Thank you, but this is your opinion only and not an established fact. Do you suppose that Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, R. Emmett Tyrrell, House & Senate Republicans, Republican state officials, etc etc etc etc were also concerned with being called racist?
Nary a conservative of repute has lent this any validity whatsoever, yet two hack attorneys, Berg and Donofrio are just so exceptionally astute and doggedly determined that they are to be believed?
Yes. Next question.
And that is your opinion.
Conservative of repute? Interesting phrase. How do they establish that reputation? Might it have something to do with avoiding issues that are too controversial and the outcome too uncertain?
I am not in any way, shape or form convinced that Obama is inelgible to serve. How could I be? I do not have access to the facts, nor am I an expert in that area of the law.
That said, there do appear to be significant questions here. For one thing, this controversy has made it abundantly clear that there is NO MECHANISM FOR ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARD.
The parties (or the candidate!) have the nominal responsibility to somehow, to some unknown degree, by someone unknow process and procedure “declare” the candidate is constitutionally eligible, but NO ONE has been able to discover that process or challenge it.
Is that sufficient in light of the constitutional harm that would result from failure to determine eligibility? NO.
From that point alone, it is worth getting this issue to daylight. We need some way to official and publicly vet the eligibility of candidates (or at least President and VP selects), and a way to challenge that vetting and a remedy. Even if the SCOTUS says only that and gets Congress to take action, this will have been worth it.
I am not comfortable knowing that some dumb party hack on either side of the aisle is rubberstamping “natural born citizen” on whichever dude they think can win or has won.
And that is a sad commentary on the state of our leadership. You don't need to be a genius to look at the fundamental aspects of this issue and conclude that Obama should present his qualifying document to the nation. That our so-called leadership is too afraid, or too uninformed to actually give this historic issue the attention it deserves, is a travesty.
yet two hack attorneys, Berg and Donofrio are just so exceptionally astute and doggedly determined that they are to be believed?
Ad hominem attacks on these gentlemen isn't strengthening your case. It just makes you sound ignorant of the facts.