poutine wrote:
ducktape wrote:
Adelante wrote:
You know, the first day was a blur, there was so much happening, but I essentially felt the strategy was sound. I still do. But I woke up yesterday feeling very, very sad that he, Leader of the Fucking Free World, President of the United States, with all of his accomplishments in life, had to prove this fucking thing to the racist American people. My heart just goes out to him, but today I am just fucking furious. I don't know what to do with the anger I have in my heart. I really don't. If this wasn't taking place online for me, I swear, I'd smack somebody silly.
Adelante, I feel the same way -- an anger about the birthers and conspiracy promoters that is deeper than it has ever been.
I have to get calmed down before Monday, so that I keep my mouth shut and hands in my pockets when I'm in the same room as Orly.
Channel this energy into keeping these bastards out of the White House for another 4 years.
This president led us through our greatest financial collapse since 1929, saved the auto industry from death, passed the most significant changes to our broken health care system since the 1960s, all while our unemployment rate has been inching lower and the Dow Jones has been gradually rising. All that and they want him to show a birth certificate? He's earned his seat until 2017, so let's give it to him.
When I first saw a news article saying that the long form had been released I thought it must be a gag headline. Then I looked. And looked some more. Then I checked TFB. I was shocked that Obama had "pandered" to the birfers. But then I came to understand that it was a brilliant move. Why? Because in order to win, Obama needs to talk about everything he has accomplished in these past 3 years. While many birfers aren't going to change their minds, some Americans will and have. I have encountered some online who now say, "ok, he showed the long form, I no longer doubt Obama was born in the US; I believe he is a citizen and qualified for the office. I don't appreciate that he took so long to do this, but let's move on."
Granted, none of the hard-core birfers will move an inch. But we knew that and Obama knows that. There is nothing else he can do to appease them except become a white Repub. Even Obama can't do that.
Superman? Yes. A white Repub? No.
Now that the long-form has been released, Obama and our federal and state representatives can move onto other business. There won't be constant questions about Obama's place of birth. The media isn't going to be asking Boehner, Palin, McCain, Reid, Huckabee, Romney, Bachmann, etc about birfers any more. While it is tempting to think that Obama would benefit from stringing the GOP along on this issue, we need our government officials to do their jobs rather than talking to the media about birferism and reading emails from birfers and responding to birfers. We need the national discussion to stay on relevant political issues rather than this constant stumble into birferism. We need our state officials to stop this Repub wet dream legislation requiring long form BCs. I didn't vote for my state legislature to bicker birferism in the state legislature. Most Americans voted for their legislators to do real things, like job creation, resource management, keeping social services functioning, etc. And I need fucking Donald Trump off of my tv and computer screen.
Birferism was beginning to bog down state legislatures and Congress. Since Obama must convince people that he got a hell of a lot done in these past 3 years (which he has), he can't afford for his political peers to be bogged down on birferism. When Congressional members talk about birferism in interviews, they aren't talking about their plans for legislation. That interferes with Obama being able to do his job. When politicians are interviewed about their thoughts on the birth certificate or on Americans who are birfers, they aren't telling us (and Obama) how they are planning to attack important issues. We need that info. When the 2012 GOP hopefuls are asked about birferism, their thoughts on real issues aren't communicated. For Obama to win, we must know what each hopeful is thinking and working on. When those individuals are talking about birfers, we learn less about their strategy.
Obama needs to keep getting things done. Birferism was slowing that down because Obama has to work with Congress. Obama needed Congress to focus; they were getting sidetracked by birferism.
Perhaps letting the 2012 GOP hopefuls trip all over themselves as they tried to figure out how to navigate the Repub base without offending birfers and non-birfers at the same time would have been useful. It was certainly entertaining. But Obama needs those folks to focus on the job they are doing right now.
Besides, I don't think Obama wants to jerk serious contenders around by releasing his BC after 1/2 of the GOP contenders have dropped out of the running. He wants to talk about issues. He wants to win on the issues. Obama is an excellent speaker; constant questions from reporters about birferism on the campaign trail would have taken up needed talking time.
Obama is leading. He is making sure that people are doing their jobs rather than pissing themselves trying to figure out how to please their birfer and non-birfer constituents at the same time. Obama wants to beat a worthy opponent, not some nutter.
Oh, and he wanted to put Trump in his place. But that was just a bonus! That was the toy at the bottom of the cereal box for Obama!
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