Obtaining the long form, the best available documentation of Obama's place of birth, should have required spending just a few dollars and a few minutes of time. It should have been as easy for Obama as lifting up his little finger. Yet year (2007), after year (2008), after year (2009), after year (2010), Obama refused all demands that he do it. Many people concluded that the most likely reason he failed to release his highest-quality birth certificate was that he was unable to do so, because no valid long-form existed.
After four long years, dozens of lawsuits, the court-martial of Dr. Terry Lakin, and the Hawaii's governor's failed attempt to produce the form -- after all that, Obama finally released what he claimed was a legitimate long-form!
Much, much too late. OF COURSE many people doubt the form's authenticity.
If the released long-form is real, Obama's four-year delay demonstrated his contempt for the people he was elected to serve, and his appalling arrogance.
Here is a crucial point that many people don’t know or have forgotten. After Obama released the COLB, CNN announced that this was the only BC Obama could EVER produce, because after HI went digital all paper records were “discarded.”
This point is seminal because CNN didn’t make it up. They got it from HI officials. HI at that time had no LFBC for Obama [which Abercrombie confirmed] so they really, REALLY wanted the COLB to be the last word on the subject.
It was only after Trump got out his massive megaphone and started THRASHING Obama on the subject that the cut and paste Frankenstein BC appeared. Polls had reflected ever larger #s of people doubting Obama’s birth narrative, so something had to be done to stem the tide.
And no, CNN never explained how a piece of paper which had been “discarded” years before could suddenly reappear. The hyena press has only one mode: defend Obama.
The long form was released on April 27, 2011, 18 months before the 2012 election. Obama waited until the Republican Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle was out of office and Obama’s good friend, Neil Abercrombie was the new Governor.
Obama’s intransigence on releasing the long form was helped immeasurably by the Republican Party’s refusal to push the issue. John McCain refused to release any birth certificate ( he did allow one Washington Post reporter to see it) and Mitt Romney only released a Michigan short form abstract which says “VOID” on it four times. They just refused to force Obama’s hand.
Obama made a tactical decision that it was more to his political advantage to have people questioning his eligibility than resolving the issue once and for all. On top of that he kept winning lawsuit after lawsuit on the issue which made him look like a winner.
The political benefit was more votes from minorities who are recent immigrants and also have their “American-ness” questioned: in 2012 73% of Asian voters went for Obama and 71% of Hispanic voters.
No one should ever expect a left wing Democrat to stop acting like a left wing Democrat.