There’s a bit of a symmetry between this (which I picked up via Andrew Sullivan here, and will thus just go with his pull-quote as a demonstration.):

I’m sure the comments section will fill with various conspiracy theories over Indonesian school records, Kenyan births, and so on.  None of it — absolutely none — has any real, solid evidence showing that Obama was born anywhere else than Hawaii apart from sheer speculation and hearsay, and even less evidence that Obama’s stepfather renounced Obama’s birthright citizenship, which he didn’t have the power to do anyway.  It’s a conspiracy theory spun by conspiracy theorists (Philip Berg is a 9/11 truther) who use their normal thresholds of evidence for this meme.

AND… this, where you see Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California moving from an unequivocal stand on non-torture standards for interrogating detainees to a position loaded with equivocation and weasel words.

The “birth certificate” business is irresponsible and detrimental to a conservative cause.  We arrive at such a point, where it persists and becomes currency enough to inandate comments of Republican bloggers, due to current desperation.  Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, as one moves from the role of critic to the role of governing — some well-held positions become fungibleitems in which politicians end up moving to the establishment position of the administration due to them being on “their team”.  That is what is lost,  even as some conspiratorial obsessions fade from the mind of liberals.

Well, that birth certificate story ends today.  Right?  Or can Alan Keyes flog it right up to the next Senate race in Illinois?

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