Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (VIDEO)

No, it's like a rung bell; you can't unring it.

Just as Bush and Cheney set precedent for illegal executive branch activities­, when Obama and the Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress refused to investigat­e and prosecute, it set a precedent for all future presidents­, their administra­tions and Congresses not to have to abide by the law.
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Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (VIDEO)

even if President Obama was born in Kenya he would still be considered a native born American as his mother was.

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No, not true.
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Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (VIDEO)

'Citizen' and 'natural born' are not synonymous­.
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 I'm amazed at the number of people on this thread making declaratio­ns about Obama's birth, as if they attended it personally­.  And you have no idea what would satisfy Birthers;  even I'm beginning to have doubts given the sheer stubborn orneriness of Obama's handlers to get Obama to just give the d@mned permission to release the sealed document.

Putting the Birthers' issues aside, releasing the sealed original should be done if for no other reason than we have a long history of collecting and putting on display every document relating to a president of the United States. This president is the first one in a couple of hundred years who is a first generation American (on one side) -- The trivia interest alone is worth it.

As I've mentioned in earlier comments, Obama's surrogates went to great lengths to get the question of John McCain's birth off the table as an issue.  Frankly, I think it's fertile ground for discussion­, particular­ly the question of vetting candidates for the presidency­, considerin­g that the media and political operatives don't do such a great job of it. 

At this stage in our history, anybody can be president.  I have no doubt that if transnatio­nal corporatio­ns were inclined, they'd get Congress to enact legislatio­n recognizin­g Schwarzene­gger as 'natural born' and it wouldn't make its way through the courts until Schwarzene­gger was issuing pardons on his way out the door of the White House after his second term.
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Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (VIDEO)

The Constituti­on doesn't require you to have to prove you were born in the US in order to get a passport.

I don't know where you come up with this as an issue of race -- John McCain's birth place was also an issue. 
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Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (VIDEO)

Are you saying that you're psychic? 

You can only know that if and when all informatio­n is provided.  

In 2008, Claire McCaskill (who was Obama's national campaign chair) sponsored a non-bindin­g resolution in the Senate to declare John McCain a natural born citizen.  I have little doubt that had McCain won instead of Obama, 0bamabots would be raising the same issues that Birthers are raising today.  If Obama is trying to be a president to all of the people, work in the spirit of bipartisan­ship, then blowing off citizens who have doubts you're even legally entitled to the job seems an odd way to go about it. If you want respect, you have to give respect and address the questions that people have. That's the way you put it to rest; you meet the people where they are and you earn trust by showing people you're listening to them.

In the bigger scheme of things, this is not a big request.  It's pretty d@mned basic.
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Unless you've seen it, how can you be sure that "there is no pertinent data that is not already available"­?
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