To all of you birthers out there (those who in the face of all the facts and documents still are not willing to admit that President Obama is legitimately the holder of that position by right of his being American-born), I urge you to give up this pretense. If you don't think he is the right person to lead our nation, it is your privilege — and your duty — to try to replace him in the coming election. Your continuing attempt to prove that he is not American-born sounds as though you can't think of any other not reason not to have him re-elected to the office, and that the only reason is that actually you don't like him.

Matilda Weiner, Baltimore