After nearly three years of questions and debates, it took Donald Trump to force Barack Obama to make his long-form birth certificate public. Weeks ago when Donald Trump first began speaking publicly about a possible run for president in 2012, he raised the Obama birth certificate issue, saying at first that he believed that Obama was born in Hawaii. But Trump always added that he found it strange that Obama would not release the long-form version of his birth certificate. As the issue persisted, Trump began defending the so-called ‘Birthers’, saying that they had legitimate questions that demanded answers. Trump also began to raise issues concerning Obama’s college records which have also not been made public. Today, after much pressure, the White House has finally released Obama’s long-form, to which Trump takes full credit in forcing out into the open. Now, he also wants Obama to make his college records public, too!
Trump has recently been attacking Obama on his school records. The Donald does not believe that Obama is very bright and questions what his grades were. He even is raised the subject of whether or not Obama truly penned his autobiography, Dreams From My Father? There have been some rumors that former Weather Underground terrorist, William Ayers, a neighbor and early supporter of Obama, actually wrote the book. Personally, I found the book so dull that I have no doubt Obama wrote it himself.
During an impromptu press conference at a tarmac at an New Hampshire airport, Trump got feisty with members of the press, accusing them of being too protective of Obama. He again repeated that he has heard that Obama was not a good student at either Occidental College or at Columbia University. Trump questions how does one make it into Harvard Law School if you have poor grades at previous colleges? Was there a ‘fix’ or some form of favoritism involved?
Since all of this began, Donald Trump has always maintained that he believes Obama was probably born in Hawaii. Trump also has said repeatedly that he would rather discuss more important issues, such as America′s sagging economy. The Donald considers himself to be far better on economic issues than any other potential presidential candidate. Trump’s net worth is estimated to be close to $7 Billion dollars, compared to Mitt Romney, estimated to be only around $200 Million. If nothing else, today′s release of Obama’s long form will put an end to the matter, as well as prove to those who claimed the document previously released was his actual birth certificate.
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April 27th, 2011 at 5:55 am
I guess that it takes a clown to make another to act.
April 27th, 2011 at 5:59 am
Perhaps! Call them both clowns or junkyard dogs, Obama blinked today because he knows that Trump is somebody can out-scrap him.
April 27th, 2011 at 6:15 am
Without his keynote issue, what’s The Donald going to campaign on now? Foreign policy, and his excellent experience “screwing” the Libyans? Economics, and his excellent experience bankrupting a casino? How about family values, and his three wives? Maybe his voting record, which at least is consistent as he’s consistently skipped primaries for twenty years. Wait, how about none of the above. No, Side Show Part II will be all about the president’s grades. Because certainly there is no issue of greater concern to Americans today. Gotta hand it to him – if you’re weak on the real issues, just manufacture new ones.
April 27th, 2011 at 6:36 am
TA,
The point is he released his record. For a president that calls for transparency, he is awful secretive about a lot of items.
As far as your comment about the economy,
I would take someone that has been in the actual business world over some one who was an organizer. Yes, he has had deals go bad, but he has also managed to become worth billions.
April 27th, 2011 at 7:17 am
And I have a question. Why is this not the “Birth Certificate” you know, the one with the feet print from the hospital? This is a certificate of live birth certified by the state registrar to be “a true copy or abstract of the record on file in the Hawaii State Department of Health”
April 27th, 2011 at 7:25 am
I will not be satisfied until I see the pen it was signed with and at least two videos of the baby emerging from his mother’s womb into the daily newspaper, which must be held by two celebrities, at least one of whom must still be alive and sign an affidavit that they were in attendance, which I would like to see in writing as well. Along with a video of them being signed and DNA samples.
Now that the birthers have been spanked by reality once again, can we move on to real issues? Or do you want to complain about what an ELITIST he is, since a NORMAL citizen born in Hawaii would only show his Cert of Live Birth, but President Better-Than-Everyone-Else decides to wave around his actual certificate like he’s some kind of elevated form of humanity.
Trump’s net worth is estimated to be close to $7 Billion dollars, compared to Mitt Romney, estimated to be only around $200 Million.
Didn’t Trump bankrupt several of his hotels and nearly go bankrupt himself?
April 27th, 2011 at 7:38 am
Rowdym: “I would take someone that has been in the actual business world over some one who was an organizer.”
Actually, an organizer has experience that can translate well to high leadership positions in the government, where you need to motivate many people from different walks of life to get on the same page and get things done. I’ve read several presidential biographies that have left me believing this is very difficult to do. There’s a lot of backbiting and jockeying for position in the different Cabinets, for example. In every administration. Another issue is dealing with Congress, even members from one’s own party. All these members have different concerns, based on the states they represent.
A president can’t fire a legislator, and it’s also surprisingly difficult to fire certain Cabinet members, because the public takes it as a red flag. I think a CEO would be frustrated with how much more intricate it is to get things done in government.
Some would be good at it, but just the fact that they have a business background would be no guarantee.
I’d certainly want real world business people included in my coterie of economic advisers, though, not just economists.
April 27th, 2011 at 7:53 am
@ Ginnie,
“Actually, an organizer has experience that can translate well to high leadership positions in the government,”
Yeah, really. Being a community agitator/organizer really gives somebody executive/management experience? Oh PUH-LEAZE!!!
Just look at all of the gaffes and missteps the Obama administration has stumbled through the past 2+ years! They didn’t send a rep to the World Economic Forum in 2009 which let China steal the show. Diplomatic gaffes from dumb presents to Brits and the Reset Button to the Russians. The WH did nothing about health care until very late in the game. The whole BP oil spill screw-up with not taking any action during 1st 9 days, then a series or mistakes dragging the disaster out far longer.
How about forgetting to mention Easter last weekend and then going to a church with another screwball pastor? Obama is a moron!
April 27th, 2011 at 7:54 am
@ ‘Me’
Yes, Trump has had rough times before and bounced back. Just the sort of drive and determination the nation needs right now!
April 27th, 2011 at 7:57 am
@ TA,
Trump was talking about China and OPEC long before the birth certificate issue came up. Trump is exactly right when he criticizes Obama for allowing oil prices to be so high.
When GWBush opened up more drilling leases, the price of crude dropped by more than 50% in a matter of weeks.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:03 am
Now the question will be is this certificate real and not a fake. This is not over yet!
This is a media distraction to the important fact that Obama is ruining the country with his progressive ideas that do not work.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:12 am
Trump Succeeds!
In other news: Republicans completely FAIL! 51% of them are birthers, so this proves that a majority of them are morons.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49554.html
April 27th, 2011 at 8:13 am
My wife was born here in 63.
Other than personal info the documents are identical.
Can we move on ?
April 27th, 2011 at 8:14 am
“I would take someone that has been in the actual business world over some one who was an organizer.”
I seem to remember that was the argument for the last president we had. And that worked out AWESOME.
(that was sarcastic)
Yes, Trump has had rough times before and bounced back. Just the sort of drive and determination the nation needs right now!
That was sarcasm too, right?
April 27th, 2011 at 8:16 am
what’s The Donald going to campaign on now? Foreign policy, and his excellent experience “screwing” the Libyans?
This was such an awesome attempt to get in front of the story that he had done business with a known terrorist.
“Well, uh, it’s okay because… um… I screwed him!”
Yeah, what you’re admitting to is taking ill-gotten, blood-stained money from a dictator and mass-murderer.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:18 am
Now the question will be is this certificate real and not a fake. This is not over yet!
It wont be over. There is no way to appease the mass of Republican idiots. Newspaper clippings announcing his birth, the certificate of live birth, now the long form birth certificate. Blah, blah, blah. Once someone buys into a conspiracy theory, it’s hard to get them to see the truth because they don’t want to believe the truth.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:25 am
Snow Crash is right, there is no way to appease the birthers. If anything it gives cover to the repubs running for office that don’t want to take on the birthers or teabaggers. Such is life. But I just love the way Andrew spun the story to make it Trumph who won. Actually before coming here today the media I read like cnn and abc made it sound like obama put out the real deal. so you would think that would satisfy. But no, you guyz want to win at all costs but in fact are too immature to run the most powerful country in the history of the world.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:26 am
okey, now Micky, come along and dispute this and call me a liar again.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Snow, you ass-hole.
Theres a huge percentage of Americans on both sides that dont think were a sate and also think you need a passport to come here.
Your numbers are a misrepresentation.
“A FOX News poll shows that while only a quarter of American voters think Obama was not born in the United States, 41 percent think that it’s a legitimate line of inquiry. That’s not a number that you want to see as an incumbent president. If that many Americans think that it’s fair to ask”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/19/trumps-spring-fever-dangerous-obama-gop/#ixzz1KkDGEfcV
April 27th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Once someone buys into a conspiracy theory, it’s hard to get them to see the truth because they don’t want to believe the truth.
It’s absolutely true. Some people don’t care about evidence or reality, and will twist the facts to support their pre-conceived “theory”, no matter what. Birthers, Truthers, “free marketers”, religious fundamentalists, hyper jingoists… And all the cognitive dissonance has a cost– it tends to make them irritable, self-centered, dependent, and full of fear and anger. They’re politically pliably, and easily manipulated and controlled by authority figures. Because they don’t think. They just intuitively “know” whatever they’re told.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:29 am
“key, now Micky, come along and dispute this and call me a liar again.”
What the fck are you talking about ?
I never called you a liar “on this issue”…
did I ?
If so, show me where.
You cant.
Because you’re a liar
April 27th, 2011 at 8:31 am
The left trying to make most republicans out to be birthers is as stupid as the birthers themselves.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:32 am
well some people are ideologically programmed and see everything thru that lens. Others, like some artists see things as they really are and luckily have the talent to convey in some medium to others what is really there. And then you have the creeps who dont respect artists at all and just push the company platform down everyones throats, especially if they are the one’s paying the security apparatus, like say Syria’s assad and and all the people he has on his payroll one way or another.
April 27th, 2011 at 8:35 am
Theres more truthers than birthers.
“By Ben Smith, Politico
I’ve been looking for a good analogue to the willingness of Republicans to believe, or say they believe, that Obama was born abroad, and one relevant number is the share of Democrats willing to believe, as they say, that “Bush knew.”
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/birther-debate/2011/04/25/poll-more-democrats-truthers-republicans-birthers#ixzz1KkFTzllH
April 27th, 2011 at 8:36 am
Brian…
Answer my question(s)