"Psychology has what's called the "Fundamental attribution error." This is where a person excuses certain aspects of their behavior on their environment or surroundings, while basing their opinion of similar behavior on what "kind" of person they believe that person is. If you agree with the person's statement, you're more likely to believe they're a good person and excuse negative actions by the same person on other subjects.

This may be why PUMAs can hang around racists like Andy Martin or real "Hillary Haters" like Pamela Geller. They agree with the anti-Obama comments, so they will assume the person is as "nice" as they are and ignore anything that goes against that.

This feeds into the cult of victimhood PUMA seems to embrace. It's a statement of fact to a PUMA's mind that they're nice. Much of the negative viewpoint and scorn they get however is a direct result of their actions. They can't believe their actions are causing such negative backlash against them, so they explain it away as they're poor innocent victims of the Big Bad Obamamonster. If you look though this blog, you'll find many, many documented examples of how not-"nice" PUMA is. They explain this away that we're part of the prosecution they're going though, we're "paid bloggers", or some such swill used to explain away their own words."

"In their eyes, it's Obama supporters "hopped up on hopium" who are evil cultists. Yet they're the ones who act the more cult-like. Posts on PUMAblogs are carefully vetted, dissenting voices are ignored, mocked, attacked, or cast out. You have a figurehead (the parody of Sen. Clinton they claim to follow), but a cadre of "leaders" like Darragh Murphy and others to tell the masses what that figurehead REALLY meant. Like a cult, the leaders have no accountability for finances and are not held to any scrutiny when caught in lies. Indeed the lies are explained away by blaming Sen. Obama and his followers. Which excuses their own lack of accountability - and lets them still pretend to be "nice" while attacking anyone who disagrees with them or their actions.

And it means the racism and hatred and bigotry, the lies and smears and attacks, the myths, falsehoods, all of that, is excused or overlooked by the PUMAs.

Because in their eyes, they're all such "nice" people."

New Mexico Mayor David Lansford's Obama Remarks Lead City Official To Resign, Consider Recall Effort

A city official in Clovis, New Mexico resigned Wednesday, citing incendiary comments made by the city's mayor about President Barack Obama.

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"Any belief that Mayor Lansford's position will not be a tipping point in future endeavors and government funding for Clovis ... can be nothing but naive," DaBell wrote in his letter of resignation, obtained by the Clovis News Journal. "I feel that my time can be spent more productively serving the city of Clovis by looking into the possibility of a recall election."

Lansford recently returned to the Clovis mayorship after a four-year break from city government. He was elected earlier this month in a landslide over incumbent Mayor Gayla Brumfield, marking his fourth term as mayor of the New Mexico city.

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"It's a fact that the president's father was not an American citizen," Lansford told KOB. "He's not a natural born citizen."

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Former Curry County Commissioner and Clovis businessman Tim Ashley said he believes Lansford's election will be good for the city.

Commissioner Bobby Sandoval said he plans to ask the newly elected mayor at Lansford's first commission meeting on Thursday to disavow his association with the ATLAH Media Network and its leader, James David Manning.

"I believe that the present mayor is putting us in jeopardy of losing state and federal funds," Sandoval said, "because of his personal beliefs, which I think should have remained personal."

Sandoval also said he would support any recall effort "for the same reasons that Mr. DaBell has written here in this letter."

Many in the large crowd spoke in support of Lansford, noting he was entitled to his opinions and they were public knowledge well before the election.

“It doesn’t make sense,” Bonnie Cook said, “and as Mayor Brumfield said, the city has voted.”

Many citizens said they feel the same way about the president.

The four paragraph rule is to protect The Fogbow from copyright claims. Please do not combine paragraphs from the original to compress into 4 paragraphs. That ain't gonna work.

Pluto, if you mean it "has worked" in the sense that we haven't been sued yet, then I agree with you. But we would like to hold on to that perfect record, TYVM.

Bashir reminded viewers that unlike Stearns, Obama’s chief rival in 2008 actually pushed back against the conspiracy theorists. John McCain famously told a supporter who believed Obama was an Arab that he was a good American who he simply had political differences with. Bashir asked S.E. Cupp why Republican leaders like John Boehner aren’t publicly condemning birthers, or at least telling them their information is inaccurate. Cupp said it’s because that’s not their job, adding that voters will ultimately decide whether birthers in Congress will keep their jobs or not. Bashir argued that sitting members of Congress should be held to a certain standard, and if a party member makes an objectively absurd statement as Stearns did, he should be publicly rebuked by the leadership.

Cupp shot back that members of the Democratic party have made similar eyebrow-raising statements in the past. Julian Epstein disagreed, pointing to when MoveOn.org infamously called General David Petraeus “General Betray-Us” and some Democrats came out and condemned it. Cupp said that it’s only been a smattering of Republicans that have waded their toes into the birther pool, but Epstein said it’s been a surprisingly large number of Republicans who have shared birther leanings. Epstein suggested that the Republicans risk hurting their chances among independents if their members keep saying things like this about the president.

Cupp interjected to point out that none of the candidates running for president have ever expressed doubts about Obama’s birth certificate. Bashir brought up Donald Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney, but Cupp said that still doesn’t prove a strong connection between birtherism and the Republican candidates.

"Letter from Kitau in Mombasa , Kenya :
“I happen to be Kenyan. I was born 1 month before Obama at Mombasa medical center. I am a teacher here at the MM Shaw Primary School in Kenya . I compared my birth certificate to the one that has been put out by Taitz and mine is exactly the same. I even have the same registrar and format. The type is identical. I am by nature a skeptical person. I teach science here and challenge most things that cannot be proven. So I went to an official registrar today and pulled up the picture on the web. They magnified it and determined it to be authentic. There is even a plaque with Registrar Lavender’s name on it as he was a Brit and was in charge of the Registrar office from 1959 until January of 1964. The reason the date on the certificate says republic of Kenya is that we were a republic when the “copy” of the original was ordered. I stress the word “copy.” My copy also has republic of Kenya . So what you say is true about Kenya not being a republic at the time of Obama’s birth, however it was a republic when the copy was ordered.

The birth certificate is genuine. It will be authenticated by a forensic auditor. We are very proud Obama was born here. We have a shrine for him and there are many people who remember his birth here as he had a white mother. They are being interviewed now by one of your media outlets.

Fortunately, they even have pictures of his parents with him immediately after his birth at the Mombasa hospital with the hospital in the background.

It will be a proud day for us when it is proven that he was born here and a Kenyan became the most powerful man in the world.

I encourage anyone to come here and visit. I will be happy to take you and show you the pictures at the hospital myself as well as my document and many others that are identical to what Taitz posted. God Bless. Kitau.”

(14) Kitau says:

I happen to be Kenyan. I was born 1 month before Obama at Mombasa medical center. I am a teacher here at the MM Shaw Primary School in Kenya.
I compared my birth certificate to the one that has been put on by Taitz and mine is exactly the same. I even have the same registrar and format. The type is identical.
I am by nature a skeptical person. I teach science here and challenge most things that cannot be proven.[... blah, blah, blah...]

(18) Kitau says:

THIS JUST IN. OBAMA MAKING EMERGENCY FLIGHT TO COME HERE. WONDER WHY?
PM depart Andrews Air Force Base en route to Nairobi, Kenya

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2009appt/august/

(20) Kitau says:

OBAMA COMING HERE TO DESTROY OTHER EVIDENCE?

PM depart Andrews Air Force Base en route to Nairobi, Kenya

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2009appt/august/

You'd think after all this time kitau would have contacted somebody. It's not like some in the comments of that post didn't beg kitau.

NC Lawmaker Posts Picture Of Obama In Turban On Facebook Page
March 19, 2012 11:22 AM

GASTON, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) – A North Carolina lawmaker has apologized for posting a picture on his Facebook showing President Obama wearing Muslim garb.

State Rep. John. A. Torbett, R-Gaston, reportedly posted a picture of Obama wearing a turban last week.

“Next time vote for the REAL American,” the caption under the photo stated.

Julian Epstein disagreed, pointing to when MoveOn.org infamously called General David Petraeus “General Betray-Us” and some Democrats came out and condemned it

Obama Jabs 'Birthers' With Irish Certificate
Ireland's Prime Minister Presents President With Document
By CNN Political Unit

POSTED: 9:30 pm EDT March 20, 2012
UPDATED: 10:14 pm EDT March 20, 2012

(CNN) -- While receiving a formal certificate of Irish heritage at a St. Patrick's Day celebration on Tuesday, President Barack Obama didn't miss a beat in taking a jab at the so-called "birther" movement.

"This will have a special place of honor alongside my birth certificate," he joked, to great laughter.

Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny presented Obama with the certificate at a White House reception in honor of the president's Irish roots.

Snicker ----- He's Black AND Irish...oh buy......

He's Black Irish. I'm not sure how much more Irish a name you could have than O'Bama anyway.

Daniel J. Roberts ‏ @DJRoberts84
A Presidential candiate must be 35 years old and a natural-born citizen. Not having the last name Schmesident is a plus.

He's Black Irish. I'm not sure how much more Irish a name you could have than O'Bama anyway.

Monckton, the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, hinted about his position on the issue in April 2010 at a tea party rally on the National Mall near the White House. But on Miller’s show, he said the birth certificate issue was far more important that combatting so-called anthropogenic global warming.

“I mean, hey you got a president who has a false birth certificate on the Internet, on the White House website,” Monckton said. “It’s not even clear where he was born. You’ve got a national debt which is rising into the stratosphere. You’ve got unemployment certainly here in California at 11 percent, 50 percent in the construction industry. These are real problems. You’ve got real environmental problems — overfishing, deforestation, pollution, not so much in the west but certainly in other countries. These are real problems which ought to be addressed. You’ve got poverty. You’ve got disease. These are again serious problems in Africa for instance, that we could be helping with. But no, we’re obsessed with making the rich even richer and making the absolute bankers richer still by going for global warming and cap-and-trade and other nonsenses of this kind.”

“I don’t know whether he is Kenyan or not,” Monckton said. “The point is that if I were you, I would want to make absolutely sure that he was born here before allowing him to be elected. And the birth certificate that he put up on that website, I don’t know where he was born. But I do know that birth certificate isn’t genuine.”

“It appears in layers on the screen in such a way you can remove quite separately each of the individual dates,” Monckton said. “You use Adobe Illustrator and each of the individual dates is in its own separate layer. This thing has been fabricated. Sheriff [Joe] Arpaio of Arizona has had a team on this for six months. And he has now gone public and said there’s something very desperately wrong with this and of course nobody is saying anything because the entire electorate has been fooled.”