Conspiracy Theories

Don't read much of Ann Coulter's stuff, but she is spot on today.

Which party contains 99 percent of the people who believe (or believed):

-- O.J. is innocent;

-- Bush shirked his National Guard duty;

-- Sarah Palin's infant child, Trig, was actually the child of her daughter;

-- Justice Antonin Scalia threw the 2000 election to Bush so that his son could get a legal job with the Labor Department;

-- The spectacularly guilty Mumia Abu-Jamal was framed;

-- The Diebold Corp. secretly stole thousands of Kerry votes in 2004;

-- Duke lacrosse players gang-raped a stripper;

-- Bill Clinton did not have sex with "that woman";

-- Heterosexuals are just as likely to contract AIDS as gays;

-- John Edwards didn't have an affair with Rielle Hunter;

-- John Edwards' campaign aide Andrew Young is the father of Rielle Hunter's child.

And as has been recently noted, a 2007 Rasmussen poll showed that 35 percent of Democrats believe Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance, while 26 percent aren't sure ...

She also mentions the October Surprise. Read it all.

I doubt President Obama is hiding anything. It might seem odd that he hasn't approved the release of his entire birth record, and much of his early life is a mystery. We do seem to know much more about GW Bush's grades, test scores, etc. than we do about Obama's. Still, that doesn't mean his is hiding something interesting. I remember thinking that maybe John Kerry was hiding something by not approving release of his full military record. After the election, when he finally did release it to the Boston Globe, there was nothing much there. The only interesting thing was that his test scores and grades were not better than Bush's. Perhaps he thought that would put a dent in his "Vote for me, I'm smart!" campaign.