Re: Mad magazine dishes on Obama's birthplace

"If I've lost [Mad], I've lost the country"

On Mar 23, 11:37 am, JSM <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, <http://www.dccomics.com/mad/> 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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