Case Not Closed (Follow-up On the Obama's Not an American Debate)

[NicholeW.]

Slate.com
By David Weigel
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at 11:44 AM ET

After losing at the Supreme Court, Obama conspiracy theorists meet the press.

http://www.slate.com/id/2206344/

For the lawyers, radio hosts, and denizens of the Internet who want Barack Obama to be disqualified from the presidency, it was Black Monday. The Supreme Court had finally read Donofrio v. Wells, the lawsuit that accuses both Obama and John McCain of lacking "natural born citizenship." The court dismissed it. Its denial of cert was so curt—"The application for stay addressed to Justice Thomas and referred to court is denied"—that you might have thought the case had blown across a receptionist's desk and been filed by accident.

"It is common knowledge," explained Manning, "that African men, coming from the continent of Africa—especially for the first time—do diligently seek out white women to have sexual intercourse with. Generally the most noble of white society choose not to intercourse sexually with these men. So it's usually the trashier ones who make their determinations that they're going to have sex."

*sigh*

[tekla]

Look, there is nothing wrong in asking the questions, in particular since they lay at the heart of other national matters.  The case in question was the dumber of the two, I think the other one is going to be talked about today or tomorrow.  The Donofrio deal involved dual citizens, and other passports, and also questioned McCain.  The other one is a bit more to the point.

But, the general understanding - though no one has ever looked at this stuff since the ink dried - that you can't be an immigerent president, nor can you be a 'citizen' who has been living abroad too much (the 14 year deal).

However, its been common practice that in order to be a natural citizen you must a) be born here, or b) have at least one American parent no matter where you were born. 

But I doubt the SCOTUS is going to like overturn an election.  I don't like them much, but even I don't think they are that dumb.