President While Black

Andy Borowitz has it right: the whole point of this bizarre "birther" conspiracy is to harass Barack Obama for being president while black.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/president-while-black_b_248742.html

In fact, if there was any doubt about a candidate's eligibility to become President in the last election, it applied to John McCain, who was born in the Canal Zone. While there was no question of Sen. McCain's citizenship, it was uncertain that he qualified as a "natural-born" citizen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html

http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/citizen.asp