[mountainbunny]

This is either a Pandora's Box, or a chance for the average Man to have a say with just cause to do so.

Pandora's Box.

If this works, expect people in every jurisdiction in the nation to file suits challenging every aspect of both candidate's lives. Then what?

I have said this before, but it bears saying again. The GOP knows whether Obama is eligible or not. It wouldn't be hard for them to find a copy of his birth certificate if they wanted one.

So, you are left with the following possibilities:

1). The GOP knows Obama is not eligible, but have still chosen to throw money at McCain's campaign, to the tune of untold millions that could have gone to struggling Congressional and local races. Obama has a passport, and he has been on at least two committees that almost certainly require clearance and background checks.

But instead, they are just throwing all of that money away needlessly, possibly consigning their party members to a Democratic majority Congress and who-know-how-many Democrats elected locally nation-wide.

If they knew Obama was not eligible, the time to drop that bomb would have been just before people started casting early ballots. As you will notice, it didn't happen. People are voting now all over the nation, many of then for Obama.

(or)

2). The GOP knows Obama is a citizen (and therefore eligible) and have spent the money they way that have because it has made sense to try to fight the best fight possible against Barack Obama for the Presidency.

If #1 is true, the GOP is risking hundreds of races across the country for nothing. If anyone believes #1 to be true, they should ask themselves why they are voting Republican this or any other year.

[Danae]

Your argument is based in an assumption: that Obama has a valid US Birth Certificate, and indeed, he may well have one. I think the GOP knows as well, that he is NOT a Natural Born Citizen, he WAS a citizen of Indonesia at one time in his life. I can not even begin to speculate as to why they have not brought this up. Perhaps because the GOP has no standing to address it either. I believe it can only be handled by Congress or SCOTUS.

The people who are voting now have long ago made up their minds. Those are NOT the people who are going to have their minds changed even if Obama suddenly sprouts horns and a tail. The People who matter are the ones that will not make a choice until just before the election. The swing voters. I am certain that both campaigns are taking that simple fact into account.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" If this works, expect people in every jurisdiction in the nation to file suits challenging every aspect of both candidate's lives. Then what? "

The amendment to the US Constitution ( if there is any that will happen after this ) would have to be very specific in that regard, you are correct, this would be a big problem if it were just a vague clause in the law.

[Flamenco Lady]

Just wondering, even if the GOP knows, at this point I think it would be tough for them to do anything because of the issue of standing that the judges so far have used for the reason they have not required Obama to produce his records.

From what I have read of the opinions handed down so far, I don’t think the GOP would have standing either. Furthermore, I am thinking that McCain does not have standing either unless he loses to Obama and was thus harmed.

Does this make sense to any one else?