Posted on 12/22/2009 3:03:49 AM PST by rambo316
Everyone has gotten the memo by this point: Do not question Barack Obama. Even conservatives have been warned by other conservatives about mentioning the secrecy issue: It's pointless and can only harm conservatism.
Recently, Rusty Humphries broke the rule and asked Sarah Palin if she would make the "birth certificate an issue" if she runs for office. In her answer, she noted that people "still want answers" and "it's a fair question." Her enemies pounced quickly, casting her as a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.
The real issue, however, is not about birthers or theories or racism or whatever else you want to add. The real issue is about the secrecy of Barack Obama, and it involves more than the release of his complete birth records. Hospital records; high school, college and law school records; transcripts; writings; and passport info have been requested, and all are being withheld by Obama.
Mr. Obama is presented as the smartest man in the country, yet we have not seen his college course list or grades. Hmm, hmm, hmm.
A normative democratic society cannot allow a president to continue to speak disingenuously about transparency while withholding basic information.
We happen to have a president who touts openness, accountability, and transparency in a way that is unparalleled when compared to all previous presidents. Yet we know less about this man than about his predecessors. Consequently, there are twists of irony and feelings of distrust at almost every turn in the Obama presidency.
I therefore suggest a couple of reasons for the president to hit the reset button and release the requested information.
People have asked to see the records.
That doesn't seem to be too much to ask from a man of outspoken transparency. And these are not just any people, but citizens of the U.S., over whom he presides, who have asked. They're not asking for the moon and the stars -- just simple documents.
The "natural born" requirement of the U.S. Constitution was inserted to prevent conflicting loyalties and ideologies in a president. Citizens have the right to feel assured in that constitutional protection.
Mr. Obama is the only president in U.S. history whose father was a foreign national in the U.S. on a student visa. His father was a non-practicing-Muslim-turned-atheist, and his mother later remarried another foreign national, this one from from Indonesia, who was also a Muslim.
Some believe Obama was adopted and became a citizen of his stepfather's country. Obama's mother moved him to Indonesia in 1967 to live with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. While other children Obama's age in America were pledging allegiance to the U.S. and learning to respect America, Obama as a schoolboy (grades 1-5) registered as Barry Soetoro, was reading from the Koran, reciting Muslim prayers, and learning the civics of Indonesia (the Indonesian school records were released independently prior to Obama's blockade).
Mr. Obama is the only president in U.S. history to have been raised in nontraditional/non-Christian homes. Based on what he's said, his mother was an agnostic. Obama's grandparents, with whom he lived for a period, were extremely left-leaning in their religion and politics. As Obama admits in one of his two pre-accomplishment autobiographies, he associated with Marxists and radical leftists during his college days.
The president's situation is remarkably unique, and his uniqueness has nothing to do with the color of his skin. People have an assortment of reasons for wanting to see Obama's complete birth certificate and other records.
Yes, Mr. Obama has posted a bare-bones "certification of live birth" (which doesn't name the hospital or physician), and Hawaii has confirmed that the long-form certificate exists. However, it is no secret that births were routinely registered in 1961 by affidavit under the laws (Act 96) of the newly admitted state. On affidavits of non-hospital deliveries, certifications of live birth were generated in Hawaii.
Now, my argument is not that a foreign birth was registered as Hawaiian on a false affidavit. (Also, I don't argue that dual citizenship or a foreign adoption disqualify Obama.) That misses the point. My argument is that because Obama says he is transparent, he should be transparent -- especially when people have asked for the info.
No one should have had to file in court for Obama's records, including his birth records showing his hospital and delivering physician. And taxpayers should not have to foot the Justice Department's efforts in defending the withholding of basic information. Releasing the information would cost virtually nothing. The president should want to provide all the requested documents, especially when doubt exists. By withholding the requested information, Obama is slapping transparency in the face while trying to make it a feature of his presidency.
Mr. Obama might want to reconsider releasing simple documents to show that he respects the people. By refusing to do so, it sort of makes him look really arrogant, as if releasing the information would be beneath him. If he has nothing to hide, all that remains is inexplicable arrogance.
Do it for the historians.
Approximately one year ago, the Honolulu Advertiser ran a piece about Obama's fans who were attempting to find his hospital of birth and retrace his steps, visiting as many of his boyhood homes as possible. The piece opens with these words:
Birthplaces and boyhood homes of U.S. presidents have been duly noted and honored for nearly as long as America has been a nation. In the case of such towering figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, those early locations have been deemed national treasures and historic sites ...
At least Obama's reported place of birth has been narrowed to one of two Honolulu hospitals (Kapiolani and Queens). At the end of the Advertiser piece, the author's awkwardness is palpable as he tries to explain why no one knows for sure where Obama was born. The author thinks that it might be Kapiolani because it was the most recent hospital the campaign had identified. But:
While most Obama residences can be traced, the hospital where he was born is difficult to document. The desire of historians to pinpoint where Obama's life began has crashed head-on with the modern American propensity toward confidentiality. The federal Health Information Privacy Act of 1999 -- a law passed to protect medical records from public scrutiny -- prevents hospitals from confirming births, administrators contend.
I have to wonder whether the author is a staunch Obama supporter, is simply naïve, or is both. Surely he must know that historians are crashing head-on into Obama's refusal to release any information. He must know that Obama's signature on one form would override the privacy act. Release-of-information forms are signed every day; the act is only for those, like Obama, who wish to keep all information sealed.
The author concludes the piece by quoting a hospital official saying, "Our hands are tied." Mr. Obama is the only one who can untie their hands. With permission, the hospitals could confirm or deny Obama's birth in two seconds. Without permission, the hospitals can neither confirm nor deny.
At a press conference earlier this year, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Obama's detailed birth certificate. His response? He laughed. And he laughed some more. The room filled with journalists laughed heartily with Gibbs. The question continues to "astound" him. After all, it's posted right there online.
As long as it's a laughing matter, why not humor us, Mr. President? Humor us with your complete birth records, naming the hospital and physician. Humor us at least by giving your hospital of birth permission to release a simple yea or nay. Humor us with your college grades and financial records. Humor us with your Columbia thesis. Humor us with your law school records and writings.
You see, the issue is whether the White House will take serious the doubts and requests of American citizens or laugh at them. Some doubt his birthplace and/or eligibility; others doubt his transparency, and hence, his character.
Even if Obama was born in Hawaii, he still looks unreasonable by not releasing basic information. Maybe he is natural-born, but has a radical ideology to hide and has been counseled to seal everything in an effort to appear consistent.
Future historians far removed from the fantasy and fear of Obama will no doubt be astounded at the Obama phenomena. But they may never know of the secrets hiding in his birth, college, and/or other records. Do it for the historians, Mr. Obama: Tear down your wall of secrecy.
..it will never happen. It’s the only way these thugs can operate.
Some believe Obama was adopted and became a citizen of his stepfather's country. Obama's mother moved him to Indonesia in 1967 to live with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. While other children Obama's age in America were pledging allegiance to the U.S. and learning to respect America, Obama as a schoolboy (grades 1-5) registered as Barry Soetoro, was reading from the Koran, reciting Muslim prayers, and learning the civics of Indonesia (the Indonesian school records were released independently prior to Obama's blockade).An American citizen cannot become an Indonesian National unless they first renounce their U.S. Citizenship. He's our first non-citizen President.
For example, his Nobel lecture in Oslo presented a hawkish front regarding Afghanistan to satisfy complaints about his being weak on defense. It wasn't true but it confounded the doubting hawks.
And earlier this week, to answer Chinese concerns about his outrageous spending, he made another speech in which he blamed the spending on Bush and promised to bring fiscal restraint to government.
Again, a complete lie!
It is doubtful that such a strategy can last very long, but it is audacious for Obama to believe it can work at all.
Most men have some sense of shame when their honesty is questioned. But Obama is so completely shameless that he seems to relish his dishonesty.
Quite strange! But that's the way things are done in Chicago!
Yet it is the weakness of the America voters that permits it...and I place the blame squarely on their shoulders.
And if we need another example of how far we've fallen we have it in that we have elected as PRESIDENT a man who couldn't pass the lowest level of a security clearance, let alone the level to be privy to information available to the CIC!
Face it, the wheels are coming off what Lincoln referred to as “the great proposition” that he considered America. And until we stop the vehicle and fix all the wheels, rather than trying to patch one or another up on the fly, we are faced with all the wheels being off and the great experiment that failed.
Obama and his cult are scared to death of the “Birthers” as evidenced by the fact there only response is to demean those who ask to see a certified birth certificate. Their response to anyone who dares even ask the question is proof enough for me that there's something to the charge.
I thank God, literally, that there are those who persist in getting to the bottom of the secret life of Barrack Obama!
Lets predict that Obama has a press conference, lets assume he may have it Christmas Day or January 1st, and he openly admits in depth that he failed to meet the Constitutional requirements to be POTUS, thats right, he proclaims to America his deep felt sorrow and has lost weight and sleep with the guilt of having to keep hidden his past all for the good of the country, to give hope to the people, to lead them to a better future.
And more than likely he will admit that he honestly never had a plan to be POTUS but that he was propelled by others that had the firmest strongest faith in him, and now with America losing faith in him and a democratic party tearing itself to pieces over the Health Care initiative that he feels its his duty to those that supported him that he come out in the open and regain trust and transparency.
And the MSM with “incentives” follow a poor black man rising to power against the impossible odds of breaching the racial political walls, of following Martin Luther Kings famous words, etc, etc.
So, don’t throw the boiling oil at me personally this is a scenario we must prepare for, Obama and his profile shows that he may very well do this especially if the Healthcare seems on the verge of being voted out of existence. He will play his hold-out card as the racial sympathy hand.
The dems have LEGALIZED corruption.
My suspicion is that he probably was born in Hawaii, BUT that he claimed to be an Indonesian citizen growing up and gamed the system for all if was worth as a foreign national named Barry Sotero, getting all kinds of freebies in the process such as free tuition and head-of-the-line privileges.
“bozo’s head of the line privileges”
I travel all around the US of A and run across signs that
proudly state “ This city is the birth place of President ___________ (fill in blank).
Will I have to travel to Indonesia to see bozo’s place of birth sign?
VR...my thoughts exactly. He was a ‘foreign’ national (ergo, no transcripts; writing or Passport release from his college aged years).
There was a barely noticed, but fascinating Executove Order that Dear Leader placed his ‘Barry Soetero’ on last week. It dealt with broadening INTERPOL’s.authority in the US. There was a FR thread, yesterday....
Now...you don’t supppose some enterprising ‘world cop’ did some snooping? Nah...
EXACTLY!
An honest man would be HONORED to promptly prove in every way that he was a natural born citizen and eligible to be president. When he doesn't honest and honorable men should be asking, “Well? Why not? What's going on here?”
That Clear Channel and Fox News have muzzled their stable of talking yappers leads me to question the honor and honesty of the heads of their news organization. What they fail to realize is the following:
**The oligarchy will shut them down ANYWAY!
**They oligarchy will take their money ANYWAY!
**They will reveal their deepest and darkest sins ANYWAY!
** Any money they have been given will soon be worthless ANYWAY!
**The oligarchy will reveal their deepest and darkest sins ANYWAY!
**They will carry out their threats against them and their families ANYWAY!
The time to fight evil was 2 years ago. The time to fight evil is NOW before it grows stronger.
A normative democratic society cannot allow a president to continue to speak disingenuously about transparency while withholding basic information.
Well said, this is starting to by pass MSM and gain more attention. Basically common sense to question this administration.
Rush uses American Thinker articles as a source for program segments. Maybe he will read this today. He covered the issue yesterday.
I missed it. What did he say?
I missed it. What did he say?
Amen to that. And their tribe increases daily as the Obama agenda becomes more apparent.
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