An interesting commentary over at the Daily News about left-wingers and not the GOP pushing the birther story. The commentary argues that the liberals have the most to gain from the inordinate amount of media attention focused on this conspiracy theory.
The birther story is easy to spin as an example of GOP extremism with an important side benefit of changing the story from Obama's increasingly shaky looking healthcare reforms.
The best paragraph in the article is the concluding paragraph:
Yes, it's true. A new poll shows high numbers of Republicans doubting whether Obama was, in fact, born in the U.S. But a 2007 poll found a third of Democrats convinced that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred with the foreknowledge of the Bush administration. The pervasiveness of such conspiracies about the government's complicity in the deadliest assault on American soil is far more worrying than groundless doubts about the legitimacy of the President's birth certificate.
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