According to Donald Trump, America has Donald Trump for getting the President to release his long form birth certificate.
(source) (link to image of document previously authenticated) Of course, fervent birthers won't be persuaded by this new document either. First, they will claim, and even Donald Trump says he needs to see it for himself, the actual document to believe it because he's been told, "the certificate was missing" .
(source), that this still isn't a birth certificate but, rather, a certificate of live birth which they have long claimed can and is issued to anyone who claims to be born anywhere. They will also claim it's a fake. They will also claim is was just released and adds nothing new but the physician's signature which could be fake. So, how has anything changed?
Nothing has changed because there was nothing to start with. Unless people still and genuinely believe that somehow Barack Obama's parents knew to fake all this stuff back when he was born, how were these things faked? The President has found this whole thing funny, which is rather polite of him. He very easily could take it to be racist. No one wants to go there because it is the new defense used by racists that non-racists always raise the race card against them. Duh! What else could it be? When was the last time that a white Euro-American was asked to go to these lengths to prove he or she was born in America beyond any shadow of a doubt? These issues never arose until we had a first generation African American running for President. With an open book on his youth and no viable skeletons in his closet to exploit, this birther issue became the only point of attack. If you cannot attack a man on his ideas, attack him on his birthrights. This made for a great story on neo-conservative talk shows for months on end. In a side-show effort to make himself relevant, Donald Trump takes up the mantle and makes wild claims and accusations against the President vowing to use his own money to get to the bottom of the birther issue. His people never turned up anything despite the Donald's vast resources. The arrogance of Donald Trump is mystifying as if to think that Rush Limbaugh didn't spend his resources to be the one to unmask the President. If Limbaugh couldn't find anything, who could? And, of course, there is no proof that Limbaugh spent any money on the issue, but he certainly could have and seems likely would have if he saw a smoking gun there. Now Donald Trump is challenging how Barack Obama attended Ivy League schools (Columbia and Harvard Law) suggesting because no transcripts have been released, the President's tales of college and grad school are just that. Why? No one asked George W. Bush to produce his transcripts? Or Bill Clinton. Or George Bush, Sr. The only logical reason in Donald Trump's case is that he's desperate for media attention and will say or do literally anything to receive it. Apparently, he doesn't see that the American people are happy to hold people accountable for their actions and words. He may not see that every false claim he levels chisels away at his exterior revealing what kind of person he truly is. Is this the kind of person you would want handling the office of the Presidency? Fortunately, despite polls showing Donald Trump is doing well among fellow possible GOP candidates, he has not been polling well against the incumbent, and the crazier he continues to come across, the more expeditiously his numbers and hopes for legitimacy will plummet.
UPDATE - 13 months ago
here is a link to the President's news conference on why the long form has finally been released
videoPlease listen to the video and pay attention to the President's words. It is difficult not to be inspired. He accepts that there are about to be huge disagreements ahead which he says are what make a democracy great! isn't it really time for those on the right and far right to give the President a chance? No? You just want him out and someone else in? Ok, why? Because you believe talking points and right-wing neo-conservative rhetoric more than you believe the man himself? What if, given a chance, Obama and our Congress really could get America back on track? Are you really willing to waste two more years after wasting the previous two plus 8 years of Bush so an entire decade spinning out wheels based on half truths and lies? Are you really willing to just give up and roll over on the hope and change? Honestly, I don't see what people have to lose by giving America a chance to work.