No one should care if Donald Trump "ever" shows us his tax records as he originally promised since President Obama finally showed us his Birth Certificate. 

What have we become-- a nation of grammar school kids playing "You show me yours and I'll show you mine?"

And if you do care, then you are only allowing yourself to "dumbed down" and "distracted" by the hyperbolic fodder of the media and by both political parties.

The fact that a sitting president and his party decided he had to prove he is indeed an American by producing his document of live birth is pathetic and both demeaning and dangerous to for the welfare of our country, making us look weak and demoralized to other nations.

And the fact that Trump who is "pimping the media" and has unlimited access to television air time by assaulting such claims so as to be actually taken serious by the White House has made a mockery of our democracy.

Trump is a real estate mogul and has some money. Big Deal. Oh, and he also has some silly show where he showcases intellectuals like Gary Busey and Meatloaf who get into primetime physical brawls.

Records from the City Board of Elections show that the prospective presidential candidate has not voted in the primary elections for a span of 21 years. 

Trump and other Birthers and republicans say this has nothing to do with race. As the issue of "race" is an emotionally and politically charged issue not to be thrown into the ring lightly, in this situation, is there any other explanation or coincidence that Obama, our first Black president has been the president propelled to show where he was born?

As a nation we should be embarrassed that this is even an issue, as are involved in a war, mired in an economic upheaval with an 8.8 percent unemployment rate, and with a shrinking middle class with many people forced to choose between paying high healthcare premiums and medicine or foreclosing on their homes. 

Never mind that we have young men who are still serving in a war that we can't afford economically or politically; the fact that many Americans have no healthcare at all, or that we are near the bottom of industrialized nations when it comes to education.

If what we have seen thus far with Trump's attacks on Obama are a preview of our 2012 presidential race, god save us all, especially from ourselves for allowing such unproductive and demolishing nonsense that will surely lead this country into a moral and political wasteland.

What this country needs is to get back on track by having integral and civil dialogue about the vital and timely issues that effect "all of us." 

And it is up to all of us to "not allow" the hype from the media and from both parties dumb us down about so-called news items that only distract us from the paramount issues that we truly we need to address.