John, you've run for office. Can you tell us what documents you were required to submit to prove you were:
“John, you’ve run for office. Can you tell us what documents you were required to submit to prove you were:”
No. This is where John refers you to his lawyer. Rest assured, though, that John has a lawyer, and the John made sure that he was eligible to run before he spent several hundred million dollars and months of effort trying to win office.
Look at it this way. John McCain is about to spend >$100M to prevent Obama from becoming president. It would cost a few thousand to get a judge to verify the birth certificate. Don’t you think that, if there was anything to this story, the McCain camp would be all over it? For that matter, don’t you think that Clinton would have been all over it?
If the certificate is fake, then the obama camp has committed felony fraud, which would destroy any chance of him winning the race, and demonstrating that fraud is less expensive the running national ads in college newspapers. If it was a fraud, we would know, and not because some random blogger decides that JPEG compression artifacts are evidence of tampering.
All this demonstrates is that people here are willing to believe anything