So dumb, so dumb, so dumb...
President Obama has been a disappointment by any measure. He hasn’t changed the tone of Washington. In fact, he’s been more divisive than any President I can remember. I could go on and on, but that’s not my point. President Obama is still my president. It annoys me to no end these “birthers” who have long ago given up on reason. The next moron with a microphone is Baltimore Orioles outfielder Luke Scott, who besides being a major league baseball player, is evidently an expert in being American.
“Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for,” Scott said in an interview with David Brown of Yahoo’s Big League Stew.
The 32-year-old went on to say Obama has no legal documentation.
“He was not born here. That’s my belief. I was born here,” Scott said. ”If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go — within 10 minutes — to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, ‘See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.’ The man has dodged everything. He dodges questions, he doesn’t answer anything. And why? Because he’s hiding something.”
Ah, the “he’s hiding something” argument. We’re all hiding something. I’m not sure where my birth certificate is right now, but I know the state of Hawaii provided a copy of the birth certificate. Just think about the cast of thousands it would take to cover this up. Luke Scott, you are really dumb for real.
I haven’t been paying close attention to the Akaka bill in the House because I didn’t think that something so stupid could pass. However, I often underestimate the stupidity of the Democratic Party. In 1959, 94.3% of Hawaiian voters cast ballots in favor of statehood. Now, 50 years later, this bill basically creates two states based on race. The governor of Hawaii is opposed to the bill that basically adds up to a 1.4 million-acre land grab. Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that explains how dangerous the bill is for the rest of the United States.
First, the Akaka bill privileges what is in fact a race, not a tribe. The very act of transforming a racial group into a tribal group confers a privilege on one race and not others and is thus unconstitutional. Second, while the Constitution implicitly gives the federal government the power to recognize tribes with a long and continuous history of separate self-governance, it does not give the power to confer sovereignty on new tribes, or to reconstitute a tribe whose members have long since become part of the mainstream culture.
The ideas behind the bill could end up in a slippery slope where new tribes are declared all over the country. What’s to stop this from happening? People always follow the money. What I don’t understand is why the Democrats are supporting this bill.
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