I wonder if the people who have been obsessive over this realize how much credibility this gains the President in the eyes of the youth and independents.
I mean he has no reason to really give a damn what anyone here, or any conservative thinks- he could raise the dead and he'd be hated on FR- but I think this has been planned all along to play to the ‘marginals, the 18-25 folks who don't vote in the same numbers and the wavering independents who are conservative on some issues and liberal on others; it says “see all this fuss about nothing, I have been telling you the truth (barf) all along, now ignore that man behind the curtain”.
Just because he has governed poorly doesn't mean he isn't a dangerous campaigner. I think the folks who have made this an issue have made all opponents of President Obama look a little less credible the problem is not where he was born, it's that someone with his KNOWN views and votes could get elected in the first place.
But I could be wrong, as usual.