Not a "birther", but...

I am not a "birther". I don't want to see Barak Obama's real birth certificate.

I already know that he is NOT eligible for the office he now holds. A law book from the 18th century gives us a picture of what their view of a citizen was:

"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the

society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their

tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country."

That fromThe Law of Nations by Emmerich de Vattel, Chap XIX, 212: Citizens and natives.

"This 1758 work by Swiss legal philosopher Emmerich de Vattel is of special importance to scholars of constitutional history and law, for it was read by many of the Founders of the United States of America, and informed their understanding of the principles of law which became established in the Constitution of 1787."

This was copied from one of the several sources that I read to make sure it wasn't just from someone making it up. My failure was that I didn't record the source. Good thing this isn't a term paper. I will say that people back then were a lot smarter than we are today.

By this standard I don't need a certificate of live birth or anything else. By all admissions Mr. Obama's father was from Kenya. At the time it was a colony of Britain, making Mr. Obama, Sr. a British citizen, making Mr. Obama, Jr. INELIGIBLE. I wish we had judges who had some guts and brains.