January 10, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

  5. “My difficulties(character assassination)with Dale are exhaustive and well-documented…”

    Actually, I have asked you several times to provide citation for this claim on another forum and you have failed to do so in every instance. I have combed Dale’s site exhaustively and I find nothing to back up your claim. Again, I ask you, point me to your exhaustive documentation. Not doing so makes me wonder if the character being assassinated might not be that of Mr. Courtney with the perpetrator being yourself.

    Comment by gcrabtree — January 17, 2009 @ 4:22 pm

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