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I watched Geraldo's interview with Trump and Huckabee last night, Sat. March 26, 2011.

There were many things about the interviews that fascinated me and got me thinking more and more about this Obama birth certificate mess.

For instance, Gov. Huckabee told Geraldo that a presidential candidate has to fill out all kinds of detailed financial disclosure forms.

1. I started thinking out loud: Wait a minute, on the one hand, presidential candidates are required by law to disclose their most intimate financial resources---for a person like rich businessman Trump, filling out such a form would be very long and tedious, and maybe even embarrassing---while, on the other hand, when somebody brings up the subject that a presidential candidate should attach a copy of his long form birth certificate to his application form, a lot of people, like Whoopi Goldberg, go crazy and demand why a presidential candidate should have to present a long form birth certificate to prove that the candidate was born in the United States and is the right age to be president.

2. To me, having a presidential candidate disclose detail information about his financial resources would seem to be much more work and more emotionally draining than attaching a long form birth certificate to one's presidential application form for the world to see.

3. My point is this: Why, on the one hand, do people go crazy when a presidential candidate is asked to provide his long form birth certificate so the public can be reassured that he is who he says he is and that he was born in the United States, while, on the other hand, nobody seems to complain that a presidential candidate has to provide detail records about his financial resources, especially when many presidential candidates are millionaires and they may have made their riches through questionable means.

4. Again, what is so sacred about a person's long form birth certificate that it has suddenly become taboo to bring up the subject of a presidential candidate's long form birth certificate?

5. Many of us routinely provided our long form birth certificates when asked from out days in Little League as a child to the times that we applied for jobs as an adult.

6. So what is so sacred about a presidential candidate's birth certificate---as opposed to the birth certificates' that belong to the rest of us---that people like Whoopi Goldberg go crazy when the topic of presidential candidates' long form birth certificates are brought up, while, at the same time, these same people say nothing about requiring presidential candidates to disclose their most intimate financial resources?

7. Yes. Will someone please explain to me why the topic of presidential birth certificates is so sacred that many people consider it such a grievous sin to require a presidential candidate to attach a copy of his long form birth certificate to his application form so that the public can be reassured that the candidate is who he says he is and that he was born in the United States where and when he says he was?