The Tim Adams former state worker interview says the long form doesn’t exist and his former co-workers and boss are lying.
I’m still in the “he was born there but is hiding something on the BC” school with people like Hannity.
Appreciate Trump though going to the extreme. Someone needs to be out there pushing it far so the ‘reasonable people’ can occupy middle territory.
Line tonight from the White House per CNN was: “If we show it they’ll just move the goalposts and want something else or say it’s a forgery. Those who don’t believe he was born here will never be convinced.”
That’d be a decent response if it were like the 422 people who say we never landed on the moon. Or the 5-10% of Democrats who believed George Bush blew up the levees.
Ignoring 62% of the country? That’s a “fringe element”?
The calculation is Obama suffers less political damage with the questions, lawsuits, news reports, birther research continuing than if he were to just show the damn thing.
Honestly I’d like to see it and move on. Even the CNN hosts are getting to the “just show the birth certificate so we can cover something else” point.
Me too. BUT if it's proven that it's really "missing" and not in HI it will be then that I will strongly believe that his original longform is sitting in a hospital in some other nation.
Up to now I still suspect he's just hiding something in the BC.
100% BS from the White House! If they really thought that the opposition would move the goalposts, they'd be grateful for the chance to demonstrate the suggested intellectual dishonesty or hypocrisy of such people. Nothing delights libs like hypocrisy on the part of their enemies (ie, conservatives, Americans -- and adults). Moreover they could tag such a response as racism: "You see? It was never about the BC. Hypocrites! It's just vicious American racism!"
If they were truly being handed an opportunity to expose the dishonesty of his detractors, 0bama and his team would be thrilled to play the card.
Meanwhile, they let Lt. Col. Terry Lakin go to prison rather than show the damn paperwork.