I don't know Obama's IQ - heck, we don't even know his grades - but I do know smart people who are bad investors. The Fatal Conceit of the folks in power in this country is that they are smart enough to pick winners in the investment marketplace, yet they have no experience and no education in any of the areas necessary to do such picking. Obama is more dangerous than most because he absolutely doesn't care if he picks wrong - that is just another step toward the left he had hoped to make anyway. What exactly does he see in the PIGS economies he likes?

Ann: The Tea Party is on top of this - they've raised hundreds of thousands and send out ten notices a day to email. The GOP, on the other hand, is expending all its energy on Romney - you know, your favorite guy, and the one who has already adopted Keynesian economics and big government as a platform and plan? The only thing the GOP and the neocons care about is whether Romney will reinstate any cuts to the defense budget. You know, so we can continue a useless war in Afghanistan, start one in Syria, and have some cool jets in case China ever decides to call in our debt. But, back to the original point, I agree, if Walker loses, it may well be the end of an America that isn't a bad copy of Europe. See Georgetwin for cites on that!

But why would he do that, if he could simply argue, under York's reasoning here, that whether he was born in Hawaii, or Kenya, or Timbuktu, he was a citizen by birth, and that is the same, when there is no alternative definition, as "natural born citizen". Weren't many of the Founders, for example, citizens by birth rather than born in the "United States" to two citizen-parents? Which of them was not qaulified to be President? I am sure there were some, I am just asking???

I have to agree with York on this. I have thought since 2008 that we did not vett Obama properly, and that he is sleazy (and a committed socialist, but I digress), at the very least, for letting news outlets, campaign workers, and biographers refer to him repeatedly as "Kenyan-born" when he thought it would benefit him for election in predominately black districts - but it is just that, sleazy. His mother was a citizen, and I think that closes the case on eligibility. If I thought otherwise I would have filed suit, too.

Obama can lie like a dog, but if he says it "cutesy", with his flippant mid-Western accent and union boss personality, the idiots who vote will buy it. Heck, Bob on the Five says it's accurate, and he is at least arguably intelligent.

Well somebody better wake up, because we have just done another Bush/McCain/Dole big government, quasi-socialist alternative to the committed socialist in the White House, and nothing appears to be going to change. We "conservatives" blew it again. I am not sure that there is a conservative in government, by any useful definition.

Are you going to execute on those assets? How? Has anyone ever done that, except through war? Maybe garnishee the wages of all politicians? Those "assets" you are describing are not pledged, and they are not accessible to the lenders upon default.

To Dr. Williams, Rick and Layopinions: Who exactly is going to do anything about this problem? Mitt has just adopted a Keynesian approach to the budget, suggesting that cutting a trillion in government spending is "recessionary". So, where are Sowell, Williams, Will, all these great economic minds on the right - silent! Where is the Tea Party? Still in Wisconsin, trying to win a recall election that won't matter if the Presidential election is between a committed socialist and a backdoor socialist. Please remember that, despite what the press says about "locked up", Romney has 19 states to Paul's 13 as far as delegates are concerned. If we can survive the first ballot, we still have a chance for a trillion in cuts in the first year.

That's pretty dotriaoctaredneck.

My caddie at Pebble Beach is an African-American. He is white, of Dutch descent, from South Africa. As I am Swedish and Scotch-Irish American, we make a very diverse team.