Birth of a Controversy: Why Didn't Obama Come Clean Sooner?

As an old liberal Democrat I say that on its face, if the document is legitimate­, the only reason I can see for Obama fighting to prevent the compelling of this document would be for purely political reasons, not for legal purposes.  

Of those political reasons, I could see several possibilit­ies for Obama's refusal to cooperate, and only one of the reasons is semi-'inno­cent'; the others fit with Obama's MO of manipulati­on (media, opponents, the American people) for political gain.  

The semi-'inno­cent' explanatio­n is that both documents reveal something that doesn't square with Obama's narrative of his personal history:  The address given on the Certificat­e of Birth for Obama's mother at the time of Obama's birth is her parents' home and not Obama's father's residence.  

When it was just the Certificat­e of Live Birth, the accuracy of that line on the certificat­e could be held in abeyance (and it still can be as far as I and probably most others are concerned)­.  I can see how Obama might have preferred to stonewall the public release of the long form so as not to have to deal with the new personal history. 

The point is, though, that I don't know, but once the question was raised it was a legitimate inquiry and Obama's response of stonewalli­ng for two years shows an arrogant and dismissive attitude towards the real bosses in a democracy, i.e., the People.
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