[Art in Idaho]

Thanks for the update Jeff. So much out there, hard to discern at this point.

I do know this. From a political standpoint, Obama thought he scored by dropping this on us Wednesday morning, then the taping on Oprah - "Why didn't you release it sooner?" Oprah asks, to get it out there, over and done with and now STFU. I wouldn't be surprised if Oprah and Valerie discussed this to "get it out of the way".

From a shrink angle I think most of America is po'ed about this from the standpoint of 1. waiting 3 years 2. his smug, "You folks are silly" comment 3. the whole Lakin thing 3. the time people have put in this trying, in their minds, to patriotically uphold the constitution 4. putting another scan, copy out there that means nothing - basically doesn't prove or disprove anything - nothing but the real original paper will do that with separate forensic document examination and verification.

Now the media meme is case closed and any further discussion of even the natural born citizen clarification by SCOTUS or a Constitutional Amendment is going to be viewed as fringe. That's fine, we'll push ahead. Hopefully the states will put Natural Born Citizen in their eligibility bills which will necessitate a court ruling, maybe up to SCOTUS.

Overall, I think he has miscalculated how much anger there is out there about this. In basic shrink training, you learn early on that beneath frustration, aggravation and disappointment, there's anger. If there's 'something every day' as I've alluded to, it builds. Have you felt frustrated, aggravated and disappointed with Obama? I guess we'll see how much it builds up to November 6, 2012. . . By then will America be angry enough?

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From a shrink angle I think most of America is po'ed about this from the standpoint of 1. waiting 3 years 2. his smug, "You folks are silly" comment 3. the whole Lakin thing 3. the time people have put in this trying, in their minds, to patriotically uphold the constitution 4. putting another scan, copy out there that means nothing - basically doesn't prove or disprove anything - nothing but the real original paper will do that with separate forensic document examination and verification.

Of the many people I've tried to talk to about this, only one has a clue and then he's usually 6 months behind the times. The others have never heard of Lakin. They've never known anything about there being a problem with the Constitution eligibility. They, of course, haven't a clue that the the bc has been debunked. That's whay zero is counting on. He waves a piece of paper on national tv claiming it's his bc and that birthers are silly and the voters accept him at his word as they go about their daily lives.