Government Ignores Persistence

People (including government) in America are now just making fools of themselves. According to an article found on foxnews.com, Hawaii receives between at least ten and twenty e-mails each week from people looking for verification that Obama was indeed born there. Because it has become repetitive and extremely annoying to Hawaii, the State House Judiciary Committee was presented a bill permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up. These individuals, who the article refers to as “birthers,” are constantly accusing Obama as ineligible to be our president because he was technically born outside of the United States of America, therefore, enabling him to be president.

I do not agree with the birthers when they say he is unable to be our president due to being born outside of the USA, but I also do not agree with the government being allowed to ignore persistent people. This shows how the political process is strictly about power. The government has the power to ignore people, and like the article brings up, America does not want to be internationally known as the country that does not allow people to know where our president was born. Why hide? If the people have questions or simply want to see a birth certificate, I feel that they should be allowed to see that. Honestly, in my opinion, this article almost reached “edutainment” for me. It is literally a joke to me that the government would be able to just ignore people who are not willing to give up. So, the political process in the USA proves that they have power over us, they make and enforce the laws, and we, the people, get to be thoroughly “edutained” on said topics.