Of Birther's Bush and England

I am so relieved! To think that the President of the United States would not be a legal citizen was indeed as beyond belief in reality as it was in thought. Of course, I was just as relieved when I found out Christine O’Donnell was forced to admit she was not a high school Connecticut witch. I did not do much research on the birther’s claims as I felt the matter lacked serious merit. The fact that this “important” matter is now behind us may allow us to concentrate on making the President come clean on how bad the deficit is and how much Obama Care will actually cost.

Liberals hammered the birther movement as an illegitimate ploy to make the president look bad. They called the whole idea of believing Obama was not a U.S. citizen beneath the dignity of a response. To whatever extent they are accurate, they must also remember a time in the not too distant past when a similar incident was called freedom of the press at work. In September of 2004, shortly before the Bush-Kerry vote, CBS broke a story that Pres. Bush had deliberately not fulfilled his Texas Air Guard duties. Despite a questionable source, lazy fact checking and a lack of corroboration, CBS ran with the story supported by bogus documents and liberals rejoiced.

An investigation into the matter revealed that the paper trail was weak and questionable at best as to its authenticity and despite insurmountable evidence to the contrary, Dan Rather stuck by the story’s false accusations and it eventually cost him his job as evening anchor. To this day Dan Rather refuses to acknowledge that the documents are a fake. Bush’s reputation was run through the ringer and it was clear, as with the anti-war movement which is non-existent today, that it was done with malicious intent to swing the election for Kerry. In the zeal to publish the matter, truth was sacrificed on the altar known as the ends justify the means.

For liberals to try unduly influencing an election is just as abhorrent as the revulsion they feel when the president’s citizenship is questioned. Yet there was no outcry when Pres. Bush was vindicated; he was not innocent; he was just not proven guilty. To make matters worse, Bush cooperated fully but to no end.

Just recently we were able to relax a little and enjoy a royal wedding worthy of the attention it garnered. Two billion people watched the union of the likely next King and Queen of England. The history and the pageantry were all there but with no controversy. So voices from both political aisles cast the whole thing as silly and ridiculous. They went so far as to say, “Who cares?” I found it rather disheartening to know that we cannot even come together to witness history in the making without some blog or tweet having to engage in nay saying. I for one enjoyed the whole matter and to their credit the happy couple remained above it all.

I can only hope that in the future we take greater care on all issues and try not to prejudge a situation before all the facts are known. There should be innocence until guilt is proven.