Perhaps this issue will go away after the Supreme Court of the United States discusses it in a scheduled conference on December 5. Author and journalist Joan Swirsky, writing for The New Media Journal November 24, says the media has failed to cover the allegations that President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he is not a natural born citizen of the United States.
Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. John Crace decodes what he was really thinking...