Obama gives in to the crazy horde

[Razgovory]

(CNN) – The White House released President Obama's original birth certificate Wednesday.

The surprise release follows recent and sustained remarks by businessman Donald Trump, among others, that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States.

Obama's birth certificate [PDF]

White House spokesman Jay Carney is expected to speak more about the birth certificate Wednesday morning.

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday, Trump repeated his doubts and said he had been told the certificate was "missing."

A new CNN investigation revealed earlier this week what most analysts have been saying since the "birther" controversy erupted during the 2008 presidential campaign: Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

While the president has made light of the controversy, the question remained political red meat for some of his critics. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed that nearly 75% of Americans believe Obama was definitely or probably born in the United States. More than four in 10 Republicans, however, believe he probably or definitely was not born in America.

The U.S. Constitution says only "natural born" citizens can become president - a vague clause that some members of the birther movement contend disqualifies Obama because, they insist, he was born outside the United States.

Skeptics contend, among other things, that Obama was born in his father's home country of Kenya.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/27/white-house-releases-obama-birth-certificate/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/04/27/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

Not that it will make any difference.

[jimmy olsen]

It's absolutely shameful that its come to this. 

[Razgovory]

I doubt it will satisfy them.  The new Birth Certificate doesn't look any different from the other one.

[Kleves]

I liked Obama's press conference where he hammered Trump and his ilk.

[Faeelin]

You think he'd wait until after the primaries, to make sure the craziest Republican wins.

[JacobL]

I liked Obama's press conference where he hammered Trump and his ilk.

Spotted this on espns twitter section.

@wingoz at this point i think it's only fair that Trump give us some proof that his hair is real

[Caliga]

I doubt it will satisfy them.

It won't.  The birther movement is faith-based, like the Tea Party.  Facts don't matter to people like this.  I am interested in what mental gymnastics come next, though, to continue the "controversy".  I guess the obvious one will be "LOOOOL ITS A FAKE!!!1111"

[KRonn]

This will feed the fringies, the conspiracy types. They'll find something else to latch on to. Maybe like the birth certificate is a forgery, put out by the Obama-Haliburton forgery machine.  Or a conspiracy that started at Pres Obama's birth. But this will satisfy those who didn't know what was going on, weren't following, since I thought this was cleared up long ago. Obama's Cert of Live Birth has been out and that's official proof anyway.

[Valmy]

It won't.  The birther movement is faith-based, like the Tea Party.  Facts don't matter to people like this.  I am interested in what mental gymnastics come next, though, to continue the "controversy".  I guess the obvious one will be "LOOOOL ITS A FAKE!!!1111"

Surely it will satisfy some of them.  Those in the movement naive enough to think it is legitimate.

[Razgovory]

It won't.  The birther movement is faith-based, like the Tea Party.  Facts don't matter to people like this.  I am interested in what mental gymnastics come next, though, to continue the "controversy".  I guess the obvious one will be "LOOOOL ITS A FAKE!!!1111"

Surely it will satisfy some of them.  Those in the movement naive enough to think it is legitimate.

Doubt it.  It's not really about Obama being citizen.

[MadImmortalMan]

They actually flew a lawyer to Hawaii to get it. What the fuck they have no fax machines in Hawaii? A scanner maybe?

[DGuller]

It's absolutely shameful that its come to this. 

That's what the birthers thought on November 5, 2008.

[Valmy]

Doubt it.  It's not really about Obama being citizen.

Well right but surely there are few suckers who are fooled into thinking it is.

[Eddie Teach]

It's absolutely shameful that its come to this. 

What exactly has it come to? Public officials and candidates releasing personal records isn't exactly unheard of.

[Faeelin]

[What exactly has it come to? Public officials and candidates releasing personal records isn't exactly unheard of.

So do you think it is shameful that a significant number of Americans do not believe that the President was born in Hawaii?