Obama’s Birth Certificate

I am not inclided to engage conspiracy theorists (Ed Morrissey does a fine job here).  I’d search the Obama-isn’t-eligible-to-be-President sites myself to see if any of these crackpots have even attempted to an offer an explanation, besides a vague concern for the intergrity of the Constitution, about what the danger of a foreign-born President, duly elected by the American people, actually is.  But I don’t think I can stomach five seconds at any of these sites.

Whenever I’m confronted by xenophobic, born-in-America drivel, I’m always reminded of my favorite story about Ayn Rand, as told by Cato’s David Boaz:

When a heckler asked her at a public speech, “Why should we care what a foreigner thinks?”, she replied with her usual fire, “I chose to be an American. What did you ever do, except for having been born?”

I’d love to ask that question to anybody challenging the President-elect’s patriotism.