House rules

Interesting little tid bit over at the HillaryClinotonforum - Is Frank Marshall Davis Obama's real father? I love this theory for "House" reasons. On Fox's medical drama House - House's team is presented a patient and evolving symptoms and then must find an illness that fits. It's a crime drama grafted onto a medical template with the disease acting as the criminal. Marshall as BHO's biological father is a great fit for all symptoms of the "birth certificate disease".

Symptoms:

*Obama has yet to release an actual birth certificate. This is very odd. The campaign and its concubines at Kos threw up an abstract and called it proof. It never was.
*Even with a case pending in PA. Obama will not produce a real birth certificate. This should be a simple task. It would end the speculation, end the case and make a fool of the man who brought it. Why won't he? A real birth certificate may either not list a father or list Marshall. Either way, BHO's narrative - starting with "Dreams of My Father" - is blown apart.
*Marshall, who was already a father and married may not have wanted a bastard. Obama senior wanted to stay in the U.S. so he marries Ann Dunham and "fathers" Obama junior. He disappears very quickly, though - heading to school on the east coast. Marshall, on the other hand, becomes Obama's Jr's "mentor" as a young man - after he returns to Hawaii - with the full support of his maternal grandparents.
*Obama's has more in common with Marshall in style and substance than he does with Obama senior - a reckless drunk.
*Finally - like it or not - it is a "happy" ending in my mind. He WAS born in the U.S. He is the child of an American, not an immigrant with no connection to the Black American experience. In fact, he springs FROM a civil rights leader. I, and many others, have had the "something isn't right about this guy" feeling for a long time. This theory fills in much of the gap for me.
The "otherness" so many of us feel about Obama is both explained and in large part obliterated. And if THIS is the big lie I feel much better about Obama. "Everybody lies." is Dr. House's assumption on the show. True enough. Family lies that a person moves heaven and earth (including writing federal law and bestsellers) to conceal are more forgivable to me.
In my mind, it also justifies so much of the Obama mania - unconscious as it is - father loss, and all that goes with it is, is one of the most consistent "Western" archetypes. See Hamlet and or The Lion King for proof. People lock into archetypes as they are played out - whether they know it or not.
Unless Obama agrees to a DNA test we may never know. Pic in order: Obama, Jr., Obama Sr., Frank Marshall Davis.