Thank you for your cogent thoughts. The above sentence says it all. It's as if Obama doesn't have the $10 ticket to get into the movie. He "fails to qualify" to enter the theater. It's almost as simple as that. He may have the ticket but won't show it. You and I along with many others think he doesn't have the ticket and can't get one. If he "snuck in," can the theater owners, aka "We the People," kick him out?
Like you Art, I too assumed (see what happens?) that there was some established, uniform and legal mechanism by which each and every presidential aspirant provide as a matter of formality even, a standard set of legal credentials establishing their eligibility for office.
At the very least, the upshot of this mess will hopefully be the establishment of a uniform and legal mechanism to verify a Presidential candidate's eligibility to run for POTUS.
Pinging a few people better versed than I on the constitutional (and historical and other legal) aspects of NBC and eligibility.
Looking forward to their comments.