"If the CIA can make 'authentic' false passports, why not a birth certificate?"

[trof]

This is what you can expect from the 'birthers' next.
:eyes:

[Bicoastal]

1. "CIA agents are born, not made..."

Didn't realize that was meant to be taken literally.

[Poll_Blind]

2. And, really, is there anyone in the world except Obama's staff who could not have guessed that?

That's what gets me. It's the most politically-insecure move I've ever seen by an elected politician.

When you actually play ball with these racists like they have a legitimate grievance, you elevate them.

Back in the 90's there was this bullshit circulating about all the people who had died who were associates of Clinton and their "mysterious deaths". This is like Clinton providing a full 300-page accounting of his whereabouts during the time of death for each of those people.

It's weak.

I'm hugely critical of Obama but, shit, I don't even understand why they thought this was a good idea.

PB

[VWolf]

3. Blame the fucking "liberal" media

It was inevitable. Obama needed to defuse this as soon as it became clear the media was starting to take it seriously. The real question is WHY they were beginning to take it seriously, and I think we all know the answer to that.

[EC]

7. Maybe he is just trying to show the idiots that kept saying

"Well, if he'd just release it, it would stop all of this." that indeed releasing it WOULD NOT STOP THE IDIOTS FROM FINDING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to complain about.

[trof]

8. I agree completely.

"When you actually play ball with these racists like they have a legitimate grievance, you elevate them."

Yep, politically insecure.
By responding to bullshit like this, you give them 'standing' and credibility.
Like they had a legitimate charge.
:-(

[Jim__]

4. Denver's morning radio birther asshole:

"I never believed he wasn't born in Hawaii. How'd he get into those ivy league schools." For the last 3 years all this jerk has talked about is how easy the birth story was to plant in the newspapers; and how all the evidence proved Obama's mother wasn't in Hawaii at that time.

[Mz Pip]

5. Perhaps, but that will make them

look even more crazy. For 2 years we've been hearing that all Obama has to do is release the "Long Form." So now he did and while I sort of wished hed continued to let the idiots stew in their own conspiracies, now the idiots wil have to come up with even more conspiracies.

I can understand why Obama did it. Kind of reminds me of when Clinton settled the Paula Jones suit. I'd wished he'd fought the thing the whole way, but he was just sick of it.

what this will show is that it will never be enough for many of those birthers.

[anamandujano]

6. I know you're being sarcastic but

why didn't he release it during the primaries? Why wait so long? What would be the upside of letting it go on for so long? And finally, is it real?

Truth be told I don't care anymore but I doubt anyone has answers to my questions.

He looked was weak from the beginning. He looks is weak now. He couldn't look be any weaker.

The racism comments are lame. There are so many blacks on the political scene that could waltz into office now and start making things right, or at least give it a good try. Obama is a stooge and puppet.