“Count on it. Big time. Even if photos had been released, the same people would be shouting in all caps: “It’s Fake! Layers! Pixels! Photoshop!”
Barry learned one lesson well since his immaculation. Ignore the birthers, spend a few million in legal fees to make it obvious he’s hiding something, drive them even crazier. Fuel the conspiracists to the exploding point. Enlist his apparatchik in the MSM to hang the birthers around the necks of every single potential 2012 GOP candidate. In every single interview allow them to speak of nothing else, especially not the economy or Obamacare. Just keep talking over them, with “Will you denounce the birthers?!? Do you believe Obama was born in Hawaii?!?” Then, if the polls begin to show there’s blowback, BAM! release the proof and make everyone who doubted it, or didn’t denounce it, look like complete kooks. You don’t want kooks like that in charge of the country, do you America?
This one’s going to be much much worse. The One is riding a wave of positive public sentiment over the death of OBL. If The One can fuel a lot of conpiracists, as he did with the BC issue, there will be more public sympathy for him about this than there was about the BC. A lot more. As the conspircay voices gain volume, I can just hear the MSM demanding of Palin...Bachmann...Cain...all of them, “Will you denounce the deathers?!? Do YOU believe the United States military killed OBL in Pakistan?!? Do you think the military is lying to the American people?” On and on, and no other topic of conversation will be allowed. It will be asked over and over during every GOP debate.
The One will drag this out as long as possible, until the conspiracy voices reach a fever pitch and sound nuttier and nuttier. Then, BAM!, here are the photos, you hyenas. Followed by a huge bump for The One in the polls. With the price of gas going up and up, employment going up, the economy in the dumpster, this is the best shot, maybe the only shot, The One has at being re-elected. You bet he’s going to use it. Shamelessly and to great effect.”
100% Correct. Straight out of Alinsky. Marginalize your opponents by making them subject to ridicule.
The best response is: “Good job, President Obama. Now what about gas prices? Unemployment? Exploding public debt?”
For about another twenty minutes after this announcement, and the clock is ticking.
You really think re-releasing the COLB...was proof?