Obama birth lawsuit dismissed

[mheisig]

I started following this a few days ago and found it fascinating from a legal standpoint:

Judge Dismisses Obama Birth Certificate Lawsuit

Essentially it was determined that the attorney had no standing to file the suit. Interestingly enough, the same situation took place with McCain, with the lawsuit being dismissed and with the plaintiff being deemed to have no cause for the suit.

It's amazing that there are actually disputes about the eligibility of both candidates with respect to their birthplace. Seems like a pretty important issue to get to the bottom of, regardless of your political leaning.

Could someone with far better legal training than I weigh in on this? If an "average citizen" can't file a lawsuit for this, then who theoretically could? Or is there essentially no way to challenge this? If the constitution states that a presidential candidate must be a "natural born citizen" and there is some dispute about it, who DOES raise the issue? It seems like if a requirement is stated and someone might not meet that requirement (in this case, McCain AND Obama), there's got to be some legal recourse to determine the truth.