To the Editor:
You’re right when you say in your April 28 editorial “A Certificate of Embarrassment” that President Obama’s having to release the long form of his birth certificate was a “debasing moment” in American politics. I would add the additional shame of watching Donald Trump tell us over and over how proud he is of himself.
For what? Harassing the president? Lying repeatedly? Shameless self-aggrandizement?
I have a better response for him. How about: “I’m sorry, sir.”
ANN KING
Boston, April 28, 2011
To the Editor:
Your editorial never poses and never answers the most obvious of questions. Why did President Obama not release the long-form birth certificate when the birthplace question first arose? What makes the release now, years later, “tactically smart,” as opposed to releasing the certificate a long time ago?
One would have thought that the “eminently rational” response to the “political irrationality” and “silliness” of the birth issue would have been to put the best evidence on the table at the outset, not wait until now.
DONALD NAWI
Scarsdale, N.Y., April 28, 2011
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 