Megamind

Today perhaps the greatest and most diabolic political scandal of all time has been resolved.

A bit of back story...  This plot began August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Convinced that her unborn child would once be in a position to lead the USA as president, the mother and doctor of one Barack Hussein Obama II drafted a Hawaiian birth certificate; thus ensuring that his rise to power 5 decades later would not be thwarted by something as trivial as citizenship questions about eligibility for office.

Fast forward to April 27, 2011.  After much posturing by both sides the rumored and mysterious "long form" birth certificate was presented to the public.

My reaction:  So what.  Who cares.  How much time was wasted on this while the country flounders in nearly all areas that, I don't know, "matter."

As I've said before, I'm not pro Red or pro Blue, I'm pro common sense, so lets go with Purple since colors seem to be way to go these days.  But this whole "Birther" thing is/was an embarrassment to the country.  In this day of 24/7 media and everyone knocking their own grandmother to the ground for the chance at their 15 min. is it really plausible to believe that humanity in general is capable of the type of massive cover up that would be needed to fake a president's citizenship status/eligibility for the office of the president?  I mean think about... this plan would have had to have been hatched 5 decades ago, how many people would have had to have been paid off?  Politicians and celebrities can't hide anything... at all, no matter how personal.  Affairs, drug use, slips of the tongue, slips of the nipple, you name it it is a headline 5 seconds after it happens.  For that reason I never gave much traction to the whole thing, if there was evidence to prove he wasn't eligible someone would a have rolled over long long ago.  Plus if he was declared ineligible, that leaves us with Biden and who really thinks that would be a better option at this point?  

I just sincerely hope that this thing is now put to bed and the government can begin work on things that are actually important.  I hope they stop the petty bickering and fighting and do their job, which contrary to many of their beliefs is not to rile people into a frenzy and play partisan only games.  Both sides are at fault and these past years have been an absolute train wreck of uncooperative behavior that should have all politicians on both sides of the aisle embarrassed.  

As an aside, with this all important issue now seemingly resolved potential presidential candidate Donald Trump has now moved to questioning the president's college records... come 2012 is Trump is given any legitimate consideration whatsoever I seriously may move to another country for a while.