Sarah Palin on Barack Obama's Presidential Eligibility

From Sarah Palin's Facebook statement:

Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

Sister Toldjah offers an interpretation, "Why did you have to go there, Sarah?":

Sarah Palin is right in that this is a “legitimate issue” to raise – but because the left crucifies her for every statement she makes and how her statements get magnified to the nth degree by the left’s associates in the mainstream media (as is happening now), a better way for her to have put it is that it is a legitimate issue for others to pursue, but that she’s “not interested in doing so and instead desires to remain focused on the things he’s doing as President that are destroying America’s fundamental ideals.” In fact, she said as much in her follow-up statement to her remarks, but of course follow-up statements look like “clean-up” after the fact, and no one but loyal supporters will care. Handling it in this manner would have put her “above the fray” and given the left less to no ammo, while at the same time, she would still be holding true to her correct standard that the issue is “fair game.”

And that's the thing: The fact is that President Obama's presidential eligibility remains a major constitutional question, mainly because he's never been completely open and forthcoming about the official documentation of his birth.

Nice Deb has a little roundup. It's not just extremist birthers who're asking questions. See, "Sarah Palin On Rusty Humphries Show: “Birth Certificate Fair Game”."

As always, the question is Barack Obama's deceit. See, Andrew McCarthy, "Suborned in the U.S.A.: The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty, not where he was born."

UPDATE: Chris Wysocki links, "How to dispel the birthers once and for all."