And One Form of Entertainment Bites the Dust

[billroper]

President Obama has released his long-form birth certificate. It looks remarkably like the form that was used for my birth certificate by the State of Tennessee at about the same time, which is no great surprise. Forms like this tend to be remarkably standard.

Entertainingly, did you know that you cannot get a passport by presenting your long-form birth certificate? It isn't pretty and in color, which is apparently what the passport agency wants to see. Never mind that the pretty color certificate was issued many years after your birth, while the long-form birth certificate was a contemporaneous document to your birth...

We may now move onto other topics, such as how many politicians can dance on the head of a pin.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

That looks like a remarkably boring document.

Any bets on whether it will make the birthers shut up? :)

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

I would bet against 100-1 odds that it will not make the birthers shut up.

And I think that's part of the reason for releasing the document -- the administration knows that birthers are an embarrassment to the GOP among those voters who are uncommitted but persuadable, so they're doing a bit of political trolling.

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

Since the birthers are a bunch of yammering nitwits, I doubt anything will make them shut up.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Trump is already claiming it's because HE's asking. I've already seen postings of people claiming that it's fake & that the reason that the president took so long is because he had to set up the forgery. Yadda yadda!

This particular bit of entertainment won't be over until that "uppity black" is out of the White House. (& yes, I have seen that phrase used in comments to a news post about this. Way to stay classless?)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

We may now move onto other topics....

No chance, m'friend. No chance at all (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970594/-What-a-shock:-birthers-arent-convinced-by-release-of-long-form-birth-certificate?detail=hide).

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I'm rather disappointed that the White House caved at this point in the game. It's been, what, two years? And all of the major news sources have reported the birther conspiracies as bunk, so why give it more airtime?

It seems a waste that government time and news has to be used up like this.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Because it makes those who continue to wave their tinfoil hats around to look like the fools that they are. & it makes the Republican base look unattractive to the undeclared independent voters.

Simple really.

Now if Trump & all of his imitators would be so kind as to show THEIR college transcripts before demanding Obama's we might get a quiet & searching look at the real issues.

Nah, I didn't think it would happen either.

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

If I had been President, I would have shown a birth certificate proclaiming my birthplace as Krypton just to screw with the birthers.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Entertainingly, did you know that you cannot get a passport by presenting your long-form birth certificate? It isn't pretty and in color, which is apparently what the passport agency wants to see. Never mind that the pretty color certificate was issued many years after your birth, while the long-form birth certificate was a contemporaneous document to your birth...

How interesting - no, I didn't know this.

[patoadam]

7% of voters think that Donald Trump was definitely or probably born in another country, and 30% aren't sure.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/poll-finds-most-americans-uncertain-of-trumps-birthplace/

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Any statistics on how many voters think Donald Trump's hair is from another planet?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

We may now move onto other topics, such as how many politicians can dance on the head of a pin.

I'm with those who think this won't make a particle of difference to the birthers. But it will be interesting to watch and find out.

[(Anonymous)]

Best comment seen in all the birth certificate brouhaha...

If Donald Trump gets elected President, he might leave us for a younger, prettier country.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

If you can find a single birther that is convinced, I'd be amazed. They don't want to believe. And it's not the birth certificate that they really don't want to believe either, it's just something that they can hide their prejudices behind.

[mneme]

Hmm. I don't think I submitted a pretty birth cert to get my passport. I did submit a Social Security card, work picture ID saying I was me, proof of address, a non-pretty birth cert, and a co-worker who certified that I'd been me for at least two years, though.

[billroper]

It may depend on where you got it and when. I know the passport office that mine was sent to in New Orleans wouldn't take it.