WTF? Arizona To Become First Birther State

Can anyone tell me exactly what the fuck is wrong with the state of Arizona? There are at least twenty-two rational people there. But not enough to stop the Arizona state legislature from passing a law that, “Would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.”

In other words, Arizona is well on its way to becoming the first official birther state. Mesa Republican Representative Cecil Ash stated that, “He has no reason to doubt Obama’s citizenship but supports the measure because it could help end doubt.” Really? End the doubt, eh? He is apparently unaware that only the truly insane believe that shit in the first place. I know that there is some doubt lingering out there in Wingnuttia. I also know that this grim fairy tale is being deliberately propagated by people who know it to be untrue. But they have a political agenda and won’t let a little thing like the truth get in the way of delegitimizing the nation’s first black President.

Sadly this is the codification of the idiotic birther movement. Before the election the anti-Obama propaganda centered around his faith. He was either a secret Muslim, or he attended a anti-American/Black nationalist Christian church. They’re not sure which, but that didn’t matter. Being perceived as different is all that matters. Or it was his political leanings, he was either a fascist, or a committed communist. Maybe a Euro-style socialist, possibly an America destroying nihilist. But most likely he’s a monarchist who plans on declaring himself president-for-life African-style, sometime before the next election.

Coherence in your message doesn’t matter if your intended audience is incoherent. It doesn’t even matter if the political or religious views are diametrically opposed. Americans are equally ignorant about religion and political science. That allows the propagandists to choose any two (or more) views and cobble them together to better achieve that otherness effect. None of that other crap stuck, so they had to up the ante. What could do that most effectively? Make Obama the ultimate foreign usurping other, by calling his U.S. citizenship into question.

Is it too late to add Arizona to Glenn Beck’s plan for a Texas-sized Wingnut summer camp?