Michael Steele just said something I agree with him on: Obama shouldn't have produced birth cert

[UMTerp01]

I am still absolutely pissed off that President Obama felt as though he needed to produce his birth certificate because of the bullshit Trump was peddling. Like "hey boy show me your papers". I get why President Obama did it since it was becoming a huge distraction, but it still pisses me off that he caved in and produced them. I agree with Michael Steele. I wish he would've said fuck you Donald I'm not showing you shit you son of a bitch.

Ooooo this birth certificate thing still really gets under my skin. That is such a racist White man's ideology; that somehow Black excellence is made up. He questioned his even attending Harvard and asked him to produce transcripts. That birtherism stuff really pissed off even the few Black Republicans I know who are voting Clinton.

[radical noodle]

1. Agree

Particularly since he'd already produced a perfectly legal certified copy of his official birth record. The same thing that's required everywhere for proof of birth.

[LeftRant]

2. Steel kills me. He is just so resistant, but he SEEMS like he should be a lefty.

[ailsagirl]

3. I've thought that too but I'm sure he gave it careful consideration

He thought he'd shut cheeto up once it was produced-- for some unfathomable reason, it made no difference to cheeto

Once again, facts are irrelevant

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Right. Because it was never about facts and never is. It's about race. The president did what he

felt he had to do in order to shut down that debate. Remember that Birtherism bullshit was everywhere.

The media wouldn't shut it down.

John Boehner declined to hold his caucus accountable and indeed said that he couldn't do anything about it.

Yes, perhaps the president should have not given in to all that nonsense. At the same time, it was an issue that never died and was a distraction.

I don't blame the president and I will NEVER blame him for the RACISM and disrespect directed at him.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Mike Steele is well known here in MD for being white Republicans' lap dog. He dismissed claims by

black members of Congress who were shouted down with racial epitaphs and spat on in 2010 after the ACA was passed and signed into law.

Many blacks and others called on Mike Steele to denounce the racism in the Republican Party that HE headed and he refused.

He has absolutely NO credibility.

He lied about the infamous "Oreo Cookie" incident.

He participated in voter election fraud here in Maryland.

He refused to call out his fellow Republicans for their blatant (and implicit) racial bigotry. And to this day, he has not done so.

Michael Steele can kiss my big black ass. He has ZERO right to criticize the president on race or anything else.

[HipChick]

5. I have a name for Steele

but don't want to offend my Uncle..

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. HA!!!! LOL!!

[HipChick]

10. Too little too late

Trump will never have the AA vote, or just the 1% foolish enough to vote for him

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. I hope you're right. I really do. I'm seeing too many black people claim that Trump is o.k.

and that they can't vote for HRC; or, that they'll vote third party or sit out this election.

Any of those actions is a vote for Trump and the Republican Party.

I hope tonight's debate will change some of that.

[Wounded Bear]

12. He has a surprising number of surrogates...

of the black persuasion.

[radius777]

7. Trump is a white nationalist and their core belief

is the biological/intellectual inferiority of non-whites.

Birtherism is fully consistent with this belief, and why Trump became such a hero in alt right circles.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. Right. And that's why I will never blame the president for the hatred directed at him.

Whatever actions he took, I have faith that he did them to quell the discord and to shut down that debate.

No one else was holding Trump accountable. Or Orly Taits or whatever her name is.

[tammywammy]

13. He released it at the perfect moment though

He got to burn Trump during the White House Correspondents Dinner over it.

[OnDoutside]

14. Keith Olbermann put Steele in context when he said

That the Chairman of the RNC at the very height of the Birther disgrace was the very same Michael Steele. Try Google Michael Steele and defence of Barack Obama, and you'll find nothing from that time. As we say here, no better man for running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.

[Journeyman]

15. I give props to President Obama for ultimately putting that distracting nonsense to rest . . .

and I give him equal credit for holding out on producing his college transcripts.

The birth certificate issue, baseless as it was, had at least a veneer of Constitutional legitimacy -- a President has to be born a citizen. The Constitution is silent, however, on what, if any, educational degree is required for the position.

Good thing, too. Mr Lincoln had about a year of formal education, yet there are few Presidents with an intellect to match his, and no President was a better writer.