{"id":282,"date":"2013-04-28T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/28\/birther-issue-died-with-obama-re-election"},"modified":"2013-04-28T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:25:00","slug":"birther-issue-died-with-obama-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Birther\u2019 issue died with Obama re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I watched highlights this morning of President Obama\u2019s remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Then something struck me. What has happened to the moronic allegations about all those things? They\u2019ve dried up. Gone away. Disappeared into the darkness. Vanished from the face of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>How can that be? Oh, might it be that Barack Obama\u2019s re-election has made the conspiracy loons\u2019 statements irrelevant? I\u2019m thinking that\u2019s the case. <\/p>\n<p>Obama was quite funny last night. He said he wasn\u2019t \u201cThe Muslim socialist I used to be.\u201d He said he is working hard on his presidential library, but wants to be sure it is built in this country and not \u201cin the country of my birth.\u201d There were some other one-liners, so you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched highlights this morning of President Obama\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Birther\u2019 issue died with Obama re-election<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}