1) He promised "transparency" (much like Pelosi and Reid).
What did we get instead? Obfuscation, sealing off of his past vital records -- not just his birth certificate, but school records from his childhood, health records, college records, writings from law school, his association with *cough* KNOWN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS like William Ayers. On the part of Pelosi and Reid, attempts to ramrod through changes to procedure, backroom deals and arm twisting, "you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."
And why did Joe the Plumber (who was not running for office, and who did not seek out Obama to ply him with questions) have his personal records revealed to the whole world, while Obama is exempt? Remember how Obama won his Illinois Senate seat, when his opponents divorce records, though *sealed*, somehow were leaked to the world. "Privacy for me, but not for thee" is his motto.
2) One of the elements of the Watergate charges against Nixon was "lying to the American people." And like Nixon, the coverup is worse than the offense.
3) What is at issue here, is not "he wasn't born in this country" but instead "were both his parents US citizens, or was his father a foreign subject". As the old saying used by the government against private citizens goes, if you have nothing to hide, you won't mind us looking. This isn't like a traffic stop where a corrupt officer can plant drugs in the car; so, despite his admissions of narcotic usage in one of his autobiographies, Obama has nothing to fear.
4) Additional suspicions are raised by his apparent favors shown to Islam, passing Bush's oft-maligned "religion of peace" meme. From the ability to chant the call to prayer without an accent (and the declaration that it is the most beautiful sound on earth), to the quote "I will stand with them, should the political winds shift in an ugly direction"(*), to bowing to the Saudi King (Americans do NOT bow!), many of his actions speak a complete unawareness of American habit and sentiment.
5) The best way to refer to the birth certificate, I think, is on the grounds of hypocrisy as above, or on the grounds of overwhelming vanity. Several commentators have suggested that Obama suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Is it to much to think that his birth certificate was flawed, and a stenographer's error or such marked him as Caucasian, or female, by mistake, and he is far too vain to suffer such a humiliating gaffe (even though made by others) to see the light of day? Why not release it and set everyone's mind at ease? What is worth millions of dollars and scads of lawyers, when for a mere $11.50 to the Hawaii Department of Vital Records, the whole issue could be set to rest? This is man who thinks nothing of a $250,000 date night in New York, of trips to Paris and Hawaii, of renting out entire luxury hotels in India. If all the vacations have drained your resources, just ask your friends the Saudi Royalty, or George Soros for a loan. I'm sure they'd be good for it.
6) Finally, I think it's time to come clean about why any and all talk of Obama being a natural-born citizen are hogwash, by definition. I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this and pointed it out.
Point 1, Obama is a lawyer.
Point 2, he went to an Ivy League law school. In fact, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review.
And as everyone knows, great lawyers aren't born...they hatch.
(*) It is true, this quote does not explicitly say "Muslims" but instead refers to Arab and Pakistani immigrants to America in the wake of 9-11. But think about it: in saying he will stand with them, isn't that hinting that he is proudly standing as one of them?
Cheers!
bttt
Just for the record, who are his parents?