[sometime lurker]

Any proof has been hidden and sealed by 0bomba. But of course you know this.

Yes, he's hidden many things. But the problem with that approach is that itsounds like conspiracy theorizing - "no proof of my accusations? Well, that just shows how deep the conspiracy is!"

I'm not saying these things can't be true, I'm saying that HighlyOpinionated's assertions came from somewhere, and I haven't seen any evidence for any of them, aside from "Barry Soetero" on an elementary school application in Indonesia. There has to be some evidence for the accusations, or one could make up anything about anyone. What is needed:

• Proof of adoption (the name "Barry Soetero" on an elementary school application in Indonesia isn't sufficient to prove formal adoption recognized in the US)
• Proof of use of Indonesian Citizenship to attend Occidental College as an Affirmative Action Foreign Student (I've seen no evidence for this one at all - please point toward any evidence - I'd love to find it!)
• Proof that he used, or ever had, an Indonesian passport (This one appears to have come from the internet myth that one couldn't travel to Pakistan on a US passport in 1981. That's been thoroughly debunked.)
• From the State department pages, nothing in 0bama's history would have lost his US citizenship, so why would he have to "reestablish"? If there is a reason, I'd love to see the link or citation - this isn't something that 0bama could hide - it's a matter of U.S. law and policy.

I'll say it again - there's lots of things to go after 0bama about, but repeating internet myths doesn't help us. Unsubstantiated accusations don't help us.

[little jeremiah]

Nothing can be substantiated or disproved due to 0bomba’s thuggery. That’s what the lawsuits are about.

If he hadn’t sealed, scrubbed, hidden, locked up, erased, etc all his personal records from his entire freaking life none of these threads would exist.

Of course, he probably woudln’t be president, either. We could be bitching about McCain.

BTW, I am totally sick of the word “conspiracy”. Or “conspiracy theory”. I give a **** what leftists or the media thinks of conservatives. They will hate, villify, lie about and harass conservatives until they die. So what?

It is no “theory” that 0bomba is hiding every fact about his life and his so-called autobiographies (two? Before the age of 50??) are lying propaganda, not even written by him. That’s no theory.

[danamco]

It is worth keeping in mind the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall when he wrote in Cohens v. Virginia 19 US 264 (1821):

“It is most true that this Court will not take jurisdiction if it should not: but it is equally true, that it must take jurisdiction if it should. The judiciary cannot, as the legislature may, avoid a measure because it approaches the confines of the constitution. We cannot pass it by because it is doubtful. With whatever doubts, with whatever difficulties, a case may be attended, we must decide it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States. We find no exception to this grant, and we cannot insert one.”