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Should Republicans apologize for the Birther controversy?
Now that Ted Cruz has decided to run for President it raises a few questions since he was born in Canada. The first question is why the hell did we waste any time challenging if Barack Obama was eligible? No one had any challenge to his mother being American, so the same logic for claiming Cruz is American would apply regardless of what country Obama was born in. So, the next question is should the Republicans apologize about wasting so much time and money disputing Obama's eligibility?
I agree if you don't come back as the authority and claim that the question you asked before is invalid. When you look back at the controversy it turns out they weren't questioning authority, they were just being troublemakers. The problem I see is that the party who is against spending money wasted a bunch of money on this.
Odrama is prsented as an authority. He IS an authority, right or wrong. There is nothing wrong with wanting to know if Obama is eligible to be president, and YES I WOULD say the same thing about a Republicon.
But the Birther issue didn't actually have anything to do with knowing if Obama was eligible to be president. His mother was American, a pointed not disputed by anyone during that whole charade. He was also vetted by the previous administration, not to mention his competition on both the right and the left during the election.
Respect for authority based on the fact that they are an authority is an outdated moral fallacy. There is nothing wrong with questioning authority or the government. Respect is earned, not freely given.
I would like to respectfully ask how that comment had anything to do with my previous comment. I made no mention of respect for authority, at all. I was referring only to the process of an vetting presidential candidates and how that pertains the Birther controversy earlier in the Obama administration.
You made a mistake here. The respect for authority you speak was a respect of the rules, before he was an authority. You have it backwards. His actual opponents and the previous administration had no objection prior to him being president.
You claim that any question that is asked of an authority is not wrong to ask, but that isn't true. It is wrong to ask if Obama is human, if he has teeth, or if he has 2 hands. Those questions do not accomplish anything and would be wrong to ask.
It isn't questioning authority, what you are asking is just as relevant as asking "what's wrong with looking both ways before crossing the street". The answer is nothing, but it doesn't apply here.
There is plenty wrong with asking him to prove that he is an American when OVERWHELMING evidence proved that he was. The governor of the state that he was born in said he was, the previous administration said that he was, his opponents in the general election said that he was, his opponents in the primary election said that he was, the birth announcement in the news paper the day that he was born said he was, and the fact that his mother was an American citizen said that he was. The entire controversy was predicated on false claims and conspiracies, meant to undermine him in dishonest and malicious ways. There was PLENTY wrong with it.
Um, what? That's not what happened. Everyone knew he was an American. He proved it by presenting his mother. When does it stop? How many times does he have to prove he is American before it stops being about establishing he is American and starts becoming garbage?
Again, they are not "questioning a politician", they were ignoring the entirety of the evidence in order to try to undermine him on arguably racist grounds. I do not like Obama, and I never voted for him, but the Birther controversy was unacceptable.