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Originally Posted by August
Y'know I've always believed that Obama was born in the US like he and the State of Hawaii have said he was, and I still do, but I have to wonder why he has at this late date finally decided to release the original?
It seems to me that this just shows a lack of good judgment on his part.
He could have put this whole thing to bed years ago, long before it became entrenched. That would have been the smartest thing to do. But now having allowed so much time to pass it serves no purpose except to make people doubt it's authenticity.
Imagine if the Bush administration had released film footage it had been sitting on for three years which showed without a doubt that it was Flight 77, and not a missile, that plowed into the Pentagon on 9-11. Think any of those inside job conspiracy theorists would believe it? Think it's possible that a few on the fencers might become suspicious at the tardiness of it's release?
I do NOT doubt that Obama is qualified to be President but I now have a little less confidence in his ability to be a good President.
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I can't speak for the White House, but my thought was this:
If a claim, in the minds of the White House, is so far out in left field that the guys making the claim are in a whole different ballpark, what do you have to gain by engaging them in the game?
In other words, why bother even lending the illusion of a token of credibility to an absurd claim by denying it? I'm not sure that rationale wasn't already in play; the whole, "We don't negotiate with terrorists," angle.
Either that, or they just didn't think it really was that important enough to enough people to warrant action; I'm not sure that it was this time, either, but with the Donald's hair behind this one, people were going to notice.