Born In The USA

I believe Michael Jackson said it best in the 1978 film The Wiz:

You can't win,
You can't break even
Ain't the way it's supposed to be
You can't win, child
You can't break even
And you can't get out of the game

Yesterday President Obama released the long form copy of his birth certificate with the intent to put to rest all of this birther nonsense…yeah, well not so much. The president stated “We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do," and also said “Over the last two and half years, I have watched with amusement. I have been puzzled with the degree with which this thing just kept going,”… indeed. Donald Trump, who immediately held a press conference after the release of the document, took credit stating he was “very proud” of himself for “accomplishing what no one else was able to accomplish,” before adding that he would still need to inspect the birth certificate…honestly, the balls on this man must be humongous. Meanwhile the Republicans were busy discrediting the President and saying he was distracting American citizens from the matters at hand. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said, “What President Obama should really be releasing is a jobs plan”. Reince Priebus, newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee declared, “This issue is a distraction. Our economy is strained from out of control deficits, debt, and unsustainable entitlements”, no shit and further added, “Unfortunately his campaign politics and talk about birth certificates is distracting him from our number one priority – our economy.” Wow, his talk about birth certificates? They act as though President Obama concocted this nonsense. These are the same people who have done absolutely nothing to quell the birthers within their own party and some of whom have actually encouraged them. Now when The President finally addresses these nuts, they insist his priorities are out of order.

In the end, will it make any difference? Most certainly not. Donald Trump and the nut job birthers can examine the President’s birth certificate until the cows come home it won’t change a thing because it’s all about race. It doesn’t matter that experts, government officials and even the Republican Governor of Hawaii have verified the President’s Certificate of Live Birth. It doesn’t matter that this is the official document issued to all citizens of the state of Hawaii. Some people just cannot get it in their minds that a Black man could possibly become President of the United States so they have to invent and invoke crackpot schemes and nonsensical issues to question his right to hold the position. I’m sure that right now someone somewhere is insisting the birth certificate is somehow fake or forged. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is questioning President Obama’s admission into Harvard as if he got in on some experimental admissions program or something other than his scholastic aptitude. Oh and by the way Mr. Trump, where are those tax returns you promised?