Drudge linked this story on his facebook page, and at last count (30 second ago), all 16 comments were declaring it a fake (without even having seen it, of course). And that’s just it. Now that it’s been two years, it’ll NEVER satisfy the birther nuts.

So, you may ask, why do they even bother to harp on it, since they’ll never be satisfied with evidence, and you CAN’T prove a negative. Well, to me, it’s proof of how nuts they are. It’s called obsession.

Honestly, it ONLY helps Obama, because it gives him a clutch of unhinged morons to use as stand-ins for actual Conservatives who actually care about issues.

probably puts an end to the “seriousity” of a Trump candidacy. Hang your hat on a one trick pony and somebody shoots the pony you’re left hatless and without a ride.

BIRTHCERTIFICATE

Or does the last name of the attending physician read “Dunham” ?

I’m sure the birthers will jump on this…

This is just a precursor to the real fight on his college transcripts.

And in particular, I want to know who paid for him to go to Harvard…

If he does release his college transcripts it will undoubtedly prove that he is an Affirmative Action baby who could not get into college or law school on his own merits. But really, what is that going to prove? That he is a liar? We already know that.

have shown that this was starting to have a negative impact on him; add to that it gives him a chance to speak (stump) again in advance of the official campaign. Every serious GOPer, when pushed about this by the MSM, dismisses this as an issue, so he will get no steam from that avenue, though I am sure folks like George Stephanopolous will continue to question any “R” that appears on his show, in an attempt to paint them in a negative light.

On the snark side, I say to myself I believed him more about this before he spoke about it; now that his lips moved, I don’t believe him.

to dress himself up for the voters by saying that he did not want the origins of his birth to be a distraction for the country, and so he decided to release his bc. Man he is diggin’ deep for something, anything, to help him look good for the voters. In BOgus’ own words – “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”

So… why do this today when the Fed is having its first press conference in *95 years?*

Distraction from what the other hand is doing maybe?

Can anyone find a verifiable, trustworthy source as to how much money was actually spent on legal fees by Obama/the Democratic Party to keep his past so shrouded in secrecy?

Because if the answer is more than $1.00, there is an issue which needs to be addressed, even if it is worded as simply as, “Why is this man not expected to conform to the same standards as past Presidents, with regard to transparency?” (That, and the blatant hypocrisy on the part of the Press, who had it been a Republican would have channeled Woodward and Bernstein and been handing each other awards by now.) Even if the figure is around $250,000, I will still accept misdirection: this is, after all, politics. But over that amount, we are into some murky waters.

God knows this is only consistent with Obama’s dismal performance as President, but if money was spent to cover up his past, we have every reason to ask why that would be. And for that matter, the source of the money used to do so.

makes him look kind of petty for not releasing it in the first place. of course, I am not what you would call objective.

There is still something that has a distinct odor about this. Something still isn’t right here but I can’t put my finger on it yet. You don’t spend millions of dollars to prevent something from happening and then just roll over because Donald Trump asks you to do so. After all, Trump has no real credibility in the minds of the press or most of the American public–he is, after all, one of those evil, rich, white guys who they blame for everything. No, you don’t just roll over because “The Donald” says.

There is still something wrong here.

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, but it ceased to be a Territory of the US in 1979.

Obama was born in Hawaii, two years after it became a State.

Which is more a citizen? Who cares?

Years ago, my aunt (then ~65) wanted to get a passport. She was born at home in 1903, in Illinois, and never had a Birth Certificate. To get a US passport, she had to find a witness (obviously, age 80+) to affirm her birth. Fortunately, she found one.

Her Grandpa was married in Peoria in 1875, but records of the time (1970s) didn’t note that.

I suppose it is sad that Arnold can’t be President, but he was born in Austria and makes no bones about it.

“Birthers” make the Republican Party look foolish. I have little confidence in the media, but I think they would have been all over it, had it been a problem.

I look forward to another decade of folks claiming that somebody typed over original forms, and decades later, of folks hacking electronic forms.

Maybe Congress could pass another useless law, requiring that all birth and death certificates be hand-written in blue ink.

No fan of the man but he is rightly declaring victory. He got them to do something he really didn’t want to do by pushing their buttons.

Watching the White House dance to the Donald’s tune just shows how incredibly weak the president is.

No fan of the man but he is rightly declaring victory. He got them to do something he really didn’t want to do by pushing their buttons.

Watching the White House dance to the Donald’s tune just shows how incredibly weak the president is.

The birth certificate should never have been an issue. Take a look at past Presidents or candidates running for the Office, this never came up but then again, we’ve never had a community orgainzier, a rabble-rouser as President. Obama put himself in this position and is not to be trusted. How many examples of this could anyone blogging here list? Where does it end?

This President could have been an adult from the get-go and released his birth certificate, period. Now I want to see his transcipts from college. You can criticize Trump but he is doing what the media would have DEMANDED had it been a conservative.

If Obama was adopted by Lolo Seoterro the original birth certificate is sealed and a new one is issued w/ the new fathers name. I wonder if they do that for any age child? Was Obama ever adopted? Where are those documents?

Issues come later for Obama whether or not he was adopted by Lolo Soetero, and issues with Indonesian citizenship/college admissions etc… Obama may have used this to get foreign aid for college. He may have not legally changed his name back to Obama if he did to use real fathers name to get into college.

I’m glad Obama gave in to the pressure to release a BC, time to keep up the pressure to get his college records, and medical records etc….or any records that the guy sealed.

Alinskying him worked by using his own words of open/transparent against him.

I’m glad this issue was forced out now by Trump rather than Obama stringing people along right up until before the election. His hand was forced so he had to take action now.

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2011/04/epa-stops-drilling-off-alaska-after.html

http://www.newswest9.com/story/14520941/rally-held-to-protest-dunes-sagebrush-lizard

http://biggovernment.com/tag/california-water-crisis/

guy that is now in the top running, after the first clean win against Hussein O. His (Trump) performance at the news conference was outstanding. Not only did he point out O’s incompetence as President, but outlined clear and concise problems that O has caused and continues to cause, but gave credible solutions with the actions he would take to restore this once great nation, before O got a hold on it back to it’s natural greatness. He also did not take any crap from the Obama controlled press. In fact, he kicked their @$$ royally. We have been waiting way to long for Republicans to respond to the MSM’s Propaganda. We now have Trump , and if the other Republicans candidates for potus want to taken seriously, they will have to shed the PC suit for a suit that a real man wears. They need to stand to the weekend news pukes and tell them when they are wrong on the facts and their baised propaganda!

Those crazy Birthers and correlating them with Tea Party People.
This is something else. Timed for effect or to effect something else.
Possibly a distraction ……to keep people preoccupied with this new tidbit in the ongoing saga while some other detestable action is occurring. Maybe it has something to do with this Fed news conference……They’ve fought putting this issue to sleep for two years….why now?

If you really want to blame this controversy on anyone, I would blame it on Obama. He could have killed this on day one, instead we heard he was keeping it secret to make his critics look bad (and spent quite a bit of money keeping it from public viewing).

I just don’t understand the political calculus that was going on here. Why let a controversy like this fester? Clearly, it was doing real political damage to Obama, and his internal polling detected it.

I think this makes Obama look bad in a weird way, that he hasn’t been open and transparent with the American public from day one.

It also completely undermines a Trump candidacy (his niche is gone) although I am looking forward to him pounding on Obama about his poor grades and how he’s an affirmative action baby.

MAObama could be a Martian: it does not matter now!

America was suckered into voting him into the White House, and the Martians in the Senate – who are a majority – will NOT be impeaching him!

So, let’s move on and exercise our energy elsewhere: if there had been any kind of proof before the 2008 election, then you would have had an issue.

“Fait accompli” is French for “It has been accomplished.” Move along, these aren’t the ‘droids you’re looking for!

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Its a 100% proven forgery.

They goofed and forgot to “flatten layers” in their photoshop. I downloaded the PDF file DIRECTLY from the whitehouse web site, exported the images out of the PDF file (using a PDF image export tool), and then loaded those images into my own photoshop. Here is the screenshot of what I found:

http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/obama-birth-certificate-forgery.jpg

I didn’t get this from some crazy web site. I did this myself. Look at the images I loaded into photoshop (see screen capture)… and see for yourself.

Then try it for yourself.

NOTE: I suspected it was fraud, but I figured it was unprovable and never dreamed they’d make such a DUMB mistake! All they had to do was hit “flatten layers” and we’d probably not ever known about this being a forgery.

This is even more powerful evidence than the evidence that the Bush Nat. Guard docs were frauds.

Its a 100% proven forgery.

They goofed and forgot to “flatten layers” in their photoshop. I downloaded the PDF file DIRECTLY from the whitehouse web site, exported the images out of the PDF file (using a PDF image export tool), and then loaded those images into my own photoshop. Here is the screenshot of what I found:

http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/obama-birth-certificate-forgery.jpg

I didn’t get this from some crazy web site. I did this myself. Look at the images I loaded into photoshop (see screen capture)… and see for yourself.

Then try it for yourself.

NOTE: I suspected it was fraud, but I figured it was unprovable and never dreamed they’d make such a DUMB mistake! All they had to do was hit “flatten layers” and we’d probably not ever known about this being a forgery.

This is even more powerful evidence than the evidence that the Bush Nat. Guard docs were frauds.

That would have added a new kink to the Grand Unified Theory of conspiracy politics.

On the following site, there are convincing comments about some newer PDF software products trying to separate b/w & color into separate layers to make the PDF a smaller file size–and to separate out the text for OCR purposes. Some dates and signatures being separated is what made me suspicious. That still seemed fishy. But now I see that I could have easily been wrong about this:

http://wireupdate.com/video/2011/04/president-obamas-birth-certificate-pdf-has-layers/

Not so proven as I thought! sorry Neil, I stand corrected! your assessment is probably correct!

“Barack Obama is going to release his long form birth certificate. For several years now, he has used this issue as a way to paint those who oppose him has crazy, racist extremists.”

Right, the President has used this to paint these people as crazy extremists. C’mon, it’s quite clear that a group of people within your party have been the ones using this issue to try to paint the President as a illegitimate fraud. The man produced his legal certificate years ago – he never had some secret plan to use this to tarnish Republicans. They did it to themselves.

“Of course, once the birth certificate issue is dispatched, will he release his college transcripts? That’s the issue for me.”

I hope you’re being facetious. Who cares about the man’s grades? There are plenty of people who get into Harvard or Columbia with mixed grades – there are many other factors that are looked at when accepting students. And do we really want to make a big deal about this after our last President likely got more than a little bit of help getting into an ivy league school thanks to the status of his father? He got in and he was successful, becoming head of Harvard Law Review. Ridiculous.

“He can’t win on this. Not that I care.”

The only reason I care about about it is because it’s distracting people from issues that actually matter. People who care about this country should care about discussing real issues and not claims made by ill informed people who have no real evidence and just want attention.