Take Obama out of this. Lets say you are speaker/CEO/executive X, and your organization prints brochures about you to tell whoever you are interacting with your background. Now lets say you are from the proud state of Texas, but when you get a look at the brochure, it says you hail from Utah, or Kansas. Dont you go back and say “this needs to be fixed”? Wouldn't the sponsoring organization want to change it to avoid looking like morons everytime someone said to you “so, you were born in Utah”? you didn't have to say “no, Texas actually, the brochure is wrong” and thereby implying that the company is A)too dumb to get their materials right and B) too lazy and cheap to fix the error?
Now consider we are talking not about a state, but your COUNTRY! How many people, not to mention professionals with Ivy league credentials, would be ok with their profile indicating they were from India, or Elbownia, or Craplakistan, or wherever?
Not many that I know of. yet to believe Obama, this is exactly what we have to believe. Before, to give any credence to the Birther argument, you had to read between the lines. Now you just have to read a brochure.
——How many people, not to mention professionals with Ivy league credentials, would be ok with their profile indicating they were from India, or Elbownia, or Craplakistan, or wherever?——
Yet even the conservative talk radio show I’m listening to here in MA seems to be taking this explanation at face value. Ugh.