Mad magazine dishes on Obama's birthplace

Lawsuits have claimed Barack Obama fails the Constitution's eligibility test for presidents because his father was a Kenyan, because he was born overseas and because his original long-form birth certificate has been withheld.

Mad magazine, now, has released its solution: His birthplace is "wherever it was he was born."

The magazine, in an article "How Barack Obama stacks up to the other 42 presidents," also takes jabs at Obama's dependence on Teleprompters, his middle name (Hussein), his busted lip and his onetime pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

While George Washington's "head was carved into Mt. Rushmore, Obama's head was sculpted into a Chia Pet," the article starts. Then, John Adams "got lost on his way to go live in the White House. Obama successfully reached the White House, but has been lost ever since."

It's when the list gets to Andrew Jackson the magazine explains, "Before Jackson, there had never been a president born west of the Appalachian Mountains. Before Obama, there had never been a president born … wherever it was he was born."

The jab focuses on the ongoing dispute over Obama's eligibility to be president under the Constitution's requirement that presidents be a "natural born Citizen."

The "certification of live birth" that his campaign posted online in the 2008 election is a document that state rules allowed to be given to those not born in the state, and his original birth certificate never has been made available.

Further, among the lawsuits and challenges that have arisen are those who allege his couldn't qualify as a natural born citizen because his father was a Kenyan citizen.

Besides his original birth certificate, also withheld have been his school records, college records, records from his years in the Illinois legislature and other documents typically available for prominent leaders.

There have been multiple lawsuits over the issue, although judges have dismissed almost all of them so far. One Supreme Court justice even admitted the panel was "evading" the issue of Obama's eligibility.

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