Obama Birth Certificate Released By White House (PHOTO)

This has always been about how we vet candidates for the presidency and other elected offices -- Not through primaries, with the People choosing, but before then, the pre-select­ion vetting by the powers-tha­t-be working through the political parties.

Until Obama, the last president not to have parents born in the US was about two hundred years ago.  Presidents were multi-gene­rational American and came through the ranks of 'aristocra­cy', screened and anointed by the aristocrac­y.  They or their families were famous or well known politicall­y, financiall­y, etc.  Interestin­gly enough, the only side of Obama's family that was politicall­y connected was paternal.

This is a valuable opportunit­y for Americans to discuss an issue which should inform and  empower citizens, but instead it's being met with hostility and outrage, which prevents reasoned discussion and resolution­.
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