The "birth certificate" is irrelevant to the "eligibility issue". Where Obama was born is irrelevant. What is on his birth certificate is irrelevant. Whether such a birth certificate even exists is irrelevant to the "eligibility issue".
The issue is that Obama's father was never a US Citizen, most pertinently, not a US citizen at the time of Obama's birth. Therefore, Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen (born in the country to two parents who are citizens at the time of birth). Therefore, Obama is not, never was, and never will be, eligible to be the President of the United States of America, according to the US Constitution.
Such a person born with one or both parents not being US citizens will always present the possibility of having divided allegiances, the very possibility that the framers of the Constitition deliberately chose to avoid with the Natural Born Citizen clause.
Everyone serving in Congress knows this;
Everyone working in the Administration knows this;
Everyone on the US Supreme Court knows this;
Probably most people working in the media know this;
Everyone who has ever attended law school knows this;
Everyone serving in state legislatures, and in state governorships knows this;
... regardless of what they say about it publicly.
The eligibility issue needs to be addressed, but NOT by any of the conservative candidates who are not currently sitting in any official position to actually do something about it. The candidates need to focus on the "important" issues, just as they are doing, to get this Obamanation out of office.
The Supreme Court should have addressed this eligibility issue long and let the chips fall where they may. Now it is too late. If the nation survives the next two years, it is imperative that every single Supreme Court justice be impeached, at the very least, along with every federal judge at lower levels who have facilitated this fraud.
Active governors and state legislators need to close the gaps in state election laws, ballot rules, voter registration fraud, and voter fraud.
For candidates yet to be elected, the eligibility issue is foul-smelling bait in a political death trap.
It is very telling that no one is demanding that Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Daniels, Christie, Pence, Johnson, Thune, Ron Paul, Gingrich, and the others (maybe even Rick Perry), stick their necks out and speak up about the eligibility issue.
Obama is not a lock for 2012, he probably won't even be running, and if he does, he probably won't be on the ballot in several states, if there is even an election.
The difference between a candidate for any particular office and a person who is currently holding such an office, is that millions of people, including the treasonous media, are currently looking for any "distracting issues" with which to keep other candidates from ever winning the election to that office. In war or politics, defending turf is much easier than gaining turf.
Here would be a neat experiment. Why don't you appeal to the current sitting official President of the USA to get this eligibility issue resolved? Think about this for a minute, and maybe some of these clues will start to click into place.
No, Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.
Think of all the lawyers/law professors who are in the BO Administration and who support BO. How do they reconcile what they've learned with their support of BO?
Excellent and well-stated summation of the essential facts and legal/constitutional principles involved.
Thanks you for your efforts to cut through the massive amount of distraction, misdirection and deception with which this issue is being framed in the public debate.