Sore Losers

I was reading on AOL that Hillary Clinton may not be eligible to serve as Secretary of State. As interesting (or not) as that was, it was the comments on the story that got my attention:

Jackie 5:34PM Nov 24th 2008
Why shouldn't secretary of State be ineligible we already have a President elect who is ineligible to be an American President. Born in the USA he is obviously not or he would have proved it by now.

IMA GROUCH 5:34PM Nov 24th 2008
While we're talking about ineligibility, what about the Supreme Court ordering Obama to deliver to them a vault copy of his birth certificate by December 1 to show he is eligible to be president. The Supreme Court regards their power very sacred and if Obama ignores this request, or fails to produce the vault copy then the court could rule him ineligible to be president. Then what?????

Wow, there's grasping at straws. As conspiracy theories go, this is a good one. But let me ask--Wouldn't every Obama opponent since Law Review looked into his place of birth? It would have come up in state races, it would have come up in the Senate race, and surely everyone from Hillary to W has covered this angle. If he were not born in America, Bill O'Reilly would have done a remote from a little grass shack long, long ago.

Another consipracy theory I heard dealing with "the games media played to get Barack Obama elected" was that "The Cosby Show" was released for syndication and cable outlets to "so Americans wouldn't be scared to vote for Obama." Oh my God!

But you know, there is a grain of truth in this. The problem with the logic is that it's over twenty years too late. If Bill Cosby did anything to make Americans less afraid of voting for an African-American with his TV show, he did it in the 1980's, not in 2008. That was when the opinions of voters my age were being cast.

If this is a consipracy, it must have been developed when Barack Obama was in college. Wait a second, where were Barack Obama and Bill Cosby in 1982? I smell a conspiracy! There is something rotten going on here! I bet there was no such person as Fat Albert either--AND HE WAS MY HERO!

Sometimes this country needs to take a nice hot bath and relax.