[Badeye]

“Do you believe that Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen?”

The birthers need to shut the hell up. There are dozens of issues upon which the GOP can destroy the Democrats going into November, this isn’t one of them.

[Saltmeat]

Doesn't matter whether they shut up or not. They are being ignored anyway. It should be the media's job anyway. Look how the media pursued W about his air national guard service. So far that when they couldn't produce any factual evidence, Dan Rather manufactured some false information. Yet the same media refuses to touch the bona-fide question concerning Obama’s birth certificate. Obama believes the question is so bona-fide that he has spent in excess of $2,000,000 avoiding the issue.

What we do need is for one state to make it clear to Obozo that he will not be allowed on the ballot in that state in 2012 unless and until he proves that he is a natural-born citizen of the U. S.

Perhaps the reason that he has now begun to say that he would rather be a good one-term president than a two-term president is that he knows that after one term his gig is up.

[okie01]

“Do you believe that Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen?”

"The birthers need to shut the hell up."

It's not helping. But neither is it, I believe, hurting. I'm not going to make an issue of it, anyway.

In any event, there's a very good response to the question: Is the President a U.S. citizen? Well, so far as I know, yes. But, since the question has come up, it is a little puzzling that his campaign is so intent on keeping his birth certificate under seal, isn't it?

Every one of those questions can be fended off effectively. Indeed, they offer the opportunity to make points of your own.