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Master of mendacity: Obama and the birthers

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Posted: June 01, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By David Solway

There is more.

Even if we refrain from coming to unequivocal conclusions on this file, it seems almost certain that his records must contain damaging information that could bring his presidency into serious, if not terminal disrepute.

How else would one explain the fact that his university transcripts and his records as an Illinois state legislator, like his “long-form” birth certificate, are inaccessible and that Obama has hired a team of lawyers to make sure they remain that way?

This behavior is completely unprecedented in POTUS annals, and he should be duly challenged on it.

Requiring Obama to open his dossier is not a sign of conspiratorial suspicions;

it is quite simply a civil responsibility and the most reasonable of demands since this is precisely what all U.S. presidents should do and have done.

Shirking this responsibility, however, is largely a symptom of either moral cowardice or false propriety, irrespective of how it may be embroidered for public consumption or self-protection.

Of course, there are some who demur out of a sense of fundamental decency which, we might note, goes unreciprocated by the president and his team.

(touché!)

So the obvious questions are:

Why has Obama not consented to this request?

Why does he not dispel suspicion by making his papers available to the public if he has nothing to fear?

What makes him noli me tangere?

What is he reluctant to shed light upon?

Why is the debate about his origins not stopped dead in its tracks by the publication of valid, irrefutable documentation?

And why are those who ask these logical and totally justifiable questions dismissed as madmen and conspiracy theorists?

The conspiracy, it would seem, travels the other way.

And the farce goes on.