and the way to do that is to burn literally burn what he worked on, his big initiative as a senator. it's kind of sad, but he's a big boy. he's making that decision to do that. >> it reminds me of a kind of political limbo rock where you have to get as low as possible, lean over backwards, go under the limbo stick. >> how low can you go. >> exactly. you know how you remember that. anyway, of course -- catch this. this is really low. of course birther jokes if you call them jokes, are still a hit with some republicans out there. here's a north carolina state representative, an elected official, addressing a town hall this week in 2013. let's listen to him. >> i just don't think it's right at all to call barack obama a traitor. a lot of things he's done wrong, but he is not a traitor. at least not as far as i can tell. because i have not found any evidence yet that he's done one thing to harm kenya. [ laughter ]