Tommy Christopher said, “His decision to cash in the Birther chips is an awful decision ..”

You honestly viewed the birther thing as political capitol. Un-f***ing believable. And then, you’ll wonder why people view liberals with such disdain.

TC,
you are correct…
Would you have released it?
neither would I…
Obama looks like a tool on The Celebrity Apprentice…

Just remember TC…
YOU are the carnival barker that POTUS addressed…

winning said:
Tommy Christopher said, “His decision to cash in the Birther chips is an awful decision ..”

You honestly viewed the birther thing as political capitol. Un-f***ing believable. And then, you’ll wonder why people view liberals with such disdain.

It’s not a view, it’s a fact. Trump ironically handed Obama a huge trump card with this.

so president obama took the high road because he thought it best for the country, but he should have said f*ck the country and look out for himself, got it tommy……..myself i think the president did it because he loves this country and wants to do what he thinks best

Tommy – You’ve gone off the deep-end.

The beauty part of it all is that the President was completely untouchable on this issue. He not only lacked the legal ability to release the long form on his own, but he had absolute moral authority never to do so.

The absurdity of the above is just laughable.

winning said:
Tommy Christopher said, “His decision to cash in the Birther chips is an awful decision ..” You honestly viewed the birther thing as political capitol. Un-f***ing believable. And then, you’ll wonder why people view liberals with such disdain.

No, no one wonders why. You spend all your living, breathing day looking for reasons to find liberals contemptable. You are a dreadful, sad person.

Note that I am pointing to you as an individual. Not your personal political belief.

I really can’t believe that we’re to this stupid point. I’m sorry, but my politics haven’t changed from when I voted for the 1st President Bush and Bob Dole. The Republican Party has just lost its mind. And Obama has opended a cage of crazy that he couldn’t have imagined before.

This will never end. There is nothing that he can do to make these people happy.

I really hated the people on the left who never accepted Bush as a legit President. But the people who have been fire breathing since day one are far more rabid then those pinko weasels. These people are just nasty and small.

Plenty of reasons not ot vote for Obama. None of these crazy people seem to focus on the real one though.

Tommy Christopher said:
It’s not a view, it’s a fact. Trump ironically handed Obama a huge trump card with this.

so you think Obama will get a poll bump?!

Trump had to be cleansed from the race… this is a win / win for the GOP…

Tommy Christopher said:
It’s not a view, it’s a fact. Trump ironically handed Obama a huge trump card with this.

People like you (and Obama) are what’s wrong with America. No thought given to what’s right or wrong, but only to how it plays out politically.

TC,
If Ed Henry asks the right question, can Obama release us from Libya?

Tommy Christopher said:
It’s not a view, it’s a fact. Trump ironically handed Obama a huge trump card with this.

this is a time when the president put the needs of the country above political capital, good man

skoorbekim said:
so you think Obama will get a poll bump?!

Trump had to be cleansed from the race… this is a win / win for the GOP…

Look at catfish….he’s using a class warfare strategy. It’s too delicious for words. I’m sure he’ll love that wording too. :)

catfishjuggling said:
I really can’t believe that we’re to this stupid point. I’m sorry, but my politics haven’t changed from when I voted for the 1st President Bush and Bob Dole.

Yeah, whatever. You’ve been trying to blow that rainbow up people’s asses for weeks now.

Hey CNN!
Can you get Obama to release the Gulf drilling moratorium?

skoorbekim said:
TC,
If Ed Henry asks the right question, can Obama release us from Libya?

Now Axelrod is trying to make lame jokes.

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/04/27/axelrod-trump-asked-me-if-he-could-leave-the-effort-to-cap-the-gulf-oil-spill/

I suppose that when the issue began to gain traction within the minds of a majority in the (racist?) American public, the “high ground” folded up as rapidly as the president’s “legal” inability to reveal his long form.

WCinWI said:
Now Axelrod is trying to make lame jokes.

There were a lot of Conservatives getting worried about Trump… Obama’s circus presser just solved a major problem for the Krauthammer’s and the Kristol’s of the GOP…

Tommy Christopher writes:

“With any luck, Trump will stick around the Teevee, and the top of Republican primary polls, with a steady regurgitation of other chain emails, crazy talk, and just plain dickishness, but this definite’y puts a crimp in The Donald’s media mojo.”

You’re not getting this. Trump has already moved on to questioning Obama’s Ivy League education. He and those others of his ilk “don’t care about “facts” or “truth”….BUT:

The unwashed masses and low-information voter is vulnerable to suggestion, rumor, gossip and conspiracy theories.

“Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, says a poll out almost two years after the terrorists’ strike against this country.

Sixty-nine percent in a Washington Post poll published Saturday said they believe it is likely the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks carried out by al-Qaeda. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents believe it’s likely Saddam was involved.

The belief in the connection persists even though there has been no proof of a link between the two. ”
–USA Today Sept 9, 2003

And even your OWN reports, Tommy–from THIS YEAR where 24% of the GOP believes Obama is a Anti-Christ.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-harris-poll-the-gops-must-be-crazy/

You REALLY think there’s a shortage of racist, tin-foil hat wearing zealots and whack jobs in this country that the Obama campaign won’t be able to shine a light upon?

–Cobra

Tommy Christopher said:
“This issue promised to be a crucible against which GOP candidates (as they eventually declared) could be judged sane or not.”

Obviously “The Truth Has No Agenda” is not Tommy’s motto.

Cecelia said:
American public, the “high ground” folded up as rapidly as the president’s “legal” inability to reveal his long form.

it was all a political game of hide and seek…
Obama is the clown that the “carnival barkers” like TC were yelling to see…

Tommy .
You can help Obama and bring up another controversy .

Ask Carney why Obama has someone else’s SS # .
They’re only used once .

skoorbekim said:
There were a lot of Conservatives getting worried about Trump… Obama’s circus presser just solved a major problem for the Krauthammer’s and the Kristol’s of the GOP…

I never liked Trump as a candidate. Thought he was a joke. Still think he is.

That said, Kraut, Kristol and Rove are also insane.

Cobra said:
You REALLY think there’s a shortage of racist, tin-foil hat wearing zealots and whack jobs in this country that the Obama campaign won’t be able to shine a light upon?

Well, it’s no surprise that you think that the entire country is replete with them.

“guy who carried on at the White House like Fredo from The Godfather.”

I believe you mean The Godfather II.

So what’s next for Obama?
A press conference Baptism?

Don’t release the birth certificate, wackocons scream “what is he hiding?” Release the birth certificate, wackocons still not happy. What wackocons really want is a lynching party at the white house, but are too chicken to admit it.
Obama should have NEVER released this document. It will do nothing to change the REAL agenda of the birthers, which is to discredit the President who is different from them.

The Lantern of Truth said:
Tommy .You can help Obama and bring up another controversy . Ask Carney why Obama has someone else’s SS # .They’re only used once .

Oh wait! The birthers have come up with something else to torpedo their own party. I bet the RNC wishes they would all paddle down the Niagra RIver, starting just above the falls….

skoorbekim said:
So what’s next for Obama?
A press conference Baptism?

Oprah…

http://www.politico.com/politico44/

And avoiding anything Bernanke.

Cecelia said:
Well, it’s no surprise that you think that the entire country is replete with them.

Mediaite comment boards prove that by the minute.

Cecelia, do you believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks?

–Cobra

‘but he had absolute moral authority never to do so’

What, why, Tommy?

This is a complete BS statement.

‘Moral authority’ would be for him to comply with the time honored tradition of full disclosure on birth/medical records and school transcripts. And yet he gets a pass and is above all that, why??

Time and again I’ve asked this question and time and again I’ve gotten the dismissive wave of the hand or the simple ‘pff’ with the obligatory eyeroll.

An eyeroll and wave of hand are NOT a response.

I want someone on the other side of the aisle to give me a cogent reason as to why he gets a pass. I’ve been waiting for four years and I’ve *never* had anyone even try to attempt to answer such a SIMPLE QUESTION.

WCinWI said:
Oprah… http://www.politico.com/politico44/ And avoiding anything Bernanke.

Obama did a masterful job of getting everyone to ignore Bernanke.

At first glance, it doesn’t look presidential that Obama released the document and as you said, looks like Trump took his lunch money. But I think it was a smart move. Reporters are still going to ask every Republican the “birth” question and anyone of them who isn’t definitive about agreeing he was born here is going to look like a wacko. He’s forced the Republicans to stand with the birthers or against them. And I say that as no fan of Obama’s policies…but have to admit he is one of the shrewdest pols I’ve ever seen.

No one in their right mind would wish that Obama will be reelected. America needs a smaller government, not a larger.

Kitsune said:
Obama did a masterful job of getting everyone to ignore Bernanke.

Except for the Facebook post-it gas pump campaign. :)

Lou Sarah said:
Keep your eyes on the prize people…. BC or no BC…. he’s still black!!!

THIS black person refuses to vote for anybody who associates with Cass Sunstein.

cjd ohio 1 said:
so president obama took the high road because he thought it best for the country, but he should have said f*ck the country and look out for himself, got it tommy……..myself i think the president did it because he loves this country and wants to do what he thinks best

At the same time it doesn’t show good on the president to cave to the moronic requests of the lowest common denominator.

@Tommy: Under normal circumstances, I’d agree that the release could be a political mistake, but thanks to Mr. Trump and the power of his celebrity, it wasn’t a normal situation anymore.

By legitimizing Trump’s questions and accusations, the media was seemed to be helping delegitimize the administration and not only did their blind pursuit of ratings and embeds appear to lower respect for the office, but if the delegitimization had been allowed to come to a full head, it could seem empowering to those on the fringe.

The media’s handling of Trump’s questions obviously distracted from larger issues, but his tone had become so disrespectful that it was doing harm to the office and as I phrased it in another forum, they could have unknowingly been helping to foment a martyr.

This situation was allowed to get out of hand and because the media couldn’t get enough of Trump, not to mention that by actively debunking they appeared to be giving his claims more weight, something dramatic had to be done.

Lou Sarah said:
Keep your eyes on the prize people…. BC or no BC…. he’s still black!!!

And here I thought he was half-caucasian, raised by his caucasian family while being blown off by his black dad.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
At the same time it doesn’t show good on the president to cave to the moronic requests of the lowest common denominator.

I believe the correct expression is “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
At the same time it doesn’t show good on the president to cave to the moronic requests of the lowest common denominator.

i guess it depends on the way you look at it reasonable. he thought it was too much a distraction for the country and i can respect that

cjd ohio 1 said:
i guess it depends on the way you look at it reasonable. he thought it was too much a distraction for the country and i can respect that

Keep in mind that he’s blaming YOU for the distraction, cjd.

Thorkil Kowalski Værge said:
No one in their right mind would wish that Obama will be reelected. America needs a smaller government, not a larger.

It will be interesting to see if most of American disagrees with your statement. I believe you will be in the minority and have your logic proven deeply flawed.

Kitsune said:
Keep in mind that he’s blaming YOU for the distraction, cjd.

im not a birther, and i dont care about blame, but as a person in the middle that leans right, i can respect the reasons why the president did it

cjd ohio 1 said:
im not a birther, and i dont care about blame, but as a person in the middle that leans right, i can respect the reasons why the president did it

Oh, I do too. It just seems like we’re so far into “You’re with him or you’re against him” where if you’re not 100% in his camp, you automatically get tarred with the birther/racist/etc… brush by everyone else.

Tommy! I can’t believe I read the whole thing! It is a well written epitaph of a liberal ruse.
So it discourages you that honest people got their way, and ruined your scheme? That’s why a Ronald Reagan type will never be comfortable on your side, It is just too condescending and dishonest.

I feel sorry for you. Atheism is it’s own reward.

Kitsune said:
Oh, I do too. It just seems like we’re so far into “You’re with him or you’re against him” where if you’re not 100% in his camp, you automatically get tarred with the birther/racist/etc… brush by everyone else.

there will always be far left and far right fighting, screw it, what others try to label me i dont care sir

Kitsune said:
Oh, I do too. It just seems like we’re so far into “You’re with him or you’re against him” where if you’re not 100% in his camp, you automatically get tarred with the birther/racist/etc… brush by everyone else.

im not fond of some of the presidents policies, but can respect him

cjd ohio 1 said:
i guess it depends on the way you look at it reasonable. he thought it was too much a distraction for the country and i can respect that

True, but I as I said before it’s a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. If he releases it then Rush Limbaugh pumps up Donald Trump and all the right-wing pundits come out and say he shouldn’t have done it and left-wing pundits sit there slack jawed. If he doesn’t then the right-wing pundits question why he hasn’t, left-wing pundits defend him until they’re blue in the face and Donald Trump’s poll numbers go up.

Wait a minute, Mediaite’s own Tommy Christopher said that Obama couldn’t release the long form birth certificate even if he wanted to…..

‘Right, so why won’t Barry Hussein O’SecretmuslimBama give his consent, huh? Well, according to a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General’s office, he can’t:’

Tommy, you are an incompetent lying moron. You wrote that Obama couldn’t release it, BY LAW. That seemed like complete and utter bs then and now we know it is. How the ef do you keep this job?

This is way off subject, but why is NO ONE in the MSM including here at MEDIAite talking about Spitzers go round with the muslim terrorist on ” In The Arena ” last night?

He started out by stating his group was going to bomb the Royal Wedding, then backed down.

In the end he threatened Spitzer and told him the radical muslims were bringing sharia law to our White House in the not to distant future.

You guys must have seen this but are covering it up per the Obama regime memo.

I’m guessing because it blows the whole muslims are our friends propaganda campaign by the alleged president and his maligning of us ” real ” Americans as racist for disagreeing. It would also be just to devistating to his alleged presidency to release it on forged alleded long form birth certificate day.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
True, but I as I said before it’s a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. If he releases it then Rush Limbaugh pumps up Donald Trump and all the right-wing pundits come out and say he shouldn’t have done it and left-wing pundits sit there slack jawed. If he doesn’t then the right-wing pundits question why he hasn’t, left-wing pundits defend him until they’re blue in the face and Donald Trump’s poll numbers go up.

or people in the middlelike methat see a man that put his country first, over himself

‘it also revealed to Americans the unserious nature of an absurdly large number of Republicans’

Right, just like the polls showing 60% of Democrats were 9/11 Truthers revealed that an absurdly large number of Democrats are ‘unserious’. Hmm, didn’t keep Barry from being elected, did it?

Cobra said:
Mediaite comment boards prove that by the minute. Cecelia, do you believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks? –Cobra

Actually you may have missed the report…..but ALL those PERSONALLY INVOLVED in the attacks are dead. Some in downtown NYC, a few more near the Pentagon and the rest in a field in Pennsylvania.

They hung Saddam in Iraq.

sorry for the typos

kit9 said:
Wait a minute, Mediaite’s own Tommy Christopher said that Obama couldn’t release the long form birth certificate even if he wanted to…..

‘Right, so why won’t Barry Hussein O’SecretmuslimBama give his consent, huh? Well, according to a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General’s office, he can’t:’

Tommy, you are an incompetent lying moron. You wrote that Obama couldn’t release it, BY LAW. That seemed like complete and utter bs then and now we know it is. How the ef do you keep this job?

It’s not his fault. That’s what his boss’s over a Media Matters told him to say. You can understand how his hands were tied on the matter….right?

cjd ohio 1 said:
or people in the middlelike methat see a man that put his country first, over himself

And that may be just what he needs in this situation, but the problem is those aren’t the voices that will receive attention.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
And that may be just what he needs in this situation, but the problem is those aren’t the voices that will receive attention.

sadly, that is so true

Hey Tommy, you’re really pushing it a bit. Obama played it exactly right. He let it go on long enough for everyone to understand how crazed and incapable the rightwing is in doing anything having to do with good governance. And you can count on them to continue in their self-destructiveness. We have to completely drive the rightwing out of any positions of power. We now have Paul Ryan who is much juicier than even Trump to beat up on as he has kindly let all the beans spill out as to the Republicans true intent to completely dismantle all social and economic programs that affect the middle and working class. Somehow, our country will climb out of the mess caused primarily by rightwing dogma and obstructionism.

Now, here’s what Tommy Christopher won’t tell you:

http://24ahead.com/n/10655

WTH is the “certificate” in multiple layers?

This is a freaking parody by it self. This article is from a man, who is one of the few that ask the stupid question (about BC) in the white house press room.

24AheadDotCom said:
WTH is the “certificate” in multiple layers?

Will TC tell you that the WH scrubbed it?

His decision to cash in the Birther chips is an awful decision for them, unless he believes the country would be better off without him as president in 2013, .

That was some admission there Tommy! The truth behind this hysteria is that the number of Republicans pushing this theory were small, and the number of conservatives concerned about this issue were not as big as hyped up. Chris Matthews and Larry O’Donnell were just two individuals who brought up this story as much as the entire Republican party. There are numerous other problems hitting this country that take import over the BC issue.

Obama releasing his birth certificate will be a blow to MSNBC programming. Whatever will they fill their airtime with after this calamity?! Like TC laments above, they lost a self-writing story, and now they may need to do actual work.

Barack Must Go said:
This is way off subject, but why is NO ONE in the MSM including here at MEDIAite talking about Spitzers go round with the muslim terrorist on ” In The Arena ” last night?

He started out by stating his group was going to bomb the Royal Wedding, then backed down.

In the end he threatened Spitzer and told him the radical muslims were bringing sharia law to our White House in the not to distant future.

You guys must have seen this but are covering it up per the Obama regime memo.

I’m guessing because it blows the whole muslims are our friends propaganda campaign by the alleged president and his maligning of us ” real ” Americans as racist for disagreeing. It would also be just to devistating to his alleged presidency to release it on forged alleded long form birth certificate day.

This is the link to CNN interview last nigh, only they cut off the end where the muslim terrorist threatens Spitzer because Elliot called for his arrest a life inprisonment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWDB-e9q2H8

Barack Must Go said:
This is the link to CNN interview last nigh, only they cut off the end where the muslim terrorist threatens Spitzer because Elliot called for his arrest a life inprisonment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWDB-e9q2H8

Conspiracies everywhere, huh? Have you signed up for AboveTopSecret.com? Your kind of peeps hang there…. you know, paranoid and delusional. But there is hope…they have meds for that….but they don’t work if you don’t take them. Do your family a favor….seek professional help.

"Real" American said:
Conspiracies everywhere, huh? Have you signed up for AboveTopSecret.com? Your kind of peeps hang there…. you know, paranoid and delusional. But there is hope…they have meds for that….but they don’t work if you don’t take them. Do your family a favor….seek professional help.

Pretty funny coming from a lib who has a personal photo album consisting the Obama family eating. You know what I’m talking about?

Barack Must Go said:
Pretty funny coming from a lib who has a personal photo album consisting the Obama family eating. You know what I’m talking about?

I have to admit I rarely have any idea what the hell you are mumbling about. If you a referring to the pic of Obama eating a ham sammich (still waiting on the corned beef evidence, sport), I know how to Google Image. Most people with an IQ above 100 do. Try keeping up. It’ll make you seem a little be relevant.

Blame the media, they not only didn’t vet Obama in 08, they advocated for him, and now it’s time to pay the piper.
Release the college transcripts now, then release the medical records, and then clear up the SS# brouhaha.
Get used to it Tommy, because this time around, Obama is getting vetted and no stone is going to be left unturned. If wanting to know more about America’s chief executive makes one a dick, then half the country are dicks.
Bill Whittle is now doing the job the media failed to do in ’08. The media either was totally inept or deliberately concealed this information from the public because they new Obama would lose badly if Americans were informed voters.

I can only hope that Obama is the one who had to pay to get his birth certificate, and NOT the taxpayer! He sent his personal lawyer from Perkins Coie to fly out to Hawaii to get it. I assume she gives Obama a discount, since her billing rate must be between $800-$1,200 an hour.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/04/perkins-coie-judith-corley-got-obamas-birth-certificate.html

It fell to a partner from the Washington office of Perkins Coie to obtain a copy of President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate.

According to copies of letters released today by White House officials, partner Judith Corley initiated the process last week and planned to travel to Hawaii to pick up two copies. Corley represents the president in his personal matters, a job she assumed last year when Robert Bauer left Perkins Coie to become White House counsel.

Corley wrote to Loretta Fuddy in Hawaii’s state health department on April 22. “I am writing on behalf of my client, President Barack Obama,” the letter begins.

She’s been a partner at Seattle-based Perkins Coie since 1994. She represented then-Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) during his 1988 and 2004 presidential runs and America Coming Together, a tax-exempt 527 group that opposed President George W. Bush’s re-election.

Update (2:02 p.m.): Bauer confirmed in a news conference today that Corley did travel personally to Honolulu to pick up copies of the birth certificate.

OxyCon said:
Blame the media, they not only didn’t vet Obama in 08, they advocated for him, and now it’s time to pay the piper.
Release the college transcripts now, then release the medical records, and then clear up the SS# brouhaha.
Get used to it Tommy, because this time around, Obama is getting vetted and no stone is going to be left unturned. If wanting to know more about America’s chief executive makes one a dick, then half the country are dicks.
Bill Whittle is now doing the job the media failed to do in ‘08. The media either was totally inept or deliberately concealed this information from the public because they new Obama would lose badly if Americans were informed voters.

I wish I could give you more than just one “thumbs up!” Whittle’s video is excellent. I’m looking forward to seeing all of them.

Tommy Christopher said:
It’s not a view, it’s a fact. Trump ironically handed Obama a huge trump card with this.

Tommy, I agree and disagree with your assessment of this story. I’m a conservative but I’m proud Obama finally, I hope, put this issue to rest. I believed he was born in Hawaii but I really didn’t know. I had always assumed some responsible group had already vetted him prior to him running for President. And since he was elected I felt it was a mute point anyway and a unnecessary distraction. But I’m glad he cleared it up for me even those I do not consider myself a Birther. And by the way, neither do most legitimate conservative candidates! Also, Donald will not let his assets go into a blind trust so he will not run with any intent of winning.

But you are right, in not showing his BC and keeping the issue alive plays into Obama’s hands during an election. But to say he needed this issue to continue for him to win re-election is an admission that he can not win on his record or on the issues. Which is where I agree. I’m proud of Obama because he has chosen to do just that. You and the main street press apparently like this issue to stay alive because 1)You prefer fluff over hard news and 2)You know he needs this issue to stay alive to have a chance to win. You’re upset because you want Obama to win and by being upset over this you are admitting to being a partisan.

Where you are wrong is that if Obama is to win re-election it should be on his record and the issues and I do not mean this issue.

Tommy comments: “it also revealed to Americans the unserious nature of an absurdly large number of Republicans. ”

Wrong. The unserious one is the one who will have to be defending his first term. Lavish entertaihnment glitz-o-ramas feting Motown and the like, parties on a whim, countless weekends of golf, etc, have shown this inch-deep president to be continually out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of ordinary Americans.

Further, Tommy states: “This issue promised to be a crucible against which GOP candidates (as they eventually declared) could be judged sane or not.”

As Sherman Potter used to say, “Horse hockey!” This issue was a litmus test furthered by the mainstream press (David Gregory must now be positively crestfallen) when countless serious Republicans stated time and again that there are many more important issues facing the American people, Michelle Bachman, Tim Pawlenty, Jan Brewer among them.

You are on the money here, Tommy. He should have released it a long time ago. Now, this makes him look weak. Like he is trying to appease Trump so he can make a play for the idiot vote. I don’t think Trump is going to gain any altitude. That is probably behind the release of the birth certificates more than anything. It let’s a little air out of Trump’s balloon. Now Trump will have to release his tax returns, or catch hell in the media.

"Real" American said:
I have to admit I rarely have any idea what the hell you are mumbling about. If you a referring to the pic of Obama eating a ham sammich (still waiting on the corned beef evidence, sport), I know how to Google Image. Most people with an IQ above 100 do. Try keeping up. It’ll make you seem a little be relevant.

I answered you 3 hours ago

The beauty part of it all is that the President was completely untouchable on this issue. He not only lacked the legal ability to release the long form on his own, but he had absolute moral authority never to do so.

Two thoughts:

The president has not been ‘untouchable’. Quite the opposite, as the natural question is what took so friggin long? It Either shows that A). He doesn’t have the power as President (that can’t get a few strings pulled?) and a citizen of the US to obtain his own medical paperwork. Both his parents are dead so who else and what else did he need – permission from his grandma? I have my long form and I sure as heck don’t need to have a”legal exception” to get another copy.
OR
B) this is just a handy excuse to serve the masses. Blame it on red tape and attorneys.
C) He really didn’t care and as he said he sat back “bemused” by the whole thing.
Take your pick but any choice hardly leaves him untouchable.

… and proving the legitimacy of birth is a job requirement not a moral issue.

Barack Must Go said:
I answered you 3 hours ago

You rarely make much sense, so I doubt he understood it then.

mlb said:
The beauty part of it all is that the President was completely untouchable on this issue. He not only lacked the legal ability to release the long form on his own, but he had absolute moral authority never to do so.

Two thoughts:

The president has not been ‘untouchable’. Quite the opposite, as the natural question is what took so friggin long? It Either shows that A). He doesn’t have the power as President (that can’t get a few strings pulled?) and a citizen of the US to obtain his own medical paperwork. Both his parents are dead so who else and what else did he need – permission from his grandma? I have my long form and I sure as heck don’t need to have a”legal exception” to get another copy.
OR
B) this is just a handy excuse to serve the masses. Blame it on red tape and attorneys.
C) He really didn’t care and as he said he sat back “bemused” by the whole thing.
Take your pick but any choice hardly leaves him untouchable.

… and proving the legitimacy of birth is a job requirement not a moral issue.

Really? Could you provide us some documentation on this requirement so we could all be enlightened?

Tommy – NOBAMA 2012 should be banned, he/she is sullying up the comments section like a stinky meth crazed lunatic penning non-sensical comments rooted in fantasy and pure unadulterated BS.

He/she is creepy, they should be banned sooner than later.

story by: Tommy Christopher…. didn’t read…most surely full of ignorant twisting of words and insertions of political assertions, probably exagerated or simply not true, to further his political left wing ideals. Thanks but no thanks.

Now that’s funny, like Tommy is some Far Leftie. You guys are so Far Right, you are nuts.

I seldom agree with Christopher in toto, but he nailed this one. Obama has stepped in the middle of the Republican’s circular firing squad and shouted “cease fire.”

I’m not a professional political operative (unlike some of the posters around here, wink-wink), and I have to imagine that Obama’s team calculated the outcome of this choice down to a single voter in Poughkeepsie.

But I think they got their math wrong. Obama should have let this particular pot continue boiling over.

NOBAMA 2012 said:
Who was the moron who typed “African” for Obozo’s father’s race?

Probably the same moron who claims that Obozo, who is 1/2 WHITE, is an “African-American”…

And the name of the hospital in 1961 on the latest bogus C.O.L.B. is WRONG…

.
According to Wikipedia the history of the hospital is:

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health’s network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki. Kapi’olani Medical Center is Hawaii’s only children’s hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state’s only 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit.

The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapiolani as the Kapilani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862­1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844-1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiolani Maternity Home to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.[2][3][4]

It is also known for being the birthplace of United States President Barack Obama.[5][6][7][8][9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapiolani_Maternity_and_Gynecological_Hospital

This clearly shows that as of 1978 (up to the date of the actual merger) the maternity part of the hospital was still known as the Kapi`olani Maternity Home.

Therefore this would have been the case in 1961 when Obozo was born !!!!

So, where did they get the name : KAPIOLANI MATERNITY & GYNECOLOGICAL HOSPITAL ?

According to the HOSPITAL`s own website

A Century of Care for Hawaii’s Women and Children

This is the story of two hospitals: Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital and Kapiolani Maternity Home. The two hospitals joined in 1978 to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children.

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT…

http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx

When Obozo gets through explaining his lack of a LEGITIMATE BIRTH CERTIFICATE

MAYBE HE’LL HAVE TIME BETWEEN VACATIONS, GOLF, BASKETBALL & FUND RAISERS TO EXPLAIN

WHY HE HAS A FRIGGIN’ CONNECTICUT SOCIAL SECURITY CARD? HELLO?

But lets not let the friggin facts get in the way of allowing this clown to continue to be POTUS.

Obamabots voted for Obama to prove they’re not prejudiced.
Who will Obamabots vote for next time to prove they’re not stupid.

Only 21 more months ’til we evict the incompetent, hypocritical, racist, Marxist Grifter from the Oval Office & cancel “Amateur Hour” from the Oval Office.

NOBAMA 2012

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

Have you ever heard of the Fleshlight? It’s a tidy, discreet way to ease tension and it’s completely washable.

YEAH SURE TOMMY….SAY WHAT YOU WILL…..OBAMA JUST GAVE YOU WINGNUTS ANOTHER WAY OUT….FEEL FREE NOT TO ACCEPT IT……YOU BIRTHERS A NOTHING MORE THAN A GAGGLE OF FRUITCAKE RACISTS AND LIARS…..OBAMA WANTS TO MOVE ON….BUT CLEARLY YOU WANT TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLIN RIGHT DOWN BIRTHER LANE…..GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

NOBAMA 2012 said:
Who was the moron who typed “African” for Obozo’s father’s race? Probably the same moron who claims that Obozo, who is 1/2 WHITE, is an “African-American

SO ACCORDING TO YOUR DUMB ASS AFRICAN ISNT A RACE BUT AFRICAN AMERICAN IS??????
…My guess is you would not make a good candidate for princeton or harvard……youre truly WAYYYYYYYYYYYY to stupid

NOBAMA 2012 said:
Who was the moron who typed “African” for Obozo’s father’s race? Probably the same moron who claims that Obozo, who is 1/2 WHITE, is an “African-American”… And the name of the hospital in 1961 on the latest bogus C.O.L.B. is WRONG… .According to Wikipedia the history of the hospital is: Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health’s network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki. Kapi’olani Medical Center is Hawaii’s only children’s hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state’s only 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit. The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapiolani as the Kapilani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862­1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844-1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiolani Maternity Home to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.[2][3][4] It is also known for being the birthplace of United States President Barack Obama.[5][6][7][8][9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapiolani_Maternity_and_Gynecological_Hospital This clearly shows that as of 1978 (up to the date of the actual merger) the maternity part of the hospital was still known as the Kapi`olani Maternity Home. Therefore this would have been the case in 1961 when Obozo was born !!!! So, where did they get the name : KAPIOLANI MATERNITY & GYNECOLOGICAL HOSPITAL ? According to the HOSPITAL`s own website A Century of Care for Hawaii’s Women and Children This is the story of two hospitals: Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital and Kapiolani Maternity Home. The two hospitals joined in 1978 to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT… http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx When Obozo gets through explaining his lack of a LEGITIMATE BIRTH CERTIFICATE MAYBE HE’LL HAVE TIME BETWEEN VACATIONS, GOLF, BASKETBALL & FUND RAISERS TO EXPLAIN WHY HE HAS A FRIGGIN’ CONNECTICUT SOCIAL SECURITY CARD? HELLO? But lets not let the friggin facts get in the way of allowing this clown to continue to be POTUS. Obamabots voted for Obama to prove they’re not prejudiced.Who will Obamabots vote for next time to prove they’re not stupid. Only 21 more months ’til we evict the incompetent, hypocritical, racist, Marxist Grifter from the Oval Office & cancel “Amateur Hour” from the Oval Office. NOBAMA 2012 “Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

And there folks, you have the Complete Book of Birther Crazy by Ima Contard, aka Nobrainer 2012

Release of President Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate Was Stupid and Wrong

…Says Mediaite

….because it makes Mediaite look stupid for running all these stories on what proves to be a bogus non-story. Of course, they could have known that long in advance if the writers here hadn’t been blinded by partisan zeal. But they were so desperate to find something about Obama they could defend, and the only thing they could grab on to was HIS PLACE OF BIRTH. His actual policies and track record are a total disaster.

But now it turns out (what a surprise) that only loons thought this was an important story. Well, duh….

Good boy, Barry.

Now go fetch your Phony Transcripts!
I’m your master, The Donald!!

Can you say pusilanimous?

LOL – One Term!!!

NORBIT Jr. said:
Good boy, Barry.

Now go fetch your Phony Transcripts!
I’m your master, The Donald!!

Can you say pusilanimous?

LOL – One Term!!!

How’s that birtherism theory working out for you Norbit? You are one of the biggest birther geniuses on this site! ROFLMAO!

I would guess that team Obama did some polling and decided taht releasing was the better choice. The issue should be dead now, Trump won.

Now Tommy, don’t you feel ashamed for running a thousand stories on this stupid birther story now? Or maybe you can brag like Trump that you played a role in resolving this critical issue of global importance? Pathetic.

Why don’t you start running stories on UFO abductions or Elvis sitings? There are loons that believe those things as well. Maybe (like MSNBC) you can specialize in RUNNING STORIES ABOUT WHAT LOONS BELIEVE and ignore every big issue of the day. Much like National Enquirer, but with more obvious hypocrisy and partisan intent….

WND.com is STILL going strong. Long live birtherism!

NORBIT Jr. said:
Good boy, Barry. Now go fetch your Phony Transcripts!I’m your master, The Donald!! Can you say pusilanimous? LOL – One Term!!!

Boy.

You can barely even mask it, can you?

NOBAMA 2012 said:
Who was the moron who typed “African” for Obozo’s father’s race? Probably the same moron who claims that Obozo, who is 1/2 WHITE, is an “African-American”… And the name of the hospital in 1961 on the latest bogus C.O.L.B. is WRONG… .According to Wikipedia the history of the hospital is: Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health’s network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki. Kapi’olani Medical Center is Hawaii’s only children’s hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state’s only 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit. The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapiolani as the Kapilani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862­1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844-1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiolani Maternity Home to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.[2][3][4] It is also known for being the birthplace of United States President Barack Obama.[5][6][7][8][9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapiolani_Maternity_and_Gynecological_Hospital This clearly shows that as of 1978 (up to the date of the actual merger) the maternity part of the hospital was still known as the Kapi`olani Maternity Home. Therefore this would have been the case in 1961 when Obozo was born !!!! So, where did they get the name : KAPIOLANI MATERNITY & GYNECOLOGICAL HOSPITAL ? According to the HOSPITAL`s own website A Century of Care for Hawaii’s Women and Children This is the story of two hospitals: Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital and Kapiolani Maternity Home. The two hospitals joined in 1978 to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT… http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx When Obozo gets through explaining his lack of a LEGITIMATE BIRTH CERTIFICATE MAYBE HE’LL HAVE TIME BETWEEN VACATIONS, GOLF, BASKETBALL & FUND RAISERS TO EXPLAIN WHY HE HAS A FRIGGIN’ CONNECTICUT SOCIAL SECURITY CARD? HELLO? But lets not let the friggin facts get in the way of allowing this clown to continue to be POTUS. Obamabots voted for Obama to prove they’re not prejudiced.Who will Obamabots vote for next time to prove they’re not stupid. Only 21 more months ’til we evict the incompetent, hypocritical, racist, Marxist Grifter from the Oval Office & cancel “Amateur Hour” from the Oval Office. NOBAMA 2012 “Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

Wow, you are so wrong in so many of your assertions that all I can say is you are nucking futs.

ProObamaAgenda said:
YEAH SURE TOMMY….SAY WHAT YOU WILL…..OBAMA JUST GAVE YOU WINGNUTS ANOTHER WAY OUT….FEEL FREE NOT TO ACCEPT IT……YOU BIRTHERS A NOTHING MORE THAN A GAGGLE OF FRUITCAKE RACISTS AND LIARS…..OBAMA WANTS TO MOVE ON….BUT CLEARLY YOU WANT TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLIN RIGHT DOWN BIRTHER LANE…..GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

BlueBonnet?

“Release of President Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate Was Stupid and Wrong”…It was definitely stupid from a “uniter” point of view, and as far as transparency…transparency is for losers and sheep.

racism or racialism (ˈreɪsɪzəm, ˈreɪʃəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief

Wow. What church did 0bama sit in for 20 years??? Wow, which church did he attend on Easter 2011??? LOL. Wow, the racist clowns that support their racist president. LOL!

racism or racialism (ˈreɪsɪzəm, ˈreɪʃəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief

Wow. What church did 0bama sit in for 20 years??? Wow, which church did he attend on Easter 2011??? LOL. Wow, the racist clowns that support their racist president. LOL!

Sheeeeeeeeeep. Sheeeeeeeeep. LOL!

Just cut and paste it every time the liberal clowns open their mouths about racism. LMAO!

racism or racialism (ˈreɪsɪzəm, ˈreɪʃəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief

Wow. What church did 0bama sit in for 20 years??? Wow, which church did he attend on Easter 2011??? LOL. Wow, the racist clowns that support their racist president. LOL!

mediadoubt said:
I seldom agree with Christopher in toto, but he nailed this one. Obama has stepped in the middle of the Republican’s circular firing squad and shouted “cease fire.”

I’m not a professional political operative (unlike some of the posters around here, wink-wink), and I have to imagine that Obama’s team calculated the outcome of this choice down to a single voter in Poughkeepsie.

But I think they got their math wrong. Obama should have let this particular pot continue boiling over.

The problem with Tommy’s calculation, and to some extent, yours, is that you’re limiting this to the Birth Certificate. The Birther issue is just a beard. As you can see from Orly Taitz, Donald Trump and World Net Daily, this is not really about birth certificates. No form, DNA evidence, or carbon dating on a document is going to convince those who hate this President that he’s legitimately in office.

With the Citizen’s United ruling, corporations and billionaires can run unlimited ads against any candidate. What Obama;s Campaign is calculating is that thoroughly debunking this one, in the face of those who boldly suggested otherwise, would tend to impeach the wild conspiracy theories coming and yet to come at least in the minds of independent voters who aren’t spending much time analyzing these issues.

It’s not about people who post on this blog. The battle lines are drawn. Most people on the street, however, couldn’t tell you who Orly Taitz was. World Net Daily is often confused with the Weekly World News supermarket tabloid. It’s different from Fox News or Hate Radio, where there’s simply preaching to choir whatever deranged Obama hatred of day is faxed via memo. It’s different from some obscure website hawking t-shirts and fake books.

Donald Trump gets anywhere from 6 to 9 million viewers a week on a network television program and has name recognition, plus the fact that he’s threatening to run for President in the Republican Party for 2012.

No. You can’t simply let a person with that kind of platform LIE like this constantly without a response.

–Cobra

ndanielson said:
Just cut and paste it every time the liberal clowns open their mouths about racism. LMAO!

racism or racialism (ˈreɪsɪzəm, ˈreɪʃəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief

Wow. What church did 0bama sit in for 20 years??? Wow, which church did he attend on Easter 2011??? LOL. Wow, the racist clowns that support their racist president. LOL!

In what country was the very conception of Barack Obama a FELONY below the Mason-Dixon line?

I think you and I need a debate right here, right now about the history of racial discrimination in America.
You go ahead and DEFEND America’s history. I’ll give you first shot.

Then it’s MY turn.

–Cobra

ndanielson said:
Just cut and paste it every time the liberal clowns open their mouths about racism. LMAO!

racism or racialism (ˈreɪsɪzəm, ˈreɪʃəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief

Wow. What church did 0bama sit in for 20 years??? Wow, which church did he attend on Easter 2011??? LOL. Wow, the racist clowns that support their racist president. LOL!

I thought you had slashed your wrists by now…BIRTHER! How stupid do you look now for your insane dogshit theories about Obama’s birth? Do you now believe the Hawaii officials who said the long form existed like I told your dumb ass several times before? LOL. mdanielson = eternal fool.

cobra=racist.

gasket=liar

Jaurez = Teabagging Birther
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/on-the-birth-certificate-idiocracy/237941/

Cobra said:
The problem with Tommy’s calculation, and to some extent, yours, is that you’re limiting this to the Birth Certificate. The Birther issue is just a beard. As you can see from Orly Taitz, Donald Trump and World Net Daily, this is not really about birth certificates. No form, DNA evidence, or carbon dating on a document is going to convince those who hate this President that he’s legitimately in office.

With the Citizen’s United ruling, corporations and billionaires can run unlimited ads against any candidate. What Obama;s Campaign is calculating is that thoroughly debunking this one, in the face of those who boldly suggested otherwise, would tend to impeach the wild conspiracy theories coming and yet to come at least in the minds of independent voters who aren’t spending much time analyzing these issues.

It’s not about people who post on this blog. The battle lines are drawn. Most people on the street, however, couldn’t tell you who Orly Taitz was. World Net Daily is often confused with the Weekly World News supermarket tabloid. It’s different from Fox News or Hate Radio, where there’s simply preaching to choir whatever deranged Obama hatred of day is faxed via memo. It’s different from some obscure website hawking t-shirts and fake books.

Donald Trump gets anywhere from 6 to 9 million viewers a week on a network television program and has name recognition, plus the fact that he’s threatening to run for President in the Republican Party for 2012.

No. You can’t simply let a person with that kind of platform LIE like this constantly without a response.

–Cobra

Well, maybe.

But what I think Obama has given up is the pressure on sane ‘Lican candidates — which would have lasted throughout the primary season — to either worship at the shrine of birtherism or risk losing their primaries. That would have produced a richer crop of unelectable nutbags (or seriously compromised adult candidates with a big birther albatross around their necks) than will now be the case.

Citizens United notwithstanding, I’m not sure what continuation of this madness (Trump’s a chump, ultimately) would have cost the Obama team.

Wow, is Obama’s long form a fake? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c

I downloaded it from the White House site myself and, yes, you can see layers draw. It’s “assembled”, NOT scanned.

The only thing stupid and wrong was the press including the Whitehouse press for not making it clear that this was bullshit and not covering Trump or any of the wingnuts from fox who where pushing this bullshit! Now that the President has called out the idiot Whitehouse press, they’ve all become very touchy. First Tapper and now you! If you did your jobs more effectively, instead of covering this like TMZ would you wouldn’t have gotten bitch slapped by this President. Don’t believe me? Check out Rachel Maddow’s take down of fellow asshat Ed Henry. Totally embarrassing. Next time do your job so the President doesn’t have to do it for you! Dave Weigel made a great observation. How many members of the Whitehouse press asked Bush a single question about those crazy ass 911 truthers? That’s right, NONE! These racist, birther, idiots are still smarting from the ass whuppin put on them and that hillbilly illiterate by the majority in this country and have been trying to tear down this President ever since. STOP HELPING THEM and do your damn job!

He’s the President of the United States! Deal with it! The majority in this country are sure he was born here putting you teabagging wingnuts squarely in the minority which is where you’ll stay come 2012! Now, go ask Donald for his and his tax returns, and the receipt for his latest wife!

mediadoubt said:
Well, maybe.

But what I think Obama has given up is the pressure on sane ‘Lican candidates — which would have lasted throughout the primary season — to either worship at the shrine of birtherism or risk losing their primaries. That would have produced a richer crop of unelectable nutbags (or seriously compromised adult candidates with a big birther albatross around their necks) than will now be the case.

Citizens United notwithstanding, I’m not sure what continuation of this madness (Trump’s a chump, ultimately) would have cost the Obama team.

Boy, listening to the two of you makes one wonder for a moment, am I still on MEDIAite or rather Match.com.

Heaven I tell you……a match made in heaven..

roxsteady said:
The only thing stupid and wrong was the press including the Whitehouse press for not making it clear that this was bullshit and not covering Trump or any of the wingnuts from fox who where pushing this bullshit! Now that the President has called out the idiot Whitehouse press, they’ve all become very touchy. First Tapper and now you! If you did your jobs more effectively, instead of covering this like TMZ would you wouldn’t have gotten bitch slapped by this President. Don’t believe me? Check out Rachel Maddow’s take down of fellow asshat Ed Henry. Totally embarrassing. Next time do your job so the President doesn’t have to do it for you! Dave Weigel made a great observation. How many members of the Whitehouse press asked Bush a single question about those crazy ass 911 truthers? That’s right, NONE! These racist, birther, idiots are still smarting from the ass whuppin put on them and that hillbilly illiterate by the majority in this country and have been trying to tear down this President ever since. STOP HELPING THEM and do your damn job!

Good point. I never measured the ink&electrons given to birtherism vs trutherism, but there’s really no comparison, is there? You don’t think the media is holding Obama to a different standard than they held Bush, do you?

Barack Must Go said:
Boy, listening to the two of you makes one wonder for a moment, am I still on MEDIAite or rather Match.com.

Heaven I tell you……a match made in heaven..

I realize the notion of two people discussing an issue without shouting or flinging turds is foreign to your nature, but let me assure you, it does happen.

Just not in your crowd.

Alz said:
Wow, is Obama’s long form a fake? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c I downloaded it from the White House site myself and, yes, you can see layers draw. It’s “assembled”, NOT scanned.

Yes, of course its a fake. Obama has the birthers by the balls, you don’t think he is going to let them off this easy do ya?
Ever seen kittens chase a laser dot. That what Barack Must Go, Juarez, ndanielson and the rest of the batshit birther crowd do every time they come here.

They are just ill-equipped to handle reality, so they make there own “special place”. Obama prolly picks cotton in their heads….

Birthers are the new Truthers. Registration is free, but please leave your sanity at the door.

mediadoubt said:
I seldom agree with Christopher in toto, but he nailed this one. Obama has stepped in the middle of the Republican’s circular firing squad and shouted “cease fire.”
I’m not a professional political operative (unlike some of the posters around here, wink-wink), and I have to imagine that Obama’s team calculated the outcome of this choice down to a single voter in Poughkeepsie.
But I think they got their math wrong. Obama should have let this particular pot continue boiling over.

There was no math involved. Trump blew the doors open.

No moral sense or maganimity can be claimed by Obama now because the only reason he concented was that the squirm threshold had been exceeded.

If Obama did anything stupid it was to insult honest people for as long as he did, and to imagine that there was any moral imperative that justified it. Obama had a dark heart on this matter and he should suffer for it. These kinds of things you learn in the RIGHT KIND of sunday school. I hope for his childrens sake he finds one. The country needs a magnanimous leader, or we’ll all start looking like the characature of Igore that Carney has become.

WHarropson said:
There was no math involved. Trump blew the doors open.

No moral sense or maganimity can be claimed by Obama now because the only reason he concented was that the squirm threshold had been exceeded.

If Obama did anything stupid it was to insult honest people for as long as he did, and to imagine that there was any moral imperative that justified it. Obama had a dark heart on this matter and he should suffer for it. These kinds of things you learn in the RIGHT KIND of sunday school. I hope for his childrens sake he finds one. The country needs a magnanimous leader, or we’ll all start looking like the characature of Igore that Carney has become.

Or the alternative interpretation, that Obama — for inexplicable reasons — has dropped his pants and is allowing mad people to sodomize him, thus damaging the credibility and legitimate authority of office of the presidency for decades to come.

Trump no more blew the doors open than Trump is a serious candidate for any office but dickhead of the year (which he’s already won 15 years running).

"Real" American said:
Yes, of course its a fake. Obama has the birthers by the balls, you don’t think he is going to let them off this easy do ya?
Ever seen kittens chase a laser dot. That what Barack Must Go, Juarez, ndanielson and the rest of the batshit birther crowd do every time they come here.

They are just ill-equipped to handle reality, so they make there own “special place”. Obama prolly picks cotton in their heads….

Watch that video. The document on the White House website is not a scanned PDF as it should be. It’s made in parts – meaning assembled.

“As a writer for a media criticism website, the apparent death of the Birther story as a mainstream news meme is beyond tragic. Covering the media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s Birther and Bailey Circus has been like shooting arthritic fish in a barrel with a shotgun.”

Well, at least you’re admitting that the Left pushed the issue, making it mainstream, with the sole purpose of making it a bigger issue than it was, just to attack the Right.

All that coverage (by MSNBC and others in the MSM) only caused the birther crowd to grow, and make others begin to doubt his eligibility – the whole *where there’s smoke, there’s fire* thingy.

So, Obama took the ball away from ya’ll, and now you’re sad?

sarainitaly said:
“As a writer for a media criticism website, the apparent death of the Birther story as a mainstream news meme is beyond tragic. Covering the media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s Birther and Bailey Circus has been like shooting arthritic fish in a barrel with a shotgun.”

Well, at least you’re admitting that the Left pushed the issue, making it mainstream, with the sole purpose of making it a bigger issue than it was, just to attack the Right.

All that coverage (by MSNBC and others in the MSM) only caused the birther crowd to grow, and make others begin to doubt his eligibility – the whole *where there’s smoke, there’s fire* thingy.

So, Obama took the ball away from ya’ll, and now you’re sad?

Everybody likes easy pickings. For that matter, any business that ignores easily won gains in its space is going to lose. Of course there’s nostalgia for the old days (it seems like only yesterday) when birfer mania was surging like there was no height to which the idiocy could not aspire.

Not to worry . . . Trump is still around, as are Bachmann, Palin, etc., etc. It’s not as if the mainstream media is going to have to work very hard to find the next rightwing nutcase.

Hmmm…perhaps this article explains this one:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trump-praises-confederacy-tells-obama-get-off-basketball-court/comment-page-7/#comments

Since you (liberal MSM and blogs) no longer have the birther issue to hammer, you are going back to the tired race card and fabricating racism where it doesn’t exist.

“For that matter, any business that ignores easily won gains in its space is going to lose. ” – So, we all agree that the media was pushing this to advantage Dems, and attack Repubs.

Nice *non-biased* media we have.

sarainitaly said:
Hmmm…perhaps this article explains this one:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trump-praises-confederacy-tells-obama-get-off-basketball-court/comment-page-7/#comments

Since you (liberal MSM and blogs) no longer have the birther issue to hammer, you are going back to the tired race card and fabricating racism where it doesn’t exist.

“For that matter, any business that ignores easily won gains in its space is going to lose. ” – So, we all agree that the media was pushing this to advantage Dems, and attack Repubs.

Nice *non-biased* media we have.

Actually, the media’s bias is toward whatever attracts attention. Sex and violence are always winners, and in politics hypocrisy and nuttiness are never out of season.

As your link to Trump’s latest brain fart proves, this season, the righties are being much more generous with both craziness and hypocrisy, and given how sex scandals seem to be clustering on the R side of the aisle, maybe we’ll get some man-on-dog action (or equivalent) as well.

Magnanimity is a concept lost on the left. Obama was teaching racists a lesson by denying non racists full disclosure on the ever more secret cerificate. By the time he resolved it he managed to reinforce negative views of himself, and as Tommy so clearly illustrates, a contempt for honest americans in what became a defining issue. The issue wasn’t in the end was he born here, (you will see in prior posts I thought he likely was) but what kind of person was he for witholding. We see a contempt for the constitution only thinly masked by the fact that he regularly (and reluctantly?)wears a flag pin now. His lack of mananimity to all Americans is where he failed, and for which he should suffer.

You do have to laugh about his going straight from saying how this issue was keeping the debate from the pressing issues and then flys off to star on Oprah. Her question why it took so long answered before he opened his mouth. He was taking Tommy’s advice and acting like a creep.

Are you suggesting the president should have kissed a guy?

Alz said:
Wow, is Obama’s long form a fake? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c

I downloaded it from the White House site myself and, yes, you can see layers draw. It’s “assembled”, NOT scanned.

They’re just screwing with you. If you want to keep the frothing going, and you also wanted to release the doc, how would accomplish both? I’d cut it up and put it back together exactly the same way.

Chris Jones said:
Are you suggesting the president should have kissed a guy?

Does Michelle count?

NOBAMA 2012 said:
That’s right, Christine…whoever typed “African” for Obama’s father’s race is STUPID and the name of the hospital is WRONG on this latest bogus C.O.L.B.

Nope. For race, they entered whatever you told them. As for the name of the hospital, it appears exactly the same way as it does here.

This is not the droid you’re looking for.

I scan a lot of stuff Pdf and the program treats some elements different than others and I’m certain it, in doing so creates layers. Nothing to see here. But if there is, I’m sure we’ll be hearing about it.

WHarropson said:
I scan a lot of stuff Pdf and the program treats some elements different than others and I’m certain it, in doing so creates layers. Nothing to see here. But if there is, I’m sure we’ll be hearing about it.
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Sorry wrong Birther post, see you on the other side.

billwhit1357 said:
Obama loves to blame others for whatever mistakes he makes. It was his birth certificate that needed released and he was the only one who could do it and he refused, prefered to let good military officers go to prison for questioning him about it, so it is his own fault all of this happened, no one elses. Obama is not man enough to take any blame, this shows a horrible lack of Integrity and Honor on Obama’s part. And what has the man done in two years that has helped America or Americans? Illegally enforceing ObambiCare on us? The Stimulus, which was guarenteed to keep unemployment below 8%? His idiotic Rules of Engagement which require American soldiers to read terrorists Miranda Rights and not to fire until fired upon, even if they are known terrorists? More Americans have been “Murdered” on Obama’s watch than the whole eight years of Bush! The man may be born in America but he is no President and certainly not Leader material!

ALLEN WEST 2012! A Proven Leader and Patriot, who has served his country Honorably! Something Obama has never bothered to do!

I liked this post so well I wanted to spread it around.

Jaurez said:
cobra=racist.

That’s all you got, tough guy? Name calling?

Debate challenge extended to you, too. Put your best argument up.

I’m waiting.

–Cobra

mediadoubt said:
Well, maybe.

But what I think Obama has given up is the pressure on sane ‘Lican candidates — which would have lasted throughout the primary season — to either worship at the shrine of birtherism or risk losing their primaries. That would have produced a richer crop of unelectable nutbags (or seriously compromised adult candidates with a big birther albatross around their necks) than will now be the case.

Citizens United notwithstanding, I’m not sure what continuation of this madness (Trump’s a chump, ultimately) would have cost the Obama team.

Just look at TODAY’s Mediaite articles. These Birthers (Birth of a Nationers) are DOUBLING DOWN…Orly Taitz, Pamela Gellar…Trump.

The release of the Birth Certificate was for Independents, not Bigots who attack Black people for merely existing. Mission accomplished.

–Cobra

NORBIT Jr. said:
Good boy, Barry.

Had to get that “Calling a 50 year old Black man “Boy”" post in, didn’t cha?

Why are you still holding back on the N-word? Half the freaks in here would cheer you on for it.

–Cobra

sarainitaly said:
Since you (liberal MSM and blogs) no longer have the birther issue to hammer, you are going back to the tired race card and fabricating racism where it doesn’t exist.

IMHO, You’re seriously ill-informed about the history of America in regards to race if you don’t think Donald Trump is using dog-whistle Southern Strategy politics right now.

I don’t think it’s intentional on your part. I just think you need to expand your reading list a bit in regards to race in America. Fair enough?

–Cobra

Everything Obama does, or doesn’t do for that matter is stupid and wrong, why would anyone expect this exercise in futility ( 2 plus rears overdue ) to be any different?

Cobra said:
IMHO, You’re seriously ill-informed about the history of America in regards to race if you don’t think Donald Trump is using dog-whistle Southern Strategy politics right now.

I don’t think it’s intentional on your part. I just think you need to expand your reading list a bit in regards to race in America. Fair enough?

–Cobra

you’re seriously delusional if you think mentioning Obama’s FAVORITE past time – one he engages in frequently, for personal pleasure AND in photo ops, and in business type settings – is racist.

And you are also delusional if you think, based on his comments, he was praising the *rebels*, as TC claimed.

Put down the race cards, Cobra, and you just might realize not everyone gives a rats ass what color someones skin is – something you seem to be obsessed with.

I just can’t get over how poignant that point is that Obama preferred to have a military man in prison than to release his long form certificate.
A real man would have saved this man of conscious from that result.
Tommy, are you reading this?

sarainitaly said:
you’re seriously delusional if you think mentioning Obama’s FAVORITE past time – one he engages in frequently, for personal pleasure AND in photo ops, and in business type settings – is racist.

In the context of ‘Donald “The Blacks” Trump? You’re damned right I’ll call it racist.

When you start questioning how a Black man got into an Ivy league school, you’re damned right I’ll call it racist.

I have PLENTY of company with 3,500,000 google hits on “Donald Trump, racist”

–Cobra

WHarropson said:
billwhit1357 said:
Obama loves to blame others for whatever mistakes he makes. It was his birth certificate that needed released and he was the only one who could do it and he refused, prefered to let good military officers go to prison for questioning him about it, so it is his own fault all of this happened, no one elses. Obama is not man enough to take any blame, this shows a horrible lack of Integrity and Honor on Obama’s part. And what has the man done in two years that has helped America or Americans? Illegally enforceing ObambiCare on us? The Stimulus, which was guarenteed to keep unemployment below 8%? His idiotic Rules of Engagement which require American soldiers to read terrorists Miranda Rights and not to fire until fired upon, even if they are known terrorists? More Americans have been “Murdered” on Obama’s watch than the whole eight years of Bush! The man may be born in America but he is no President and certainly not Leader material!

ALLEN WEST 2012! A Proven Leader and Patriot, who has served his country Honorably! Something Obama has never bothered to do!

I liked this post so well I wanted to spread it around.

What a bunch of drivel. That post sucks and so do you.

Cobra said:
When you start questioning how a Black man got into an Ivy league school, you’re damned right I’ll call it racist.

what do you call it when you question how a white man got into an ivy league school?

Don’t even try to tell me no one said Bush only got into Yale because of a Legacy admittance.
http://tinyurl.com/4yescjs

Obama said he benefited from Affirmative Action. Is that racist?
Obama did not graduate with honors, that means his GPA was between a 2.0 and a 3.3.
Law school was another story for Obama. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991.

Cobra said:
I have PLENTY of company with 3,500,000 google hits on “Donald Trump, racist”

I have 20,400,000 results for bush is an idiot and 3,220,000 for george bush yale legacy. Don’t tell me people didn’t questing Bush’s intelligence or how he got into an Ivy league school!

Pablo said:
Does Michelle count?

Ya gotta be careful…Its tough to tell the sex of a Wookie.

sarainitaly said:
what do you call it when you question how a white man got into an ivy league school?

Don’t even try to tell me no one said Bush only got into Yale because of a Legacy admittance.
http://tinyurl.com/4yescjs

Obama said he benefited from Affirmative Action. Is that racist?
Obama did not graduate with honors, that means his GPA was between a 2.0 and a 3.3.
Law school was another story for Obama. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991.

I have 20,400,000 results for bush is an idiot and 3,220,000 for george bush yale legacy. Don’t tell me people didn’t questing Bush’s intelligence or how he got into an Ivy league school!

Which Presidential contender in 2000 or 2004 questioned George W. Bush about his Yale legacy? Grades at Yale? His rejection from the University of Texas? His cheerleading career? Hell, which one questioned it when Bush HIMSELF said this:

Bush, c student quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARUz21X1JDk

Sara, people on the right were CELEBRATING anti-intellectualism during the Bush years, as though they were rebelling against the Rhodes Scholar President Clinton.
You remember the quotes, Sarah…
“Bush is the kind of guy you’d like to have a beer with!”
“He’s a regular guy!”

Given Bush’s abuse of the English language, of course people questioned his intelligence, but nobody questions how the White children of millionaires get into the best schools. They might not like the game, but they sure know how it’s played.

Given that…which Presidential contender demanded to see John McCain’s transcripts, given that he finished 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy Annapolis?

Who demanded to see Ronald Reagan’s Eureka College transcripts?

It’s not about grades, Sara. You know it. It’s about RACE. It always has been. If you don’t believe me, show me the courage of your convictions and comment on Gone Fishing’s conversation about the First Lady above.

–Cobra

Bush did not portray himself as some kind of scholar. Obama does. That’s why the grades are important. We have the right to know if he’s a dumba$$.

darogris said:
Bush did not portray himself as some kind of scholar. Obama does. That’s why the grades are important. We have the right to know if he’s a dumba$$.

Sure they did. They PROUDLY touted his MBA from Harvard. He was supposed to be the CEO President.

Second, WHY would you question the grades of a guy who graduated Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law School, and was President of Harvard Law Review? If he was on academic probation throughout Harvard, then by all means, raise the flag. If the guy graduated in the top of his class at the best law school in America, and somebody’s claiming Obama “didn’t deserve to be there”, that’s straight up RACISM.

–Cobra

People need to be reminded that Obama preferred to have a military man in prison than to release his long form certificate (with nothing at all embarrassing on it I may add)
A real man would have saved this man of conscious from that result.

Now Imagine for a moment Obama, stepping into the shoes of Abraham Lincoln at that moment. Here is an example of the spirit of Lincoln Inspiring Obama to lead magnanimouly.

Our Commander in Chief hears that one of his officers believes that his orders are from someone who hasn’t proven he is Constitutionally qualified to act in the role of commander in Cheif. The CIF immediately sends out an order to not only release his birth certificate for public view, but to deliver a copy to the soldier, with a letter that states: Dear LTC Lakin as your commander in Chief I speak for the American people to thank you for your service to this Country. I want you to know that I have respect for those who disagree with my policies, but the BC issue should not become a stumbling block to the service of any American soldier.
Respectfully yours,
President Barack Obama, Commander in Chief.

THAT IS MAGNANIMITY. Look up the word and it’s origins. And please spare me the explanations of how his BC had been released. The reality that States are digitizing official documents is but a painfully bureaucratic slap in the face in this case. It was so insulting to hear. Magnanimity requires compassion, and it was not compassionate to use this NEW quirk of our modern age to punish those who fear laws are being broken, and that the President is unlawfully in office.

The failure is Obama’s and that of his evil advisors that this thing dragged on and tortured many good honest (non racist) Americans. Shame on this administration.