[Jim Noble]

So, appealing to the cooler-headed FReepers: look, is this a non-issue or not? Is it what Horowitz calls it, the conservative version of the unhinged "stolen-election" rant?

It's a little of both.

If Obama were born outside of the US, and he knows it, then his entire campaign and especially his rapid use of his mythical "Office of the President-Elect" represent a coup attempt unprecedented in its audacity (to coin a phrase).

However, the issues of standing and basis are important - even more so when dealing with someting as important as the choice of 68 million voters.

We've never had a mechanism to deal with the underlying issue. And FReepers who keep saying "we've never needed one" are missing the point.

ESPECIALLY because of Obama's racial/ethnic/internationalist angle (this was, no doubt, a big plus for his 68 million supporters), the invention of a new, post hoc requirement that he provide some type of documentation that has NEVER been required of ANY other serious candidate is a problem.

Once you allow private citizen standing to sue the President, or President-elect, based on internet research and unsworn allegations on nutbar websites, you create a monster.

[rodguy911]

I don't see how you can trash four months of in-depth research by numerous sources as allegations on nutbar websites,there are lot of really significant sources,reams of well documented info that has been researched over the past few months. Waaay too much to just casually discard as you.

[Matchett-PI]

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