The photos MUST be released. Did you not learn anything from the birther phenomenon? The r/w radio hate-shows and all their brethren will spin and spin and spin this out until it's as big as a rancid housing bubble. Diffuse it now. Then it will never really have the chance to grow. I wish this is a world where decency counted, but it's not. Not anymore. The SCOTUS saw to that, quite a while back. Free speech? This is what it got us - personally abused by ubiquitous photos of a quasi super-enemy with several holes in his head, by a bunch of deranged hate mongers called Westboro, by an election system bought and paid for by invisible corporate "persons" who have rights but no responsibilities. Don't like it? Too bad. The Fairness Doctrine is history, and now even the word "fair" is becoming verboten, according to some of the pious. This IS America, and enquiring minds pretty much have a Constitutional right to know, at this point.
On the news that the President has decided to not release the photos:
Unfortunately, not releasing the photos will give the r/w media propaganda machine a new growth medium to re-invigorate their illogical frenzy of manipulation. We will all have to watch a new fallacy bubble build as they spin it as hard as they can. I can only trust that the President has made this decision based on intelligence info about international reaction, because, politically, on the domestic front, this will cause a lot of needless see-sawing in the polls, a lot of anxiety, and a lot of avoidable problems, to say the least.
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