During a April 27th press conference the President of the United States appeared in front of the White House and the rest of the world to release his birth certificate, to prove that he was born in America. You may be asking why this has been brought into the spotlight instead of all the major problems our government has been having to deal with. It was brought to attention due to a conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in America. It has been a conspiracy for a while but ever since multi-million dollar hoss, big-time celebrity (and possible 2012 Presidential candidate) Donald Trump started promoting the conspiracy did it muster up the need for President Obama to squelch it. Honestly, I think this is so wrong to be using a precious White House press conference to simply disprove a conspiracy, instead of discussing major problems that need to be sorted out. Budget cuts? New national security? The economy is having some problems not to mention, you think those would need to be discussed?
Conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories, they have and will always exist, people are always going to question things, and I honestly think President Obama has much bigger things to worry about than trying to disprove them. It might have been important because of Donald Trump’s interest to run for presidency in 2012, but i honestly think that Trump’s just using this whole thing as a promotional tool. Obama should know better than that to go along with that, especially in such a problematic time like this were press conferences are precious. This whole “questioning the President’s legitimacy” ruse is only trying to cause a stir, and should be ignored, and it disappoints me that our President will fall for that. This is a time where President Obama really needs to focus on the problems at hand, for the country’s sake.
Yes Bryan I totally agree with your statement that it was not a big deal to have a White House conference on Obama's birth certificate. There are much more problems that the United States faces rather than some stupid conspiracy Donald Trump rumored. If Obama were not born in America, then how did he ever become president in the first place? In order to be president there is a requirement of being born in the U.S. Donald Trump is just trolling on Obama! This should have not even been a discussion because it was irrelevant. In my opinion Donald Trump probably started this rumor because of his "interest" in becoming President in 2012. President Obama should focus more on problems in the countries right now, and not meddling with celebrities.
ReplyDeleteApparently the argument that he wasn't born in the US holds some weight otherwise it would simply be dismissed like many other "rumors" that are circulated. The fact of the matter is, the President's early childhood is very vague at best. There is reasonable doubt that he isn't an American born citizen.
ReplyDeleteHis past shouldn't have been scrutinized by a pompus, egotistical, for all intents and purposes, reality TV star but none-the-less when there is doubt about something as serious as this it should be quantified. The President of the United States should be born on American soil, so the subject should have absolutely been followed until the end. Whether or not you believe the birth certificate that was produced is genuine or not is up to you.
I do agree that he shouldn't have wasted a press conference on something like this. It is very easily a subject that could've been just released to the press like all kinds of other Presidential news.