Wretchard:
And just as the proof Dr. Patel knew medicine was because he was doctor, the President was presumed a capable executive because he ran a campaign. The proof was entirely circular, but through some peculiar myopia no real questions were asked. To demand the sealed transcripts, to ask about the absence of articles for the Harvard Law review, to raise the non-existent legislative record was deemed churlish. UnAmerican. Bigoted.
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And, of course, there is no birth certificate.

You could count the NY Times as a birther when it came to John McCain

A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: July 11, 2008

In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”