When you demonstrate the consequences of their actions, the truth, they won’t believe you. They’ll point to the mass graves and say, ‘how do you scoff at the Utopia we created’.

The truth isn’t going to force them out. The Constitution isn’t going to force them out. Reasoned appeals to the King of England was going to do a damn thing. Political and diplomatic compromises weren’t going to do a damn thing to the Barbary Pirates.

Cold, hard, steel will, however.

This is the Age of Obama. The only thing that matters is power, not truth.

Well, fine. There are ways to get power. Some of them even involve utilizing the truth.

Or maybe to keep the birthers from getting too energetic?

Not wanting to get back into that, but nobody has answered even the most basic questions of what will happen if it _could_ be shown that O was ineligible for the presidency…

Would Biden become president? Or would the entire ticket be eliminated on the basis that the party had presented an ineligible candidate? in which case, would McCain be president? Or would the entire election be thrown out and rerun? I suspect there nothing nowhere that addresses the practical problems – so the discussion is completely up for grabs!

SSG Dave
“I’d say he’s an idiot, but that would imply that he’s functional at some level.”

“Joe was a prop. (As an aside, that’s probably Joe’s best role.)”

Ding! That made a bell go off for me. Joe Biden, the Ed McMahan of the Obama administration.

I worked as a substitute teacher for several years before I got my teaching certificate. I no longer teach. I discovered as a substitute teacher that it was not unknown for students to play the race card on me when I tried to get them to do their work. But not on a daily basis. I ignored the race card- you can’t win by denying “racism”- and repeated my directions to get to work. Most misbehaving students did not play the race card.

One time in a middle school, a Hispanic female student asked me at the beginning of class if I hated Mexicans. I replied in Spanish : “Por supuesto. ¿Me crees tonto?” (Of course. Do you think I’m stupid?) Fortunately, she and the class took it in the jocular sense I intended. (On occasion US-born Spanish speaking Hispanic students who were fluent in English referred to my Spanish as “Chino” – Chinese, which referred to my velocity in Spanish.)

As a regular teacher, where I saw the same students every day, no student tried to play the race card on me. They saw me in action every day, and knew it wouldn’t fly.

—Why do you think it isn’t necessary for blacks to get married?

—Why are you not concerned or, to use your favorite word, “outraged,” at the 70% rate of bastardy among blacks?

—Why do you encourage and abet a 35% abortion rate among blacks?

—Why, after trillions of tax dollars spent, can’t your great teachers’ unions elevate blacks’ educational achievements in public schools?

—Why are you not outraged at the filth and misogyny of rap music?

—If you’re not racist, how come you don’t go after the anti-homosexual sentiment in the black community as hard as you do when you’re denigrating Catholics, Mormons, Evangelicals and conservative whites who oppose same-sex marriage?

—Why do you sneer at Clarence Thomas and accuse him of leveraging affirmative action to get onto the Supreme Court but never breathe a word about the greatest affirmative action baby of all time, Barry Sotero Obama?

—How come you subscribe to the racist, Jim Crow notion that a man is black if he has one drop of black blood but can’t be white if he has one drop of white blood? Why do you insist on maintaining your white-skin privilege of being the only ones who can name and bestow the race of another man?