Far be it from me to tar them all with one brush...

...but I think we can safely say now (as if we couldn't before): Most Republicans are either racist, stupid, or both. Check this out.

A whopping 58 percent of Republicans either think Barack Obama wasn't born in the US (28 percent) or aren't sure (30 percent). A mere 42 percent think he was.

That means a majority of Republicans polled either don't know about -- or don't believe the seemingly incontrovertible evidence Obama's camp has presented over and over and over that he was born in Hawaii in '61.

The above by Glenn Thrush, who also asks an important next question:

When do we start a serious dialog about the Birther movement being a proxy for racism that is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms?

Well yes, exactly. I think it's painfully obvious that all this "Obama wasn't born in the US!" malarky really means "OMG, the President of the United States is a big, scary black man! Aieee!"

But as he says, this is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms.

Progress.