The conservative Republican National Review weighs in on right wingers who believe that Barack Obama isn't really a U.S. citizen.Much foolishness has become attached to the question of President Obama’s place of birth, and a few misguided souls among the Right have indulged it. The myth that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president represents the hunt for a magic bullet that will make all the unpleasant complications of his election and presidency disappear. We are used to seeing conspiracy theories from the Left, for instance among the one in three Democrats who believe that 9/11 was an inside job conducted with the foreknowledge of the Bush administration...There is nothing that President Obama’s coterie would enjoy more than to see the responsible Right become a mirror image of the loopy Left circa 2003.Unfortunately for the National Review Online, I doubt that anything's going to stop the right wingers determined to find the "magic bullet" that will make their nightmare of a Democratic White House - and an African American with a Kenyan father, no less! - and Democratic Congress go away. I also find the NRO's hysteria over Barack Obama to be...well, "hysterical." I mean, how much better is NRO, with its talk about President Obama "truncating our liberties," then its more conspiracy-minded brethren? Sure, the boys (and a few girls) at NRO believe that Obama was born in the United States, but other than that, do they fundamentally disagree with those folks in any significant way? I don't see it.
