Obama Makes Birth Certificate Joke on Kenya Trip

nbcnews.com ^ | July 25, 2015 | Elizabeth Chuck

[PROCON]

If you can't beat members of the "birther" movement, join 'em.

That's the approach President Obama took on Saturday night in Kenya, his father's homeland, when he made a wisecrack about his birthplace — which suspicious critics have harped on for years.

"Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I'm here to look for my birth certificate," Obama said while making a toast at a state dinner hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta. "That's not the case."

In 2011, Obama made his birth certificate public after so-called birthers questioned his eligibility to be president, claiming he was not a U.S. citizen. The certificate lists Honolulu, Hawaii, as his place of birth.

[COBOL2Java]

Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn’t it?

[dr_lew]

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

... carry on

[apocalypto]

It probably will. The fall from grace came for J. Paterno, B. Cosby, Tiger Woods and many others.

[tumblindice]

I remember Bill Clinton loved to crack jokes about critics of him turning the Oval office into a bordello.
Then the blue dress surfaced.
So we’re just waiting for the proof. Keep laughing, pResident Chucklehead.

[ASA Vet]

The certificate lists Honolulu, Hawaii, as his place of birth

The forgery lists Hawaii, but even if he had been born in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House he wouldn't meet the higher standard of being a Natural Born Citizen required by our Constitution. Having a foreigner for a father negates NBC status.

Barry may be an American Citizen derived from his mothers citizenship, but we don't even know if she was really his mother, as no valid birth certificate was produced.

[Daffynition]

**..............while making a toast at a state dinner ...."

Did he bring 'taters? ...or just kerjillions of dollars.

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3316633/posts?page=9#9

Where is the guest list from? What event?

[bgill]

The Kenyan Parliament’s minutes show they know he was born there.

[WildHighlander57]

Sorry, I misread “guest list” for “client list”.

[Brown Deer]

This week on The McLaughlin Group

Eleanor CLIFT: He did visit his homeland once before, as a much younger man. And this is his fourth trip to the continent as president, although once was from Mandela’s funeral, and once he was on the ground like 24 hours.

So, I think he is sort of making up for lost time and in this 18 months of his presidency, he’s not going to be worried about people in American making fun of him for actually supposedly having been born in Kenya. I mean, that’s all in the past and it’s silly.

[LucyT]

Remember the two different Hawaiian birth certificates posted on the WH website on different days/weeks?

The first bc stated he was born in a hospital that did not exist at the time of 0's alleged birthdate.

Oops.

[bgill]

yeppers

[WildHighlander57]

Explains Eleanor Clift’s half joking statement. Thanks, Brown Deer!

LucyT, thanks for the ping!

The media —know— he was born in Kenya, but they have been threatened to keep quiet or else......
Hoosiermama ping to this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3316633/posts?page=50#50

[Nero Germanicus]

Court rulings have gone the other way:
Ankeny v. Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana (seeking to reverse Governor Daniels’ award of Indiana’s electoral votes to Obama).
“Based on the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by [Supreme Court ruling] Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the United States are ‘natural born citizens’ for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents.”—Indiana Court of Appeals

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New Jersey Eligibility Challenge
Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: “No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers’ position that Mr. Obama is not a “natural born citizen” due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. … The petitioners’ legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a ‘natural born Citizen’ regardless of the status of his father.” April 10, 2012

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Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiff’s assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012