For several years I managed the tort litigation nationwide for a very large company.  This involved several thousand claims each year.  One of the things I learned, when negotiating on a claim, was to watch for the blink.  That is when the person negotiating on the other side suddenly shows willingness to move.  Once I saw the blink, I knew we were heading in the right direction.

Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, is a dweeb; but, he is also an attorney and former prosecutor.  It is interesting to watch this interview, because Spitzer starts from the premise that Obama was born in Hawaii:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/25/birthers.obama.hawaii/index.html?hpt=C1

Quite simply, Spitzer blinked.  He asked the same, obvious question several times.  Why doesn’t Obama just pay the $7 and get a certified copy of his birth certificate?  The answer given by the Obama White House is ridiculous.  Obama won’t do that because it wouldn’t matter; people won’t believe it anyway.  That is nonsense!.  The reality is that if Obama tells the state to release a certified copy of his birth certificate, and it matched the certificate he produced before, there is little chance anyone serious would pursue this further.  There simply is not enough solid evidence to prove that Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii.  However, it’s obvious that Obama does not want to let the state release a copy of his birth certificate.  There is no good explanation for that decision.  One possible reason is that the certificate issued by the State of Hawaii may not match the certificate already released, which would make that document a forgery.  Even if the differences are minor, it would still be a forged document. 

Spitzer started out by saying he was positive that Obama was born in Hawaii, but he does not understand why Obama won’t release his birth certificate.  He clearly is not buying the White House argument.  You can see it in his eyes, his prosecutorial alarm bells are ringing big time.  Like Donald Trump, Spitzer has dealt with fraud, and he knows that it often comes in pretty packages.  When you run into someone who resists responding to a reasonable request, it is time to do more investigation.   Once again, CNN is going to try and paper over this by having the former Hawaii Director of Health interviewed.  She is apparently going to “explain” why she knows Obama was born in Hawaii.  But, what she will not do, and what Obama will not authorize, is the issuance of a $7.00 copy of his birth certificate.

(I just watched Anderson Cooper and he also blinked.  He let the Obama supporters spout their nonsense and then he said, several times:  “why not just release the birth certificate?”)

Don’t be surprised when a whole lot of other people start asking the same question:  Mr. President, why?  We believe you when you said you were born in Hawaii, but why won’t you release your birth certificate?  Donald Trump knows why, which is why he keeps asking the question.   He would never risk the embarrassment of Obama releasing a birth certificate that confirmed everything Obama was saying.  Trump knows what is there and he knows what is not there.  It is becoming more and more obvious that Obama is hiding something big.  The most important thing to note is that while the economy is collapsing, the dollar is diving, the war in Afghanistan is imploding, the Middle East is exploding, gas prices are soaring and Gadhafi is roaring, CNN is spending more and more time asking questions about Obama’s birth certificate.  This cannot continue much longer.  One opinion poll showed that 62% of Americans already question whether Obama was born in the U.S.  Either Obama will finally give an answer that satisfies his critics, or he is going to get more and more pressure to just release the $#@% birth certificate. 

When that happens, I don’t know what we will find, but it is pretty obvious that Obama is spending a lot of time and money trying to prevent that.  That alone is reason enough to keep demanding an answer.  Eliot Spitzer blinked.   So did Anderson Cooper.   Sometimes a blink is a lot more important than most people realize.

Let me put this in perspective.  A man is suspected of killing his wife.  He tell the police that he loves his wife and he would never hurt her.  He has friends tell the police that he is a loving husband who would never harm his wonderful wife.  But the police ask him where he was when the murder occurred.  They say:  “I believe you when you tell me you didn’t kill your wife, but where were you, exactly, when she was murdered.”  That what investigators do.  And the more time and effort someone spends refusing to answer a simple question, the more reason to find out why.

Don’t ignore the blinks.

TDM