Jesus, Barry and Joseph!

Oh no they didn't. Did they? Because by capitulating to The Toupee, Obama accomplished exactly two things, both the complete opposite of what he intended.

First, he gave credence and currency to the whole nutjob argument, which even a good segment of Wingnutistan had dismissed as being too crazy even for them. When the left had damaging goods on Dubya- about his draft dodging and DWI-ing and drugging and dalliances, did HE ever call a press conference to deny or explain? Hell no; his minions put out "how dare you!" declarations and accused the accusers of lying- and the so-called leftwing media ate it alllllll up.

Worse, his "disclosure" will do no more than produce a ton of tin foil for the BirtherNutterBaggers to make into new, and distracting, foil hats for the next six years. Already, I've heard one theorist going on about the typeface on the "r" in Barack and the number 4 and good gods what is Orly gonna come up with to "prove" it a fake? Because if you could fool the Republican governor of Hawaii with your "official" certificate, and go back in time to plant newspaper announcements and, just located, contemporaneous hospital records, who's gonna believe this new fake? Plus it doesn't matter anyway, since you have to be the child of citizens to be a citizen (nutjob citation here is to "natural law," since they don't like that pesky 14th amendment, dontcha know).

So we're now going to get the very sideshow that this announcement was supposedly made to avoid.

Someone just wake me in 2017 when this is finally over, plzkthnx?

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