Proof more of a herd mentality than that he is qualified. The Media would bring down much hardship on anyone who dared.
To date, we are simply relying on the word of Nancy Pelosi as the only evidence that he is legally qualified. To my knowledge, no actual proof of his alleged birth in Hawaii has been presented to any controlling election authority.
There’s no proof that would convince you; of that I’m certain.
But Barack Obama doesn’t have to prove that he’s eligible. Under the provisions of the 12th Amendment, he twice received a majority of the votes of the Electors and whoever does that “SHALL BE THE PRESIDENT.”
The courts have ruled him to be eligible and multiple courts have ruled him to be a natural born citizen.
In five years, not one second of congressional hearing time has been devoted to this issue, however the House of Representatives did pass House Resolution 593 of the 111th Congress in 2009 which named Hawaii as Obama’s birthplace. The resolution passed 378-0.
For example:
Rhodes v MacDonald, US District Court Judge Clay D. Land: “A spurious claim questioning the president’s constitutional legitimacy may be protected by the First Amendment, but a Court’s placement of its imprimatur upon a claim that is so lacking in factual support that it is frivolous would undoubtedly disserve the public interest.”—US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, September 16, 2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19809978/RHODES-v-MacDONALD-13-ORDER-denying-3-Motion-for-TRO-granting-8-Motion-to-Dismiss-Ordered-by-Judge-Clay-D-Land-on-09162009-CGC-Entered-0
and:
Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: “No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers’ position that Mr. Obama is not a “Natural Born Citizen” due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. … The petitioners’ legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a ‘Natural Born Citizen’ regardless of the status of his father.” April 10, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo
Additionally, every state’s Chief Elections Official cleared him for their state’s ballot, twice; Congress unanimously certified his Electoral votes, twice; and Congress has sent him literally hundreds of bills to sign into law as President and the Senate has confirmed scores of his nominees. Those congressional acts, at the very least, qualify him under the “de facto officer” doctrine. The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to review his eligibility on twenty-five occasions thus allowing lower court rulings to stand as rendered.