Grasping At Straws

Some people insist on believing Barack Hussein Obama isn't 100% Made In the USA

Newsmax, who, it would seem fair to say, are really quite right wing, have been really running hard with the whole Does Barry O qualify to run for Pres? routine.
The latest development has them in a total tizzy, as apparently, despite the passing of a '30 day deadline' to do so, Obamessiah's lawyers have not yet produced the "original birth certificate" at the heart of a suit launched by former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg — a self-avowed supporter of Hillary Clinton,.

The suit alleges that "Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus “ineligible” to run for president of the United States" and demands that Obama’s lawyers produce a copy of his original birth certificate to prove that he is a natural-born U.S. citizen.

Well down in the Newsmax story it is (oh so briefly) mentioned that this sort of deadline is routinely, in Shakespeare's (unattributed) phrase, "more honoured in the breach than the observance", by lawyers, yet this whole bit of nothing was nonetheless Newsmax's "Headline Story" (cue: flourish of strumpets, er, trumpets).
Pretty pathetic, guys.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_birth_certificate/2008/10/24/143882.html?s=al&promo_code=6E2D-1

Republicans Know Its Over

Ed Rollins confirms your correspondent's analysis.

You know, watching McCain fumbling meekly along (to say nothing of the Palin geek show) I can't help wondering if the GOP backroom didn't figure from the start they couldn't win and put up a couple of sacrificial lambs. Why waste a candidate who might have a shot at it next time? Many have said that McCain is too old to be running this election, never mind in '12, so he fits the bill there. And Johnny's a good soldier, he'll fall on the grenade, right?
As for Palin, just think "Kim Campbell" and it starts to make sense.
Just wonderin'