Posted by
Mark Meed on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:00:56 PM
As I watch an increasing number of tweets and posts related to the BHO
Birth Certificate issue it is difficult not to conclude we are either
being set up or are walking into a cul-de-sac of our own making.
Without prejudice to the validity of the claims being made, a number of
fundamental questions need to be asked.
- What's the end-game here?
If tomorrow morning some court somewhere rules that a proper BC has not
been provided, does anyone seriously think BHO will step down or be
impeached? The more likely, and highly undesirable, outcome would be an
extended, and distracting, court battle, easily outlasting BHO's first
term.
- Is this the issue we want to pour our blood and treasure into? BHO
and the Congress are flooding the zone with new bills, executive orders
and appointments. Do we really want to siphon off time and energy that
could be spent researching and responding to these in favor of a
manifestly unprofitable, and unquestionable divisive, line of attack.
- Is this really the way to win friends and influence people? The American people are
waking up to the real meaning of BHO's promise to "fundamentally
transform America." They don't like it, they are asking questions and
looking for alternatives. This is probably the worst time in the world
to be presenting ourselves as black helicopter theorists at worst and
legalistic opportunists at best.
- Who is really served by all this?
The BC issue hands BHO two things he likes most: opportunity for
misdirection and a caricatured enemy. It shifts focus from the manifest
failure of his policies and his true socialist intent to the "crazies,
obstructionists and flat-earthers" who are trying to bring him down.
This is so clearly to his advantage that I would submit if his
operatives aren't making extended efforts to keep this alive they
aren't doing their job.
Someone once said it is wise not to
interrupt an enemy bent on self-destruction. I see the BC issue as an
interruption that he will exploit. As his numbers plummet, Democrat
allies reconsider their allegiances based on very real electoral
threats and at least a part of the MSM emerges from its anesthesia,
this is an inopportune time to be throwing him any life-lines.