This comes from a Research 2000 poll commissioned by Daily Kos. Apparently a majority of Southerners aren’t willing to say that Barack Obama was born in the United States. That’s some serious crazy.
Nationwide, 58% of Republicans are unsure that Obama was born in the U.S. That’s some even more serious crazy.
We’ve obviously spun back into a version of the full-bore Clinton Derangement Syndrome that swept the nation in the early 90s. This kind of thing always starts with a few fringe characters, but there’s a difference this time around. Clinton craziness was initially pushed by the fringe media and then picked up and amplified by the mainstream guys. This time it started in the mainstream media: Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Andy McCarthy, Sean Hannity, etc. etc. No middleman required.
Which makes you wonder: what would it be like if Hillary Clinton had been elected? I think we’ve suspected this all along, but now we know the answer with scientific precision: it would have been exactly the same. It was never Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the first place. It was Conservative Derangement Syndrome.
