Imaginary Playing Fields

Is there any group more pathetic than the birthers? Or more ignorant?

Ever-curious Fio read some idiot's blog in which he maintained that because Obama's father was born in Kenya, Obama is not eligible to be President, that the Constitution states that both of a Presidents' parents must have been born in the United States. Casting her mind back to high school and college Government classes, Fio was perplexed: as she remembered, the only citizenship requirement for a presidential candidate was being born in the US or US territories. So, of course, she googled the topic.

Citizenship turned out to be a little more complicated than Fio remembered, especially John Cain's, but Obama, born in Hawaii, is in the clear.

Unless, of course, you believe his birth certificate was forged forty-some years ago so he could eventually become President in order to bring the country under the direct control of Al Qaeda.

Which, of course, some people probably believe. But they're idiots too.