Donald Trump has either lucked into a major political wind, or he has brilliantly maneuvered himself into position. In either case, he has the wind behind his back because he was the first major person in either political party willing to take on Obama with regard to his birth certificate. He is on a roll, he is not letting up, and the pressure on Obama will build exponentially from this point forward.
Trump says he has been getting a lot of e-mails, letters and phone calls encouraging him to pursue this matter. I would suspect he is also getting a lot of “off the record” assistance from the “Clintonians.” Sean Hannity admitted that when he was challenging Obama about his radical past, during the Democratic primary in 2008, he was getting a lot of his information from the Clinton campaign. They were afraid to take this on themselves, because they knew it would result in a charge of racism, so they leaked it to the only person in the media who had the moral courage to take it on. (This is a good reminder that Sean Hannity is a much more important journalist than most people realize.)
The problem for Obama is that he has turned out to be a really lousy President. The Bill Clinton fiasco taught us that as long as people thought he was doing a good job as President, they were willing to ignore almost anything, including perjury. But Obama is staggering from disaster to disaster, looking more incompetent by the hour. The latest was when his Secretary of Defense said that Libya was no threat to us and is not a vital interest to the U.S:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/03/28/Libya-not-a-threat-to-US-Gates-says/UPI-96601301295600/
Hillary Clinton immediately grabbed the microphone and desperately tried to backfill, but the damage was done. A strong President would have immediately fired Gates. Obama won’t even consider doing that; instead, he tried to “explain” to a skeptical public why a peace-loving President is spending billions on a war that doesn’t appear to impact our national security. So far, the UN, NATO, and ARAB LEAGUE Coalition (“UNA”) appear to be scoring an easy victory. But, perhaps that is because it is easy to knock off tanks driving in the desert. The fight is moving to Sirte, and it is likely to become house-to-house fighting. Gadhafi has a real army, with a real command and control structure. The rebels may pull this off, but this could also turn into a long, bloody stalemate.
It is also important to understand that a significant factor in the opposition to Gadhafi is al Qaeda. If anyone has listened to Gadhafi lately, he has been reminding us of that.
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/03/gadhafi-im-fighting-terrorists-just.html
While it is easy to dismiss Gadhafi, there is actually evidence that he was telling the truth:
Obviously, I do not know where reality starts and ends in Libya. At a minimum, this is a lot more complicated than is being reported.
To top it off, Joseph Lieberman went off message by saying we ought to implement a no-fly zone over Syria:
Lieberman has a point. If it was in our national interest to take on Gadhafi, then it is certainly in our national interest to take on Assad in Syria. If anything, Assad is a bigger threat to us than Gadhafi. He certainly is a bigger threat to Israel. Since it appears that Hillary, not Obama, is leading this parade, the following article is quite interesting:
Anyone who has done even minimal research quickly learns that the gaps in Obama’s personal documentation are pervasive. The only thing that even gives pause is the disbelief that this was allowed to happen. Did it really take more than two years after Obama was sworn into office as President of the United States before someone finally said: “show me the beef?” Really? Even Trump ignored this issue until very recently.
This is not new. In 2001 George O’Leary was hired as the head football coach for the University Of Notre Dame. Five days after he was hired, he had to resign when it turned out that he didn’t actually have a Masters Degree from NYU and that he had never really played college football at the University of New Hampshire. He was exposed by Jim Fennell, from the Union Leader, who learned that no one at the University of New Hampshire remembered George O’Leary playing football. Fennell started cross checking references and it soon became very clear that O’Leary’s story did not add up. (O’Leary is now coach of the University of Central Florida). The problem is that this should have been really obvious from the start. The gaps in O’Leary’s resume were really blatant. O’Leary claimed to have a Masters degree from NYU – Stony Brook University. (These are actually two completely separate universities more than 50 miles apart.) O’Leary fooled a lot of people besides Notre Dame. He coached at Georgia Tech for several years. Yet it only took a minimal amount of real investigation before this all unraveled. How did he get away with this? Easy! No one, prior to Jim Fennell, ever bothered to cross check his references. Sound familiar? The following link is to the interview where Fennell explains how he broke the story:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/video/sports/2001/12/14/fennell_oleary.jpg.html
Anyone who has ever watched Celebrity Apprentice knows that Donald Trump despises a lack of leadership. The quickest way to get fired on his show is to demonstrate insufficient backbone. He probably has known about the problems with Obama’s birth certificate for a long time. Perhaps the real issue regarding Barack Obama, for Donald Trump, is not the lack of a birth certificate, but rather the lack of a spine. Regardless of his motivation, he is giving Obama a good Trumping. Just like O’Leary, this has the potential to unravel at light speed.
TDM
Talking to a friend last night it was suggested Obama’s BC has “Unknown” as the father. This might be more embarassing than a non-citizen as a father….