How one expends his or her time is up to the individual. If folks want to spend seconds or hours on the question of the eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of its armed forces is up to each of them. More time was spent on the passing of Anna Nicole Smith and the philandering of Tiger Woods. So that time expenditure question is a red herring.
The eligibility question goes beyond the mere presentation of a ‘long form’ birth certificate. That is almost a diversion, but does point out the lengths to which Obama and Co. have gone to sequester his entire life’s history. His is gonna be one helluva presidential library. Perhaps a Hall of Mirrors would be appropriate.
The Framers were very concerned with and specific about qualifications for holding office in the new government they were founding: most notably in the qualifications to serve as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of its armed forces. Only there did they specify that the POTUS must be a ‘natural born’ citizen.
Unfortunately the Framers did not define for future generations what they understood that term to mean. We can only speculate about its meaning as there is no one alive today from the original group of Framers. (I speculate that those Framers would consider the need for definition of ‘natural born’ similar to defining ‘is’).
Thus, that definition is left to the Supreme Court. At some point, the High Court will have to clarify that phrase, if not now with the Obama situation, at some point in the future. It is and will remain a very viable question for the High Court to determine. It will not be resolved with various online arguments one way or the other.
“How one expends his or her time is up to the individual.”
I totally agree. What I meant, though, was there is a limited opportunity (more than time) for any group to pitch their objectives.
This is why the MSM is desperate to “stamp” both The Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin as objectionable. Once people think the already know “you” it is hard to earn a fresh look.
IMO, as soon as a person says “Kenya” the audience will immediately “know” who you “are” and will stop listening.