Donald Trump Calls for Obama Birth Certificate

[deacon blues]

Donald Trump has been speaking lately about how President Obama ought to produce a birth certificate. While I don't consider myself a "birther" and I have felt the call to make this an issue a losing effort, DT really has piqued my interest.

First he makes the reasonable observation that all of us, including himself, have to produce birth certificates all the time for various reasons. If you have one, why not produce it? Remove all doubt and show it.

Second, DT has been saying something I didn't realize. BO has spent nearly $2 million fighting this in the courts. If you are a nuturally born citizen, why would you spend that kind of money when you could save yourself a ton of dough and just prove you have a birth certificate?

Third, the Governor of Hawaii is Democrat. The whole state practically is Democrat. The only document produced has been a "Certificate of Live Birth" which is not a birth certificate. A C of LB has bo authorized signatures on it, according to DT.

After hearing The Donald talk about this, I'm kind of saying, "Yeah, really, what's the big deal if you've got one, if everyone questioning you is wrong?" You'd simply produce one, voila! Here it is you birther wackos. But instead BO and his cronies act like they got something to hide.

Obviously his mother never suspected he'd be President and if he was born somewhere else, if it was in a third world country, it was probably difficult to procure documentation of his birth there, so when she returned to Hawaii, she got the C of LB. I don't know, it is interesting to consider.

DT makes the point that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't run for President because of his origin of birth. If BO wasn't born here, he shouldn't be allowed to remain in office or run in 2012.

Before you BO defenders get up in arms, remember the Dan Rather debacle of the 2004 election when fake documents were used to try to prove W was AWOL during his Air National Guard days. Anti-Bush folks felt like, if proven, Bush's AWOL status should've been enough to prevent him from a second term. Had it been proven true, it could've made a difference in the election. Had it not been for the internet and the information age, Dan Rather reporting the story as fact might have been enough to pull it off. The documents were proven forged and Rather lost his job.

But what we are talking here is much more than the son of a powerful political family getting a pass for violating the military code (a serious offense for someone wishing to be Commender-in-Chief). What we are talking here is someone violating a prerequisite of the U.S. Constitution.

If W was fair game to be in question back in 2004 with forged documents as the basis of the case against him, then wy shouldn't BO be in question until he can produce an official document proving his origin of birth required by the Constitution?