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Maryscott O’Connor dove into Birther world again, and this got me thinking.

Come on: 43 white men have been elected President before Obama and not one of them has had his citizenship questioned on a mass scale before Obama. Coincidence? I think not.

What I think? Racism. What I think? Racism on a mass scale; huge numbers of racist motherfuckers are grasping at the last possible straw they could find — the ludicrous possibility in their tiny pea-sized minds that this scary black man was born in KENYA! yes, KENYA! And therefore he couldn’t be the President! Yeah! yeah! He can’t be the President, damn it! It’s a vast left wing conspiracy to steal the Presidency! The nigger stole the White House!

Lest you think my use of the word “nigger” just a MITE radical, that my charge of racism on a mass scale a WEE overwrought… have you SEEN the waves of racism sweeping this country in the last six — nay, eighteen months?

I first noticed this wave of racism sometime in late 2007, and it hasn’t abated.  In fact, it has accelerated to the point it is now embedded into a semi-mass movement against our own president, led by the Tea Parties.  Teabagger “membership” is unanimous on believing the Birther nonsense, which I’ve documented repeatedly on video.  It’s the central organizing principle of the Teabaggers, it’s how they convince themselves Barack isn’t actually president, that somehow America would never REALLY elect a black man president.  All the other nonsense flows from this.

We’ve all been waiting for the MSM to notice, too, and finally, they are.  Yes, MSM are slow.   But if a story is legit, and there’s no story more legit than that Republicans are Birthters, and vice versa, and Republicans use Birthers like cheap hookers, once it’s picked up by the giants, it goes, and goes, and goes.

That’s happening now.  Lefty bloggers, like me and Eric at Plunderbund here in Ohio, which was Ground Zero for this nonsense, spent a good chunk of 2008 battling this racism in hand to hand combat.   It was frustrating to watch the media give it a passing glance.  Now that it’s continued into the presidency, with another wink and nod from Republicans, both elected and at the grassroots, the MSM is unable to ignore it.

Which is a big problem for Republicans.  Perhaps an existential one.

The best way to look at the election of Barack Obama is to visit in your mind the President’s Lounge in the afterlife, where George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, are all sitting around over a cognac.  And pretend you bring them the news that a black man is in the White House.  Then watch them spit take their cognac.

You will have to convince the President’s Lounge that this particular black man is the finest manifestation of an American this country can produce – Harvard Law review, impeccable credentials, graceful and sophisticated, an orator of Shakesperean calibre, someone who would hold court in the afterlife in the President’s Lounge with ease.  And all the former presidents in the afterlife would still not believe it.  Some of them would start sounding like Birthers.

The tectonic plates of American history are moving.  Through this Birther nonsense, and its putrid progeny, which Republicans sought to use quietly to win an election, Republicans put themselves on the wrong side of those tectonic plates.  They can’t get away from it, no matter how hard they try.  It’s tied to them at their hips, in a knot they’ve tightened with their own hands.  When you’ve tied yourself down so well, you can squeal all you want when a rock the size of a continent is sliding toward you, it ain’t gonna help.

Thank whomever you pray to that you are alive, and American, to watch this unfold.