To the Editor,
Response to Patrick Sturn 5-13-11

In Patrick Sturn's recent letter he made a statement that Donald Trump's " ...'Birther' smear campaign blew up in his face...". Well it wasn't Trump's campaign. It isn't a smear to ask a question and it didn't blow up in his face. But it's easy to see how Patrick can think those things because that's how the mainstream media presented the issue.

The campaign over Obama’s birthplace was started by a Democratic lawyer working for Hillary Clinton during the Democratic nomination process. That lawyer had a sworn affidavit from Obama’s Grandmother stating that she was there when Obama was born in Kenya .

So when Obama's supporters started claiming the "birther" controversy was another radical right-wing conspiracy, that sent up a red flag.

Just creating the term "birther" also makes people wonder. Creating a derogatory term in order to demean people who simply ask for the truth is an old modus operandi of Democrats when they can't use facts to address an issue.

It hasn't blown up in Trump's face either. He succeeded in getting the President to do something he didn't want to do. He gave people a chink in the armor and showed us how to proceed with other issues. Just hammer him on the issue until his poll numbers go down.

Another statement in Patrick's letter claims that people who read my letters think I am "...smugly pompous and self-serving...". Certainly to people who don't agree with me, but I hope to give strength and conviction to those who do. Liberals routinely demean their detractors such as people in the TEA Party movement by attacking their intelligence. But the truth is that a survey of members of the TEA party show them to be better educated than the average American.

Suggesting that a MENSA plaque would be brought to a job interview also sheds light on Liberals' regressive line of thinking. People with intelligence should be taking advantage of the opportunity that Capitalism offers by becoming employers, not employees. When our schools and the President focus their attention on creating jobs, they have already limited their success. We need to create businesses and you don't do that by taxing and regulating them out of existence - something that should be innate to every intelligent natural born American citizen.

David Crawmer, North Greenbush

NOTE:  Mr. Sturn replied to my comment in the 6/9/11 edition of The Advertiser South.   Read His Reply