The American President (Obama)

Well, Well...Apparently the news of the day is that President Obama is an American. Who Knew? Well fewer and fewer as time went by, that's who. That's because President Obama has been letting this issue linger on for the past 3 years. In that 3 year span he could have produced this birth certificate at any time but didn't. Why? Well it seems the consensus from the Main-Stream-Media is that it's because he wanted to make his opponents look foolish. If that's the case, then why release the birth certificate now?

My theory is that Obama released it due to the number of people believing the birther issue was important was going up. In a recent CNN poll, 24% of Americans believed the birther issue was an important issue. Meaning they either thought he wasn't a legitimate President or was starting to have doubts. Compare this to just two years ago when he first took office where less than 10% believed he wasn't born here. These numbers have gone up steadily in just two short years. And remember that a new President is given a honeymoon period at the start of their term, so the fact the number of people who believe there's credence to the birther issue has gone to 1 in 4 has to be startling to this administration to say the least.

And it would of have gotten worse if Obama let this issue remain just that an issue. How you ask? Well I've found that as a President gets more and more unpopular the more people start to believe the worst in them. Take Bush for example, even now he gets blamed for all sorts of things a clear headed person knows to be false(ie BP Oil disaster). And so I believe Obama released the certificate to save himself from this potentially damaging issue next year. If 1-in-4 believed it now with Obama's approval at 41% then where would it be this time next year, 1-in-3, 2-in-5,etc. He pre-emptively took this issue off the table once and for all. Some of the die-hard birthers will still refuse to believe he's American but those who were beginning to lean a little have one less grievance with this President than they did the day before. So the President's strategy here worked.

However, I must say that Donald Trump is also a winner in this whole mess. Because he managed to get Obama to reveal something that the Clintons weren't able to. And he took away Obama's original intent in the whole lingering of the birth certificate. Now the GOP nominee, whether it's Trump or not, can focus on the real issues when running against Obama in 2012. And that is a very good thing.

Until Next Time,
Chesswiz77 is out.