By: Alexis Garrett Stodghill | NewsOne 
Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:30am

 

President Obama attempted to silence the birther movement, now being malevolently led by Donald Trump, by producing his original long form birth certificate. Citing the obvious fact that “[w]e do not have time for this kind of silliness,” the harried president produced what the birthers have been crying for for almost two years. Should be a case closed, right?

Actually, wrong. No Drama Obama, by taking his typically logical route, has just given his enemies enough fodder to fuel their entire fight against his 2012 campaign. By producing a copy of his long form birth certificate, President Obama has emboldened Donald Trump and his cohorts to go for their own version of perverted glory. Through revealing his long form birth certificate when he did, President Obama unfortunately puffed up The Donald’s illusory sense of power – to the point that Trump’s followers are now eager to push past the next boundary of reasonable behavior.

In response to Obama’s gracious capitulation, Trump’s head could not have gotten any bigger. Donald called the dubious accomplishment of wasting President Obama’s time an “honor,” telling reporters in New Hampshire that the president “should have done it a long time ago.”

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