The latest hilarious burper meme

The birther movement - or as I call it, the burper movement - composes much of the useless skeletal husk that American conservatism has been reduced to.

After Orly Taitz found out the hard way that her frivolous lawsuit costs real money, the burpers have got to be feeling chastised.

So they've decided to unleash a whole new argument that's just as laughable as their claim that the President was born in Kenya. Now they're claiming Obama isn't a natural-born citizen even if he was born in America.

Their "reasoning": They claim that for a person to be a U.S. citizen at birth, both parents must be citizens. One burper screed declares, "In order to be a Natural Born Citizen, one must have parents - two parents, that are citizens of the Nation, and must be born on the soil of the Nation. It does not get any simpler than this."

WRONG!

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution reads in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

All persons. Understand? If you're born on U.S. soil, you're a natural-born U.S. citizen. The only exception is those not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" - which means the offspring of diplomats, who enjoy diplomatic immunity.

Under certain circumstances, one may be a natural-born American citizen if born on foreign soil. This is not an issue in Obama's case, as he was born in the United States.

To back up their latest argument, burpers are citing court rulings that were issued before the Fourteenth Amendment passed. Thus, these rulings are no longer even in force.

None of this should even be a topic for this blog - except that the wingnutosphere still has more influence than it deserves. Their online presence is so bloated that it's impossible not to notice them.

So I still keep one eye on them.