This doesn't compute.  A lawsuit** had been filed to require Sen. Obama to prove that he is a U.S. citizen and eligible to serve as President.  The Democrats, rather than producing the requested birth certificate, which should have been easy if they had nothing to hide, instead asked the judge to throw out the suit.  The Clinton appointed judge obliged them.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president.  ...Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters."

Am I to understand that the judge ruled that voters would not suffer sufficient harm if someone was elected President who wasn't even a U.S. citizen?!  If voters don't have adequate legal interest in knowing that a potential President of the U.S. is eligible to serve, then who does?  Who?!

Now, attorney Philip Berg, who filed the suit, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Good.  The decision was bad enough, but the arrogance of the ruling is insulting.  

**Pennsylvania's former deputy attorney general and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter Philip J. Berg has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania accusing presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of lying about his U.S. citizenship, which would make him ineligible to be president.

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