Son of Swiftboat?

Now comes one Philip J. Berg. He is a former member of Pennsylvania's Democratic State Committee and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. Berg also happens to be a highly disgruntled Hillary Clinton fan, who was backing her for president.

Berg filed a lawsuit last week in U.S District Court. He is asking the court to declare Obama ineligible for the presidency because he is not a natural born American citizen. He has asked the court to prevent him from running for the position.

The Berg lawsuit claims that Obama's eligibility is doubtful on several grounds, including some Obama family members' allegations that he was born in Kenya. Berg is also questioning Obama's parents' citizenship status which he claims prevented them from automatically granting Obama U.S. citizenship. He also questions the authenticity of Obama's Hawaii birth certificate.

Berg has also alleges Obama was a citizen of Indonesia as a child and Obama retained that foreign citizenship into adulthood without recording an oath of allegiance to the United States. That's a requirement to retain your American citizenship. The legal tangle that can befall an innocent infant born to American parents in foreign lands can be extensive.

Yes, sometimes the odd circumstances of a foreign birth can call into question a hapless child's American citizenship. Let the federal court decide whether Barack Obama fits into this category or not.