{"id":191389,"date":"2009-08-22T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/22\/birthers-want-obama-to-drop-trou-on-national-tv\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T03:51:00","slug":"birthers-want-obama-to-drop-trou-on-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/22\/birthers-want-obama-to-drop-trou-on-national-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthers Want Obama to Drop Trou* On National TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/2563\/shrek134208971.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shrek: Do you think he&#8217;s maybe compensating for something? <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Yep, Jesus&#8217; General, who reads <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Free Republic<\/span> so I don&#8217;t have to, has noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/barack-obama-show-us-your-penis.html\">the latest meme<\/a>:<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> If<\/span> Barack Obama is not circumcised, it would mean that he was not born in the US in 1961, because <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everyone<\/span> got circumcised then.<\/p>\n<p>There are some problems here.<\/p>\n<p>It is indeed true that circumcision rates were high, well over 90%, in the US in the early 1960s, it was neither absolutely universal nor mandatory.  Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circumcision\">circumcision amongst Muslims is considered Sunnah<\/a>, or a highly recommended tradition, and as a Muslim Obama would have been circumcised.<\/p>\n<p>So if he were a closet Muslim, he would be circumcised anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In any case let me be the first to say, great googly moogly, someone has issues.<\/p>\n<p>The fascination that the denizens of FR with Democratic presidential penises, which says <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">something<\/span> about them, probably more about penis size insecurity than anything else.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Meaning pull down his pants, and show us his penis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrek: Do you think he&#8217;s maybe compensating for something? Yep, Jesus&#8217; General, who reads Free Republic so I don&#8217;t have to, has noted that the latest meme: If Barack Obama is not circumcised, it would mean that he was not born in the US in 1961, because everyone got circumcised then. There are some problems &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1142,978,982,979,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}