Birthers Forever

For most people, today’s release of President Obama’s birth certificate ends any question. Contrary to some thoughts, not everyone who wanted to see Obama’s birth certificate was a rabid fanatic. Some merely began to wonder because how much trouble the White House went to not release it and others were merely suspicious of electronic records, the Chicago machine, and the messianic cult that seemed to engulf the president.

The President’s birth certificate should resolve any reasonable questions and we should not be hearing about birthers. That’s what should happen. What will happen is more complex. Hopefully, most people will move on. Some people just won’t be able to.

For some, it’s an emotional thing. They’ve put themselves too far out on the limb to come back and sheepishly say I was wrong. Anytime, there’s a conspiracy theory that people become obsessed with, some become too emotionally invested to admit there was no conspiracy. Therefore, people believe the Warren Commission was a fraud, and two Independent Counsel reports from offices overseen by Republican IG concluding that Vince Foster committed suicide, are merely covering up.

For others, there are more practical reasons to keep the conspiracy alive. I don’t know if the folks at WND remember how to cover a major story that doesn’t involve the President’s birth certificate. And there are a few other outlets that will lose a lot of traffic as people lose interest in the story.

Whether we’re seeing an example of emotional investment or commercial outrage, Jay Taylor, writing at Vision to America is dealing with the results:

President Obama has finally released his birth certificate. There doesn’t seem to be anything shocking or embarrassing in it that would explain the reluctance to release it. It just looks like your normal birth certificate that all of us have. Of course we’d love to put this issue behind us and move onto the important issues facing our nation …

Well, maybe I was wrong. Maybe, all the birth certificate activists will turn their energy to addressing our nation’s runaway debt or cultural decline…

but questions still remain.

*sigh*  Okay, like what. What piercing questions challenge the authenticity of the document.

Why, if Obama was born on August 4, 1961, was the “Date Accepted by Local Reg.” four days later on August 8, 1961?

Boy, there’s no possible explanation for THAT. Until you find out that August 4, 1961 was a Friday. It seems somewhat plausible that nothing would be proceessed at the Registar’s office on the weekend. The hospital might not even got it in the mail to them until the 7th. Or maybe the person who handled these took a personal day.

David A. Sinclair, the M.D. who signed the document, died nearly eight years ago at age 81 making him unavailable to comment. How convenient.

The President is 49 years old. How many men Obama’s age have the doctor who delivered them still living.  There of course other questions raised by the author, I’m about as qualified to challenge as he is to ask them. They pertain to questions such as how a 1961 Hawaiian hospital would describe the race of Obama’s African Father and what numbers mean on the side of the birth certificate. Mr. Taylor does not know. He’s no expert on Hawaiian birth certificates, but there’s been so much invested, he just can’t let it go.

However, I think most will move on. However, I would strongly encourage them to move on to issues that really effect the country and not move on to Obama’s college grades. No one cares.

Obama has been President for nearly three years and Americans will judge him by what he did office, not what grades he got in Intermediate Algebra.

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