Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, pcg wrote:

>> At issue was the possibility that Obama was not eligible, and that he 
>> himself could have easily disproven it all along. And didn’t because it 
>> was more politically advantages to not do so.  Trump called him on it 
>> and Obama folded.
>
> How was it politically advantageous for Obama to not release the long 
> form?

Quoting Althouse:

    I'd say, the reason Obama did not release the long-form birth 
certificate before is that he thought it was to his advantage to allow 
other people to look bad or crazy in one way or another by going on in the 
birtherist mode. But there was a tipping point, as Trump got traction and 
polls showed huge numbers of American's entertaining doubts. So, it was 
all political strategy. You could criticize Obama for wasting our time by 
not just releasing the damned thing earlier. But he could have thought it 
was demeaning to have to do this, so I'm inclined to give him a pass.

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