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My Mother's Birth Certificate - And Obama's
Right Side News ^ | October 22, 2008 | Joan Swirsky

Posted on 10/23/2008 5:48:29 AM PDT by IbJensen

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Four years ago, when I had just about completed the lengthy legal and financial vetting process required by the U.S. government to place my then-92-year-old-mother in a nursing home, I was asked to produce her birth certificate as “proof” of her citizenship. While she was born in America, had voted in every election for untold decades, and paid her taxes religiously, that wasn’t good enough to qualify my elderly mother –deaf, legally blind, and confined to a wheelchair – to be admitted to the facility I had chosen for her near my home.

Frankly, I didn't think finding my mother's birth certificate was possible, given the fact that she had been born in a farmhouse in Storrs, CT, along with nine of her 10 siblings, to parents who didn't speak English. Despairing that she would never be "qualified" to receive the care she desperately needed, I set about to find the document, which I was sure had vanished in the unreliable record-keeping of 1913.

First I called an official in Hartford, the capitol of Connecticut, who recommended that I call the Storrs record-keeping office.

That took two minutes.

Next I called the Storrs office and was told to call another number.

That took two minutes.

When I called the third number, I explained to the woman who answered the phone that I was "asking something impossible." I gave her my mother's first name and her father's last name.

Within four minutes, she said, "Here it is!" She had found my mother's birth certificate, and it surprised me when I learned my mother's "real" first name and "real" last name had changed significantly as she and her family became Americanized.

When I expressed my amazement, the woman said: "That's nothing...we're routinely asked to find birth certificates from the 1800s, and we do that all the time!"

Total time it took me to find my mother's 1913, born-in-a-farmhouse birth certificate: 10 minutes!

WHERE IS OBAMA'S? To this date, Barack Obama has refused - or been unable -to produce an authentic birth certificate that attests to the fact he is an American-born citizen. He has had more than the two-years of campaigning for the presidency of the United States to do this, but failed.

Why is this important? Because the Constitution of the United States expressly forbids anyone born on foreign soil to run for the highest office in our land!

You would think that Obama would have volunteered the "proof" of his eligibility within a nanosecond of entering the race. But here we are, less than two weeks away from the election, and Americans still don't know if Obama is an American!

While Obama's camp submitted a supposedly authentic birth certificate to the far-left blog Daily Kos, it was found to have been a photo-shopped version of the birth certificate of his half-sister, who was actually born in Hawaii, as Obama claims he was.

While this glaring omission in Obama's eligibility to become the most powerful man on earth mystified some and rankled others, a few people - clearly alarmed at what they considered a stealth candidate's attempt to dance his way around the Constitution and venture into the realm of criminality- took action.

SLEUTH #1 The first sleuth was lawyer Philip J. Berg, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and an undisguised Hillary fan. Last August, Berg - a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania and one-time candidate for both governor and senator -filed a lawsuit in Federal Court (Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083) seeking a Declaratory Judgment and an Injunction against Obama, alleging that the first-term Illinois senator did not meet the qualifications to be President of the United States.

Berg's suit was based on Obama's failure to answer satisfactorily the question of where he was born. Was it in Hawaii, Kenya, or Indonesia? Was his legal name Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Soetoro (his stepfather's surname), Barry Obama, Barack Dunham (his maternal grandparents' surname), or Barry Dunham?

Among the other questions Berg raised were the authenticity of the name Obama used on his Illinois Bar Application and his possible allegiance to other countries.

Details of the case, including direct quotations, are found on Berg's website: http://www.obamacrimes.com/.

"Voters donated money, goods and services to elect a nominee and were defrauded by Senator Obama's lies and obfuscations," Berg said. "He clearly shows a conscience of guilt by his actions in using the forged birth certificate and the lies he's told to cover his loss of citizenship. We believe he...supported this belief by his actions in hiding his secret, in that he failed to regain his citizenship and used documents to further his position as a natural born citizen...His very acts prove he knew he was no longer a natural born citizen. We believe he knew he was defrauding the country or else why use the forged birth certificate of his half sister?...If the DNC officers and/or leaders had performed one ounce of due diligence, we would not find ourselves in this emergency predicament...from making a person the nominee who has lost their citizenship as a child and failed to even perform the basic steps of regaining citizenship through an oath of allegiance at age eighteen [18] as prescribed by Constitutional laws!"

The net result of Berg's efforts was that, on September 9, both Obama and the Democratic National Committee filed a joint motion for a Protective Order to Stay Discovery pending a decision on the Motion to Dismiss his lawsuit. In other words, to make Berg's lawsuit go away!

Berg said he was "outraged, as this is another attempt to hide the truth from the public; it is obvious that documents do not exist to prove that Obama is qualified to be President." The joint motion, Berg asserted, was a concerted effort to avoid the truth by attempting to delay the judicial process, although legal, by not resolving the issue presented: that is, whether Barack Obama meets the qualifications to be President. He said it is obvious that Obama was born in Kenya and does not meet the qualifications to be President of the United States. Simply stated, Obama "is unable to produce a certified copy of his Birth Certificate from Hawaii because it does not exist."

An e-mail friend of mine, a lawyer, stated: "What has boggled my mind about this case is that Berg simply waited for a court order to compel the production of the birth certificate, when he could just as easily have served a subpoena on the Hawaii County Clerk or County Recorder - or whoever is the custodian of records in Hawaii - to produce the original birth certificate for examination by an expert forensic-document examiner to produce certified copies to the Court, the Plaintiff, and the Defendants, which would have shifted the burden to Obama to quash the subpoena - and if he filed a motion to quash the subpoena to produce his own birth certificate, that would sure as hell tell us that he has a lot to hide."

SLEUTH #2 Also in August, longtime Obama nemesis Andy Martin - a Chicago journalist, lawyer, author of the bestseller, "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask," and executive editor or http://www.contrariancommentary.com/ - filed a suit in the Court of the First Circuit State of Hawaii (08-1-2147-10) against the Republican governor, Linda Lingle, and the director of the Department of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino.

Martin's suit alleged that the defendants had refused to provide a copy of the requested, certified copy of the birth certificate of Senator Obama "attested to by the State and not a `certificate' which is posted on a website and which has been debunked as possibly having been altered."

"It is axiomatic," Martin's suit said, "that the birth certificate of a presidential candidate is a document of crucial public concern and significance."

Failing both his petition and an initial "emergency motion," Martin filed his second emergency motion this month (-1-2147-10 BIA) "for an Order to Show Cause (`OSC') directing the defendants...on or before October 22, 2008...at a hearing before this Court why the relief requested by the Plaintiff should not be granted...This lawsuit does not involve complicated or disputed facts."

"Why is Barack Obama obstructing access to his birth records?" Martin asks. "Along with his obstructing access to college records and other essential information about his past? I want to see a certified copy issued by the State of Hawaii, not one issued by the State of Obama... Interestingly, we think we also know now why he has virtually imprisoned his white grandmother and refuses to allow her to appear in public?"

Numerous conservative journalists, talking heads and bloggers have addressed Obama's fitness to be president, questioning his:

* * Reed-thin résumé. * * Stunning lack of concrete legislative accomplishments (both in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate). * * Long-time close relationships and associations with Marxists and anti-American militants like Frank Marshall, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Phleger, Khalid Rashidi, et al. * * Failure to provide transcripts of his years at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. * * Failure to provide any more than a one-page "report" from his medical doctor about his health status. * • * Rationale for flip-flopping on every major issue - economic policy, domestic policy, foreign policy, et al - during this campaign.

The sleuthing continues. According to Berg, Martin, and a number of other sources, Obama was really born in the Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombassa, Kenya at 7.24 PM on August 4, 1961, a birth that was documented by a certificate with an embossed seal that displays the name of the hospital, as well as witness signatures. In addition, if these reports are accurate, his grandmother in Kenya, as well as his brother and sister, claim they were present during Obama's birth in Kenya.

GRAMMY DEAREST

Now - belatedly - that the net is closing in on Obama, and the suspicions, as many have alleged, are that he is a Trojan Horse for Islamic interests, or a Manchurian Candidate, or a total fraud - Obama has seemingly discovered an interest in his ailing grandmother. Yes, that Grammy who he so facilely threw under the bus during the early days of his campaign.

He is now so worried about Grandma Dunham - the woman who raised him but strangely didn't attend his nomination - that he is taking a few days off from his intense campaign to visit this ailing widow.

Or could his strangely-timed trip to Hawaii really be to "clear up" the sticky case of his missing birth certificate?

I live in New York, where it is not uncommon for BIG payoffs to influence people to come up with "the goods." A half-a-million here, a dire threat there, often influence people to do things - like perjure themselves, produce phony documents, et al - that they would never do under less "pressured" circumstances.

If the magic document doesn't appear, it is possible, and entirely legal, that Obama could be removed from the ballots in states that are questioning his eligibility.

According to a recent article in The Daily Herald in Everett, WA, a civil action was filed in Washington State Superior Court against Sam Reed, Secretary of State, demanding that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama be removed from the ballot in Washington unless he can provide verification of his status as a United States citizen. The citizen who filed the suit, Steven Marquis, asked that Reed verify - by looking at "original or certified verifiable official documents" - that Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States and eligible to serve as president, and that the office do so by Election Day.

Like others investigating the matter, Marquis said that answering the unanswered questions about Obama's citizenship and background would "preclude a constitutional crisis and likely civil unrest" that would arise if information about Obama's ineligibility came to light after the election.

EXPLOSIVE PRESS RELEASE

This week, on October 21, 2008, Mr. Berg released the result of his investigation. In a startling press release, he has announced that "Obama & DNC admit all allegations in Berg v. Obama." In his release, Berg explained that "by way of failure to timely respond to Requests for Admissions...the DNC `ADMITTED' that Obama is "NOT QUALIFIED" to be President and therefore Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President and the DNC shall substitute a qualified candidate."

Berg stated that he filed Requests for Admissions on September 15, 2008 with a response by way of answer or objection had to be served within thirty [30] days. No response to the Requests for Admissions was served by way of response or objection. Thus, all of the Admissions directed to Obama and the DNC are deemed "ADMITTED." Therefore, Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President.

According to Berg, Obama - by default - admitted to every charge the lawyer made., among them: 1. I was born in Kenya. 2. I am a Kenya "natural born" citizen. 3. My foreign birth was registered in the State of Hawaii. 4. My father, Barrack Hussein Obama, Sr. admitted Paternity of me. 5. My mother gave birth to me in Mombosa, Kenya. The list includes 56 admissions. The DNC's admissions, which number 27, include that: 1. They nominated Barack Hussein Obama as the Democratic Nominee for President. 2. Have not vetted Barack Hussein Obama. 3. They did not have a background check performed on Barack Hussein Obama. 4. They did not verify Barack Hussein Obama's eligibility to serve as President of the United States. 5. Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya. For the entire list, go to: http://www.obamacrimes.com/.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

Interest in this case is understandably intense. Berg's website has already received over 55 million hits. But predictably, the overwhelmingly liberal media has yet to pick up on this story, as if ignoring a story that has profound implications for our Republic and for the potential of a Constitutional crisis is less important than discussing Sarah Palin's wardrobe.

It's possible that all the states that are working on obtaining Obama's birth certificate will simultaneously remove him from the ballot at one time.

It's also possible that, failing to produce the birth certificate, Obama will voluntarily step aside, leaving a breach through which Hillary will walk.

Meanwhile, as legal challenges proceed at warp speed, and Obama's lawyers scramble to avoid the Scandal of the Century, one thing remains intractably the same: Obama still hasn't produced proof of his U.S. citizenship! Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

-------------------------- Related Videos Released this Month of October that document Obama's past

YouTube - The Truth About Barack Hussein Obama_Pt_1/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWH9P57qg3k

YouTube - The Truth About Barack Hussein Obama_Pt_2/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJsJPjHbin8&feature=related

YouTube - The Truth About Barack Hussein Obama_Pt_3/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbXbwh4nXEQ&feature=related

YouTube - The Truth About Barack Hussein Obama_Pt_4/4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEAcsEvFGOw&feature=related


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bc; birthcertificate; colb; obamagate; obamamania; obamanation
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His hypnotized followers don't care. He could be a zombie from Haiti and they'd follow him over the cliff.

Unfortunately, these zombies are dragging us along with them.

1 posted on 10/23/2008 5:48:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2112805/posts?page=8


2 posted on 10/23/2008 5:49:38 AM PDT by Netizen (If McCain really put 'Country First' he'd have been working on securing our borders.)
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To: IbJensen
Apparently Barry's name has also changed significantly as he became Americanized.

Damn Jackal.

3 posted on 10/23/2008 5:52:08 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Netizen
I thought we learned last night from that Chicago investigator in Hawaii that Obama was conceived by the Radical black activist during a threesome with Obama’s mother Anne. Then, pregnant, she marries Obama, Sr., an African guy wanting US citizenship. Obama is born and named for the African husband. Then the African leaves and Anne marries some guy from Indonesia. But the Black communist who, allegedly, fathers Obama stays in touch. Then, Ayers writes a bokk and now Obama is a US citizen because his biological dad is allegedly a US citizen and one of the most dangerous communists in the US... or something like that...

SOmehow, I don't think a guy like this would make it through the GOP vetting process. Frankly, I like the Roswell, NM theory better!

4 posted on 10/23/2008 5:57:03 AM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: wolfcreek

Can you say Anti-Christ


5 posted on 10/23/2008 5:57:53 AM PDT by shadeaud
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To: IbJensen

A non-stop lying communist. Stalin would be proud.

If this scum gets elected, all the freedoms that Americans have fought and died for will go down the crapper. At that point there will be only three options: exodus, suicide, or revolution.


6 posted on 10/23/2008 6:05:57 AM PDT by Soothesayer (I'm breaking out of this hand basket!)
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To: IbJensen

Voodoo????
LOL


7 posted on 10/23/2008 6:07:58 AM PDT by FES0844 (FES0844)
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To: IbJensen

As a counter example, let me briefly tell you the story of my father-in-law, Dick C. Dick was born at home on the family farm near Fresno, California in 1913. He never had a birth certificate or other formal paperwork. He got a driver’s license at 14, registered for the draft for WW2 (didn’t get called as he was older and needed to run the farm), got married and had a daughter (my lovely and talented wife). He never could get a passport. Tried later in life but both his parents were dead. Perhaps he could have gotten his older sibling to vouch for him, but she didn’t have a birth certificate either. My simple point is that not everyone in the US who is a citizen has a birth certificate, and not everyone in the US who has a birth certificate is a citizen. Identity theft is very real and happens more often than it should. Modern recordkeeping is more thorough and the legal requirements are more stringent these days.

That Hussein can’t seem to come up with a certified birth certificate is a real issue, and given Barry Soetoro’s adoption by an Indonesian citizen and his dual citizenship with Kenya from his mother’s babydaddy, I am prepared to believe he’s not technically qualified to hold the office of POTUS.


8 posted on 10/23/2008 6:09:38 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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My father was born in his home (the last of his siblings to be home born) and his mother signed his consent and age verification to join the army. The army information was enough to get a drivers license and other indentification.

When the same scenario came up to me (except I was filing for his Social Security), I had to have a birth certificate. I had always been told he never had one and we would have to file for one to be made with affidavits from family members witnessing birth, etc...

Went to main office and asked to start the process. They said I had to pay for a search first, which I thought was a waste of money, but whatever. Wala, he DID have one. It was signed by the local doctor who examined my grandmother the day after my dad was born.

So why IS it so hard to present one to the court? I’m not talking about factcheck.org, I’m talking about the court that you are being SUED in. For crying out loud, get an attorney to present the dang thing already. Just that he isn’t is speaking volumes.


9 posted on 10/23/2008 6:09:40 AM PDT by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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... the lengthy legal and financial vetting process required by the U.S. government to place my then-92-year-old-mother in a nursing home

No, I don't think so. Non-citizens are often admitted to nursing homes. However, if you want Medicare or Medicaid (ie., the taxpayer) to pay for your mother's nursing care, *then* you have to jump through a lot of government hoops.

No, it has nothing to do with Obama's place of birth, name, or parentage. I just don't like it when people weasel.

10 posted on 10/23/2008 6:10:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (After 5:00 p.m., slip brains through slot in door.)
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To: IbJensen

Be glad that oldie of yours was being requested from Connecticut. Ask any genealogist: They have very good records in Connecticut for the antiques compared to most states. And their people are good at finding odd spellings, etc.
But really! Any state should have a 1961 birth certificate.


11 posted on 10/23/2008 6:11:39 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: IbJensen

I just wonder how many registered democrats will be livid enough with their party for nominating an unqualified candidate to change parties.

I wonder about how angry the die-hard Hillary supporters will be with the MSM for not uncovering the facts before it was too late?

I wonder at what point the lefties will say... “its a stupid rule anyway!”?


12 posted on 10/23/2008 6:17:56 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: April Lexington

Not one for conspiracy theories myself but you have to admit it should be a pretty easy thing for Obama to dismiss by just showing his birth certificate. And, although not a legal issue, for the life of me I can’t figure out how a man with absolutely no paper trail, no school records made public, no accomplishments to speak of has skated thru the supposed “tough media” without having to produce ANYTHING that shows what he has done for most of his life.


13 posted on 10/23/2008 6:18:54 AM PDT by marlon
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To: IbJensen

Adoptees have a hell of a time getting their birth certificates too...especially the ORIGINAL ones, and not the AMENDED ones...there have been numerous cases where an adoptee has been refused a passport because there were some discrepancies in the amended birth certificate and the adoption agencies had done so much lying and corruption of the original - not to mention that the state refuses to allow the adoptee access to the OBC to ‘protect the natural mother’ - that it is near impossible for an adoptee to prove they are legitimate citizens.


14 posted on 10/23/2008 6:23:03 AM PDT by Alkhin (Hope looks beyond the bounds of time...)
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Failure to provide transcripts of his years at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.

Most jobs that require a degree will not hire you if you cannot provide your transcripts, let alone even a basic accounting job with the FedGov.

15 posted on 10/23/2008 6:29:42 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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I gotta provide my official paper-copy raised-seal birth certificate just to get a freakin’ passport......yet he doesn’t have to provide one to run for the Presidency?


16 posted on 10/23/2008 6:32:49 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (1/27th Infantry Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: ElectricStrawberry

Great point!


17 posted on 10/23/2008 6:38:49 AM PDT by IbJensen (Don't Be An Obamazombie!)
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freakin’ passport......

Hmmm, wonder what he had to provide to get a passport when he made his trip, as an adult, to Kenya and any other places he may have gone overseas. Wouldn't the State Department had a record of that that they can produce.

The photoshopped copy of his BC is grounds enough for "someone" in the government to pursue this.

Wish I had been following this more closely all along.

18 posted on 10/23/2008 6:54:34 AM PDT by NTegraT (USSA? Say it ain't so.)
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To: ElectricStrawberry
I was born in Canada and got a baptismal certificate from the diocese rather than a birth certificate as that was the way it was done then. Then we moved to Atlanta Georgia and I almost didn't get in the 1st grade because I did not have the required “birth certificate”. I got my passport with my certificate of naturalization. I expect I'll have trouble with social security someday, assuming it's still there.

The State Department has a record of what Barry, Barack, whatever submitted for his passport. Be interesting to FOIA that.

19 posted on 10/23/2008 7:01:27 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: Netizen

I predict a switcharoo by implementing the Sandy Berger in reverse play. He’s going to appear from Grandma’s apartment with an “original” long form birth certificate freshly pulled from his socks as it was very professionally manufactured (forged) on flash paper. Then after showing it to the press he’ll go to light a cig and accidentally torch it with the lighter.


20 posted on 10/23/2008 7:02:12 AM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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