Here's the deal: President Barack Hussein Obama was born in the United States of America. I firmly, firmly believe that. Believing that doesn't make me like him or agree with him, but at the end of the day, I believe its the truth.

Let's use simple logic here. If he was, as stated by the Birther movement, born in Kenya, SOMEONE would have proof. A picture. A certificate (they may not be as technologically advanced as we are, but they aren't in the stone age, people.) Heck, there would be friends coming forward saying "I grew up with him." A nurse or doctor would take advantage of the fame angle and admit that they delivered him. SOMETHING. But for all the hundreds and thousands of people that have looked, for all the millions of dollars spent on research by people hell-bent on disproving his eligibility, absolutely nothing has been proven. As a matter of fact, what HAS been proven, is the exact opposite.

The state of Hawaii has validated his birth certificate. The hospital he was born in has acknowledged his birth. People say that they knew him as a baby. There's photographs of him as a baby in Hawaii. There is actual proof. You don't have to like it, but you can't deny it.

Now, why has Obama and the Hawaiian government only issued a certificate of Live Birth? I don't know. Apparently, that's how they do things. It's the beauty of States being able to make their own laws. The Certificate of Live Birth has been validated by the State and the Federal Government and is genuine. But that's not enough for people, apparently. I get slightly erked by the fact that Hawaiian officials have claimed that they have the actual certificate that everyone wants to see, but its in a vault and they won't release it. That just sucks, and at the end of the day, feeds into this hysteria that something is being hidden from America, but thats the way things are.

Now, people claim that if Obama would just have the State of Hawaii release that exact certificate, all of this would go away, and in fact it might. But we're overlooking one major thing - Obama and his administration don't want this to go away. After all, who are the headliners of the birther movement? Radical Republicans. And since birthers are in the minority in this country, what does this movement make these Republicans look like? Absolute idiots. And THAT is exactly what Obama, one of the most partisan Presidents in history, wants. Sure, he could just call up the State of Hawaii and say "release it," but why, when he can encourage the whole country to laugh at this group of people bent on proving him wrong? This movement is exactly where he wants it - on the fringe, making people who disagree with him look like fools. It's a bigger statement than he could ever make from a podium.

Add old Donald Trump to the mix and now we have a real party. Obama knows what Trump will find if he actually finds the truth - absolutely nothing, but he's content letting him waste his money and look like a complete moron in front of the American people. Trump thinks that "discovering the secret" will make him more famous, more money, and possiblty put him on a political path, but at the end of the day, its going to be a wild goose chase that just proves that Trump is what everyone already knows he is - a business genius, but bat-s**t crazy.

I'm more perplexed why Trump thinks he could even stand a chance in a political race. You don't get that rich and powerful by being above board. There is, without a doubt, a long trail of questionable ethics, people screwed over, illegal backroom deals and sketchy morals that would follow this man into the limelight. And it would ALL come out. I don't believe Trump is seriously considering a presidential bid for exact that reason. But Trump being Trump, he'll take every bit of publicity he can get - be it political or otherwise. THAT is why he's pursuing this pointless birther consipracy - its all business.

At the end of the day, the one thing that is still encouraging the birther movement is Barack Obama himself. And, while people think he's an idiot for not releasing the real form, he knows his end-game is working perfectly - to drive people's view of Republicans even further down than he could ever do on his own. And everyone is playing right into it.

That's why birthers are crazy.....crazy for not seeing the whole picture.