Hilarious?

Fairly accurate. But I'm concerned that it doesn't seem as comical in a comic format like this. Maybe the adage "you couldn't make this stuff up" no longer applies to anything anymore. Because clearly people could make just about anything up and have it conform to reality without any evidence to support it.

Also, the watermelon at the end was quite the good touch. There's clearly almost no basis in this unhinged fear that isn't creeping in from some level of racism or racist stereotypes. I still haven't figured out why watermelon is supposedly a racially charged food to begin with (Chappelle wisdom: "Is this a bad thing? There is something wrong with you if you don't like fried chicken and watermelon"). But it suffices as a clear and expressive symbol of the sort of suppressed or implicit racism of the most virulent anti-Obama notions. With the teabaggers craziness, get back to me when you have a plan worth listening to (instead of tossing out assertions of socialism and a sudden paranoid fear of the national debt that never crossed your mind when Reagan+W were running up deficits, largely out of "national security" spending). But in this case, I don't expect "birthers" ever to emerge into a pattern of normalcy. The best option is to simply ignore their bleating nonsense and allow public interest to wither and die. As was done with Birchers in the 50s and 60s. I'm somewhat steadied that there is an active, but so far small, contingent of the GOP's base of support that seems ready to combat this nonsense by insisting that the party as a whole deny its support for it.

Even if I have no real interest in the social conservative visions that they want to impose as law, I at least want a rational and intellectually based opponent in national politics capable of articulating its views without resorting to childhood screaming matches posing as political acumen. Primarily my interest is to insist on at least one of the two major parties that acts accountable on government spending and expansion. If it was the Democrats instead (they get half credit by tending to control deficits when we have the time to control them), I'd be more inclined to lend consistent support to them. Since it is the Republicans who have somehow claimed this mantle (and tended to ignore it in practice), I am forced to insist that they restore their vitality as a political entity. Even when I'll almost never vote for it. Insanity should be sometimes tolerated, but never supported. Credible and sane objections can be raised by economic or political conservative views. And when we get more of them, I will be happy to support some of them, argue with some others, and certainly to witness the revivification of the political system when it has two or more significant factions competing over ideas instead of idiotic claims like the birchers and birthers make (and to a somewhat lesser, but still highly amusing extent, teabaggers).