Over the past two years, Barack Obama has endured numerous high-profile attacks on his character, origins and political doctrine. He's been called a marxist-socialist, a terrorist, a Muslim, a turncoat, and a vain pop star. Some Internet forums have even accused him of being a bad dancer. But very recently he was accused of not being an American citizen at all, though the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

Leo Donofrio, a New Jersey-native who is clearly disgusted by the election of Obama, tried to make the case that Obama was not a U.S. citizen at all, echoing a sentiment brought forth earlier this year by a lawyer (probably working on Republican "think tank" dime) who was trying to prove that Obama was born in Kenya, or at least raise the specter of this notion. For what it's worth, Donofrio can't be criticized as an outright racist -- he tried to argue that McCain wasn't a natural citizen either because, military brat that he is, he was born in 1936(!) in the Panama Canal region.

To quell the nation's fears, it has been made clear to the country that Barack Obama is indeed a naturalized U.S. citizen according to the framework of the Constitution. He was born in Hawaii in 1961. Hawaii became a military base state of the union in 1959. Had he been born two years earlier, there wouldn't have been any change for anyone to believe in, though he'd probably be making some serious dough right now as a corporate lawyer, instead of taking on theNation's Worst Job. -SB