I must apologize for accusing Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump and “[e]very purported Republican candidate for president” in my March 31 (not April 1) article of being birthers’ “winkers,” “demurers,” “coy players,” or “issue dodgers.”
According to a Salon article yesterday, April 1, they were all “just kidding about all that stuff,” and “the entire thing was just a bit of fun.”
According to Salon, in this April 1 article:
Subsequent interviews with every man and woman reported to be contemplating a 2012 run revealed that while they all have their differences with the president and the Democratic Party, all are aware that Barack Obama was born in the United States and, in the words of former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, “his heart’s totally in the right place.”
Read more about this April 1 article on how wrong we have all been about these Republican presidential candidates here.
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.