There had been questions about Obama’s eligibility, partly because some press reports (including in Kenya) referred to him as “Kenyan born.” I remember in the discussions at the time that it was perceived that approving McCain’s legitimacy was a sort of trade-off for not examining Obama’s, and in fact this did happen and the question was virtually never raised after that.
“I remember in the discussions at the time that it was perceived that approving McCain’s legitimacy was a sort of trade-off for not examining Obama’s”
Citation?