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By: Pamela D. Hart President Obama released his long form birth certificate yesterday and said , "This issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now. I think it started during the campaign. I have watched with bemusement, I've been puzzled at the degree at which this thing just kept on going." He’s correct, the issue has been going on since the campaign, and during that time-frame, no one, not even lawyers, have been able to get the President to release his birth certificate. Then, Donald Trump comes into the arena and the media gobbled up and promoted him and the Birther movement because he packaged it with a pretty bow and powerful words, which gave it serious momentum, and ultimately forced the President to release that mysterious piece of paper that those Birthers were certain had invisible script which proved Obama was an alien from outer-space. This entire Birther movement is ridiculous to me in more ways than one. First, I do NOT believe tha...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Two plus years into the unfortunate Presidency of Barrack Hussein Obama and there are those like "The Donald", Sarah Palin, and a host of others who refuse to let the whole "birther" issue die. Even given the state of Hawaii certified the Presidents birth in that state. Keeping this issue on the front burner certainly plays well to a certain base of political activists and potential presidential candidates, but is a waste of time as well as a waste of resource. The money "The Donald" is spending to chase the the birther illusion would be better spent to expose the dangers inherent in the President's politics and philosophy on governance. But hey, it's "The Donald's" money and he can after all spend it as he sees fit. The birther issue is a hollow attempt to expose the President as not being constitutionally able to serve as President of the United Sta...