Odd how events work out and funny how today's release of Obama's long form birth certificate ties into yesterday's post. Thus it looks like yet another body blow to the full mooners on the right who have bent over backwards in trying to "prove" that Barack Obama isn't one of us. The White House commenting on the release said: "Mr. Obama said he decided to release the document in an effort to end the "silliness" about his birth that threatened to distract from the serious issues facing the country..."Over the last two and a half years, I have watched with bemusement," he said in brief remarks. "I've been puzzled by the degree to which this thing just kept on going"...Mr. Obama said there would be a "segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest." But he said that he was "speaking to the vast majority of the American people and to the press. We do not have time for this kind of silliness."
Conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan once said that Barack Obama had an uncanny knack for giving his political enemies enough rope to hang themselves with and eventually that's just what they wound up doing. Obama played the "birthers" like a banjo for the past few years and now in one deft masterstroke stroke he has rendered them completely irrelevant. Ironically in doing so he may have let the G.O.P. off the hook and reduced its internal problems to solely having to deal with it's restive Tea Party members rather than having to maneuver among the two groups as they had heretofore had to do.
