This doesn't come as much of a surprise:
The birthers, far from chastised, found themselves newly energized and freshly suspicious. “It raises far more questions than it answers,” said Joseph Farah, editor in chief of WorldNetDaily and birther extraordinaire, almost breathless between media interviews. [...]
Orly Taitz, a prominent Obama critic who has questioned his birthplace, told Talking Points Memo that she thinks the newly released document is questionable because Obama's father's race is listed as “African.” “It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961, when they wrote white or Asian or ‘Negro,'” Taitz said.
To borrow from yesterday's post on the president's press conference, revealing the birth certificate might discourage birtherism among Republican elites, but will do little to change attitudes among rank-and-file birthers and their leaders. What's more, as Brendan Nyhan pointed out yesterday in our conversation (and today in a CNN.com piece), the release of Obama's birth certificate is likely to encourage as much misinformation as dispels. Given the limited political benefits of yesterday's release, I can't help but see this as a bad move on part of the administration.
