Friday, November 18, 2016

Why did President Obama wait so long to show a birth certificate?

Some reasons:

  1. There was simply no need for him to do so - After all, he knew that he was born in Hawaii, he had a copy of it and it was a meaningless controversy. Why would he bother?
  2. It would have played into the hands of those people who disputed his US birth - What happened when he did show his birth certificate? The argument became that the certificate was somehow “fake” taking the entirely ridiculous matter into even further levels of absurdity.
  3. The people who were clamoring for it had no credibility themselves - Why would he (or should he) have wasted valuable time acknowledging a collection of crackpots and cranks? What value was there for him to do so, especially since those people weren’t and aren’t his supporters and didn’t vote for him?


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