Politico's Ben Smith compresses my conflict over the White House's release of the bloody obvious:
The move suggests White House pollsters saw real danger to Obama here, and saw the distraction as hurting him more than Republicans. It's also a remarkable concession to the kind of freakshow politics that this White House disdains, but has found itself unable to ignore.
The comment sections to swill stories such as this are generally too much for my tolerance, but today I made an exception. Yep, just a peek revealed that the thundering truth is never truthful enough for the right-wing lunatics who've pushed this idiocy this far. An early sampling:
There is no way I believe this now after 3 or 4 years. This gave them all the time they needed to further set up this Obama FRAUD.
And,
It's not (or ever has been) simply about his birth, and it's NEVER been about color. It STILL is about all the records from his past - grades, medical, travel, birth, etc., etc. We know NOTHING about this guy...and a story about taking time to "convince" Hawaii is BS.
And,
The signature at the bottom of the page says this could be "an abstract." Under race of his father, it says "African." Is that what they would have said way back in 1961, or would they have said "Negro." HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM
And,
FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE ZERO IS A FREAKING FAKE.
The vile Trump is on the air at the moment. Now, in effect, he's demanding education records; in further effect he's questioning a black man's ability to matriculate and excel at intellectual hotbeds like Columbia and Harvard Law.
Feed them and they will demand more. Give them more and they'll demand yet more.
It's sickening.