Presidential lecture on silliness...

I actually always believed that there was real proof and that his being asked to provide it had so much to do with his name and legacy. I believed that McCain was asked only to be "fair" but in all fairness, no other presidential campagn demanded such proof. I remember a comment that Obama made early on that made me think that he was just trying to prove a point. He really wasn't required to show proof to the general public. No other president ever has. I have to make clear that I am not a big fan of Obama but then again, his birth certificate was not on my list of concerns. I never looked at it as if he "hid it" but rather wondered "just why were we demanding it." If you needed that for proof and did not trust that the proper authorities saw the documentation and agreed that he was a legal citizen ...well, look into your own heart. It really says alot. I am anti-government on so many levels but to me this was a no brainer. And then you have to look at the flip side...what if he is not a legal citizen and what if he is in a conspiracy to overtake America. now what? I just cant wrap my head around all this conspiracy stuff.

Thing is...what they showed on TV said "live birth certification". That doesn't count! But still...for nearly 3 years the country has been asking for it and he hasn't produced it. Now...one man asks for it and suddenly ..here it is. So...he is still trying to cover something, I think as Donald Trump was on his tail about finding the truth and now suddenly he has no problem showing it? Strange and odd! And to me...it isn't even about born or not born...it is about showing the required proof that is requested to be president. Every other one has showed it, why not Obama. And why did he object to it so strongly for 2 years! And why show when Donald asked..and not when others have asked. I t hink he is just trying to downplay Trump so he can campaign against him saying "that is all he was concerned with..." yet it just proves Trump pushes till he gets results and that is what is needed in a president! Trump has my vote!

Obama in his speech he has watched this silliness with amusement for the past two years. This absolutely infuriates me ......he should have been doing his job and not just sitting back and encouraging this source of amusement instead of showing his damned birth certificate.

It was supposedly a copy of the original.It could have easily been manipulated.Besides,what took him so long?People have been asking for this "silliness" for several years now.Of course,Obama has proven time and time again he doesn't care about what the American people want.

Question is; why, if he had this all along, did he post the short form on the internet instead of THIS ONE? Question is; why did he spend all that money on legal fees to keep from having to release it, and suddenly because Trump asks, he releases it? I'm not entirely sure Trump and Obama aren't in cahoots with one another. It's a gut feeling, but won't go away. Even after watching Trump's comments on the matter: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42779923/ns/politics-white_house/

To be asking for the President's birth certificate at such a time when he had already won the electoral race and is already holding the position for quite a time is indeed kinda silly. Things like this should be done during the elections. Aren't candidates asked to submit an application for certain positions? What requirements are asked from the candidates to ensure that they are actually QUALIFIED to run for this and that position? I think it is extremely silly and too late to retrieve spilled milk if anything of that sort ever happened. It is the wrong time and the wrong move.

I agree it is pure silliness that it took two and half years. What took so damn long? Illegals can get this info in twenty minutes. Why did it take him so long?

Yeah, the speech was his normal, "I'm too important for you peasants" arrogance. Once again, he took all sorts of shots at the right, then repeated his much ignored calls for civility. He's still a phony and an elitist oaf, but his birth certificate isn't. :~D

i was a history fanatic and was reading a book recently that mentioned there was another president who had birth certificate issues. it was a long time ago but i thought it was interesting with all the hoopla about obama.

Obama has a long history of treating us like children and ones needing correction at that. Remember, the only reason people didn't like his health care plan is because they didn't understand it. He knows that we would just love him and all he does if we were just smart enough to understand. I don't find it surprising at all that he turned the attention away from the reasons why he would not have answered these questions a long time ago but instead accuse those who asked the question of being silly and distracted by unimportant things. It was important, and made more so by his refusal to answer.

For me they are to be because they know how to be it as he his self now.

I'm with you, O'Lady. (laughing at my abbreviation of your nick, love it, by the way) I always thought it was very silly of him not to release the information. OK, he does not have to prove himself, but how about the Poor Americans who wanted to reassure themselves? I'm even more surprised that he was not forced to release it sooner.