Two Obama Opposers Team Together

Randall Terry is a lunatic, first off. Terry's behavior is very un-Christian.
He is leading the opposition to Obama's appearance at Notre Dame, where Obama will give the commencement address Sunday, May 17.
I didn't realize, until this video, that Terry hangs out with Alan Keyes, who leads the Birthers, the group that says Obama is ineligible to be president. They say he wasn't born in the U.S. So there you go, kooky extremists getting their voices heard.
Can't wait to watch the speech.

Air Force Commander's Email Links to Site Slandering Obama

The religious nutballs are at it again.
We don't have to look outside our own country for religious fanatics who abuse religion. This one is an Air Force commander. These people have no idea what it means to be religious and they have much more in common with extremist terrorists than they know.
Some people should just be barred from religion because they give it a bad name. Commander Kimberly Toney, who apologized for not knowing what was on the website that slanders her Commander in Chief, ought to be immediately fired.

NYT: The Air Force has begun an investigation into whether an e-mail message from an Air Force commander in Europe directing air personnel under her command to an “inspirational” story on a Catholic Web site violated the military’s official position of religious neutrality.

The commander, Col. Kimberly Toney, who leads the 501st Combat Support Wing in Europe, sent the thousands of air personnel in her wing a message last month recommending that they “take a few minutes to enjoy the attached video and meet a truly inspirational individual.”

The video highlighted the life story of Nick Vujicic, now 26, who was born without arms or legs and who credited his faith in Jesus with helping him overcome his physical limitations.

Some Air Force personnel who watched the video said they believed that it breached the military’s ban on endorsing particular religious views. Some viewers said they were even more bothered by articles and commentary on the Catholic Web site, 4marks.com.

One image on the site satirized President Obama’s support for abortion rights by showing him wearing a Nazi uniform and waving a flag with a swastika in an image labeled “ObamaHitler.” Another article, also critical of Mr. Obama’s stance on abortion, called him “a veritable forerunner of the Antichrist.”

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group that monitors possible religious bias in the military, said it had received about 60 complaints from military personnel about the colonel’s e-mail message.
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But Mikey Weinstein, who heads the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said the incident represented a “textbook case” of improper religious influence.

“There’s a pervasive pattern of constitutional abuse when you have a wing commander who sends out a direct, proselytizing e-mail with a link to a Web site that slanders the president of the United States,” he said.

Mr. Weinstein’s group is suing the Defense Department in federal court over what it charges is a pattern of religious bias, and the Obama administration is set to respond to the lawsuit later this month. As a result of the Toney episode, Sergeant Thompson said he was considering joining the litigation as a plaintiff.

A video posted on the front page of the "Catholic" website is a very old video of a debate between wingnut Alan Keyes, a Birther, who says Obama's ineligible to be president, and Obama.

Conservative Horowitz: Shut Up About Obama's Birth Certificate

David Horowitz calls it the "Obama Derangement Syndrome" and he says protesting Obama's eligibility to be president is embarrassing to conservatives. Thank you and bless you, Mr. Horowitz. If republicans are to get any shine back, they're going to have to bring the extremists on the right up to speed. They're going to have to take back their party from the Palin-esque types. Someone has to get real with them and tell them that they've taken their conspiracy theory too far and that's what Horowitz has tried to do. 
Nevertheless, the loons press on, oblivious to reality.

NRO: This tempest over whether Obama, the child of an American citizen, was born on American soil is tantamount to the Democrats’ seditious claim that Bush “stole” the election in Florida and hence was not the legitimate president. This delusion helped to create the Democrats’ Bush derangement syndrome and encouraged Democratic leaders to lie about the origins of the Iraq war, and regard it as illegitimate as Bush himself. It became “Bush’s War” rather than an American War — with destructive consequences for our troops and our cause.

The birth-certificate zealots are essentially arguing that 64 million voters should be disenfranchised because of a contested technicality as to whether Obama was born on U.S. soil. (McCain narrowly escaped the problem by being born in the Panama Canal zone, which is no longer American.)

What difference does it make to the future of this country whether Obama was born on U.S. soil? Advocates of this destructive campaign will argue that the constitutional principle regarding the qualifications for president trumps all others. But how viable will our Constitution be if five Supreme Court justices should decide to void 64 million ballots?

Conservatives are supposed to respect the organic nature of human societies. Ours has been riven by profound disagreements that have been deepening over many years. We are divided not only about political facts and social values, but also about what the Constitution itself means. The crusaders on this issue choose to ignore these problems and are proposing to deny the will of 64 million voters by appealing to five Supreme Court Justices (since no one is delusional enough to think that the four liberal justices are going to take the presidency away from Obama). What kind of conservatism is this? 

Keith Olbermann and Arianna Huffington discuss: