Why bother?
1) None of that is legally required for anything anyway --- he has already legally established his natural born status as an American citizen. (The State of his birth certifies it, and numerous courts have either ruled on the matter, or else rejected all challenges to it... up to an including the Supremes, who *unanimously* rejected the only challenge to come before them thus far.
2) None of that would matter (in the slightest!) to any of the conspiracy theorists anyway! They would just be coming up with more, and ever-more creative conspiracy theories anyway... as they have been all along. (For example that "Kenya birth" tape blew-up in their faces, didn't it? The actual long-version of the tape has his relative saying over and over that he was born in the US, in Hawaii... yet that hasn't stopped the "Kenya believers" in the slightest, LOL!)
3) The current state-off affairs (from a 'Rovian' or 'Machiavellian' point-of-view about politics) is playing out extremely well for the President's political backers. The very LAST THING (from a political point-of-view) that they would want to do would be 'put a quick end' to the way it's playing out (if that were even possible, which I don't believe it is... see my comments about the conspiracy nuts in point #2 above) because it is yielding POLITICAL BENEFITS to their side.
The hard-core opposition to the President will always remain in opposition --- he was never going to get their votes anyway, (same as Bush was never going to get the most partisan of Democrats), so, in America anyway... the game of national politics is ALWAYS about gaining support in the middle.
And there, (in the middle), to the extent that one side gets tarred as obvious 'nutjobs', grouped in with flatearthers and folks who think Elvis speaks to them... they lose RESPECT and SUPPORT in the eyes of those folks in the middle.
And the middle is where the national elections are won or lost.
(So... back to point #3 again... why the Hell would any Dem partisan want to expend ANY real energy in making this furfluffle go away? Holding townhall meeting with assemblies of UFO 'abductees' and such? Hell no. This --- for Dem partisans --- is the GIFT that KEEPS ON GIVING. If, for example, they were to expend a couple of hundred thousand or even a million dollars in keeping this Internet stuff alive so they could have easy targets to shoot down and for late night comedians to make jokes about, it would about the best political money that they had ever spent. Paying political dividends back to them over-and-over.)
As far as the folks who are most inclined to believe all this stuff (predominately: older, paler, more rural, often Southern, less educated, frequent church goers, who nearly always pull the lever Republican, so the polls tell us...), they are ALREADY in hardcore opposition to the President, many already having stress and problems with a 'non-white' holding the highest elected office, and likely never moving into his voting column anyway.
So, no political downside in doing WHAT IS LEGALLY REQUIRED... (but nothing beyond that... at least, not right away). If there is actually more documentation that further shoots down the birthers conspiracy theories, or exposes them to further ridicule, then this is definitely NOT THE TIME to produce them!
The ideal time would be in an election year, or right before an election. Good free publicity like that is priceless to political campaigns. :-) |
