There are times when I sometimes question my own sanity.

Today is one of those times. I wrote a column for the newspaper about the birther movement, the cult of Americans who believe President Obama hasn’t proved sufficiently that he was born in the United States and, thus, is qualified to hold the office he’ll occupy at least until Jan. 20, 2013.

http://www.amarillo.com/stories/041810/opi_opin2.shtml

Read the responses to the column (see attached link) and you might get a sense of why I think I have rocks in my head. It’s not that I disbelieve what I wrote. It’s that most of the responses suggest I would have better luck arguing this point to the tree stump next to my driveway.

For the record, the birthers are entitled to their opinion. The First Amendment guarantees them the right to speak their mind, no matter how mindless their argument — which includes their insistence that the president produce “proof” that he was born in August 1961 in Honolulu, just as he has said.

But you can lay down the original birth certificate, you can interview the doctor (were he still living) who brought young Barack into the world, you can obtain every possible shred of physical evidence there is, but the birthers will find some pretext to dismiss it all as a fraud. “They’ll find something wrong” with the evidence, my colleague Jon Mark Beilue said.

Yes, and what they don’t find, they’ll fabricate.