Birthers & Reality

We really are a society of lemmings.
I can remember when the term 'birthers' might refer to women who, like me, gave birth to their children at home with midwives.
Now it refers to people who do not believe Obama is a 'natural born citizen'.A couple of things come to mind.
One, people like Rush, Hannity and some other 'conservative' talking heads are promulgating the theory, or at the very least giving it air time. For some less critically thinking individuals, this must mean the idea has credibility. After all, like my male biological parental unit used to say, "if Dr. Dean Adel says its true, it must be"... so it follows that if the aforementioned talking heads give this rediculous theory (that Obama is not a citizen, therefore not really president) any media time, these morons think it must be true.
Second, if it WERE true, that Obama is not a natural born citizen, wouldn't we have seen Clinton (during the primaries) jump all over this? Or, maybe she was in on the plan for Obama to become president, and her running was a ruse? Pretty expensive ruse, eh? Doubt it.Third, if McCain had ANY inkling that Obama was not a natural born citizen - with Palin at his side whipping the crowds into frenzies with shouts of "palling around with terrorists" and "kill him" coming from the crowd ... wouldn't it follow that THEY would stand up and say something, bring it to the attention of the Supreme Court or SOMEONE?But no, none of these people raised the issue - people who spent their money (and ours) to be elected to the highest office in our country. In fact, McCain at the end had to take a microphone out of the hands of the crazy blonde lady and tell her that no, in fact, Mr. Obama is not a terrorist, he's not an egyptian, or muslim...For sure, Palin would have said something... (I mean, if she could form a cohesive sentence... sorry...more on her at a different time).It's hard to wrap my head around understanding why a group of people would invest their time and energy in a LIE. Someone is making money off this.