[rambo316]

Why do you think the RATS held hearings on whether John McCain was eligible to run for President? Literally had hearings on whether he could run but because he had two American Citizen parents, one being a Naval officer, they came to the conclusion that he was a ‘Natural Born Citizen’. Ask yourself why did’t they have hearings for Odumbo.

[TNTNT]

First, your premise is wrong that there were hearings held by Congress on McCain's eligibility to be be President. There was one question, asked of Sec. Chertoff by Sen. Leahy at a hearing on the Homeland Security Agency, which addressed the issue of McCain's birth. The question was asked and the non-binding resolution was unanimously passed by the Senate because of Mr. McCain's birth outside the USA. Since both his parents were US citizens and the United States Code provides that if a person is born outside the territorial limits of the US to two citizens that person is a US citizen at birth. Citizen at birth=natural born citizen according to the Senate resolution.

No Senator , nor any of the 435 Representatives, felt there was a necessity for a hearing or resolution on Obama because all the credible evidence that was available then and is still the only credible evidence, is that Obama was born in Hawaii and is thus a natural born citizen. Although birthers try use this action by the Senate to make some type of analogy to Obama, it fails every time in the court of public opinion because the two fact situations are completely different. If I were a birther, I would be embarrassed to bring it up since the action of the Senate was basically an accommodation to a fellow Senator.