Liberal commentator Chris Matthews has now gone on record demanding that Obama produce his long form birth certificate to quell the rising controversy about where he was born.
I've always been an agnostic on the issue of where Obama was born. To me it seemed improbable that Obama Sr. would have taken his white wife back to Kenya to give birth, especially since Obama Sr.'s father strongly opposed interracial marriage (Among other things, Obama Sr's father warned that spoiled white women would resist the time honored African tradition of wife beating, unlike obedient African women who knew their place.) Also, Obama Sr. already had an African wife and child would would hardly have been pleased about his relationship with a spoiled white American woman whose child would be a future rival for Obama Sr's estate. Obama Sr.'s African father also had the weird idea that Obama Sr. should support his African wife and child to whom he was still married.
It didn't make sense to me that Obama Sr. would return to Kenya to face the wrath of his father and his African wife when he could just stay in the USA and continue to pursue white women after he tired of the mother of Obama Jr. In fact, after abandoning Obama Jr. and his white mother, Obama Sr. moved on to greener pastures at Harvard University where he met and ultimately married another star struck white woman, with whom he produced children that he did not support. She accompanied Obama Sr. to Kenya, but divorced him because he kept up the old traditional African tradition of beating the crap out of snippy back talking women. Obama Sr. was a hard drinking Harvard alumnus who drove a Mercedes Benz and took pride in buying drinks for strangers in the local bars. He always had enough money to buy liquor for strangers, but not enough to support any of his 8 children that he produced with 4 or 5 different women. (Source: "Dreams From My Father" by Barak Obama).
Even so, the the Birther movement appears to be gaining momentum and the issue shows no sign of going away. Now ultra liberal Chris Matthews has called for Obama to release his long form birth certificate.
Is this weird issue really going to gain traction and influence the outcome of the 2012 election?
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/O...2/29/id/381362
