Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles


0.0 miles run this week.
Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day.
Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles.
Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.

Day122 Wednesday 12/29/10

ran 2.6 miles
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has announced recently that he would like to release more information about President Barack Obama’s birth records to prove all the skeptics who believe he may have been born elsewhere wrong. At this point, I could care less where Barack Hussein Obama was born. He is obviously not in jeopardy of forfeiting his presidency due to the small matter of whether he was born in the United States are not.

The dye has been cast in his refusal to show his birth certificate to those who had asked to see it two years ago. He refused to make the simple gesture of presenting a simple piece of paper when asked to prove his birthplace. Who does that? Who feels they are so above common courtesy and protocol that they actually refuse to show their birth certificate when asked by lawyers, fellow politicians, and millions of Americans? Furthermore, why did he exhaust so much money in attorney’s fees to protect the information surrounding the documentation of his birth? It makes no sense. And what makes even less sense is Hawaii’s governor resurrecting this conspiracy theory right when people were just beginning to accept that America lost its standards, principles and rules, pertaining to the honor and respect of what is becoming less and less the most honorable seat in our nation.

The dialogue between Barack Obama’s people and this governor’s people must have been the boardroom meeting to end all boardroom meetings. I think I am right to assume Governor Abercrombie did not just take it upon himself to raise this phoenix from its ashes after two years of smoldering. I have to think that he discussed the possibility, the potential, and the ultimate outcome of putting this goal forward with Barack Obama. If nothing else, either Abercrombie is deliberately making more problems for his president or the gears that make the American machine move thought this was a good idea and they obviously need to be tightened up or replaced.

I find it very difficult to put into words how ridiculous it is that the governor of Hawaii, after two years of an extremely heated controversy concerning Barack Obama’s birth certificate, deems now to be the appropriate time to end the debate. Did it just occur to him after two years of Barack Obama’s presidency that proving his origin might be an important matter?

If I were to apply for a job, in this current turbulent economy, and I was fortunate enough to be hired, and my new boss asked me to take a drug test, would it be odd if I hired attorneys and paid them truckloads of money to conceal the results of my drug test from my employer after I peed in the cup? I do not take it personally when an employer looks at me and tells me I need to take a drug test because it is a standard. It is protocol. It is an uncompromised method to filter people out of workplaces, who may otherwise create nothing but problems. Requesting a president to show his birth certificate is no different. It is not personal when I get a random drug test and it is nothing personal when America asks the president we hired to simply show his birth certificate.

It's been two years. Governor Abercrombie can dig up a certified letter from “Honest” Abe Lincoln for all I care. Barack Obama made his statement and defined his character the instant he refused to show his birth certificate two years ago.

1,777.9 miles to go.