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Good article, although obviously I don’t agree with her comparison of “birthers” with DNC cranks.

Without taking any particular exception to anything you say below, I must say that Ann's piece doesn't strike me as an actual attack on "birthers," so much an it is the lack of a defense of them/us. All her piece says is that "If you think the Republican Party has gone round the bend with people thinking they can remove a sitting president over the absence of evidence of native citizenship (which no prior POTUS has been required to produce), I can name a dozen crackpot ideas off the top of my head which are held by more Democrats in America than there are 'birthers' in the entire country. And while you can't show me a 'birther' high up in the Republican Party, there are essentially no Democrats in the country who don't hold at least one idea which is at least as crackpot as anyone thinks the 'birthers' are."

I don’t think its being a crank to ask to see his original birth certificate, and to ask what citizenship he claimed in college.
It wounds me that Ann doesn’t see it my way, but I’ll get over it.
Ann, its simple. I make no claims. I cast no aspersions. I only ask:

Release the original birth certificate, and
Answer what citizenship O claimed in college.
It annoys me, it doesn’t surprise me but it annoys me that the press can not spare anyone to flesh out O’s biography. If I go up against him publicly I promise you you’ll know every sordid detail in marron’s history by week’s end. It will all be out there, including those years I spent as a caribbean pirate. They’ll hack my witness protection program files, all of the restraining orders will be right out there on page one.

But half a year into O’s presidency we’ve never seen an interview with anyone who knew his mom, his grandpa, or O himself really. The complete and total lack of curiousity on the part of the press is, well, remarkable.

My point about the constitutional requirement for native citizenship of the POTUS is that it is a slender reed of a requirement because there are so many unpatriotic native American citizens and so many patriotic naturalized American citizens. And that, considering that Obama was born and raised by people of no patriotism and schooled in a foreign culture in foreign lands, if Obama is a native American citizen that is the technicality much more so than the fact (if fact it be) that Obama's mother was not in Hawaii on the day he was born.
When you get down to it, the nativity requirement in the Constitution would make as much sense (albeit less provable) if it required that a POTUS be conceived in the US. Which would eliminate the anchor babies.