Why Doesn't Donald Trump Just Shut Up?

After years of clamoring by people dubbed "Birthers", those claiming President Barack Obama's birth certificate would prove he was born in Kenya or somewhere outside the U.S., Obama released his birth certificate on April 27.

The birth certificate proves Barack Obama's birth was in Hawaii, just as previously documented. This development comes after the "birthers" originally claimed in 2008 that Obama was not eligible to be President of the United States due to Hawaii not being a state at the time of Obama's birth.

Oops. It turned out that Hawaii was a state in 1961 after all, thus the switch in tactics by those who, for whatever reason, could not abide the thought of Barack Obama in the White House.

One would think the release of Obama's birth certificate would quiet what Obama termed "carnival barkers" such as an unnamed Donald Trump from clamoring for yet more documents. One would be wrong.

Instead of admitting his foolishness, "The Donald" as Donald Trump, as the owner of the world's worst combover hair "style" has been known to call himself, had the gall to gloat as if he had balanced the federal budget or something. Donald Trump has enough trouble balancing his own budget, by the way.

Most people, when proven wrong, have the decency to apologize or at least shut up. Not Donald Trump, apparently. Now "The Donald" is demanding Barack Obama's transcripts from college, saying that Obama's grades should not have gotten Obama into Harvard Law School.

Why stop there Donald Trump? There could be someone somewhere who has evidence of Barack Obama leaving the toilet seat up in a public restroom after urinating or urinating on the seat when it was down. DNA, anyone?

Donald Trump's gigantic ego has him testing the waters for a possible Presidential run in 2012. Donald Trump is a taller Ross Perot with smaller ears and the aforementioned combover. Trump is pandering to the Tea Party crackpots with these demands in hopes of drawing their support in a possible run for office.

If we were inclined to run a weirdo from Celebrity Apprentice against Barack Obama in 2012, we would be better served to run Gary Busey in my opinion. Busey, the self-proclaimed "Pepperoni Profit" would at least be good for entertainment value.

Donald Trump sneering "you're fired" into a TV camera with his animal pelts hanging from his head long since became a bore.

For those with short memories, we've seen this show before. In the 90s, we had Perot and Republicans demanding that President Bill Clinton produce proof of his innocence on any number of charges involving an investigation into a failed $40,000 land deal in Arkansas over a decade before.

Several years and millions of dollars later, all the Kenneth Starr Kangaroo Kourt could come up with was a little Oval office hanky-panky.

The country, political debate, and most of all, we the people are very poorly served by these sort of Harry High School demands of investigations into this, that and the other because some egomaniac with more money than sense wants to discredit his opponent.

Whether or not one likes Barack Obama or thinks he is doing a good job as President is not the issue. I myself think that for a man who ran on a platform of "CHANGE!" that an awful lot remains the same after two and a half years of the Obama Administration.

No, the issue is whether this country and it's people are served by tactics that should be reserved for elections for Class President in High School, or the Rotary Club, if that.

It is time for Donald Trump to gather his massive ego and just shut up until it's time to jettison someone from Celebrity Apprentice. The American public should gather as one and chant in unison: "Donald Trump, you're fired!"