See! I could have told you this wouldn’t change anything.

This afternoon I couldn’t wait to get off work and go to my personal computer to read some of the reaction to today’s “big news.” The news, of course, was that President Barack Hussein Obama II finally released his birth certificate — again.

Whenever it was, eons ago, that Obama first released the short form of his certificate of live birth didn’t satisfy those who were absolutely aghast at having a black man in the White House. That is the long and short of it. The national media, mostly the cable networks, loved for the controversy to drag on because it is was more amusing than budget deficits and pages upon pages of health care policy.

But when a man who theoretically could buy his way into the White House threatened Obama’s presidency — I’m talking about Donald “Mr. Bad Hair” Trump whose billions could be overstated — Barack finally relented and released the long form version of his birth certificate. It didn’t change anything and if he had asked me I would have told him that although it isn’t like he would ask me. As this excellent piece from The Christian Science Monitor relates, birthers will still be birthers. And from Politico, the pols spin it to where Obama is the bad guy for engaging in this “distraction” from all those big issues the Republicans don’t really want to discuss.

While I don’t think the White House chose to bring this “freak show,” as it was described by Politico, it certainly wasn’t worth their time and effort. If anything the certificate release will continue the useless hubbub for a few more news cycles to come before the silliness du jour comes around. Barack, you should have asked me. I would have told you what would happen.