"this will encourage nutcases on the right to kep the issue alive for years..."
Yes.
But they ALWAYS WERE going to do that ANYWAY! <GGG>
Just look at how the arguments had *already* moved from 'he was not born in America' to 'yes, we admit he was born in America... but he held dual British citizenship through his daddy, and, by the way, McCain and the Socialist candidate were not "natural born" either!'
And, how the claims have moved from 'he was born in Kenya' to 'no, his daddy was Malcom X, and he was born in Seattle', to 'no, scratch that! His daddy was a famous leftist poet!'.... (Next, you know, ET will be invoked in the conspiracy dribble don't 'cha know....)
So, given that constant of Conspiracy Thinking --- that NO PROOF will EVER suffice to alleviate the paranoia and the doubts... rather, every additional increment of presented proof will only spur-off yet another round of new conspiracy imaginings, because that is the nature of paranoia.... Given that fact, than just turn the issue around and imagine the beauty of it from a political point-of-view: It is almost 'genius' in the effect it has of walling off the conspiracy thinkers from the mainstream of public thought!
It confines them to an ever smaller 'nutty land', a shrinking little bit of Terra Firma under their feet that is separated from the mainstream of public consciousness by an ever-widening moat.
(Strictly examined from an "Art of War', or a Machiavellian perspective, where politics is war and war is politics --- than an approach like this is political jujitsu on a truly professional level... where the single most EFFECTIVE, and 'cost-efficient', mode of attack against an unredeemable political enemy is to reduce them to the level of public laughingstock. Striving ever and anon to come up with yet more fanciful and illogical and ridiculous-sounding charges. :-)
THAT WAY lies political oblivion. |
