I kept hearing a voice say, “Step away from the computer!”.... LOL...
I’m not trying to imply that I’ve decided the birther thing is all a sham. Because I don’t believe that. There is definitely more to “natural born” than I previously thought.
The thing is, they seem to have relaxed the rules quite a bit over the last hundred years and It’s questionable what set of rules should apply...the current ones or the ones in effect at the time of a person’s birth? I don’t know. Also, precedent has something to do with it too. Sometimes the precedent doesn’t seem to jive perfectly with the letter of the law. Yet it’s the precedent that is respected, not the law. At least it is until another judge makes a new ruling to contradict the precedent. Then there’s a new precedent.
I think the “birthers” are technically correct. But nobody cares. So here we are. Birthers being made fools of by imbeciles that don’t care what the truth really is. All they care about is who they think looks sillier, then they take the opposing position so they can be one of the one’s pointing rather than one of the one’s being pointed at.