There's an obvious legal question as to Obama'a eligibility, why isn't it a big active investigation?

[egann]

As Zach Jones writes:

When questions about Obama’s eligibility to serve as President arose, I immediately recognized that this could be the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, bigger even than Watergate. The allegations, if true, would have created widespread political turmoil and would have had to involve people, high up people, ignoring and/or covering up facts. How could a young Senator from Illinois have gotten so far, so quickly, in national politics without some in both the Democratic & Republican Parties taking notice, researching, discovering details of his past and recognizing that there was a BIG potential problem? Especially, given that every other person in Washington is a lawyer, people knew, the media had to have known, known both of the problem and its ramifications. After all, it’s the political big league in Washington.

Having a legal background, I decided to do my own research to satisfy my curiosity and it became abundantly clear that legitimate questions existed and continue to exist. Questions regarding interpretation of Article II, Section I of the Constitution, questions of original intent, British/Kenyan law, acquisition of citizenship, questions about Obama’s birthplace, his adoption, his educational scholarships, his parent’s foreign allegiance/citizenship, his prior inadvertent admissions, questions about his passport(s), etc., exist with sufficient basis in law and/or fact to warrant serious investigation and judicial review. So, like many others at the time, I sat back and waited for the media firestorm to begin. And I waited, and waited, and waited. Not a peep from the media, Hillary, McCain or Republicans. Why?

With an issue this big involving the first competitive African-American running for the Presidency of the United States, his intentional withholding of records and the possibility that he fails to meet the Constitutional requirements for the Office, I just knew that every stone would be quickly overturned to get to the bottom of it. Even though it’s common knowledge that the American media is pretty much left of center when it comes to politics and everything else - ‘the story’, this story was SO big that I was sure they would not be able to ignore it. It wasn’t like other political stories the media ignored such as John Edwards’ love child or Larry Sinclair’s allegations of drug use and sex with Obama. This story went to bedrock, the requirements of who can be President and who can serve as Commander In Chief of our military. To my surprise, next to nothing came from the mainstream media.

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http://australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=446:obamas-presidential-eligibility-scandal&catid=94:breaking-news

[croslea]

Obama is a natural born citizen, as defined by over 500 years of common law and 200 years of US Supreme Court rulings. It's grossly naive to think that anyone in the media is scared of investigating the topic. Rupert Murdoch is afraid of no one -- and he would pay huge money for actual evidence. It's ridiculous to think that Dick Cheney didn't take a peek at the massive intelligence available to him.

The reason the Republicans didn't strongly protest Obama's eligibility isn't because they wanted Jindal in 2012 or other nonsense -- it's because the massive numbers of lawyers they have at their disposal all realize what Justice Scalia said:

Justice Scalia: But has not been called natural born citizenship? I mean, isn’t it clear that the natural born requirement in the Constitution was intended explicitly to exclude some Englishmen who had come here and spent some time here and then went back and raised their families in England? They did not want that.They wanted natural born Americans.
Mr. Davis: Yes, by the same token…
Justice Scalia: That is jus soli, isn’t it?
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Justice Scalia: Well, maybe. I’m just referring to the meaning of natural born within the Constitution. I don’t think you’re disagreeing. It requires jus soli, doesn’t it?

Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS - Oral Argument

Plus what Hawaiian officials have said -- Obama was born in the USA.

[geol19]

Becuase he proved he was born in the US. His birth certificate has been posted online. If you want to question it, you have to qution the birth certificate supplied by every president in history, too.

[tanishia]

Repubes. lost the election more than a year ago, yet they still persist to question his eligibility for the office he's held for nearly a year now. How pointless is that?

[adusa37]

Obama never had to PROVE that he is Constitutionally eligible; he merely ASSERTED that he is eligible, and that was it. Huge loophole.

[morcan]

Same ole, same ole. The right is pissed because they couldn't steal another presidential election.

[burt]

There is no obvious legal question about Obama's eligibility, which is the reason there is no investigation underway.

[stephon14]

I's already been investigated by the Secret Service, found no be real, and any attempt to agitate this thrown out of court. But don't let reality slow you down.

[wendlesora]

How much Money has Barrack and the Democrats spent to block any investigations ? Millions thats how much and there in lies your answer .

[dennie18]

Because the question was answered a couple of years ago.