There is the disturbing possibility that no court really looked at the law in depth because they did not want to be seen as taking a serious look at the issue because the defendant was half-black and because of the campaign of ridicule launched by the Great Pretender and his operatives. This would be a substitution of a “rule of ridicule” for the Rule of Law. There is no reason to believe that Senator Cruz could successfully do the same thing. It clearly appears that there are leftists willing to press the issue, despite their general contempt for the Constitution.
RE: There is the disturbing possibility that no court really looked at the law in depth because they did not want to be seen as taking a serious look at the issue because the defendant was half-black and because of the campaign of ridicule launched by the Great Pretender and his operatives
Nobody with standing actually CHALLENGED Obama’s candidacy when he first ran. THAT was the problem. Had someone with standing done that, it would have been in the courts in early 2008.
And this is exactly what I think. We can see before us right now how much the court is swayed by social pressure from the social classes which they respect. You are right. Not only did everyone on the left attack "birthers" as fools and cretins, so did a large part of the establishment right. Every "birther" was mocked as believing in the same things as the kookiest amongst us.
Indeed, anyone who question Obama's legitimacy was called a "conspiracy nut" as if it was a "great conspiracy" to postulate that that lying liar would lie about his eligibility.
It clearly appears that there are leftists willing to press the issue, despite their general contempt for the Constitution.
Alinsky's rules. Make your opponent live up to his own rules, while ignoring them yourself.