It's no lie. I didn't see or hear squat on the "natural-born citizen" argument in any media or on any forum until after the election. And, at that, the first report I saw originated from HillBuzz -- which had also been the most active source of the birth certificate argument.
If this was such an obvious disqualification, how come it didn't emerge into the light of day two years before the election?
Or was it all one big conspiracy -- between the courts, the Congress, the legal firms, legal scholars and all politicians of every stripe?
I've no dog in this race. But I hate to see good people waste their time and energy on a lost cause.
I'll tell you what *I* remember. Obama had been telling everyone for years that he was from Kenya. Even the ignorant people know that if he was born in Kenya, he is OUT! As that was the obvious issue of speculation prior to the release of his birth certificate, why would anybody worry about him having "natural born citizen" status when he hadn't even proven he had 14th amendment (wrongly understood) status?
Till he released his birth certificate, (July I think) it was pointless to worry about who his father was. I half way expected his birth certificate to reveal he had an American father, and was lying about having a Kenyan father, the way he was lying about being from Kenya.