The government doesn't miss an undotted "i" in checking CITIZEN'S birth certificates to gain a place in a nursing home, but heaven forbid a CITIZEN should have the "standing" to demand that, at the very least, they do the same for a presidential candidate.

My Mother's Birth Certificate - And Barack's
By Joan Swirsky, For The Bulletin
10/27/2008

Four years ago, when I had just about completed the lengthy legal and financial vetting process required by the U.S. government to place my then-92-year-old-mother in a nursing home, I was asked to produce her birth certificate as "proof" of her citizenship. While she was born in America, had voted in every election for untold decades and paid her taxes religiously, that wasn't good enough to qualify my elderly mother to be admitted to the facility I had chosen for her near my home.

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