Let’s be clear about Obama’s birth certificate

He’s already produced it. The governor of Hawaii has endorsed it. There were even announcements in the local paper at the time. So either we’re dealing with a conspiracy of Illuminati-class subtlety or Obama’s an American-born president (hint: Do not pick choice number one).
I think the reason the birther myth has such tractcion is that for some Republicans, there is no such thing as a legitimate Democratic president. It’s not about race; as the Daily Howler points out, if there’d been any way to accuse Clinton of being born overseas, it would have been on the articles of impeachment. In their eyes, the idea there can be a legitimate president they didn’t vote for defies all logic and reason.
And for some of them, the certainty of birtherism does defy all logic and reason. Two of the main birther websites assert that even if Obama fetched his original 1960s birth certificate out of whatever state archive it’s kept in, they’d still have lots more questions before they’d accept him (birther Orly Taitz has acknowledged there’s no evidence that would convince her).
But as Bob Somersby at the Howler points out at the link, it’s also due to the fact that we have prominent people such as Donald Trump running around asserting Obama hasn’t proved his case, and the pundits and interviewers not pointing out that he has, and Trump is full of crap. If the myth keeps getting spouted and not refuted, no wonder people believe it.
It’s an excellent post, and I recommend you click on the link.