It seems that during, or just prior to, the month of July 2009, in a place of dubious certitude and of equally dubious parentage, "Birther" was born. This word, by some accounts a bastard word, came into the world to denote, and to denigrate and marginalize, those who have doubts about the authenticity of Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate or claims that he is a natural-born citizen.
It is a very curious word. So new. So fresh.
Birther happily joins his older brother, Truther.
(As an addendum to my earlier post, En Passant: Words Out Of Nowhere.)
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