Will One More Fear Mongering Group Please Stand Up?: The Birthers

What had started out as a petty attempt to oust President Obama now has unreasonably grown to a new level of, in my opinion, shamelessness. Just days ago I posted about Rep. Campbell's interview with Chris Matthews, and since then the issue has gotten out of hand.

May I now introduce a conservative group that operates by deceiving and wrongfully instilling fear-mongering tactics to the American public, the Birthers: group of theorists devoted to proving that Barack Obama isn't eligible to be president of the United States.

The GOP party has rightfully regarded the movement as "embarrassing", and members have known better than to even associate with the Birthers, but the fact of the matter is that even if the Birthers get ONE advocate among the Republican Party, it's enough for them to garner enough political clout to proceed with their mission of supposedly "unveiling the true birthplace of Barack Obama"...which I can tell you right now was in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961.

It's one thing to disagree with President Obama and his policies. Maybe even you believe his upbringing was an over-hyped, media-fueled story of the "American Dream" that ultimately led him to the Presidency, and not his experience...or "lack there of". But to resort to questioning whether he, our President, is an American to begin with is foolish and unpatriotic in itself. People need to stop stressing that his middle name is Hussein. Yes, his father was a Kenyan and part Muslim. Yet, oh how we forget that his mother was Caucasian, or that he is a practicing Christian for over 2 decades. And before that he simply wasn't fully engulfed in religion to begin with, like a majority of the youth in America.

Anyway, just to ascertain people that this Birther's movement continues to be an ongoing problem:

• Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn has received 33 inquiries about Obama’s origins, with 10 coming in over the past week...
• One of the lead anti-Obama lawyers, Orly Taitz, a California dentist with a degree from an online law school, whose clients include soldiers challenging Obama's citizenship, has called on her blog's readers to "fight these communist Nazi thugs and hoodlums that took over our government," and told POLITICO that the wide refusal to take her case seriously is "totalitarian.
  

All is not lost though, and I understand that the Birther's group does not at all reflect the GOP party. Conservative talk show host Michael Medved recently referred to the movement's leaders as "crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy conservative imposters" who are "the worst enemy of the conservative movement."

Catch Press Secretary Gibbs' thoughts below: