I just read an article about how some incredibly narrow-minded, idiotic, bigoted (ok, I inserted my own adjectives, but hey Rush Limbaugh, did you hear me? I'm talking to YOU) Americans have been challenging Barack Obama's status as a natural-born American citizen. They hoped to prove he wasn't born on U.S. soil because the American Constitution expressly states that only natural-born citizens are eligible to run for President (unlike in France where you just have to be a citizen).
Well they can just give it a rest now, because authorities in his native state of Hawaii have stated, more than once and for the record, that Obama's birth certificate IS valid, and he IS a natural-born citizen of Hawaii and the United States. Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959 (just about 50 years ago) and Obama was born August 4, 1961.
Which is what made me realize... for the first time in my life, *I* am actually OLDER than my country's President. Almost 3 whole months older.
Crap.
