I watched highlights this morning of President Obama’s remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Here was the 44th president of the United States making fun of some of the crackpot conspiracies about his birth, his citizenship, his faith and whether he was qualified to even hold the office to which he was elected.

Then something struck me. What has happened to the moronic allegations about all those things? They’ve dried up. Gone away. Disappeared into the darkness. Vanished from the face of the planet.

How can that be? Oh, might it be that Barack Obama’s re-election has made the conspiracy loons’ statements irrelevant? I’m thinking that’s the case.

Obama was quite funny last night. He said he wasn’t “The Muslim socialist I used to be.” He said he is working hard on his presidential library, but wants to be sure it is built in this country and not “in the country of my birth.” There were some other one-liners, so you get the point.

My own point here is that the absence of any of that kind of political bullcorn today suggests it was the stuff of nut cases with too much time to waste. The Obama family will leave the White House on Jan. 20, 2017. With that bit of inevitability awaiting them, the birthers can turn their attention to another bit of political lunacy.