"Look, I applaud this release. I think it's a step in the right direction," so-called "birther queen" Orly Taitz told me in one of her many media interviews this morning. "I credit Donald Trump in pushing this issue."

But she still has her suspicions. Specifically, Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama's race as "Negro" and not "African."

"In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing `Negro' not `African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or `Negro'."

Taitz says she's not giving up her fight. She also claims Obama isn't a "natural born citizen" because she uses a standard that requires both parents to be American citizens -- a misreading of the Constitution which if enforced would have rendered several other American Presidents ineligible.

Obama has a better story on the BC issue.  The facts really do help.

OTOH, his statement on oil production is otherworldly:

"They need to increase supplies," Obama told CBS affiliate WTKR in Hampton Roads, Virginia. "We are in a lot of conversations with major oil producers like Saudi Arabia."

The US is the world's #3 producer and Obama's conversation has been about increasing taxes on oil production.  The guy is BRILLIANT no one before him has figured out that increasing taxes on an activity is a way to get more of that activity.  Perhaps we better cut the cigarette tax to reduce smoking.  Gak!

Didn't he consider the issues of foreclosures, bailouts, unemployment, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan important enough as challenges we faced as a country?

I don't care where he was born. The issue is meaningless to me.
But his statement upon the presentation of this long form is just... hot air.

Of all the non-issues raised by the right to Obama, this is one of the most ridiculous.

as for the question of who first raised this silly issue, Ben Smith & Byron Tau at Politico have this to say:

The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.

the only source Smith & Tau give is an "anonymous e-mail" supposedly circulated by Clinton supporters - no link of course

If he was going to wait, he should have waited until one of his actual opponents called him out on it.

Maybe an "i" didn't get a dot, or the  ink skipped, or some other stupid thing.

But then again the GOPers don't need much distraction, just for Rush to give it cred.

I'll  be waiting for that.

Now, we're on to Obama's college records. Woo boy, how many plots and conspiracies will that be good for?