An Internet Story they Forgot to Sweep

We haven't posted much of anything about the 'birther' controversy, mostly because it's a distraction and a waste of time, since the idea that the current Congress would nullify the election even if incontrovertible proof of Obama's non-US birth is obtained is next to nil. I originally thought that since his mother was a US citizen it wouldn't matter where he was born anyway, but I have seen an analysis that because of her age and time out of the country, if he wasn't born in the US he wouldn't qualify as a 'natural' citizen. Consult your local constitutional authority for an opinion, but as indicated above whether yea or no, the chance of Congress moving him from office before we can vote him out in 2012 is inconceivable (and unlike Vizzini I don't use the word often and I do know what it means)

As for whether the evidence presented about photocopied birth certificates and missing originals has any merit, I'm not enough up on the specifics to comment. I think the larger issue is the almost complete lack of information about Obama's life (school records, early writing (if any), etc...) except for what he (or Bill Ayers) provided in his autobiography.

That said, this is an interesting AP story from 2004, before they got the memo (presented here merely for historical interest):

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

(h/t Curmudgeon's Corner)

[Update: I just noticed that the link is not directly to the Sunday Standard but is to some site called web.archive.org, so this may just be an internet hoax. Snopes identifies it as such, so just enjoy it for a short laugh, at my expense if you like, for posting the to-good-to-be-true piece before checking]