Obama Citizenship Issue Gains Momentum

Afro ^ | Dec 2008 | Dorothy Rowley

[ckilmer]

 

President-elect Barack Obama

(Photo / mensvogue.com)

By Dorothy Rowley
AFRO Staff Writer

As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take over as the country’s next commander-in-chief, he not only faces a messy democracy laden with an even messier economic crisis and high expectations for ending the war in Iraq, he also has to deal with a growing contingent of critics who question his certification as president.

According to the latest polls, nearly 70 percent of Americans are optimistic that Obama will be a good president. However, most of the other 30 percent who express doubts tend to be Obama resistors -- those who can’t get over their wounds from the Nov. 4 election.

A recent lawsuit filed by New Jersey attorney Leo Donofrio, which questions Obama’s status as a natural-born U.S. citizen — the fate of which the Supreme Court will decide Monday — is just one of several that have cropped up to waylay the first African American voted president after months of fighting seeming insurmountable odds.

The issue of his validity as president centers on the fact that while Obama was born in Hawaii, his father was a Kenyan national. Donofrio argues that because of his father’s British residency, Obama has a dual citizenship, which disqualifies him from the presidency.

However, while the governor’s office in Hawaii contends Obama’s birth certificate is valid, the location where the birth took place has yet to be confirmed.

Several other lawsuits contesting Obama’s citizenship have already been dismissed.
Some remain ongoing like one filed just a few weeks after the general election by Republican Alan Keyes who opposed Obama in his 2004 bid for the Illinois senate.

Republican Alan Keyes  (Courtesy Photo)

 

Keyes’ lawsuit filed in California also challenges the president-elect’s eligibility.

In addition, according to the World Net Daily, an attorney who’s playing an integral role in the California lawsuit which encourages officials to prevent the state's electoral votes from being recorded for Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved, has said he's organizing plans to challenge -- even after the inauguration -- every order, proposal and piece of paperwork generated by the new president.

"We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money, we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status," Gary Kreep, chief of the United States Justice Foundation, said in a recent WND interview.

"We're already talking to groups who are willing to be plaintiffs," Kreep reportedly said.
So far, more than 160,000 people have signed a WND online petition calling for the release of Obama’s official birth certificate and verifying his constitutional right to lead the nation.
According to a bloggers on Care2petitionsite, during the waning weeks of Obama’s campaign, several cases were brought before courts in Hawaii, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington,Wyoming, and New York challenging his qualifications to be leader of the free world. Most of the challenges also arose out of the contention that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.

However, bloggers have said that in those state cases, since each secretary of state is charged with verifying the eligibility of all candidates on the ballot (in some states it is the Board of' Elections), they were charged with the responsibility for supplying proof of that verification by producing certified copies of Obama’s birth certificate.

A blogger who identifies himself as “Cypresso” says he’s tired already of the Obama citizenship fiasco. “This has been rehashed and rehashed... And the evidence shows that there is no legal argument,” he said.

Karen Hatter blogged that “if the Supreme Court does decide to hear [Donofrio’s] suit, it may, within certain parameters, allow an opinion to be handed down that puts an end to this ongoing series of time consuming lawsuits that are clogging up court calendars in states across the U.S.”

While the mainstream media has kept a low profile over this issue, reports began to abound on a more widespread level this week.

To that end, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, plans an event on Dec. 8 at which an activist group will demand release of information proving Obama’s eligibility to assume control of the White House.

[ckilmer]

Here is Gov (commerce secretary elect)Bill Richardson saying in Spanish that Obama is an "immigrant." (So he understands understands "immigrant" issues.)The context suggests that by "immigrant" bill richardson means "illegal immigrant"

Here in plain English is the Kenyan Ambassador saying that Obama is born in Kenya.

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from obama's own site factcheck.org by way of fightthesmears on his dual citizenship at birth

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

[television is just wrong]

then he has committed fraud on a very large scale and should compensate everyone he has defrauded and step down from his self appointed office of the “president elect”

[Frantzie]

70% of Americans are optimitic Obama will be a good President? Where was the poll taken? Chicago?

[Ballygrl]

All I want to know is if Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya, I don’t get the dual citizenship thing, if he was born here then that’s all that matters to me.

[billorites]

[billorites]

I actually voted for Amb. Keyes back before he started howling at the moon...

[17th Miss Regt]

...the fact that while Obama was born in Hawaii, his father was a Kenyan national. Donofrio argues that because of his father’s British residency, Obama has a dual citizenship, which disqualifies him from the presidency.

However, while the governor’s office in Hawaii contends Obama’s birth certificate is valid, the location where the birth took place has yet to be confirmed.

Great writer here! Oh, and a great editor, too!

[BP2]

The following reference is by Emer de Vattel (April 25, 1714 - December 28, 1767). He was a Swiss philosopher, diplomat, and legal expert whose theories laid the foundation of modern international law and political philosophy. He is most famous for his 1758 work, "The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law Applied to the Conduct and to the Affairs of Nations and of Sovereigns." This work was his claim to fame and won him enough prestige to be appointed as a councilor to the court of King Augustus III of Saxony.

From p. 183 of "The Law of Nations":

NOTE the words "born", "parents" and "citizens".

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Now here's a copy of the famous letter from John Jay to George Washington during the Constitutional Convention where he suggests the President be a natural born Citizen.

Notice how John Jay has Underlined the word "born". On the Constitutional drafts, he underlines born" in nearly all instances.

[Cheerio]

step down from his self appointed office of the “president elect”

Well he certainly has committed a lie and probably a fraud by setting up his office of Pres Elect and filing for a dot.gov web domain even before the Electoral College has met to vote. His ego is what will do him in. What is it called when you believe you really are the Messiah?

[television is just wrong]

it is still fraud.

[buccaneer81]

I actually voted for Amb. Keyes back before he started howling at the moon...

Me too. Twice.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Its a good thing we have the Constitution to follow and you can figure out the rest.

[353FMG]

They probably polled the 54% of the catholics (sorry, I just cannot capitalize the first letter) who voted for him.

[Candor7]

His ego is what will do him in................

I wish it was just his ego. Obama has obscured or destroyed all his historical documents that would show his actual situs/location of birth. He spent a million bucks making sure that the cases were defended , and that his Hawaii birth records were sealed under court order.

The office of the president elect is an attempt to extend his electoral campaign, hoodwinking the American people right up to the inauguration day, by monopolizing the press and making sure the story about the ARticle II challenges does not get before the puplic. After the inauguration there is little liklihood that he could be impeached, becuase the Dems control both the House and the Senate of Congress.

This all has been very well planned, a COUP of major proportions on America and her freedoms. A Whitefeather may come forward to solve the problem, and that has caused a lot of paranoia among the SS contingent that protects him.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Five weeks after the state of Hawaii vouched for the authenticity of President-elect Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the controversy over allegations that Obama is not eligible to take office next month has reached the Supreme Court, which is expected to announce Monday whether it will consider the matter.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144727/posts

[LucyT]

Thank you, Candor7

Ping.

Adding links here because there’s no other place to put them.

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Thanks, SunkenCiv.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2142940/posts

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At the Supreme Court:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144515/posts?page=292#292

For anyone wanting to know about the Donofrio suit.:

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2008/12/donofrio-dual-citizenship-natural-born.html

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2144536/posts?page=38#38

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Might be of interest to Ping List newcomers:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115607/posts

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Here’s a reference thread with a gazillion links. Don’t worry; I can’t keep up, either.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2114092/posts

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Here’s a link to a thread often referred to as “The Long Thread.” Many photos throughout, begin at end and scroll backwards.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/posts

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Forged images, phony photos, and felony fraud

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2136816/posts

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By Freeper Beckwith; fantastic Historical collection:

http://www.TheObamaFile.com

[TheConservativeParty]

Born in Kenya. Not eligible. Never to be called president in my house. Only the occupier of our White House.

[freekitty]

Probably.

[freekitty]

Maybe Oprah promised each person in her audience a new car in exchange for a poll that goes Obama’s way.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Has nothing to do with “wounds.” It has nothing to do with Obama’s partially black skin color. But it has everything to do with someone trying to defecate on the United States Constitution.