The funny thing is we “birthers” are right. Everyone knows there is something very fishy about Obama’s birth circumstances. Whether he is an NBC remains to be seen. My guess is that he is not related to Obama Sr.
I am agnostic on the issue. I do not believe I have seen proof of where Obama was born. Of course, I have not seen proof of where ANY of the Presidents in my lifetime were born, or virtually any of the other people I’ve voted for that had to meet residency or other requirements.
I’ve always just taken it on faith that someone responsible for this sort of thing would actually raise the flag if there was a problem. Not the media, but if I were running an actual political campaign and raising millions of dollars for it I think I’d have a really good lawyer look into whether my opponent met the qualifications.
At this point, I’d consider it a real issue only if there was a piece of evidence that showed Obama was born someone else. And since I’ve always been of the opinion (non-legal-opinion, as I am not a lawyer) that a child born to an American mother giving birth on American soil is a natural-born citizen, I’ve never been on board with the argument that both parents had to be citizens.
But again, I’ll let the lawyers fight that out. And the fact that there appears to be no credible legal challenges suggests that by and large the conservative legal community feels there is no case to be had.
I would understand why some politicians might find it prudent to ignore the issue, so I wouldn’t find the lack of political fight to be persuasive, but there is no real negative side to a high-powered conservative legal team following up, if they thought there was something there there.
Sure, it’s more of a technical, logical argument, but I find such arguments generally yield good results when discussing well-known conspiracy theories.
Still, so long as those who are fighting the birth issue don’t use it as a discriminator to divide the movement, I will also argue that those of us who don’t “care”, and those who are anti-birth-movement, should not attack the birth-movement folks.
he's probably the illegitimate son of Malcolm X