It is now obvious why President Obama was reluctant to release the long form of his birth certificate. It's release is a waste of time and only serves to give the crazies like Donal Trump more attention than they deserve. In addition, the other crazies like Orly Taitz will continue to deny the facts, And then there are Republican leaders like John Boehner who say they take the President's word for his citizenship, thereby cleverly not admitting his citizenship was and has been a proven fact.
Unfortunately, the whole issue appears to be based on a new form of racism. The new, more subtle form of racism does not resort to cross-burnings, lynchings and the other more crude methods of the KKK. In fact, today's racists do not want to be labeled racists; they go by a whole range of conservative, patriotic-sounding names.
The new racists came to the fore during the 2008 presidential election and have only increased their veiled attacks on President Obama since his election. Typical of the attacks has been all of the hulabalu about whether the President was born in the United States and is, therefore, an American citizen. And of course, they were quick to surmise that he was born in Africa
One has to ask why this president, the first black president, had to show us a copy of his original birth certificate. Did Ronald Reagan have to show a birth certificate? And why was John McCain not questioned about his citizenship. After all, McCain was born on foreign soil at Coco Solo Air Base in the Panama Canal Zone. Since the Constitution stipulates that the president must be a "natural born citizen," one could challenge McCain's eligibility. But no, it was all about the black guy, Barack H. Obama.
For years the Republican Party has employed what they called their "Southern Strategy," part of which was the theory that Republicans could count on the racist vote in the South. One would like to think that Americans today are not voting based on race, but judging from the "birther" nonsense, it appears that politicians are still resorting to tactics which attract the racist vote. The politicians who send their colleagues emails depicting the First Family as monkeys are somewhat rare, but the fact that any politicians in 2011 are doing this is despicable.
Perhaps even as disturbing is the fact that some of these politicians may not be racists themselves, but in their efforts to attract the vote of those who are, they function as enablers. That would not be new. We've seen politicians of a wide variety of beliefs say the "right" thing in order to appeal to conservative Christians.
Unfortunately, whatever its form, racism is still with us, and the presence of a black man in the White House (no pun intended) brings the hatred to the front lines of politics.
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Timing is everything!
Our president had already showed his US birth Certificate to;
1. Get a US Passport; http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/03/20/obamas_passport_files_hacked/
2. Become a US Senator;
I feel sorry for all the little Birthers, It’s not their fault; it’s your families’ fault that taught you that you were better than other people based on race, creed ethnicity, color, nationality or sex, in short they engrained in you their hate (what a legacy).
But you know at some point you need to grow up and act like an adult and think for yourself and distinguish what is true and what is BS.
But there is where the little Birthers find yourself because we all know it was never about a birth certificate or grades, because we all know you want to go around wearing white sheets, burn crosses and hang people who are not like you, we know that your growth is stunted in your hate, and hate is what this is all about, you will never win anymore, and I feel sorry for all of you.
I can only imagine when our President is re-elected what you phonies will lie about next. Oh, and just know, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it’s a duck, the little Birthers are a bunch of racists!
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