Reader Bill pointed me to this lawsuit filed in District Court in August, which states that Obama was born in Kenya.
Obama had until October 15 to reply, and because he didn't, he legally "admitted" that he was born in Kenya as the lawsuit alleges. As I'm sure everyone knows, a person has to be born in the United States to be president. The lawsuit was later dismissed.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that the DNC wouldn't have investigated his birthplace before allowing him to become its nominee for president. I doubt Hillary Clinton would have let that slide either.
But Phillip Berg, the Democrat who filed the suit, alleged he had a recording of Barack's grandmother stating Barack was born in Kenya, then was flown to Hawaii and was registered there. This is a fascinating article on the subject.
Why the heck does all this controversy even exist? If you want to be the most powerful person in the United States, you should be required to prove you meet the most basic qualifications. Barack could end all the questions by placing an original birth certificate on his website, but has refused to do so. Instead, he placed a "Certificate of Live Birth" online, which is not the document issued by the hospital where he was born.
Like I said, I think Barack was born here, but why all the controversy?
2 comments:
Re: If you want to be the most powerful person in the United States, you should be required to prove you meet the most basic qualifications.
First, the certification of live birth is a valid, legal document issued by the State of Hawaii. It is proof that the birth certificate exists. In other words, you do not need to show a birth certificate if you have a certification of live birth. The certification is like a bankbook, which showed that you had money in the bank. The certification shows that there is a real birth certificate in the files, and the certification is accepted as proof of birth in Hawaii by the State Department for issuing passports.
Then specifically to: If you want to be the most powerful person in the United States, you should be required to prove you meet the most basic qualifications.
Have we ever asked a president to show his birth certificate before? I mean, have you seen one, or do you know any court or other organization that demanded the birth certificate of Washington, Lincoln, Taft, FDR, Harding, Hoover, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Etc.?
If we did not do so in the past, this is a kind of precedent, and to break it there must be a solid reason. What is that reason?
Surely not the allegation that he was born in Kenya? That is too fantastic to consider seriously. After all, if he were born in Kenya, there would be documentary proof that his mother traveled to Kenya, photos of him with his grandparents, surely some form of documentary evidence. There is nothing except a tape recording, and it is not clear in that tape recording that the grandmother understands the question.
Here's what one right-wing blogger from Hawaii says about it:
A posting from Andrew Walden, publisher of the Hawaii Free Press, a right-wing blog based in Hawaii.
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/92/Barack-Obama-Born-in-Hawaii.aspx
Barack Obama: Born in Hawai`i
by Andrew Walden
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It is time to focus on REAL issues, not imaginary ones.
A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense, which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama's upbringing. This kind of nonsense has emerged because the McCain campaign chose not to raise the many questions about Barack Obama's numerous hard-left alliances. Barack Obama was born in Hawai`i, August 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu.
Obama's birth certificate posted online is exactly the same birth certificate everybody in Hawai`i gets from the State Department of Health. It is not forged. There is nothing unusual about the design or the texture. In addition to the birth certificate, the August 13, 1961 Honolulu Advertiser also carries an announcement of Obama's birth. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin also carries the same announcement. Both papers require submission of a copy of the birth certificate to print a birth announcement.
By refusing media requests for a look at the actual paper birth certificate, Obama's campaign gave sly backhanded assistance to the forgery hype. The internet release of the birth certificate via hyper-partisan website Daily Kos on June 12 before posting it on a campaign website was likely calculated to fuel the frenzy. This is Obama's Gramscian strategy designed to redirect the opposition down a blind alley. It was so successful that Hawai`i government offices found themselves inundated with telephone calls from mainland voters in the days before the November 4 election.
Since Hawai`i law forbids the release of birth certificates to anybody not authorized by Barack Obama or his family, Obama further fed the paranoia by choosing not to grant such permissions. A World Net Daily story claiming Hawai`i's Republican Governor Linda Lingle "sealed" the birth certificate is totally false. The governor's office has asked for a retraction. The forgery story was also boosted by video claims that Obama's Kenyan grandmother stated that Obama "is a son of this village" — a phrase which can have many different meanings.
For Obama to have been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. would have had to fly from Honolulu to Mombasa, give birth in a substandard third world hospital, fly back and then somehow arrange for a fraudulent birth certificate to be entered by the State of Hawai`i on August 8, 1961 (at the time governed by Republican William Quinn). They would have also somehow planted the phony birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (at the time edited by Republican Thurston Twigg-Smith) and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawai`i's current Republican Governor Linda Lingle would also have to be complicit in the cover-up as would all of the leftist 1960s University of Hawaii friends of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr – among them US Rep. Neil Abercrombie.
In 1961, the roundtrip flight to Kenya would have been a very expensive, pointless, and time consuming epic journey for two starving students. Barack Obama Sr. had only been able to come study at UH Manoa with a free ticket on a donated charter flight with other Kenyan students. B
Obama benefited from creating an opposition which seemed to be standing by the side of the road impotently pointing to a piece of paper as if it could stop 63 million voters from anointing their "chosen one." Birth certificate lawsuit plaintiff Phil Berg is a Democrat and whether he understands it or not, he has done great work on behalf of his party.
It is time for folks to stop being played by the Obama campaign and drop this counterproductive "phony birth certificate" nonsense. Obama opponents can find plenty of real material by focusing on the hard-left alliances, stated positions, personnel appointments and policy actions of the Obama administration and of the Democrat-controlled Congress.
You make an excellent point smrstrauss. I think we should focus on his radical views on issues too. However, the long form birth certificate is just one document in a list of documents he won't release: his medical records, his college transcript, and his bar application included. What's he hiding?
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