Just Who Made Obama's Birth Certificate an Issue? - American Thinker"...Obama, writes Dovere,
"would never forgive [Trump] for turning a fringe obsession with his birth certificate into an issue he'd had to address from the White House briefing room in 2011."
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In the way of background, a week prior to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, attorney Philip Berg filed a federal suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania challenging Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president.
A Democrat and former deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Berg expected to be taken seriously.
He wasn't.
The media expressed zero interest in his suit.
..."I was deprived of my due process rights to be heard," Berg would later write. "Judge Surrick made some outlandish comments claiming Obama had been properly vetted, and that was completely untrue." Berg's claim here is accurate. The media's failure to investigate Obama's background is a scandal in its own right.
...Birtherism remained in the shadows until Donald Trump cast some light on the issue beginning with
his speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention in February 2011.
"Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere," said Trump.
"In fact, I'll go a step further. The people who went to school with him, they never saw him; they don't know who he is. It's crazy." This is the only section of Trump's speech Obama quotes in A Promised Land.
Obama omits what Trump said immediately afterward. "With no track record, and I will tell you, he's got nothing to criticize — you've got no record, you can't be criticized," Trump continued. "Wonderful guy, he's a nice man, but there was no record, nothing to criticize. ... But he is our president."
...What attracted Trump to the birther issue was not Obama's race, but his inexplicable resistance to sharing his birth certificate.
If Obama were born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, there would have been no reason not to share it....Read all.
