[Red Steel]

Recall, during the 2004 election, not one person came forward saying they were present for John Kerry's birth. Plus, his father was a diplomat and his mother an heiress, so a foreign birth would've been more probable for Kerry than for Obama.

Wrong. If there was really a question about the NBC status of Kerry it would have came up.

Doing a a quick Internet look Kerry was a war baby born December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Colorado. And his father at the time was flying DC-3's and B-29's in the Army Air Corps.

[Non-Sequitur]

Kerry was a war baby born December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Colorado.

So they say....

[LorenC]

Wrong. If there was really a question about the NBC status of Kerry it would have came up.

But the questions about Obama's birthplace originated in unsourced blog and message board comments by random people. Questions with no more legitimacy than those I could post here.

For instance, Sarah Palin claims to have been born in Idaho, but I haven't seen any proof of it. No birth certificate. No doctor's name. No public witnesses. And significantly, the city she claims to have been born in was only 50 miles from the Canadian border. Calgary, a MUCH larger city, is closer to Sandpoint than even the state capital of Boise. How do we know that Sarah Palin is a natural born citizen, and wasn't born during a weekend trip to Calgary?

There. Questions have been raised. Questions with equal legitimacy, and even greater likelihood (Calgary is 1/100 the distance from Sandpoint as Honolulu is from Kenya; plus, it's drivable), than those raised about Barack Obama. Does the fact that the questions have been raised mean that Palin now must answer them if she runs again?

[kukaniloko]

Doing a quick internet lookup shows Obama was born in Honolulu.