A Sign of Rationality

And from the Supreme Court of the United States, no less.

One of the persistent memes left over from the campaign for President has been that the two major party candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, were ineligible to become President as they were not "natural-born" Americans (as opposed to those grown in axolotl tanks).

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, a leased US possession at the time, while Obama was born in Hawaii (but the idiots claim that due to his Kenyan father and his Indonesian stepfather, he wasn't a citizen).

Some complete blithering lunatic in New Jersey of all places managed to get a suit alleging that McCain, Obama and the Socialist Party's candidate were all ineligible all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Which refused to hear the case.

Now, we will continue to hear this nonsense for at least the next four years from Those Of Little Brain, who swallow and parrot every bit of bilge they are spoon-fed from Hannity, Coulter and O'Reilly (as well as the lesser dybbuks on AM radio). But it's refreshing to see that even the Roberts Court is capable of rationality.