Originally Posted by djplong

BluHeron - you're exactly the kind of person that keeps conspiracy theories going.

Do you know the concept of "Occam's Razor"? The maxim that says 'all other things being equal, the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one'?

You claim to 'know' what Obama was thinking now that this vitriolic blogger (full disclosure: I couldn't make it past 2 paragraphs of her hyperbolic writing style) posted an article?

So you believe Obama is a "gangster from Chicago"? That's borderline racist at first glance.

But to get back to my original point, it is FAR easier to believe that Obama was content to leave the 'birther' issue in the tinfoil-hat category UNTIL polls showed that over 50% of Republicans believed he (Obama) wasn't born in Hawaii and that Trump started being a FRONT RUNNER amongst possible GOP candidates.

I mean, did George Bush Sr. give any traction to the ultra-left moonbats who claimed he was having an affair with some secretary? I saw a tape where he LITERALLY hand-waved the question away and said he wouldn't dignify it with a reponse.

Personally, I think it was the GOP poll showing most now believed the 'birther' claims since the certificate was release within a couple of DAYS of that poll being released. Seems far more likely to me than releasing the certificate over a month before some book comes out that I hadn't heard of until AFTER the certificate was released because THEN it became a news item about how many conspiracy theorists had been debunked (and this book was in the list).