One week ago Donald Trump had everyone's attention on this "Long Form" Birth Certificae issue - and finally after CNN's Ed Henry started asking questions about it in the White House Briefing Room the President dispatched his personal attorney's to get Hawaii to provide a special waiver so that he could release the document to the public.
Let use the magic internet way-back machine to show just how this went down. First Trump tried to Take Credit for it, then he got bumped by the President.
Here's the full Trump Presser and It's good to look at it again one week later just to see how completely full of shit he sounds snow.
Trump: Why he didn't do it when the Clinton's asked for it - why he didn't do it when everyone was asking for it - I don't know. Now, we have to look at it, see if it's real -is it proper - what's on it. I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really honored. Now we talk about Oil. We can talk about China. We can talk about OPEC ripping us off like nobodies business
I'll be honest, I don't recall Hillary Clinton ever asking for the "Long Form" Birth Certificate. President Obama provided the fully legal and valid form over 2 and 1/2 years ago - the long form isn't a Legal Document and the State of Hawaii doesn't provide it to anyone. Obama had to write a special letter to request a waiver from Hawaii State Law. Trump's failure to understand that, was not something to be "honored" about.
Pathetic isn't it?
Friday Saturday we had the White House Correspondents Dinner and Obama Pounded Trump into the Dust with this issue.
Obama: Now Mr. Trump can direct his attention to the serious issues.DId we really land on the moon? What really happened in Roswell? Where are Biggie and Tupac?
And then Seth Meyers Unloaded on Trump and the Birthers.
Myer: People think that Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the Hindu Kush, but did you know from 4-5 every day he hosts a show on C-Span?
And then BOOM - the very next day after chuckling at Trump the President did what real President's do - made a hard gutsy decision that paid off big time.
Osama Bin Laden was Killed.
This Press Conference of course occurred during the last 15mins of the broadcast of Celebrity Apprentice which Punk'd Trump for the Third Time in a Row.
A real President doesn't Bloviate. A real President doesn't talk bluster about OPEC that he can't back up, when the reality is that Wall Street Speculators have a greater impact on the cost of gas, than OPEC has of late - and Obama actually is addressing that problem with the Justice Department.
President Barack Obama said the Justice Department will look into whether oil speculation is increasing gasoline prices. "The attorney general's putting together a team whose job it is to root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, and that includes the role of traders and speculators," Obama said.
Obama is has now begun to Sue the Banksters for Mortgage Fraud.
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The U.S. government sued Deutsche Bank AG for more than $1 billion, accusing the German bank of defrauding it by repeatedly lying to obtain federal insurance guarantees on mortgage debt.
According to the complaint, Deutsche Bank and its MortgageIT Inc unit misled the government into believing their mortgages qualified for federal insurance, knowing they could make "substantial profits" when the loans were later sold.
In fact, the government said, the loan quality was so poor that nearly one in three mortgages defaulted, a percentage elevated by Deutsche Bank's "dysfunctional" quality control.
Like many in the Wingnut Community Trump is chasing phantasms like OPEC (or Iraq), instead of keeping his eye on the ball with Wall Street, the Banksters (and Bin Laden).
Trump doesn't know what he's talking about - he doesn't know that Privacy is the root justification for Roe v Wade. He didn't even know what he was signing at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
Yeah, that's right he signed a copy of the Long Form Birth Certificate without even knowing what it was!
@KatieS Katie Jacobs Stanton
Tomorrow’s goal: bring a copy of @barackobama‘s birth certificate and have the Donald autograph it. #nerdprom
This Ignorant Paltroon thinks he deserves to be the Leader of the Free World? I wonder what OPEC or China might stick under his chin for him to sign without thinking about? The U.S. Rights to the Alaska? Might he sign away Texas without thinking about it?
A Real President doesn't get taken like a Chump. A Real President doesn't have to constantly Talk about being a bad ass - he either IS one, or he's not.
One week ago people were talking non-stop about Trump, and the fact that he was topping the GOP polls while 47% of Republicans didn't even think Obama was an American - This week we have Celebrations in the Street from Washington to New York
USA! USA! USA! USA!
Doesn't that sound sweet?
Americans have not had a lot of reasons to celebrate lately. We've been beaten down by tragedy, Oil Spills, Tornadoes, Floods, Economic Collapse, assaults on our Public Sector Workers and Unions. We've looked into a future of austerity cuts, a debilitation debt ceiling fight and the looming threat of complete Federal Default. We've become tired and hopeless.
Now some of that Hope is back, and we need to give credit to where it came from.
Yes, we should thank our Military and Intelligence Community for getting the job done - but they wouldn't have done that job without being given direction and authority for it.
These Celebrations are over a plan requested and authorized by President Obama, undoing the previous President's decision to dismantle the Bin Laden Unit in the CIA and essentially gave up the hunt for him, then tragically detoured into Iraq.
Here's John McCain and Hillary Clinton blasting Candidate Obama for suggesting he would pursue Bin Laden no Matter What!
Well, we now know exactly how that turned out. (Just to be clear, neither Clinton nor McCain denied that they would do exactly what Obama was suggesting - their big complaint was that he was naive to admit it ahead of time. I think that's just being Honest with the American People and the World!) Not that the Fox BullCrap Channel didn't call him "Crazy" for his plan.
Obama said he was born in Hawaii. He was.
Obama said he end the War In Iraq and instead focus more on Afghanistan. He did that.
He said he would get Osama Bin Laden - and He Did.
Keith Olbermann Sums it up beautifully.
As I type and edit this Jay Carney is announcing that the President has decided not release photos of Bin Laden's body with the back of his head blown out.
Carney: We don't need to Spike the Football
I can respect that decision. Those who will continue to clamor endlessly for "Proof" would never be satisfied by exactly that proof. Conspiracy Theorists will spin their theories - people may have their doubts.
But there's one thing to recall. Bush ran a successful second term and even left the White House with the claim that "He Kept us Safe" - but one thing he didn't was get Bin Laden.
How many of us ever considered the possibility that our biggest National Story and Issue might become How Bin Laden's Body should have been disposed of and whether to Show Pictures of It after his HEAD WAS BLOWN Open?".
(I mean, Damn - I've been editing this for 90 minutes and the Press Conference is STILL GOING ON.)
No matter what happens in the future, no matter how many us may disagree and complain about any of the President's past and future decisions - even his most recent, not to release bin Laden's Face of Death - besides all that... we will always as a Nation remember One Thing: Obama Got Osama - and he's an Real American Too.
Chew that and swallow it.
Vyan
Updated by Vyan at Wed May 04, 2011 at 04:22 PM PDT
One other thing that President Obama accomplished this week was his impressive and rapid direct response to the tragic Tornadoes in the South as documented by this Rec'd diary - "Heck of a Job, Mr. President".