... I ask you what do you think it's going to show? That Obama's father was Darth Vader?????

Again - maybe the man has already proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he is a natural born American citizen.

Along the lines of why doesn't he just produce it - I think we should force every republican president of the past 50 years to produce their "long forms" as well... after all - I'm not sure Reagan was born here... maybe his entire presidency was invalid!?!!???

Also - I'm not sure Reagan is really dead - and his re-animated corpse might be controlling the entire republican movement... I want to see his death certificate, after all funerals can be faked. Maybe Ronnie's body was just a CPR dummy.

Because it's none of your business that's why. Maybe you should be forced to produce your birth certificate every time you pay a toll, or renew your driver's license. Or every time some jackass like Oh Really Taints asks you for one.

Yes - I'm sure your buddy George Bush and his pal Dick Cheney allowed a foreign national to take over the government, and I'm sure congress, the state dept., the FBI, CIA, and NSA were all in on it too and have been planning it since the 60's. Hence the fake birth announcement in the Hawaiian papers too.

Look pal, get a life - Obama could have been born in in the Kremlin - it does not change the fact that Obama's mother was in fact a US citizen making him a natural born citizen himself.

...I have proof that Obama was born on Mars - and is leading a take over of health insurance in the US so we can all be injected with alien DNA.

I'm sorry, but the people who believe this birther crap are the very same people we built mental institutions to house.

... The rich are really hurting - and they just can't take a Tax Hike to help preserve the society that that helped make them rich in the first place.

But poor and middle class folks should have to suffer lack of education, poor health, poverty and death so they can buy another Mercedes or another vacation home.

Our country is toast.

The easiest way to control costs is to eliminate profit from our "health care system" if you can call it that. People should not live or die based on some jackass executive's bonus...

Yes - some "rationing" will still have to happen - but it already does - and with far worse results.

There is NOTHING wrong with Obama's choice of jeans... There is something wrong with a culture that cares what kind of jeans the leader of the free world puts on for a day at the ballpark...

Those are def. 501's or similar and I have been wearing 501's pretty much forever...

The current crop of "low rise" or as I like to call them "low IQ" jeans are the real problem. I have no desire to see some dudes crack when he bends over... wear some real jeans like the prez dammit.

...Democrats are their own worst enemy. I'm sure nothing meaningful to the majority of Americans will get through our obstructionist grandstanding friends in the senate.

... But I disagree with her judgment in this case. Anybody can pass any test if they study and prepare. This case never should have come to court in the first place.

The Righties trot out the old Ted Kennedy cannard...

Someone in an earlier post mentioned that republicans think everybody is a baby boomer... Bingo!

The Right Wing is still fighting the culture war started in the 50's / 60's. They are still upset over Viet Nam, they are still upset over Nixon, they are still upset over women's lib etc...

WAKE UP MORONS - THE 60's ARE OVER! Join the present with the rest of us... stop fighting your imaginary war against progress.

Good show Glenn.... I always liked Dan Froomkin and I'll be sad to see him go. Journalism is in a sad state at the moment - and this just makes it worse.

Salon... Please proof-read your columns... "Pubic Controversy"?

Hahahahahahahahaha......

... Is that it is the right wing that is constantly stoking fear or minorities, fear of the "gub'ment", fear of evil gun legislation, fear of taxes... day in and day out...

Now I won't argue that this guy is a mainstream republican or right winger - but lots of mainstream republicans and right-wingers are on TV everyday talking in code to guys just like this with no care for what the consequences might be.

That is how Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and all the other republican idols "own" this jackass and the guy who murdered Dr. Tiller.

This stuff is not difficult to figure out folks.

Hatred of Jews at the Weekly Standard a left winger does not make...

Sorry - but most of the hatred for Jews in this country comes from the far right. And most of the "Jews run the world" crap comes from the far right, the KKK, StromFront (not exactly bastions of left wing thought), Waco / Survivalist types, ant-taxers, and idiots like Pat Buchanan.

It is only in the land of foreign policy where there is generally any agreement between the Jewish community and the right wing in the US. And most of the American Jewish population voted for the left in the last election folks... come on Republicans... don't grasp at straws.

You own this guy. Face it. Deal with it.

This guy trying really hard to save his soul.

He is obviously very afraid of investigations into his conduct.