This has become my view of the Obama Birth Certificate issue. It weakens him. It is one of many fronts - to borrow a Saul Alinksy rules for radicals strategy - to attack him and the democrats from. It shows them to be extremly dishonest, manipulative, arrogant and out of touch with the American people.
I disagree it weakens his detractors by allowing them to be disregarded as a fringe element aligned with fools who claim Bush took down the towers. Think about it--there is a reason Bush I and II, Rove, Cheney, Palin, Ken Lay, Kissinger and all of the right wing lawyers who argued Bush v Gore haven't joined this fight. It has no merit. Bush, a REPUBLICAN presided over the best intelligence agency on the planet prior to Obama's election and you seriously believe he wouldn't have provided proof of Obama's ineligibility prior to his election? Palin basically called the man a terrorist but she'd shy away from legitimate eligibility questions during a presidential campaign? Either she and McCain are part of the conspiracy or as I believe there is no legitimacy to the claims of the fools who also believe Bush bombed the towers. Just my 2 cents.