John Bolton and the COLB WTF?

Lightning Bolt

“   One issue The Donald has thrust into the public spotlight through the sheer force of his personality is the birther conspiracy, which suggests that President Obama may not have been born in the United States and therefore may not be eligible to be president. Bolton, who does not “have any doubt” that President Obama was born in Hawaii, said that promoting the birther conspiracy is almost a disqualifying issue for a candidate. “I think it’s close to a disqualifying issue,” he said. “Why the president doesn’t show his birth certificate is beyond me. I’ve got my birth certificate. Do you want to see it? I’d be happy to show it to you. But the notion that it’s an issue worth talking about I think is at a minimum overtaken by events and, B, not entirely rational.” ”

There is nobody in government I respect more than John Bolton.  His integrity is unquestioned, his bollocks large. Now, alas, he joins the list of other decent people who've expressed this opinion of Obama's [non-existent, so far] birth certificate.  A list of people I have subsequently asked this single question: What is it that thus convinced you? Nobody so far has answered. Perhaps it's as simple as this: “ Why the president doesn’t show his birth certificate is beyond me. I’ve got my birth certificate. Do you want to see it? I’d be happy to show it to you. But the notion that it’s an issue worth talking about I think is at a minimum overtaken by events and, B, not entirely rational. [...] ” An issue overtaken by events? Not rational? How can the question of a conspiracy to overthrow the United States Constitution, and with it the government it established, be overtaken by events?  Okay, if we're all laboring in a gulag, I suppose that would make the question moot, but that hasn't occurred, yet. Of course Bolton's comments were directed at Donald Trump, whose candidacy Bolton does not take seriously (and, John himself has shown interest in running).  I continue to be gobsmacked by this stance, from people who should know better.  Do they know something I don't know? Or, is it something like this: Because if it wasn't a suicide, nobody could handle what that portends  (about Clinton). That was the answer an anonymous Senator (thought to be Sen, Inhofe) gave in 1994, to a question about the lack of congressional interest in Vince Foster's strange death. So, until something with substance surfaces, that explains the mountain of existing substance questioning Obama's story, I will continue to believe my lying eyes. As should you.