Strange theories emerge

  For many years, it's been family tradition and good manners not to pass gossip. 
  When it comes to politics, however, it's difficult to resist.
  Indeed, years ago Free Republic had an anonymous poster (quidnunc?) who claimed to have secret inside info on William Jefferson Clinton. 
  It was fascinating and, to be honest, some of us got sucked into the whole mystery poster/gossip about Clinton thing. This was partly because Clinton was such a bubba, such a trailer dweller with a voracious appetite that it was difficult to believe he was president. 
  You could call it shock and awe.
  Now the situation is somewhat different.
  It's difficult to believe who is president because everyone's been guessing how smart this guy really is and yet his pattern of behavior indicates he is utterly clueless to world events and even the American tradition.
  We've become accustomed to Republicans and conservatives  being trashed as stupid, non students and Democrats/liberals being lauded as soooo smart the earth can hardly contain their brains.
  But these days what's shocking is that there is a great deal of mystery about what is actually going on in the White House.
  How smart are the people in charge?
  Lots of the decisions that are being made are so inane, so contrary to what the country wants that the question of who's in charge has come up more than once.
  So what happens when you have a governing body cloaked in mystery, evasion and outright defiance of the law?
  Problem: secrecy
  Consequence: theories
  Lots of theories.
  This one suggests Obama may have a criminal past. 

There is no evidence Barry Soetoro ever lawfully changed his name to “Barrack Hussein Obama”. There is no proof Barry Soetoro was born with the name "Barrack Hussein Obama". I’m willing to bet the name “Barrack Hussein Obama” is not present on the real birth certificate as Barry’s birth name or as Barry’s birth father. I have pictures of me with my mother and Jimmy Buffet… that doesn’t make him my father even if I start using the name Jimmy Buffet.

  It'd be easy to dismiss this, except it's quite well reasoned, with much of the rationale provided by *The One* himself.
  The following post was sent by a reader; again, much of it seems to be outrageous but well reasoned. Here's a bit from Cannonfire:

Well, one thing led to another, and eventually I was put in touch with someone I will here call only Diana V., who makes two startling claims: 1. There really was an inner core group that called itself the Marxist Student Association, and 2. Barack Obama (with whom she would occasionally "have a sandwich," as they say on How I Met Your Mother) was a leading member of that organization.

To repeat: Don't that beat all.

Not only that. She could prove what she had to say. She still had in her files, after all these years, a document that Obama wrote to other student Marxists. 

  We've already discussed Ulsterman's anonymous postings about the cadre, attitude and purpose that surrounds Obama. Ulsterman can be found a number of places around the web, including Facebook.
  It's better not to rationalize bad behavior and instead just take Mother's advice, one supposes. It usually proves to be true that Mom is right.
  But there are so many questions, so many problems and such indication that our Dear Leader is indeed an empty suit (an accusation, BTW, that many have made previously of Republican presidents) that one wonders exactly who is in charge and what are their purposes.
  We'll see.
  It feels like some of this is surfacing in a way that will eventually yield to truth. 
  We continue to hope for change.