Rename the board?

[SkinnyBenny]

Ever heard that quote that goes something like, "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"?  By drawing it out this long only to eventually lay the hammer down, Obama let his opposition run their mouths for the better part of three years.  A pretty elite way to make them dig themselves a giant hole of stupidity, if you ask me.
 , Barry!

[Dirty Sanchez]

Still doesn't change the fact that his administration is jimmy carter on steroids.

[OregonSmock]

But, but, but... his middle name is HUSSEIN!!!!



 

[pike]

And to answer the original question, I wouldn't change the name.  Those who associated themselves as birthers should wear that badge of idiocy proudly.

pike, dax, and pretty much nobody else.  Maybe some comments that were more as jabs to irritate the 'bots by others.

Don't believe I ever took a stance on birtherism since it's a Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) non issue, but thanks for playing.

[Dirty Sanchez]

And to answer the original question, I wouldn't change the name.  Those who associated themselves as birthers should wear that badge of idiocy proudly.

pike, dax, and pretty much nobody else.  Maybe some comments that were more as jabs to irritate the 'bots by others.

Don't believe I ever took a stance on birtherism since it's a Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) non issue, but thanks for playing.

Thought you did.  My bad.   

[Dirty Sanchez]

But, but, but... his middle name is Faroukmanesh!!!!



 

[OregonSmock]

But, but, but... his middle name is Faroukmanesh!!!!



 

 

[Panjandrum]

obama may be the bigger idiot for letting it go on for so long.

The fact that he caved to these rubes makes him an idiot. No matter what he does they'll keep moving the goalposts.

This president responds to poll numbers. The longer he waited, the more people were questioning why he didn't just show it and get it over with. Even his supporters were starting to wonder.

No one with a functioning brain ever had a doubt that he was a US citizen.

Does everyone really think that we'd inaugurate a president without a birth certificate?  Really?  He just showed up on Pennsylvania Ave. and handed over his driver's license and student ID and everyone said, "Yeah, we good."

Anyone who had one shred of doubt is a conspiracy theorist or an idiot.  I don't care what someone thinks of his policies, but if they thought that we'd just let him run the country for two years without having proof of being born in the US, well, that person is a rough ridin' idiot, and I'm being kind.

[Panjandrum]

Ever heard that quote that goes something like, "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"?  By drawing it out this long only to eventually lay the hammer down, Obama let his opposition run their mouths for the better part of three years.  A pretty elite way to make them dig themselves a giant hole of stupidity, if you ask me.
 , Barry!

The only reason anyone ever asked for proof of a birth certificate in the first place was because he was a black guy with a foreign sounding name.  It would have happened to any Hispanic candidate/president as well.

However, if he was a white guy named Hans Gruber, no one would have said one word.  We basically just proved to ourselves (and anyone else in the world) that we're still a country full of backasswards hick racists.

[Goldbrick]

It's never safe to assume that 'they' checked it out. Whoever they may be, that you don't specify, because you don't know. Some birthers are racists, some genuinely believe that he wasn't born in the US based on questions about his past.

If anything, I kind of like the fact that there are people out there who aren't afraid to suffer extreme public ridicule just to ask basic questions such as this.

But yes, quite a bit of racists were bound to latch onto it.

That said, I never once thought he was anything but a US citizen.

Also, it appears some are calling into question aspects of this new birth certificate. Read all about it.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

This is a big victory for the birthers in my opinion.  After 2 years of wondering Donal Trump brings him to his knees. 

Hilarious.      This guy can't get any more pathetic.

[Panjandrum]

This is a big victory for the birthers in my opinion.  After 2 years of wondering Donal Trump brings him to his knees. 

Hilarious.      This guy can't get any more pathetic.

 

[SkinnyBenny]

This is a big victory for the birthers in my opinion.  After 2 years of wondering Donal Trump brings him to his knees. 

Yeah, that's what happened.

[fatty fat fat]

Obama is really really f*cking good.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Obama is really really f*cking good.

Yeah

[husserl]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/28/birther_poll/index.html

An alarming poll from CBS News and the New York Times last week found that nearly 70 percent of Republicans either believed President Obama wasn't born on American soil or weren't sure.

Now, in the wake of President Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate Tuesday morning, there is a bit of encouraging news: According to a snap poll conducted by Survey USA, 24 percent of Republicans say that doubts they previously had about where Obama was born have been erased and that they are now satisfied that their president was born here.

But there is also discouraging news: More than half of Republicans still aren't buying Obama's story. 18 percent of them told Survey USA that they consider the long-form a forgery, and another 33 percent say they still have doubt. Moreover, nearly 60 percent of Republicans say that they either still consider Obama's birthplace to be open to debate or aren't sure, and 33 percent claim that the president was "definitely" or "probably" born elsewhere.

[Cire]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/28/birther_poll/index.html

An alarming poll from CBS News and the New York Times last week found that nearly 70 percent of Republicans either believed President Obama wasn't born on American soil or weren't sure.

Now, in the wake of President Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate Tuesday morning, there is a bit of encouraging news: According to a snap poll conducted by Survey USA, 24 percent of Republicans say that doubts they previously had about where Obama was born have been erased and that they are now satisfied that their president was born here.

But there is also discouraging news: More than half of Republicans still aren't buying Obama's story. 18 percent of them told Survey USA that they consider the long-form a forgery, and another 33 percent say they still have doubt. Moreover, nearly 60 percent of Republicans say that they either still consider Obama's birthplace to be open to debate or aren't sure, and 33 percent claim that the president was "definitely" or "probably" born elsewhere.

racism alive and well, water is wet, etc.

[Dirty Sanchez]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/28/birther_poll/index.html

An alarming poll from CBS News and the New York Times last week found that nearly 70 percent of Republicans either believed President Obama wasn't born on American soil or weren't sure.

Now, in the wake of President Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate Tuesday morning, there is a bit of encouraging news: According to a snap poll conducted by Survey USA, 24 percent of Republicans say that doubts they previously had about where Obama was born have been erased and that they are now satisfied that their president was born here.

But there is also discouraging news: More than half of Republicans still aren't buying Obama's story. 18 percent of them told Survey USA that they consider the long-form a forgery, and another 33 percent say they still have doubt. Moreover, nearly 60 percent of Republicans say that they either still consider Obama's birthplace to be open to debate or aren't sure, and 33 percent claim that the president was "definitely" or "probably" born elsewhere.

racism alive and well, water is wet, etc.

:that'sracistblackkid:


Now let's look at a historic hypothetical.  Had we found WMD's in Iraq, how many dems polled wouldn't have believed it, saying it was Cheney dirty tricks or something.  Probably about the same.  But don't take the blinders off or show independent thought or anything.

[fatty fat fat]

Now let's look at a historic hypothetical.  Had we found WMD's in Iraq, how many dems polled wouldn't have believed it, saying it was Cheney dirty tricks or something.  Probably about the same.  But don't take the blinders off or show independent thought or anything.

good post. i agree.

[Fitz Bath]

:that'sracistblackkid:


Now let's look at a historic hypothetical.  Had we found WMD's in Iraq, how many dems polled wouldn't have believed it, saying it was Cheney dirty tricks or something.  Probably about the same.  But don't take the blinders off or show independent thought or anything.

If were Russell Brand I'd be having sex with Katy Perry.

[LickNeckey]

"Still doesn't change the fact that his administration is jimmy carter on steroids."
 
yeah what a rube, solar panels on the white house?  no self respecting oil man would have that.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/carter-energy/

energy independence, what does that even mean? 

[Dirty Sanchez]

"Still doesn't change the fact that his administration is jimmy carter on steroids."
 
yeah what a rube, solar panels on the white house?  no self respecting oil man would have that.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/carter-energy/

energy independence, what does that even mean? 

Yeah, that's what I meant.   

Try super stagflation and malaise.

[SkinnyBenny]

Still doesn't change the fact that his administration is jimmy carter on steroids.

Love people who can't think of anything more creative than to refer to something as either "on steroids," "on acid," or "on crack."

Clever, you!

[LickNeckey]

ohh the stagflation that affected most of the western world was caused by Carter?   weird i didn't know that

[Dirty Sanchez]

Contributed to it and made it worse. 

Are you some fan of carter or something?  Still got a sixer of Billy Beer in the fridge?