No other Presidential Candidate has ever had to present a Birth Certificate, have they?
Why Obama?
IMHO, Obama has successfully wormed his way through a glaring loophole in the Constitution. O sure, there's some mighty impressive case law on what a "Natural Born" citizen is, but who's supposed to vet candidates? Who's supposed to sue whom? SCOTUS obviously doesn't know and would have to "legislate from the bench" to solve this one.
The "Indonesian Adoption" option? Fuggedaboutit. If (IF) he was a citizen and subsequently adopted in a foreign land as a minor, he is still a citizen.
Born in Hawaii? Yeah, sure. The Attorney General of the State of Hawaii could bring criminal charges if he felt that CLB posted on the web was a forgery, but so far no one has brought it up.
Smells to me that that Kenya/Sumatra Boy has succeeded in pulling a fast one. Just like his lies on his Illinois Bar App, these issues are rapidly disappearing from the light of day.
No one even knows what is supposed to happen if some ruling authority as yet unknown finds he is ineligible after being sworn in. The Founding Fathers never imagined such criminal chutzpah, leaving us in uncharted territory.
Bush, Reagan, Nixon, Ike, etc., etc., probably all provided their birth certificates to get into the military as I had to do.
Nonsense. If the court rules as it should, telling Obama to produce his birth certificate or otherwise prove his natural born status, that is NOT legislating from the bench, it is following the constitution. That no other POTUS candidate has been challenged thusly before does not mean they are legislating from the bench.
Just like the poor saps who got elected as politicians when their state constitutions or city bylaws required them to be residents. More than a few have been tossed because people forced the issue to court.
Before McCain-Feingold, it was the FEC. But since there is now an opt out option in public vs private campaign finance, the FEC can be sidestepped.