Birther Movement: a ludicrous distraction

The Birther Movement, a movement that started with a group of Obama haters and Hillary Clinton supporters in the presidential campaign of 2008, who could not believe that a black candidate could democratically win the elections and started conspiracy theories about his natural citizenship.

The Birther Movement has managed to stay alive since the early days of Obama’s candidacy and has changed their conspiracy theories ever so slightly as Obama released first his short version of his birth certificate, document normally given out by officials in Hawaii. However, that was not enough; the group started questioning if the long version of the birth certificate could be provided, insinuating the short version was a forgery. They also question whether Obama might have dual citizenship, since his father is a British citizen born in Kenya.

The US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 provides that “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President…”

Even though the group was born as a leftist movement, it has picked up a lot of interest from the Republicans in recent weeks now that the run for next year presidential elections is starting to pick up. Donald Trump, the Real Estate tycoon, who has been insinuating his presidential intentions, took credit the President’s decision to release the long version of his birth certificate, just this week.

But what if the Birthers are right and Obama is not a natural born citizen of this country? What good would it do at this point? Do we impeach him? Recall him? If his presidency is invalid, then how do we go back and erase all the decisions he’s made in the past 3 years? And if he indeed is not a natural born citizen, then we have a lot more problems to worry about, like how come this is not verified before he became a presidential candidate.

Whatever the outcome of this is, the Birther Movement seems to be a big distraction from the greater picture, conveniently picking up strength with the support of Obama’s potential adversaries in next year’s presidential election.

Hopefully, the American People are smart enough to see through this and realize there is a bigger picture, and how much needs to be done to bring this country back on its feet, and how petty and silly the argument of Obama’s citizenship is in the great scheme of things. It is not like we have anything more important to focus on, like recovering from this recession, making sure we have enough money to retire, immigration, housing, etc...

Certainly, the ones associating themselves with the Movement will bring more harm than good to their bids, no matter how great there are at tooting their own horns!