Obama and the Matter of Trust

American Thinker ^ | March 6, 2012 | Cindy Simpson

[epicurious]

Ronald Reagan was fond of saying: "Trust, but verify."

President Obama told us he released his official long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011. Can we trust him, and should we verify?

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his "Cold Case Posse" attempted to answer that question, with the intended goal of verifying the authenticity of the certificate presented by the White House to the public.

At the March 1 press conference, Sheriff Arpaio concluded that there is "probable cause" to believe that the document is a "computer-generated forgery." Additionally, the sheriff stated: "I do not believe that it is a scan of an original 1961 paper document, as represented by the White House when the long-form birth certificate was made public." The Sheriff's Office released a formal report of its "preliminary findings" and indicated that its investigation is continuing.

Most of the reporters' questions at the end of the press conference were statements in defense of Obama, and the subsequent coverage by major news outlets asserted that rumors about the president's birth certificate were "debunked" and "discredited," but gave no details of the debunking or discrediting. As the sheriff also noted at the conference, no specific or official investigation has ever been reported, unless we can count Savannah Guthrie, apparently the only reporter allowed to touch and photograph the original long-form certificate after it was released, or the two representatives of Factcheck (neither noted as having any relevant professional experience in document examination) who photographed the short-form certification posted in 2008.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/obama_and_the_matter_of_trust.html#ixzz1oN1okTod

[Venturer]

There has never been a clear investigation into Obama, his records, his college records,or anything attached to him. There is always a technical excuse to avoid the case.

The Supreme Court is hiding from it, The Congress is hiding from it and any Judge who begins such a case is scared off before it comes to fruition.

The Media is guilty of obfuscation,bias,failure to properly vet, and flat out lying for Obama.

It does not have truth anywhere in it’s agenda when it comes to our Mulatto in Chief.

[MeganC]

I hate to say it, but the MSM will absolutely ignore this no matter how damning the evidence is.

Myself, if it comes out one day that Obama was, indeed, a Kenyan and that the whole Hawaii thing is a fabrication then I will want to see every last MSM’er who derided skeptics put up against a wall and shot for aiding and abetting the worst enemy America ever had.

[MissMagnolia]

To paraphrase another favorite Reagan quotation: "It isn't so much that the mainstream media are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so."

[glennaro]

The Media is guilty of obfuscation, bias, failure to properly vet, and flat out lying for Obama

Except for "flat out lying for Obama", you need to include most "conservative" talk show hosts (e.g., Hewitt; Medved; Levin; Bennett; et al.) as guilty of the same things.