蘑菇视频

Sep 26, 2016 4 min read

Dear Donald, (and you don’t know how it pains me to offer you a polite salutation), how are you? (to be honest, I don’t really care how you are)

Donald, since you’ve freed yourself of that nasty birther business, (I doubt that many people think that you have. Me among them) do you feel as if the weight of the entire planet has been lifted from your meaty shoulders?

Well, I’d like to ask you a question Donald. (and then tell you what I really think)

What took you so long?

I mean, it’s been 1,969 days since President Obama released his long-form birth certificate. (Or, 3,022 days if you count the first time Sen. Obama released his short form birth certificate back in June of 2008)

But who’s counting, Donald?

Did it make you feel all warm inside to plan a so-called news conference to explain your birther-views, then hoodwink the media by uttering 10, deadpan words (“President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.”), before scampering from the scene before any member of the news media could ask you a single question?

Oh Donald, you did preface your little reveal with the false claim that Hillary Clinton had started this entire birther controversy. (That’s ’cause facts really don’t come easy for you)

You also managed to pat yourself on the back, by claiming, as you did back in 2011, that you’d “accomplished something really, really important,” by getting the most powerful man on earth to give in to your wishes – by releasing his long form birth certificate.

Come on Donald, don’t kid yourself. You’re really not that important. (and, I’m pretty sure, the president doesn’t think you’re important at all)

Thanks Obama!

But let’s dig into your (supposed) admission that Obama was really born in the United States – not Kenya, or on the Moon.

First, Donald, Slate Magazine has discovered that after the president released that long form birth certificate, you issued 27 tweets that indicated that you still weren’t sure he’s an American.

Do you remember this doozy you wrote back in May of 2012? “I want to see Barack Obama’s college records to see how he listed his place of birth in the application.”

Really?

His birth certificate wasn’t enough. You wanted him to prove he’s not some affirmative action enrollee?

I won’t be so crass as to call you a racist for trying to discredit the nation’s first black president. (I do, though, when I’m not sitting at a keyboard)

But calling you a racist is no worse than you claiming that Obama, “has been the most ignorant president in our history,” back in July. (If he is the most ignorant, I’d say he’d slip to second place if you win the presidency. And not even a close second)

While I think about it Donny, can you please tell your surrogates, supporters and your vice-presidential running mate, that this birther stuff is not a “sidebar debate?”

Every time one of your political operatives tries to claim that you’ve ended your birther ways, and that it’s now a “non-issue,” I can tell you that they’re insulting the millions of Americans (many of them black), who don’t see it as a “non-issue.”

Ten words simply can’t erase five years of a devious campaign that you’ve traded in this nonsense.

Donald, I know you’re feverishly trying to whip up black votes. (Personally, I don’t think you’re sincere about that. I’m guessing you’re just trying to appear palatable to white voters who won’t vote for a racist)

But I’d be willing to bet, Donald, that you haven’t gained much ground with black voters, and especially since your 10 word “admission” about President Obama’s birthplace.

But really, Donald, why don’t you hold another news conference. This time, why don’t you come clean, and tell the whole truth. (an act of which you may be incapable)

You never believed that President Obama wasn’t an American citizen in the first place!

Admit it Donald.

Sincerely, (as sincere as I can be) Al.

Edward A. Owens is a three-time Emmy Award winner and 20-year veteran of television news. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net