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I feel vindicated by this thread
Was he born in Hawaii - yes -- vindicated
Was it bad policy not to just release the long foem in the first place - The President agreed with me. the issue was sucking all of the air out of the room for focus on important issues -- vindicated again
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Obama waited long enough for people to commit themselves to the issue, and then he exposed their foolishness. Pretty sure that was the plan all along.
Great to see it got him a huge jump in the polls for the 2012 election. I'm sure this issue would be the difference maker.
Seems to me he planted enough doubt with some who may not have had it before, and then his arrogance in not releasing it immediately when he could have simply buried the issue right off the bat, did more damage to his re-election chances than his game playing did for his benefit. There are still some very real quetions about his past that still remain unanswered - but the economy, unemployment, falling quality of life, his hard left positions, and how he's screwing up in foreign matters will be what sinks him (if the GOP has the balls to call him on this kind of stuff, which McCain didn't last time).