First off, let me repeat what I first said on the matter in this thread:
"The questions about Obama's eligibility started here in June 2008. There were a small handful of posts at FR before that claiming that he was secretly born in Kenya, but those only date back to March 2008 at the earliest, and they were generally met with responses by other Freepers saying that was silly."
Obviously I can't rule out the possibility that some random, isolated blogger somewhere expressed his own individual doubt. But actual open discussion and debate, rampant rumors, or questions that might actually be heard by someone who could answer them, those tipped in June 2008.
With that in mind, let's look at what "tiger-one" actually wrote.
What we do have here is a single person asking if Obama's proved he's a natural born citizen, and asking if anyone has seen his birth certificate.
But that's it. One, isolated person posing a random, unprompted, personal curiosity. He cites no evidence or even rumors that Obama *wasn't* born in Hawaii. There's no mention of Kenya or Mombasa or fraud or cover-ups or secret plane trips. He doesn't indicate that anyone else has questioned Obama's birth or eligibility. He doesn't provide any external reasons or impetuses whatsoever for his doubt. In fact, he gives no reason for his curiosity other than his own personal doubt.
And the response to his curiosity? No other Freepers shared his doubt. To the contrary, the only response he got was negative.
This seemed to be on the mind of "tiger-one" for only about 3-4 days too. He mentioned his thoughts in a couple of other FR threads, and you know what kind of response he got? Consistently negative, when it wasn't ignored entirely. Other Freepers simply dismissed it as the random and baseless skepticism that it was. And after about four days, "tiger-one" seems to have forgotten about it until October 2008 (based on a cursory review of his posting history).
And that's the kind of response you consistently find prior to June 2008: that the notion was silly. Only after June 9, 2008 did it suddenly turn into a popular conspiracy theory.
And so what ?
Is there a deadline for suspicion? Did hiding his background contribute to delay in suspicion? Did continued non-transparency give fuel to suspicions? Have the suspicions been answered by complete (or any) transparency and release of records?
Thanks for the clarification.