Birther Congressman Trent Franks: What, me stoke the fires of irrational hatred and fear amongst my countrymen?

With nuts bringing guns to his healthcare town halls and Facebook taking down a poll asking readers if President Barack Obama “should be killed”, Arizona U.S. Congressman Trent Franks–a Birther Legislator!–called Obama an “enemy of humanity” [emphasis added]:

“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries. Now I gotta tell you, a president that will do that, here’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. You shouldn’t, we shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.”

You’re doing the country a whole lot of good, Congressman!  Ah, Arizona voters – electing someone who is recklessly speaking to dangerous undertones in our politics today.  It does not speak well about the people in his district.

You may remember that Franks is the only Congressman to have threatened to sue the President over his birth certificate.

Why would anyone want this party back in power as long as they are composed of such shameful extremists (never mind the hypocrisy).  Even out of power the Republican Party is a national embarrassment.

Here’s the video, if you can stomach that people in Arizona actually elect people like Trent Franks to represent them:

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