{"id":5995,"date":"2009-08-03T21:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/03\/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T21:59:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T21:59:16","slug":"this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"This is so cool:  Brack Obama was born in Kenya!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that our president is totally African.  How cool is that?  No wonder he&#8217;s so much less stupid than the average American (as you know, Westerners tend to be dumbed down quite a bit by their stupid culture).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWell, OK, the second part of what I just said is true, but the first part isn&#8217;t and, in fact, it isn&#8217;t really all that funny.  The &#8220;Birther&#8221; phenomenon that just won&#8217;t seem to go away is a truly insidious, and indeed racist, and stupid.<\/p>\n<p>But what is really scary about this is the following:  A majority (just over fifty percent) of Republicans, when confronted with the question: &#8220;Do ya&#8217;ll believe that Barack <em>Hussein<\/em> Obama was borned in the United States of Amerka?&#8221; say either &#8220;No way&#8221; or &#8220;Shit, I dunno, Man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty percent.  Holy crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that our president is totally African. How cool is that? No wonder he&#8217;s so much less stupid than the average American (as you know, Westerners tend to be dumbed down quite a bit by their stupid culture).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3531,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}