The operative quotes:
"President Obama said Wednesday that he released his long-form birth certificate to end the distraction and return the debate in Washington to fiscal matters.
Obama, appearing in the White House briefing room shortly after senior administration officials distributed the document to reporters, blasted the “sideshows and carnival barkers” who have pushed the birther conspiracy instead of focusing on important issues"
I have been a Birther from the beginning, but not for the fact of whether he was, or was not a citizen, or whether the “sideshows and carnival barkers” (Birthers) were right or wrong to press this issue. No my point of view is about the president himself and his behavior. I know for myself as a patriotic American the first and foremost desire is to establish myself as an American Citizen so I can be afforded all my inalienable rights. If someone asks me for proof - I pull out.... my birth certificate! I raise it high and say, "Here it is, anything else?" If I was an American Citizen in far off lands and I was in some sort of trouble - I would wave it - or my passport - and say, "I am an American Cirizen, I have inalienable rights guaranteed by this document." (95% of the rest of the world's population do not. So being American means you are in an exclusive group.) It also used to be if you were mistreated, the perpetrators could be held accountable by the full wrath and power of the US Government in the form of a squad, or company of US Marines and nobody desired that. So declaring you were an American citizen brought about a change in peoples behavior.
So if this is the normal, expected behavior - and don't take my anecdotal evidence as proof - see how new legal citizens declare their allegiance and display their Certificate of Citizenship - not with dower looks, but with joy, happiness and enthusiasm at being declared a Citizen of The United States of America. This is what we expect from patriotic Americans - an allegiance to this country which all are proud to declare and prove through birth certificate, passport, or documents issued to legalize citizens. Why is it the president did not behave in this manner and fashion for all these years? What does it say about his thinking and his American Citizenship? Is he embarrassed to be American? Does he not know the first step to declaring your patriotism; is he just thumbing his nose at the rest of us who stand up to show and declare we were born here and declare our inalienable rights? Maybe he believes it is beneath him to be an American, or he does not want to be counted among the masses?
No, I will declare here and now - he is an American Citizen by birthright, but he has declared he is not American by his unwillingness, to enthusiastically declare - the first time his birth certificate became an issue - "Here it is, I am an American! Nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nah! Now I am taking my girls for ice cream!" This would be the normal behavior from all us birthed here in America - a joy, peace, happiness, assuredness and righteousness about our birthright. President Obama's behavior should bring great consternation about the standard he brings as the POTUS - do we really want the leader of The United States of America lukewarm about citizenship and allegiance to this country - "hell no!" We want a leader who is all in for this country and sees himself as part of the whole. As Dennis Prager declares - "The Trinity of American values" - of which one is - "E Pluribus Unum." This behavior is revealing in relation to Mr. Obama's thinking and goes a long way explaining much of his policies, politics and official actions and behaviors.
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