“John, you’ve run for office. Can you tell us what documents you were required to submit to prove you were:”
No. This is where John refers you to his lawyer. Rest assured, though, that John has a lawyer, and the John made sure that he was eligible to run before he spent several hundred million dollars and months of effort trying to win office.
Look at it this way. John McCain is about to spend >$100M to prevent Obama from becoming president. It would cost a few thousand to get a judge to verify the birth certificate. Don’t you think that, if there was anything to this story, the McCain camp would be all over it? For that matter, don’t you think that Clinton would have been all over it?
If the certificate is fake, then the obama camp has committed felony fraud, which would destroy any chance of him winning the race, and demonstrating that fraud is less expensive the running national ads in college newspapers. If it was a fraud, we would know, and not because some random blogger decides that JPEG compression artifacts are evidence of tampering.
All this demonstrates is that people here are willing to believe anything
There's no IF. It does NOT have a raised and embossed seal. A true certificate issued by the State of Hawaii would have this......read the article again. Even IF all the information is accurate the lack of that raised seal makes it an invalid copy and will NOT be accepted if you try to get a passport or visa.
John IS a lawyer who's argued cases before the Supreme Court. You'll excuse me if I take his word over a newbie who's been here a whole 5 days.
As far as McCain making this an issue: Thanks for the laugh! McCain wouldn't challenge Obama if he was caught on tape murdering someone while robbing a bank with his 14 yo gay lover driving the get away car lest he be labled a racist.