Most conservatives (and an increasing number of independents) believe Obama was born in the U.S. but can’t understand why he is hiding his long form birth certificate. I’m sure if the situation was reversed and it was a Republican refusing to release the document, the liberals would let the matter drop quietly.

This issue is not going away. When Obama screwed up his response to the Gates matter, it took his crack team over a week to put together the “Beer Summit” and in that time attitudes hardened and his polls went down. Now, brain addled liberals are trying to laugh off the birth issue but the polls keep swinging the other way.

Keep it up Barry. You’ll be another Jimmy Carter yet.

Republicans can go after President Obama on many issues. But the birth certificate thingy just kills credibility. And one thing about the MSM, they love broadcasting the unhinged, nutters, and wackaroons.

For a few good reason why Americans continue to humor the silly teabagger/birthers, here's a blog entry I ran across on TPM recently: (http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/repu…) – I did not write this, just copying it from the link above:

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Because its equally pointless, I enjoy answering birther challenges as much as they like slinging them. So I'll examine a few of their questions.

Why doesn't Obama submit to the demands of the birthers? The birthers are demanding that Obama prove himself innocent to the unobtainable satisfaction of the birthers on a matter that the birthers have zero evidence Obama has done anything wrong. “Prove yourself innocent.” That's the recipe for a witch hunt.

Submitting to the birthers would make them feel empowered. All this “why doesn't he just fork over the certificate if he has nothing to hide” nonsense is ignorant. The birthers think they have a threat. “Submit to us, or we'll accuse you of something terrible.” It also shows the impossibility of reasoning with birthers, as anyone who understands logic knows that absense of evidence is not evidence.

The birthers have no agenda but to destroy those who disagree with them. There is no search for the truth. There is a search for the most effective lie. The lies and accusations go on forever, no matter what is produced. It can only get worse.

There is no upside to proving anything. If Obama turns over a document that disproves what the birthers claim, the birthers will just call it a forgery, or just plain pretend it isn't there like the newspaper announcements of Obama's birth.

There is no downside to refusing to submit. The public sees the birthers as kooks, so there is no way the birther nonsense will snowball. In fact, the more exposure it gets, the worse Republicans look. Mainstream Republicans know that, so they have to distance themselves. That angers the birthers, who in turn reject the Republican party. The GOP could split.

The funniest part is, the GOP pushed hatred and lies through the right wing media to create a segment of the population that is stupid and furious. Now the GOP is getting strangled by the very Frankenstein they created. They have no way to turn it off.

Why would Obama stand in the way of that?

ALSO: The Constitution provides many safeguards when choosing a president. The last step is the certification of the election by Congress. That's final. If it turned out later that Obama wasn't a citizen, he'd still be president and all his actions would be valid. The only way to remove him is by impeachment. The courts have no power here.

NOTHING.

A lot of people think Obama is a lying scumbag because of his lack of candor in regards to his relationship with Wright. This lack of trust spills over to birth certificate issue.

O'reilly's no fooll- a hack and a spinmeister yes, but not a fool to commit career suicide like Dobbs did.