riiiiii ght. And Mr. Wooldridge, for all his athletic ability, migt not be able to pass an IQ test. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ssn.asp I am beginning to get the feeling that this site is just one notch above world weekly news 

Grandpoobah, you might as well rely on The National Enquirer if you rely on snopes! And this "proof" from snopes you offer dictates that Obama is a "us citizen", which is the subject of the hearing discussed in the article. And snopes uses itself as proof of its own claim that obama is a citizen. I guess you figure snopes is more reliable than a court hearing? Which, in this case makes some sense, since the "court" was run by a crooked thief. If Obama is a citizen, why can't we have a simple open hearing? Why does he hide and spend so much money for secrecy? Didn' the FBI just circulate fliers saying people who seek secrecy are a potential terrorist threat? Oh, that doesn't apply to obama because he issued the orders... "everyone but me is a terrorist threat if they commit social security fraud in order to obtain false identification documents in order to infiltrate the us government." Right. I get it now.

Some of the verification that Obama is a U.S. citizen comes from the reverse. Here is what I mean. What is it that proves that an individual is a U.S. citizen? Imagine that a U.S. citizen has no documentation of his birth, because he was born out in the back woods, and his parents didn't take the time to register him with the county via a birth certificate or anything else.

Now, add to the above, that his parents both died, and that he has no living relative from his parents' ancestral lines. So, what can he do to prove that he is a U.S. citizen?

One of the options that is available to him is an affidavit of citizenship. Once he has made his affidavit of citizenship, he is considered a citizen.

If someone else writes up an affidavit that says that he has personal, first-hand knowledge that the first person is NOT a U.S. citizen, only then is there enough evidence to conduct a hearing - to determine the facts - to see which of the two is lying by intent or by mistake.

President Obama has, through taking his Oath of Office, proclaimed affidavit-style more or less, that he is eligible to hold the office of the Presidency.

We all know that he is not a citizen. Yet, all our knowledge about this fact is hearsay... will not stand up in court... until one of us who has first-hand knowledge of the facts comes forward with an affidavit that contradicts what Obama has sworn... an affidavit presented in the proper manner, at the proper time, to the proper people.

When the contradicting affidavit has been presented properly, then Congress and/or the Judiciary still might decide that they don't want to move ahead with an investigation. And, until they move ahead with the investigation, Obama is President.

Now, what I have written here is a general, basic, simplistic idea of how things work. There are probably many other factors involved. And perhaps someone has already done the contradicting affidavit thing. The point is that there is a lot to think about here, even though, if things were investigated, it might truly be found that Obama is not eligible to be president.