It might be worth his time to have us chasing our tails while he is dismantling the economy. If he can make this go away if it becomes too inconvenient and it keeps us distracted from the clear and present danger that a socialist America-hater poses to our country, Obama and Pelosi may benefit from the questions.
I don't claim to understand Obama's mind, or even to be sure whether he has one, but I think we need to be careful how we divide our attention. Obama is doing exceptionally grave damage to the security and the future of the United States, and the birth certificate issue may be a dead end that will distract us from more productive options (if they exist).
His poll numbers are falling fast and some red state Dems are beginning to pay attention. The first big test will be if we can pull enough votes to force a rewrite of that awful budget.
“It might be worth his time to have us chasing our tails while he is dismantling the economy.”
no it just diverts Alan Keyes. This is now his job and the mainstream conservatives focus on the economy and other issues.
There are two possible answers (and perhaps a third, although less likely one):
(1) Obama WAS born in Hawaii and COULD produce the actual certificate any time he wants. Yet, he chooses not to because it suits his purposes. If this controversy did reach a fever pitch and some “mainstream”, famous people took up the cause — (say, Rush for example) — then he could spring the “proof” and brand all his opponents as fringe, goof ball whackos who have no credibility. Meanwhile, the more people who chase down the rabbit trail leading to nowhere, the better for Obama.
(2) OR, he was born in Kenya, they got his birth registered in Hawaii some days later because they wanted him to be a U.S. Citizen, and revealing the real certificate would reveal the scam.
(3) OR, he was born in Hawaii but there is some other reason not to show the actual certificate — something about his father's ID, perhaps. This one seems far fetched to me.
Explanation Number One seems to fit pretty well and is AT LEAST as likely as the second one. Revealing the true certificate later, rather than sooner, could do Obama’s enemies much more damage.
So go work on that project and let other people work on this project. And some people can do two things at once.
Some FReepers are actually capable of walking and chewing gum simultaneously