“I disagree. If someone can make a compelling case, the Court will touch it. Donofrio’s case wasn’t compelling enough and was riddled with issues. If Cort’s case can draw 4 votes, then this thing will explode and O’dummy’s sphincter will be in a spasm.”
Is this case about Obama’s dual citizenship? Or is it the “Born-in-Kenya” angle? Option one might have merit (original intent), while option two - like I stated in the other thread - is plain silly.
Stealing wildly from the best conservative Obama expert, Steve Sailer, the Born-in-Kenya scenario goes something like this:
“Has anybody advocating this actually looked at a globe and thought about what a trip from Honolulu to Nairobi would have been like on a first-generation jetliner in 1961?
Hawaii and Kenya are on almost exact opposite sides of the world. The Boeing 707 had a range of only 3700 miles, so the outbound portion of their supposed trip would have looked something like this:
* A flight from Honolulu to the West Coast.
* Then a flight from the West Coast to the East Coast.
* Then from the East Coast to a refueling stop at Gander in Newfoundland.
* Then Gander to London.
* Then London to somewhere to the south (Cairo?).
* Then on to Nairobi in one or two more segments.
(The Great Circle distance going the other way around the world is slightly less, but there would have been even fewer flights available.)
They would have been in transit for, say, 100 hours each way.
It would then have taken a day or two on buses to get to the Obama family farm near Lake Victoria.
Two round trip tickets for this ambitious expedition would have been prohibitively expensive for anyone, let alone two young students.
Barack Sr. only got from Kenya to Hawaii in the first place due to the famous Tom Mboya Airlift, an expensive Cold War project funded by Americans to woo the next generation of Kenya’s elites away from Soviet influence.
Not surprisingly, there’s little evidence that Obama Sr. ever went home to Kenya during his four years in America. It was just too expensive.
It’s especially unlikely that he would have taken his heavily pregnant bride on such a grueling trip to Kenya.
Besides the difficulties of travel for a pregnant woman, Obama Sr. had a little problem that would have dissuaded him from taking his new wife to see the folks. See, back in Kenya, he already had a wife—Keiza, and two kids, Roy and Auma.
His bigamous marriage to Obama’s mother was a criminal act in Hawaii. Fortunately, for Barack Sr., the state of Hawaii didn’t know about his other wife.
(snip)
I find the above very persuasive. Feel free to argue the contrary.