If the same amount of reporters who dug around about Joe the Plumber put that effort into finding out the truth about Obama’s birth certificate, we would have the truth now.
You forget those reporters had help from the willing “Democrat” government officials. HI is and has been Democratic since the 1950’s with union support so no indepth investigation would ever have been done of their “native son”! Also don’t forget that Jr advised friends and aquaintances to not talk to the media. One of his best friends from Punahou was pilloried as trying to extort money from the campaign because he phoned their headquarters and said he needed money when they asked if he needed anything. He was living in a car after having been released from prison for drug charges. It’s all a matter of spin and with a favorable media anything can be buried!