I agree that the birth certificate is nothing but a distraction. Its only purpose, if ever produced, would be to ascertain one way or the other where BHO was born.
The real question is before the court in this case, and can be determined only by the SCOTUS: what was the intent of the Framers in inserting the term ‘natural born citizen’ into the Constitution for the Office of President, and no other?
The Constitution was a very carefully crafted document. “Citizen” status was adequate for every other Constitutional office. But NOT for the Office of President, who serves as Commander in Chief.
I would submit that every literate person in the US and Europe in the late 1700s new exactly what that term meant, and it needed no further elaboration. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, lawyer-types have twisted it to suit their own purposes.
This SCOTUS, or one in the foreseeable future, will have to interpret that phrase once and for all. Hopefully sooner rather than later, before we have to face this question with a massive generation of ‘anchor babies.’
We can only hope there are enough Justices sitting on today’s High Court who take their own Constitutional duties seriously enough to face this tough question.
OK, so he was politely asked off the Illinois Bar (who knew that outfit was so nit-picky?) and I think it's the denial of alias thing, or maybe the drug use, or the traffic tickets. Let bygones be bygones, as we say in Hawaii, where he was born.
About the father-citizen thing, I just have three things to say to you, "Wong Kim Arc," and that he's not from Hawaii, but Obama (or possibly since the adoption, Soetoro, Sodajerk, Sodaandbourbon, etc) is. By this amendment every child born here to illegal alien parents is by golly a "Natural Born Citizen" and eligible to be President, just as Obama, who was born in Hawaii, is. Trust me on this. I read all the tricky parts of the 14th Amendment and it applies to people born in Hawaii, as our PoTUS obviously was.
God, these "Birther" nuts. Why even Anderson Cooper and Jeffery Toober said they're nuts right on TV, because Obama was born in Hawaii. How could anyone doubt their word? Insane.
Now Ed, get offa this will you. We have money to spend, electric cars to build, High-speed Railroads to construct, Teacher and other government employee Unions to reward. In fact, Ed, if you weren't born in Hawaii, as I know in my heart Obama was, you don't know what you are talking about, so butt out.
Think of the children. Teach them to: