Oh, ye of such abundant faith.

We have had the evidence in the palms of our hands since the day Barack Obama announced his candidacy four years ago: There was the standard, state-issued birth certificate – which should have settled the issue right then and there. Then there was the August 9, 1961 edition of the Honolulu Advertiser, clearly announcing the birth – in Honolulu (which as we all know is part of the United States) – of the future president of the United States. Finally the other day the president threw up his hands and released the “certificate.of live birth” (as opposed to the perfectly legitimate “long form” version). This was the document that was signed by the doctor and certified by the state of Hawaii within minutes of baby Barack’s birth. You would think that this would be enough to convince these nitwits, wouldn’t you? As a matter of pathetic fact, you would think that this would be more than enough – that the matter could now be mercifully put to rest once and for all.

Think again.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, of the candidates from the two major political parties, only one of them was born in the United States of America – Barack Obama. John McCain was born in Panama. Do you find it as curious as I do that it is the black guy who has had his citizenship called into question? I’m sure that that’s just a coincidence though. I’m sure that the man’s race has not a thing to do with it.

AUTHOR’S NOTE:
I just made a twenty dollar bet with myself that I could write that last sentence and keep a straight face. I lost.

There was Orly Taitz, the so-called “Queen of the birthers”, on MSNBC’s The Last word with Laurence O’Donnell, desperately trying to keep the lie alive. O’Donnell gave this idiotic woman a chance to show some real class by admitting that, yes, the certificate is official; Barack Obama was born in the USA. And yet she just couldn’t bring herself to do it. Oily Orly has made quite a bundle of cash in the last two years from her persecution of the truth. As someone once noted, it’s easy for people not to understand the obvious when their paychecks depend upon them not understanding it.

Not that it makes a damned bit of difference, but Orly Taitz (the supposed “expert” on what it takes to be a honest-to-goodness, true-blue American) was born in Russia and raised in Israel – not that that makes any difference.

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Of course Obama’s political operatives must have realized that no matter what, the birthers would say the birth certificate is a fraud (someone has already gone through the trouble to “prove” the document was doctored using Adobe Illustrator http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html?article=8497760) . I don’t have any expertise to objectively say one way or another if the document is legit but the bottom line is, it’s not going to matter to most Americans even if Obama isn’t a “natural born citizen.” (If the average American isn’t going to be angry about Obama’s other much more serious constitutional violations, why would they care about where in the world his mother gave birth to him?)

Obama’s releasing the birth certificate in this very early stage of the 2012 campaign was brilliant in that by the time election day comes around, most people are going to be so sick of this issue (if they aren’t already…I know I am) that any candidate who would be in the same room as a birther would have little or no chance of beating Obama.