D@MN YOU DIESEL! You can't use that word or you'll give Pickup a hard on!
D,
Let me give you another angle on the birth certificate. First off, politics is war. It really is, it's just bloodless but it's still a battle over geographic turf, obtaining power and the right to rule. In times past, we fought wars to achieve such ends but now we hold elections and in affect stage bloodless coups or revolutions if you will.
Now being politics is warfare, if you were Obama and let's say just for the sake of arguement here that you had your nicotine stained hands (the Bimbaughists will eat that up) on a legit birth certificate but in the meantime there was no real pressure to produce it but it kept a segment of the opposition forces barking up a wrong tree, would you:
1) Produce the document and qwell the effort only to allow them the means and energy to mess with you elsewhere?
or
2) Keep pulling that string that shakes that tree limb so the dogs keep barking up the wrong tree till the whole thing loses steam on it's own and those who lead it lose credibility?
If I'm holding that document, I'm shaking that tree so hard in the hopes I can make even more dogs join the fray so they aren't looking elsewhere and I can skate free as a bird with what I want to do. I'm even able to make legit opposition in other areas to look like the tree barkers as well so why do anything any different?
However, if you ain't holding a hand full of face cards, then you might be playing a game of pure suicide and who blinks first. Makes for great theater anyway!
