The Democratic Nominee and the Republican Ignominy

Well, I DID tell you last week how many houses that John McCain owns (15 August):

And they own TEN homes (not seven).

… although he doesn’t seem to know himself and this was the subject of today’s blogswarm:

So far, they’ve gotten up to EIGHT:

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
McCain family owns 8 properties

Meantime (and I mean “MEAN time”) John McThuselah is getting set to air the nastiest tosspot contents he could scrape out, considering that he’s not getting enough fiber in his diet. There’ll be plenty of time to deal with those later. But, there’s some old lies that were buried today, unheralded and unmourned.

I told you that the whole Rightie tempest in a tosspot about Obama’s birth certificate (and its alleged forgery by Daily Kos) was what generally OCCUPIES a tosspot (that he’s not ACTUALLY native born, etc.) back on July 5, in “Trivial Pursuit® Schizophrenic Edition“:

It’s not guilt by association; it’s not even guilt by free association: it’s now guilt by hallucination.

Well, today, Fact Check dot Org at the University of Pennsylvania has settled the question unless you’re wearing a tinfoil hat:

Born in the U.S.A.

August 21, 2008
The truth about Obama’s birth certificate.
Summary

In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document’s authenticity.

And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is “fake.”

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as “supporting documents” to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

About the tinfoil hats? Not my formulation. FactCheck again:

We suggest that those who choose to go down that path should first equip themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat. The evidence is clear: Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A.

All right. As usual, we were on the story and AHEAD of the story, but it’s beginning to get embarrassing. Come on bloggers and newsies. Try to keep up.

OK?

OK.

I mean, this is just an obscure little blog that keeps breaking big stories. Wonder what ya gotta do to get some attention out here in the old Wild Wild Cyber-West? Well, here’s a silver bullet for you, pard.

Gotta jam. Silver needs his oats.

Courage.