Should Obama have released the birth certificate?

[Very_Boring_Name]

[Syrinx]

1. I don't see why not

[bullimiami]

2. me either. his decision.

[Keith Bee]

3. Yeah, I think it's a wash

[Ineeda]

4. Shouldn't #3 be a yes also?

Isn't pissing off the birthers and being good for our Democratic president a good, very good thing? Or was I missing the sarcasm smilies thingy?

[jenmito]

16. No, because the reason is that he shouldn't have released it so the birthers

would CONTINUE being POed.

[backscatter712]

20. I don't think that's gonna be a problem.

The birthers have already revised their conspiracy theories, and have only shown themselves to be even more batshit.

I'd say Obama brilliantly drove a wedge separating the birthers and racist loonies from the political mainstream.

[LaurenG]

5. No opinion - don't care

How did you like Kate's dress?

[LaurenG]

14. ooo I found her shoes!

they're pretty.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kate-middleton-wedding-shoes-mcqueen-183783

[baldguy]

6. Should John McCain have released his?

Or George W Bush? Or Bill Clinton? If the answer is "no" for any of these, it should be "no" for Obama as well.

Why single out one for special treatment?

[peace13]

7. Enough with this *hitty question already! n/t

[DCBob]

8. Take a look at the headlines.. not a mention..

If he had not done it I suspect Trump would still be trumpeting this non-sense and the media would still be featuring it.

[Pirate Smile]

9. Yes - other - it's his decision to do it. I'm fine with that.

[RBInMaine]

10. Yes, but in the WAY he did it: by MAKING THEM LOOK LIKE SILLY FOOLS AND THAT IT'S NONSENSE.

[robcon]

11. He should have waited til next year, when a Repuglican was nominated.

Take the wind out of their sails.

[Buzz Clik]

12. Funny that DU and other liberal outlets remain totally obsessed about it.

Just cannot let it die.

Coulter was partially correct in saying that the liberals were keeping it alive. She was partially wrong (clearly), but what the hell! Let it go.

[Very_Boring_Name]

13. Liberals keep it alive because it makes the right wing look like nuts

[craigmatic]

15. I voted no because I hate to see my president have to justify himself to morons.

[DCBob]

17. Yes, except when the morons have captured the attention of the moronic press.

and moronic stories bump important critical issues off the news.

[GoCubsGo]

27. John Kerry didn't think he had to, either.

Look where that got him. The same with Al Gore, and the BS about how he claimed to have invented the Internet, among other things. It disgusts me that no republicans are ever hurt by this sort of bullshit, thanks to those media whores who have their lips super-glued to GOP asses

[AtomicKitten]

18. It exposed the teabaggers for the mooks that they are.

When confronted with empirical evidence of their horseshit, only a handful tried to rebut the evidence and the rest simply moved on without missing a beat to the next fauxrage de jour, i.e., his college records.

It was delightful watching the MSM bob and weave when confronting Trump, attempting to disassociate themselves from the mooks.

[backscatter712]

19. Yes: it pissed off the birthers and is politically good for Obama.

:evilgrin:

and also because it pulled back the curtain and revealed the birthers and teabaggers to be the racist thugs they are.

[Azathoth]

21. No, it didn't accomplish anything

The birthers still think he's illigitmate, normal people still think that the birthers are crazy, and the media is still eager to stick a microphone in front of anyone who will say something racist and/or hateful about Obama.

[backscatter712]

22. Oh, I wouldn't say that.

Obama himself stated that he had no illusions that he'd satisfy the loonies. I think he did it to pull the curtain back and expose the birthers as racists, and to drive a wedge between them and the LIVs that had until recently haven't been paying attention to the repeated debunkings.

[center rising]

23. No, Obama should have said a big fuck you to Trump and the birthers.

[FrenchieCat]

24. That's exactly what he did......

:rofl:

[John1956PA]

25. Today, my local paper published my LTTE stating that the long-form precedent is dangerous.

As it now stands, any one of us who is is challenged by the opposition might be required to produce our long forms (which are almost impossible to obtain) or else be at risk of having our citizenship rights nullified. What really gets me perturbed is that voices for the other party (e. g., Andrew Card) said - after the long form was released - that President Obama should have produced his long-form years ago. It seems that many members of the other party did not openly endorse the birthers, but definitely enjoyed seeing them raise doubts about the President's citizenship.

[bigwillq]

26. Yes (nt)

[MadBadger]

28. I actually think it may have helped his poll numbers

[Crunchy Frog]

29. Yeah. He let the idiot birthers go way, way out on a limb

and then sawed it out from under them. Made them look like the total idiots they are. I think he had to address it because the idiot media were treating it like it was a real issue.