Wednesday, April 27, 2011

So Now What Birthers?!

The White House on Wednesday morning released the president's long form birth certificate (pdf) in an attempt to put "birther" questions to rest.
"The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good T.V., but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement.

The president had released his certificate of live birth in 2008, but many "birthers" said the absence of a long form birth certificate prompted questions about Obama's birthplace of Hawaii. In recent weeks potential GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has brought birther questions into the forefront of the media.
"At a time of great consequence for this country--when we should be debating how we win the future, reduce our deficit, deal with high gas prices, and bring stability to the Middle East, Washington, DC, was once again distracted by a fake issue," Pfeiffer said. "The President's hope is that with this step, we can move on to debating the bigger issues that matter to the American people and the future of the country."
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Now you know and I know, two things are going to happen here.  First you're going to have a percentage of people who believed this nonsense, who will continue to believe it.  I don't know how, I don't know what, but I do know somehow, some way, they will find fault with this.  Second you're going to have people who believed this nonsense move on to some other nonsense to believe.  The folks who believed this will believe anything negative about Obama.  So they will find something.  It's only a matter of time. P.S. no sooner than I published this they found their something else.  How ridiculous...


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