Who's hiding something?

White House senior adviser David Axelrod is making his living right now demanding the U.S. Chamber of Commerce release its list of donors, even though there is no legal requirement to do so, because the Obama administration suspects the group might be using foreign contributions to pay for political ads.

This is an interesting election strategy given that Axelrod's boss is suspected by 58 percent of the American people of hiding something himself – his long-form birth certificate that would provide the foundation for determining whether or not he is even entitled to hold office.

By the way, I'm not the only one to have noticed this utter hypocrisy. ABC News' Jake Tapper has raised the issue with Axelrod himself.

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Here's the interesting exchange between them:

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AXELROD: Well, I'm not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. I'm simply suggesting to them that they disclose the source of the $75 million that they are spending in campaigns and put to rest, put to rest the questions that have been, that have been raised.

TAPPER: Isn't that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?

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AXELROD: The president's birth certificate has been available to people.

TAPPER: The long form?

AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where their money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think they're right – "the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide." If the Chamber doesn't have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they don't, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?

Notice the nonanswer from Axelrod to the questions from Tapper, as insulting as it is to what is now clearly a significant majority of the American people.

Axelrod changed the subject. He ignored the question. That's what Barack Obama's desperate hatchet-men have been trained to do – even when the questions about the birth certificate come from network newsmen.

What's clear about the Obama administration's pledge to be the most open and transparent administration in history is that openness and transparency is a one-way street. The White House demands its political adversaries be open and transparent, but the rules don't apply to Obama.

Think about it.

The Chamber of Commerce has complied with all the laws of the land in collecting donations and using the money to make political ads. But Obama has not shown even the slightest respect for the Constitution's simple requirements for establishing eligibility for office. In fact, he has shown nothing but contempt for the rule of law and the will of the people.

Tapper, despite his own rude dismissal of constitutionalists with serious concerns about Obama's eligibility, raises an excellent point: How is it that the Obama White House insists on extralegal transparency from the private Chamber of Commerce, while the man occupying – legitimately or illegitimately – the highest public office in the land won't even release a document that could begin to answer growing doubts about his own legitimacy?

I'm pretty certain 58 percent of the American people are not lying awake at night wondering if the Chamber of Commerce has ever received foreign donations. But it is an established fact that 58 percent of the American people – and possibly more now – are lying awake at night wondering if Barack Obama is himself a foreign contribution.