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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
It's about time. Should have done it long ago....
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I'm not so sure, Dave. Allowing this to fester to the point that it became an article of faith to the GOP allowed Obama and the Dems to draw a contrast between themselves and the crazies who have taken over the GOP.
Here's an interesting op-ed piece from today's Post, published before the release of the long-form certificate;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...xsE_story.html
"Haley Barbour’s announcement Monday that he will not seek the presidency is just the latest sign that politically sentient Republicans fear their party’s voters have moved so deeply into la-la land that winning their support in next year’s primaries could render their nominee unelectable in November....But Republicans are massively distracted by birtherism. A New York Times-CBS News poll last week showed that while 57 percent of Americans believe that President Obama was born in the United States, against 25 percent who didn’t, just 33 percent of Republicans believed him American-born, while 45 percent did not. The Republican level of birtherism was effectively identical to that of self-identified Tea Party supporters, 34 percent of whom thought Obama was U.S.-born, while 45 percent did not.
Which is to say that the loopy, enraged divorce from reality of the Tea Potniks has infected the entire party."
Obama seems to have followed the old adage "never interfere with your enemy when he is destroying himself." Obie played these clowns like a fiddle.