If that is true (I seriously doubt it), but IF it's true - then 400 Federal judges have refused standing to the plaintiffs - and a motion to quash for lack of standing costs $25.
I absolutely agree that, like the "US passport holders forbidden to travel to Pakistan", the "millions of dollars to hide it" is a birther hallucination.
No case of this nature has been argued on the merits, there have been no plaintiff verdicts to go up on appeal, and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for Obama to have spent hundreds, much less millions, on this (so far) legal non-event.
I think the British father is a solid, likely valid, argument but there are no plaintiffs (except perhaps John McCain) who could ever gain standing.
In 2012, lawsuits against State Secretaries who put his electors on the ballot could possibly have standing to litigate the foreign-born parent argument. If any line of argument ever goes forward, I imagine it would be that one.
>That in itself is ridiculous in an open and free society like ours.<
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If this eligibility issue is not resolved one way or another, the country has ceased to exist as a cohesive unit. This issue is too important to ignore as it has been up to now.
The time has arrived that this nation ought to look at itself and ask if it can continue to function constitutionally and effectively in this manner.