Yes, I understand that you are referring to the law, Ebbie. No problem. I was looking at it in a larger philosophical sense, not in a legal sense. Laws are imperfect solutions to complex problems, and they can be amended.

The thing that troubles me about the attacks on Obama's supposed birth origins is this: the people launching those attacks are siezing upon an irrelevant legal technicality for their own selfish reasons. They're not acting out of any genuine altruism or in any genuine service to their nation, they are acting out of cynical and partisan self-interest...and ill will.

kendall - Coporatocracy is a really terrible form of government, and it's not better than all the rest. What you have in the USA is not a true democracy anymore (though it once was), it's a corporatocracy. It's the illusion of a democracy maintained by a dominant Oligarchy of monied interests.