We cats had to get past our initial disgust this morning that a decisively elected mixed-race President of the United States would need to make a special request to the state of Hawaii to release his long-form birth certificate. After all, no white man would be subjected to such nonsense.
But then we actually saw what the President said in the White House briefing room this morning, and we think it's all simply grand. This was not the demeanor of someone who'd been hounded into anything.
In fact, it was quite the opposite. Obama was cool and confident and smiling, knowing that he'd had the last laugh.
How so? Let us cats count the ways.
Releasing the long-form birth certificate opens doors to a ton of tits for tat. Where are the Republicans' birth certificates? Was Sarah Palin really born in Idaho, not Alaska? Who is Trig Palin's father? Is Mitt Romney's first name really Willard? And who is the Republican who the folks at Free Republic aver has a "birther" problem?
By allowing mountebank Donald Trump to take some sort of silly "victory lap" today, it keeps Trump right where he is — helpfully sucking up all the oxygen in the Republican room. (We cats have even seen Freeper comments resenting Mr. Triple Combover for taking all the birther glory after years of their "hard work.")
It just vindicated Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, whom we know the nutjobs are already really mad at.
It makes us wonder whether those disingenuous Republicans in all those other red states will plow ahead with their own birther bills. After all, they swore their legislation had nothing to do with Obama. (Um-hmmnmmmmmm...)
By stepping on Ben Bernanke's first-ever press conference today, it messes up Ron Paul, who — inexplicably — is thinking of running for President again, and whose entire campaign is based on the crazy idea of abolishing the Fed. Doubtless Rand's daddy was planning to get some free media by blasting Bernanke from here to kingdom come. Oh. well!
But above all, it gave us something priceless: President Obama's reference to "sideshows and carnival barkers." Zing! The President paused after that, and you could hear a gasp from the reporters in the briefing room. It was a gorgeous moment, and you had the feeling that he'd been waiting years to deliver it.
You know what? We cats think this long-form birth certificate release could be the ultimate example of Obama rope-a-dope. And to all the idiot "birthers" and the Republicans who refused to repudiate them, we just say: You, ladies and gentlemen, are the dopes.
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