There's no indisputable truth about the matter. Obama's long-form birth certificate hasn't been produced. Is that odd? Yes. But does that mean we can determine with certainty that he wasn't born in Hawai'i? No, it doesn't.
There are a million indisputable truths regarding the path of this country, and the erroneous philosophies and policies that have led us here to our present state.
I see no point in focusing on whether the President is a Kenyan or not.
This is pretty much where I stand too. For an administration that takes such an "if you have nothing to hide" attitude towards citizens, the Obama administration is certainly acting like they have something to hide. It's both suspicious and galling that the long-form hasn't been released, and doubly so due to the intellectually dishonest pretense that the matter was settled by the dubious scan that was released. At the same time, it could also be a red herring meant to make detractors look silly (and discredited) in the event the real thing is actually released and shows he was indeed born in Hawaii. In the end, we don't actually know the truth. We just know the situation smells funny.
This really shouldn't be a fringe issue, but it's treated as one due to malicious racializing by progressives, which is especially effective in this case because it capitalizes on the actual racist motivations of some [hopefully small] subset of the skeptics. From my perspective, we have so many more issues that are both more important and easier to pursue, because they carry less of a stigma. Even "End the Fed" has lost a great deal of its "fringe" stigma, yet it's so much more important and fundamental.
That's not to say Obama's eligibility isn't a serious Constitutional issue; it is. It's just that when we're talking about a government that disobeys the Constitution with over 90% of its actions, I don't see this issue as especially unusual. Then again, I do see the counterargument that this issue sets precedent, in the sense that it's the first time the Constitution's eligibility provisions may have been undermined.
Aside from fringe stigma vs. relative importance, I think it's important to return again to the implications of what you said: We don't actually KNOW where Obama was born. More than any other issue, this one has the potential to burn the hell out of us and damage our credibility if we invest ourselves too heavily into it. It's a gamble. I do hope that it's definitively resolved before Obama leaves office, because it has significance in the realms of Constitutionality and government transparency, and it has the potential to really shake people's faith in government (which is always a good thing). Still, I think it would probably be wiser for us to focus our energies elsewhere.
