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We do know his mother was an American citizen, regardless of his father’s status. He was also raised in the US during his first few years of life. One could make the argument he was an American citizen by birth given his alleged father’s disinterest and the fact during his childhood he was raised by American citizens (mother, father, grandmother). Had McCain been elected the issue would have been raised about him being born outside the US. As I recall there was some controversy about whether or not he was actually born inside the Canal Zone administered by the US or in Panama.

The key issue is whether or not he consciously passed himself as an Indonesian citizen after his 18th birthday. Did he apply to Occidental College as an American or Indonesian? Did he apply for scholarships or tuition aid as an Indonesian. Did he fail to register for the draft because he considered himself to be an Indonesian citizen during college and therefore not subject to Selective Service law. During his trips to Pakistan as a college student, did he travel as a US citizen or on an Indonesian passport? If after the age of 18 he presented himself as a non-US citizen, he should be ruled ineligible.

Rightly or wrongly the birth certificate issue is not resonating with a majority of the American people. In today’s permissive society I’m sure many people can imagine their daughter becoming pregnant by a foreign student in college and being abandoned by that student to raise the child alone in the United States. Those same people would argue that child is a US citizen and should be eligible to hold any public office. Even though some polls show over half of the American people believe Obama may not be “natural born”, the absence of a major outcry suggests most Americans feel he is legitimate because his mother was a US citizen and he was born in Hawaii. The difference between the birth certificate he produced and the COLB is not resonating.

I do believe people would take another look if there was hard evidence he passed himself off as a non-citizen after he reached the legal age of adulthood. I’m guessing he was really born in Hawaii and the COLB would demonstrate that. Fighting the demands to show the COLB serves several ends: 1) Puts the focus on a non-issue and keeps people from focusing on his use of an Indonesian passport later in life. Dragging the COLB issue out allows him to bring the COLB forward at the time of his own choosing. 2) Allows the mainstream media to paint the birthers and other conservatives as right wing fringe crazies instead of citizens concerned with the rule of law. 3) Allows left wing jurists to further disenfranchise the citizens of the country by ruling they have no standing to sue for enforcement of the law.

Clearly something is going on here we cannot see. Why haven’t any Republican state attorney generals demanded the evidence of eligibility? They certainly have standing with the courts.

This issue is similar to the questions about what caused the sudden run on the banks in mid September 2008. The elites know, but don’t trust the rest of us with the truth, whatever it is.