I think you're right. While armies of researchers are are snipe hunting in Kenya, the media have been distracted from seeing the obvious - Obama is the son of Frank Marshall Davis, a notorious American Communist!
And now, anyone who points out what appears to be an obvious fact will be treated by the media as just another pack of obsessed, deranged snipe hunters. Obama displayed a capacity for real evil when he concocted this diabolical "birther" hunt.
I don't think obama did that. Ordinary citizens did, but with regard to obama at a national level, Hillary started it.
The "birther hunt"is not diabolical, but rather what happens when people like me, who grew up learning that's the way the eligibility is defined, encounter someone who isn't eligible running for POTUS.
Like I said, Hillary brought it up the first time, as did Alan Keyes, as did obama supposedly, in a response to Keyes in a debate, IIRC, which I have heard and wish I'd saved.
There used to be lots about him being born in Kenya or being Kenyan, including what's written on the jacket to "his" book, I think. I've seen it posted many times.
Hiding behind NBC eligibility makes sense, since it's been historically misunderstood and/or not accepted by everyone, and is very similar to the Electoral college in that regard. The posts here on NBC are similar to threads during the Bush/Gore regarding the popular vote vs electoral college vote.
In 2007-8, both sides took advantage of this when they ran obama and McCain, then using McCain's own pedigree to clear them both and provide cover.
Once that was done, they went back to business as usual, more or less safe within the limits of their Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) pact of silence.
Any problems that came up regarding ineligibility had both teams laying down the suppression fire and fog of their Alinsky/Chicago Way styled birther attacks and intimidation.
On this one issue, the demonrats and the GOPe old guard are in it together,...especially when the Tea Party newbies were elected!
This theory also helps to account for the GOPe's hostility to the newbie TEA partiers who gave them control of the House. The newbies didn't have the guilt the 2008 bunch did and no real loyalty yet one way or the other with McCain and his coalitions within the GOPe. Whatever that might be has a very, very limited shelf life and Rand Paul's actions suggest it has expired.
Whether FMD or Malcolm X or some other American that might have been involved with that crowd and his mama at that time to be bio-dad, obama is still a NBC, no matter how you define it. But regardless of whatever the demonrats might have done running obama, McCain is NOT eligible. And the GOPe ran him anyway.
IF we can get whatever the truth is out in the open, clean up the messes made by all involved, including whatever the hell he/they/we are doing in Libya, Syria and elsewhere in the M.E., we can also deal with the NBC confusion out in the open, just like the FFs set things up.
George Washington was extremely wise regarding his distaste for political parties and most everything else. Looking around, I see he was right on the money.
"Parties will destroy the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion [the committeeman process],
Parties are destructive to the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities,
Parties open the door to foreign influence and corruption, thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
Parties serve to organize division,
will ruin public liberty,
stifles, control’s, represses,
foment occasional riots & insurrection,
kindle animosity of one part against another,
puts in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party,
agitates the community with ill founded jealousies & false alarms,
works to undermine the Constitution which could not be directly overthrown,
serves to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration,
drives the spirit of revenge
leads to despotism."
"Parties are truly your worst enemy."
~George Washington