14% of Americans Believe Obama Born Abroad

Surprisingly, not all of the people who believe Obama was born abroad are true birthers in the sense that they are bigoted. There are actually some people who are just ignorant and believe he was born abroad. There are people who can't even name his birthplace of Hawaii:

Asked an open-ended question about where President Obama was born, 14 percent of Americans say he was born abroad - giving an incorrect answer that shows how widespread the misunderstanding of his birthplace is nearly a year and a half into his presidency.

Fully 68 percent of those surveyed in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll say, unprompted, that he was born in the United States, including 48 percent who accurately cite Hawaii. Another 9 percent say it's their "best guess" that he was born in this country, bringing the total saying he is U.S.-born to 77 percent. More at WaPo

Don't be fooled by tea partiers who say they're all about fiscal conservatism. You have to dig a little deeper to find out if there is racial animosity. When a tea party leader appeared recently on Letterman's show, she was soft-spoken and reasonable, at first. Then she revealed herself as a soft-spoken birther. Yesterday I watched Tea Party Express director Amy Kremer on The View. She denounced racists and after being prodded, she said that the tea party doesn't want racists among its ranks. She might be a legitimate tea partier concerned about fiscal matters. There are other factions of the tea party -- tea party nation and the tea party patriots.

But Kremer complained about being called a tea bagger when that is the name they gave themselves when the tea party started. They literally (as Joe Biden would say) wore tea bags. We all called them tea baggers--until the left enlightened everyone on what it actually meant. I remember that shift in consciousness--some cringe-worthy video passed around on Twitter.

I started off calling them tea baggers and shifted to tea partiers in January after it became apparent that tea bagger was becoming a derogatory term, sort of how "Obamacare" became derogatory.

Apparently, Jonathan Alter reported in his new book that Obama referred to them as tea baggers. But what's NOT widely reported is that the interview of Obama referring to them as tea baggers is from November of 2009, when even they referred to themselves as tea baggers.