You seem to suggest that I walked away due to some irrefutable point you had made. That isn't at all what happened. The discussion carried on for pages and pages. You kept throwing out allegation after allegation, and I countered them all with cold hard facts. I just re-read the thread, and my biased opinion is that I won the debate by a wide margin. I'm sure you disagree, but don't flatter yourself by thinking I gave up and walked away.
My decision to drastically reduce how often I post on the West Mall happened years later, for irrelevant reasons. This thread reaffirms that I made the right decision.
I can't find any evidence that you and I ever discussed this issue on Hornfans. I thought for sure I must've mentioned the words "birther" and "Blumenthal" at some point over the years, but the search feature says I haven't. In any event, the main thread where you have posted on the topic appears to be
this one. I posted on that thread, but on irrelevant topics.
For what it's worth, I don't know whether you are right that the Hillary Clinton campaign "started" the birther attacks, but I do agree with you that they raised the issue long before President Trump's campaign did. Both Clinton and Trump deserve condemnation for doing so. That said, I'd be interested to know whether Clinton joined Trump in continuing to pound the issue even after it was proven to be false.
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