This was day one of the Press Conferences. Andy Martin has one scheduled everyday this week. Patience with your questions :)
I also have the book pre ordered. I will post your answers.
The food fight last night was quite unfortunate. None of it sheds any light on the substantive issues here and it likely detracts serious critics.
#3395 is a fair summary of the technical. The forms posted purporting to be Birth Certificates are not actual reliable certificates of public birth records. The possibility may exist that Obama was born in Hawaii but I read the current record as casting real doubt on that question which is one of the two significant substantive issues, the second being, if he was born in Kenya, the marital status of his parents.
I am concerned about the Martin book--if it is poorly done, it will damage the effort to initiate a real investigation on the question of whether Obama is eligible to serve as President. The crucial question is whether or not Martin has had access to birth and marriage records obtained in Kenya--if yes, everything else in the book pales in significance; if no, the book is simply another delay.
His first publicity line about illegitimacy is a bad sign because it indicates that he doesn't understand the legal or the practical political. Illegitimacy is the least of Obama's problems--no one cares; it may well be a plus on the eligibility argument. I believe over half the children born in America are illegitimate--a sad commentary on the state of our society but not a substantive political problem for a candidate whose parents were not married.
Obama has told many other lies of substantive impact; his parents marital status is important only to the extent it affects his citizenship.
Nothing we can do about it at this point so we will wait for Thursday to see.