“...simply releasing his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate, the only document that could ever begin to put the questions to rest.”
No, it wouldn’t. In and of itself, the long form birth certificate cannot establish natural born citizenship so long as it might show his father was a citizen of Kenya, as Obama has claimed his entire life, and around which he has built his life story’s narrative. Absence of a HI birth certificate COULD serve to eliminate him. But his producing such a form doesn’t put the question of Constitutional eligibility to rest.
The birth certificate question is yet another red herring, like the references to Obama as an “American citizen.” Both get about halfway there, but don’t satisfy the Constitutional question. The Constitution requires getting ALL the way there. Note how the left always says ‘he’s a citizen.’ Well, that might well be, but very few say he’s a ‘Natural Born citizen.’ It all serves as a distraction from the actual requirements and language of the U.S. Constitution.
There is not one media idiot that will say the Odumbo is a Natural Born Citizen. They sure questioned John McCain’s ‘born’ status but not Odumbo’s. You are right saying that on many occasions Odumbo has said that his father was a kenyen. The idiot Bill O’ from Fauxnews will not ask about that. One time I would just like somebody to ask Odumbo if his father was a citizen of the U.S. and then follow it up with Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, what our founders meant by the Natural Born Citizen clause of Article 2, section 1. His alledged father, I know, was not a Citizen.