“Most people simply do not care. If they did, they would not have voted for the guy, or at least demanded that the news media do their job. They didn’t, and I don’t remember a huge outcry among the broader population about it.”
This isn’t really the big problem with the birth certificate issue. Rather, it’s just the complete unreasonableness of Obama’s mother, nine months pregnant, traveling to *Kenya* to give birth. In 1961! Air travel back then sure was cheap, nice and comfortable - not to mention affordable. Hell, Obama sr. couldn’t afford paying his family’s living expenses (well, he chose not to to advance his career, but...) - but he could finance around-the-globe-trips?
Oh, and I’m sure old man (”Big Man”) Obama would have been thrilled to bring back his wife to Kenya - so that she could meet his *other bigamous wife*.
There just is no logical reason why Obama should have been born in Kenya.
What is logical is of course liberals loving every moment of conservatives wasting effort and time on a wild goose chase. Makes it easier to write off the opposition to all the crap coming down the pike (Amnesty, The New Deal 2.0, Socialized medicine, Auto industry socialization, banking industry socialization, if you need to be reminded...) as paranoid delusions.
Not to mention that it diverts attention from the tiny little fact that Obama’s entire official life’s story is a big fat lie.
Sorry for the rant, but I felt I had to chip in on this debate.
Obama may not have been rich, but Stanley’s parents were not poor.
I’m with you I never bought this for a second.
There is some fishiness around the documents unavailability and his dad’s mother swears Obama was born in the village (senile, pride thing, or mixed up with one of her other grandchildren) but it’s so implausible. Even with some FRiends I respect and my own mother believing it I don’t.
Even it were true his mom was American so if he’d be ineligible it would be because of a technicality.
And their would be stronger evidence.
Maybe the birth certificate names Obama’s Marxist mentor and friend of his granfather, (forget his name) as his real father though! That’s a conspiracy theory I can get behind. ;)