While I agree it's past time to let this go, it strikes me that it took so long to produce the document. I'm sure this will simply add fuel to the fire and the birthers will now trumpet that it's naught but an artful forgery.
Sigh.
Oh well. Got little use for Donald Trump as a political candidate, but I find it intriguing that he was able to force this disclosure by simply waving money and resources at it.
It also speaks volumes regarding Zero's political tin ear. He could have silenced the birthers months ago, but instead he stonewalled. Richard Nixon, much?
[Tam suggests that he was sitting on it as a hole card, perhaps to play at a convenient time like, say, a week before the Republican convention. Could be. But he has so many other problems right now that revealing the original birth certificate is going to be a fart in a windstorm. I mean, when gas is over $4 a gallon and The Won is pretty much directly responsible for the economic mess that has led us here, I'm not sure anyone but the truly hardcore really cares about the birth certificate issue anymore.]
[UPDATE, 4/27: Yep -- someone is already claiming it's a forgery. Sigh. Cooler heads have pointed out that it's unlikely, though.]
[ANOTHER UPDATE, 4/28: Tam linked to this. To which I can only say, "Yep."]
Somebody pointed out at Tam's that they didn't care if Obama was from Kenya; they cared that he was from Chicago.
I'm spreading that around every place I can find that won't get me fired.
Works for me.