On 4/27/2011 9:25 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
rangerssuck wrote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...th-certificate

"It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American
people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country."

It certainly distracted a lot of people from his genuine shortcomings, so
thanks a lot birthers.

The whole thing was political. What the entire controversy over Obama's
birth really was about was nothing more than a point of attack against
the president.

The fact is Obama has done such a good job since taking over the country
that the right wing has not had a lot of legitimate things to attack him
over. Virtually everything that was in terrible shape under Bush has
considerably improved under Obama. Jobs and the housing market are the
two areas that are proving the hardest to get turned around but even in
those areas there has been progress. That is a sharp contrast compared
to when Bush was in office when everything was on a downward trend.

As silly and irrelevant as Obama's birth place is it gave the right wing
something to go after Obama over, and they made the most of it. They
took a meaningless issue to the front pages for months on end. They
milked the supposed controversy for all it was worth and they convinced
many republicans that the president was not really an American at all.

That's now over. There will be no apologies from the right. You won't
see any right wingers in this group saying they were wrong. It takes
balls to admit mistakes. Those are lacking in Obama's opponents. So they
will quickly forget all about the birth controversy and will seize some
other minor thing to hector Obama over. But that's what you do when you
have nothing legitimate to complain about. You find some little nit to
pick. The question is what's next for the little people to whine about.

Hawke