Absolutely. And it should have happened in 2008. There are serious flaws in how candidate eligibility is handled on the federal level. I am optimistic that when BHO is out of office and the knee jerk emotions are removed from the equation, proper structures will be implemented.
That said, I just cannot see this latest hearing working out in the Birther’s favor. Each time they get what they think they want(COLB, Newspaper announcements, LFBC, etc.) they just move the goalposts or insist that the evidence is forged. BHO’s lawyers could waltz on in with the same COLB that was scanned back in 2008 and that will be that. Screams of “Forgery!” or “Look at this court case from the 1800’s that said women can't vote!” only make the Birthers look kooky to the general public who doesn't get emotionally enmeshed in these things.
Just to add, I mean a general ‘they’. I do not mean each and every Birther.
“You must agree that progress has been made and the trend is not in Obama’s favor.”
I am not so sure about that. It seems to me that the net effect would be how many folks would not vote vote BHO who otherwise would have. And with a contrasting look at how many people would have voted for a GOP candidate that didn't because of perceived ties to Birther ideology. (I wanted to write ‘Conservative, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen...)
Well, on Friday it will be more clear as to what will transpire.
We have to make this very, very clear: it is OBAMA'S FATHER'S CITIZENSHIP which he (Obama) has well-documented as KENYAN which is what disqualifies HIM from the "natural-born" citizen status. Unless he is willing to say his birth certificate is a fake or his Kenyan father is in fact, NOT his father, and he somehow dreams up an American father and new birth certificate, Obama has no where else to go on this.
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