Born in East Africa

Today Obama has finally released the long form of his birth certificate for everyone to see. And what do you know, he WAS born in America! Wow who would've guessed? I mean, it's not like anyone ACTUALLY believed he was born in some faraway African land, right? Well as it turns out, Donald Trump apparently did. For the record, I hope he's just playing the wicked game of "politics" and calling Obama out in an effort to stir up some anger with the Tea Party/oppressed rednecks, and isn't actually so ignorant.

President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate

Obama's Birth Certificate

In other news, John McCain, a rival Republican nominee to Bush in 2000 and a presidential candidate in 2008, was born in Coco Solo Naval Air Station
, Panama. PANAMA! (Typing this has Van Halen's classic stuck in my head) Of course, that received little, if any, talk time on the political shows. Does being born on a U.S. base, which happens to be on foreign soil, make a person a “natural-born” citizen of the United States, and thus pass the main requirement of Article Two of our Constitution? I personally don't believe it counts, but the debate will go on.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Governor, Terminator... Possible Presidentor? Back in 2004 the Austrian-born Mr. Universe was campaigning to amend the United States Constitution so that foreign-born citizens could run for president. Of course this dissolved quickly, but I can't help but wonder why the requirements to become president are even relevant in these times. Those that passed the citizenship test probably know more about the United States Government than most “natural-born” citizens. In amending the Constitution, it would end any confusion for McCain's presidential bids.

So while the "Birthers" constantly want our president to show them the Birthcertificatefax when they have no evidence to support any claim that he was born in Kenya (aside from very “authentic” handmade certificates), they are being extremely hypocritical by turning a blind eye on one of their own. But in this country, it's cool to be a hypocrite! Read Bush Senior's lips, no new taxes!


Looks legit to me!

Back on to Mr. Trump. A man who has declared bankruptcy many a times, had who knows how many divorces, and keeps teasing us with his bid to run for presidency while running a reality show. But if I had a dollar for every way I could nitpick against Trump, I'd be as rich as him! "Today, I'm very proud of myself because I've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish... I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue," says the ever-gloating Don. Never mind that he's been the biggest role in CONTINUING the issue, instead of pushing to end it. I believe that the issue will go on for as long as Obama's president, with the non-believers touting that the certificate provided is a fake, and claiming that they have the official one.

So... what has this stupid debacle over our president's legal right to govern this country accomplished exactly? We're still in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya. The national debt isn't shrinking. The healthcare debate continues. And Donald Trump is still an idiot.

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I agree with absolutely everything you say in your post. The government has been disconnected with the average citizens for many years, and now the connection is at an all time low. It's really sad to see just how much they don't care about our less fortunate citizens. My mother, who was single while I was growing up, really depended upon WIC to cover the little things, so I can relate to what's going on. I mean, cutting down on health care programs and NOT taxing multi-billion dollar corporations? It's no wonder we're in a 15 trillion dollar debt! Could you imagine what just a mandatory 5% tax on every company that operates in America could do for this country? Certainly much more than the 20% they're taxing the average citizen!

The rich can stand to be taxed too, but they're finding ways to pay off congressmen to lower taxes (see the irony?). I see no problem with cutting government paychecks either, because they really are getting paid too much to sit in an office and gripe every time you call them (looking at you, Texas State Board of Pharmacy). And about that defense spending, we are spending over $600 billion for defense according to the 2010 budget, which is more than any other country's spending, and really all that's doing is making us look big and scary. Ooooh! We can definitely cut from that, because like you said, we spend money on things that don't work well or don't work at all.

It's really a shame more people don't have this mentality about our country's budget, because the world would be a much better place if we all did.

What Really Matters to OUR Elected Officials

Last night, as I was drifting away to sleep, I recalled a bill proposal that would regulate how loud television commercials could be. I shrugged it off at the time, thinking to myself, "Congress has more important things to worry about". Well as it turns out, they don't. The bill became law in December of last year. Let me just say firstly, I CANNOT STAND LOUD COMMERCIALS. However, this is something the networks should work out, not something that should be deliberated upon in our nations capital.

What should they be working on? Hmm, well we're in an economic recession, there's gotta be something they can attempt to resolve there! And what's our national debt at right now? *quick check online* 14 TRILLION DOLLARS!? How about fixing that! Oh and that whole Obamacare mess, I'm no genius, but it sure sounds like that's pretty controversial. If it's not too much of a problem Congress, I'd like for y'all to try to resolve some of that mess. But no, you'd rather beat around the bush and deal with much less significant problems.

We voted for these people to better our lives. Granted, there's always this understanding that they won't be able to solve TOO much, but instead of being focused on re-election they could be more focused on our well beings. I used to wonder what goes on in the minds of Legislators, but if the problem of commercial volume is a serious issue for them, then I'd rather not try to find depth from a shallow mind.