By GottaLaff
Oy. As Jerry Seinfeld would say, "Who a-a-are these people?"
A small but determined band of conservative protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court Friday morning to pray the justices would invalidate Barack Obama's election.I've posted about this previously. Every single legal mind on the Tee Vee Machine has literally bet anything from their reputations to their "vast wealth" (said kiddingly by Jeff Toobin) that the Supremes will throw this time-wasting excuse for a case out on Monday.
The court was deciding whether it would hear oral arguments in Donofrio v. Wells, which argues that Obama's placement on the New Jersey presidential election ballot was invalid because he is not a natural born citizen. The justices are expected to dismiss the case.
Discussions with several of the 18 demonstrators who gathered despite freezing temperatures revealed disjointed, confusing and increasingly conspiratorial reasons for their presence. Several alleged varying degrees of a cover-up to hide the circumstances surrounding Obama's birth; none were willing to accept the much simpler explanation that Obama was in fact a natural-born citizen eligible to be president. [...]
To be clear, the questions of Obama's birth have been roundly and convincingly debunked.
The citizenship questioners organized on fringe Web sites and through YouTube videos. Several questioned why the mainstream media wasn't covering their conspiracy-mongering.
Pete Anderson, a retiree from Springfield, VA, spun a theory involving "staged backpack nukes already in this country" that were somehow involved in preventing the media from reporting on Obama's citizenship.
"There is a theory -- as crazy as it may seem -- that we are now in a state of siege," Anderson said.
It was tough to follow Anderson's logic, and even fellow demonstrators thought it was too far out there.
"I didn't bring my tinfoil hat," Bredow ribbed, cutting into our interview.
The two demonstrators went on to bicker between themselves over the true reasons for the media's silence.