Birtherism is a waste of time!
***Not really. Basically, for $10, Obama could make it all go away. Instead he’s dropped $2M to fight it. That’s 7 figures worth of political leverage. No other issue has that much leverage. That’s why a bimbo like Trump can wave his arms about it and end up with the lead in the presidential polls a few weeks later. That is no waste of time.
A standard birther canard, unsupported by any facts.
Obama spent a total of $720m on his campaign. Only about $1.2m of that was for legal services. That's 17 cents per thousand dollars of expenditure! On all matters, combined! What part of that $1.2m was for birther defense?
The fact is, the courts have uniformly brushed off birther lawsuits. Thus, Obama has simply not needed to spend any significant sum defending against them.
As of now, Obama's Chicago community organizer instincts inform him there is greater return in stonewalling on the issue. Makes those rascally Republicans look like a bunch of crazy whackos, don't you know! He'll produce his BC when and if the time seems right, when the risk of stonewalling exceeds the reward, when independents who might actually vote for him start asking questions.