Sideshow and Carnival Barkers

“…we’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by side shows and carnival barkers…”

“…we don’t have the time for this silliness…”

"Sideshow and Carnival Barkers" . I  smiled every time I heard that term.

I love my President, and I love that term he applied to  Toupee Fiasco  (also known as Donald Trump), and all the ilk that served as nothing but  distractions from the problems at hand. Like rising gas prices, the economy, the wars our soldiers are fighting, health reform,  etc etc. And now that  the side show and carnival barkers have seen his birth certificate you'd think that would suffice, but no. The release is not likely to silence critics who have tried to marginalize or delegitimize President Obama. Toupee Fiasco on Wednesday continued a new line of argument he started earlier in the week, questioning how The President got into Columbia University and Harvard University Law School after supposedly being a “very poor student” at Occidental College, which he attended for two years.

Now, Mr. Trump is goading the president to release his college transcripts, which the president declined to do during the campaign.
The attacks of “birthers” on the place where the president was born can, at best, be described as racism. And racism is hardly an “at best” situation. Such appalling claims have not been made of  any other presidents in the history of this country — not even of candidates for the presidency.
That Obama was born in the United States — specifically in Honolulu, Hawaii — is simply indisputable. The suggestion that somehow someone has forged a birth certificate or, more importantly perhaps, every past copy of the Honolulu newspapers that announced his birth in 1961, stretches the imagination.

I’m assuming, by the way, that people are fully aware that Sen. John McCain, Republican candidate for president in 2008, was in fact not born in the United States? He was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. The suggestion that being born on a military base on foreign soil makes one a “natural-born” American invites us to suggest that the intention of the writers of the Constitution was far more liberal than some may have previously thought.
But more importantly, The  Presidentwas born in one of the 50 states of the United States. It’s as much a fact as the evidence that anyone claiming to be born here was, in fact, born here.
It’s so very difficult, then, to assume the attacks are fueled by anything other than racism. Maybe not, but it’s hard to find another reason.

So, America, let’s stop wasting time and energy on a ludicrous conspiracy theory and get on with more important things, like the economy. And health care. And the rising gas prices.