by Mike Gray

Well, that’s what he said, that’s what the man said.

WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah comments:

MSNBC’s fast-talking Chris Matthews went off the deep end last week over those who question the constitutional eligibility of the one who sends thrills up his leg. …. Of course, if Chris Matthews really wanted answers to those questions, there are any number of people he could have invited on the air – about 174 million of them, if the CNN poll is right. But he didn’t want a dialogue. He doesn’t want to know what these people really think. He wanted only to make a caricature of what now represents the majority opinion in the U.S.

Meanwhile, one elected official opines: “I think the president is enjoying this [controversy].” Congresscritter Brian Bilbray displayed his belief system not long ago:

Personally, Bilbray said he believes Obama was born in Hawaii, “but I don’t know what his status is. He’s a U.S. citizen until proven otherwise.”

The legal issue is far from settled. One on-line source has noted

… that several of the attorneys who have been fighting the Obama eligibility cases, Mario Apuzzo and Leo Donofio, have done extensive research on the meanings, the wording and the origins of “natural born citizen.” “Each of them has established, independently and conclusively, that the ‘natural born Citizen’ requirement of Article II of the United States Constitution clearly has its origins in the work of the political philosopher Emmerich de Vattel, who defined ‘natural born Citizen’ as meaning ‘born in the country of parents who are citizens,'” the commentary said.

It continued, “The U.S. congressman, Brian Bilbray, who was captured on video making an unfounded and false statement regarding an extremely important and significant provision of the United States Constitution in a public television appearance, is exposing himself as seriously uninformed regarding that document. In fact, one could argue that this public misrepresentation of such an essential requirement of the U.S. Constitution renders this man unfit to serve in public office,” it said.

Chances are Bilbray will lose his job before the President does.