[American Constitutionalist]

If this were not about Obama’s eligibility, why then ? would Justice Thomas bring up the thought of someone doesn't even have to be born in the United States to sit on the Supreme Court ? what was his point to even bring it up at all ?

[STARWISE]

Speculating, but since he and Thomas have
have had a professional working relationship
for over 10 years, he would know that Serrano
was not born here and it’s an ongoing jibe
between them.

Congressman Serrano was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and though he moved to New York with his family at age six, he has always identified strongly with his Puerto Rican identity.

http://serrano.house.gov/Issues.aspx?ID=10

But I’m still not certain of the seriousness of that
exchange.

[cvq3842]

Good point - Thomas brought it up. It would be easy to read too much into this but I would assume that the cases brought against Obama would be on Thomas’s mind.

Also, I think people are forgetting that there would be some damage to Obama if the facts of his birth were not what he represented them to be, even if he were still deemed eligible. Some people believe that Frank Marshall Davis was his biological father. In that event, he’d be eligible to be president but badly damaged as a liar and a fraud. (Although the media would work hard to spin the story as persecution of Obama.)