I still think the birth certificate is a distraction from the real issue - whether or not someone born with dual citizenship (as admitted on Obama's own website) qualifies as a "natural born citizen".
Remember that it was Phiip J. Berg, a democrat, who (I believe) first popularized the claim that Obama was was born in Kenya. The eligibility question raged across the internet for months before anyone in the mainstream media breathed a single word about it! (Including Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh). Eventually they created the obligatory derogatory label ("birther"), and then battered the curious with insults;
Obama's own supporters keep this particular issue alive. They're still pretending the dual-citizen VS. natural-born-citizen issue has never existed.
It would probably help Obama to produce the full birth certificate now. Should the issue of whether a dual-citizen can be considered a "natural born citizen" - become unavoidable (2012 election, for instance), it would be easier to discredit it as a desperate, suddenly-devised ploy from the "wing-nuts, conspiracy theorists, paranoid, whack-jobs, fringe, tinfoil hat, extremists, crackpots, forgot-your-meds, knuckle draggers, mouth breathers..."
*all these terms from Mathews' and Maddow's shows
"… candidate Obama is not eligible to the Presidency as he would not be a "natural born citizen" of the United States even if it were proved he was born in Hawaii , since, … Senator Obama's father was born in Kenya and therefore, having been born with split and competing loyalties, candidate Obama is not a "natural born citizen" as is required by Article 2, Section 1, of the United States Constitution." (from Donofrio's Application for Emergency Stay - 11/3/08)
Remember that it was Phiip J. Berg, a democrat, who (I believe) first popularized the claim that Obama was was born in Kenya. The eligibility question raged across the internet for months before anyone in the mainstream media breathed a single word about it! (Including Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh). Eventually they created the obligatory derogatory label ("birther"), and then battered the curious with insults;
wing-nut, conspiracy theorist, paranoid, whack-job, fringe, tinfoil hat, extremist, crackpots, forgot-your-meds, knuckle dragger, mouth breather and many, many more*… (and they wonder why we don't watch?)
Obama's own supporters keep this particular issue alive. They're still pretending the dual-citizen VS. natural-born-citizen issue has never existed.
It would probably help Obama to produce the full birth certificate now. Should the issue of whether a dual-citizen can be considered a "natural born citizen" - become unavoidable (2012 election, for instance), it would be easier to discredit it as a desperate, suddenly-devised ploy from the "wing-nuts, conspiracy theorists, paranoid, whack-jobs, fringe, tinfoil hat, extremists, crackpots, forgot-your-meds, knuckle draggers, mouth breathers..."
*all these terms from Mathews' and Maddow's shows