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Obama's Illinois Driver's License Abstract
Article 2, Sect 1, Clause 5 (Natural Born Citizen) ^ | 2/21/09 | RR

Posted on 02/21/2009 2:58:50 PM PST by BP2


There’s a bit of a mystery that may not have been brought up before regarding Obama’s Illinois driver’s license record.

This is BHO’s Illinois driver’s license abstract:



In addition to showing Obama’s Illinois driver’s license number, O150-0686-1221-0, it does show a clean record.

But what’s with the “Cont. Lic. Date” of 8-19-96? The date seems to be when he first applied for his Illinois Driver’s License, which he held consistently through its expiration date of 8-4-08.

Some background:
Obama first moved to Chicago in 1985 and may have used some mass transit occasionally as a Community Organizer. Obama began attending Harvard Law School in fall 1988. In 1989, he worked briefly at the Sidley Austin Law Firm in Chicago, as a summer associate from Harvard, where he met Michelle. They had a "long distance relationship" until he graduated from Harvard in May 1991. Obama returned to be the Illinois head of "Project Vote" (affiliated with "ACORN") while Michelle is hired as a Chicago mayoral assistant. On Dec. 17, 1991, Obama is admitted to the Illinois Bar. Obama and Michelle married Oct. 3, 1992.

BHO definitely owned and drove a car while wooing Michelle in Chicago between summer 1989 and October 1992. THIS is from the “60 Minutes” interview last year, while they were reminiscing of their early years together:

Kroft: It is one bedroom? Studio?
Mr. Obama: Yeah, it was sort of a one bedroom. It had kind of the vintage, college dorm, pizza…
Kroft: Community organizer, right?, feel to it.
Michelle Obama: It reminded me of a little better version of the apartment you were in when we first started dating. That was a dump too.
Mr. Obama: Right near Harold's Chicken Shack.
Michelle Obama: Yeah.
Mr. Obama: Yeah. That's when I had the car with the-the hole in it.
Michelle Obama: And you could see the sidewalk, because the rust had gone through.
Mr. Obama: The air-conditioning.
Michelle Obama: So that was my side. I would look and see the ground going past. And I still married him.


One consideration might be that he let his Illinois driver’s license lapse while he was at Harvard from Fall 1988 to May 1991. In 2007, to clean his record for his presidential run, Obama paid for
17 parking tickets he received between Oct. 5, 1988 and Jan. 12, 1990. However, it is unknown if he had a Massachusetts drivers license during that time. It’s more likely that he kept his Illinois drivers license and drove his rusty car back and forth 1000 miles, nearly 16 hours, between Harvard and Chicago when visiting Michelle (see Obama finally pays local parking ticket).

Regardless, it’s unlikely he neither owned nor drove a car in Illinois for five years after returning to Chicago in mid-1991 (post-Harvard) until the date on the Illinois driver’s license abstract of Aug 19, 1996.

So why the 1996 date, just months before his first run (and win) as an Illinois State Senator with the socialist New Party in November 1996?



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KEYWORDS: driverslicense; il; obama
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1 posted on 02/21/2009 2:58:50 PM PST by BP2
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To: Calpernia; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; ...

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2 posted on 02/21/2009 2:59:51 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

nothing to see here . . . move along, move along.


3 posted on 02/21/2009 3:01:32 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: BP2

Perhaps there was a different name he used before 1996 for his Illinois driver’s license...


4 posted on 02/21/2009 3:03:08 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

Aggghhhhhhh MY EYES... all that boldface! Don’t SHOUT! :)


In addition to showing Obama’s Illinois driver’s license number, O150-0686-1221-0, it does show a clean record.

But what’s with the “Cont. Lic. Date” of 8-19-96? The date seems to be when he first applied for his Illinois Driver’s License, which he held consistently through its expiration date of 8-4-08.

Some background:
Obama first moved to Chicago in 1985 and may have used some mass transit occasionally as a Community Organizer. Obama began attending Harvard Law School in fall 1988. In 1989, he worked briefly at the Sidley Austin Law Firm in Chicago, as a summer associate from Harvard, where he met Michelle. They had a “long distance relationship” until he graduated from Harvard in May 1991. Obama returned to be the Illinois head of “Project Vote” (affiliated with “ACORN”) while Michelle is hired as a Chicago mayoral assistant. On Dec. 17, 1991, Obama is admitted to the Illinois Bar. Obama and Michelle married Oct. 3, 1992.

BHO definitely owned and drove a car while wooing Michelle in Chicago between summer 1989 and October 1992. THIS is from the “60 Minutes” interview last year, while they were reminiscing of their early years together:

Kroft: It is one bedroom? Studio?
Mr. Obama: Yeah, it was sort of a one bedroom. It had kind of the vintage, college dorm, pizza…
Kroft: Community organizer, right?, feel to it.
Michelle Obama: It reminded me of a little better version of the apartment you were in when we first started dating. That was a dump too.
Mr. Obama: Right near Harold’s Chicken Shack.
Michelle Obama: Yeah.
Mr. Obama: Yeah. That’s when I had the car with the-the hole in it.
Michelle Obama: And you could see the sidewalk, because the rust had gone through.
Mr. Obama: The air-conditioning.
Michelle Obama: So that was my side. I would look and see the ground going past. And I still married him.

One consideration might be that he let his Illinois driver’s license lapse while he was at Harvard from Fall 1988 to May 1991. In 2007, to clean his record for his presidential run, Obama paid for 17 parking tickets he received between Oct. 5, 1988 and Jan. 12, 1990. However, it is unknown if he had a Massachusetts drivers license during that time. It’s more likely that he kept his Illinois drivers license and drove his rusty car back and forth 1000 miles, nearly 16 hours, between Harvard and Chicago when visiting Michelle (see Obama finally pays local parking ticket).

Regardless, it’s unlikely he neither owned nor drove a car in Illinois for five years after returning to Chicago in mid-1991 (post-Harvard) until the date on the Illinois driver’s license abstract of Aug 19, 1996.

So why the 1996 date, just months before his first run (and win) as an Illinois State Senator with the socialist New Party in November 1996?


5 posted on 02/21/2009 3:04:43 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: BP2

Simple really Obama has a history of getting new documents before an election to hide those things he doesn’t want known about him.

Certificate of Live Birth 2007
Marriage certificate 2004 and again in 2007
Drivers license 1996

Personally I’m surprised it didn’t say 2007.


6 posted on 02/21/2009 3:06:19 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: BP2
By the way...

You ask a lot of questions.
You have been frequenting some websites which concern your local law enforcement authorities.

Would you mind stopping by the local police station a little later, we would like to have a little chat with you.

Bring a toothbrush.
:) </s>


7 posted on 02/21/2009 3:10:05 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: BP2

Obama Defends Driver’s Licenses for Illegals


8 posted on 02/21/2009 3:10:28 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: BP2
Does Illinois require a birth certificate when one applies for a driver's license?
9 posted on 02/21/2009 3:17:26 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Yes. This is the link http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/drivers/drivers_license/acceptable_id.html


10 posted on 02/21/2009 3:27:14 PM PST by morans14
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To: BP2

Thanks BP2.


11 posted on 02/21/2009 3:31:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: BP2

Thank you . . .


12 posted on 02/21/2009 3:35:59 PM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: BP2

Aybody do a search in Illinois Driver Base for Barry Soetoro??? and also New York State due to at least 4 years at Columbia??


13 posted on 02/21/2009 3:36:23 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Great President George W. Bush)
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To: True Republican Patriot

MY GUESS — he may have had a DIFFERENT name on his “original” Illinois Driver’s Record BEFORE he applied for and had THIS license issued to him.

IF he had an older, original Illinois driver’s license from the mid-80’s (post-Columbia Univ.) with a DIFFERENT name on it, he could have made it “go away” by applying for a NEW license with his CURRENT name on it.

I could see him doing this to “legitimize” himself before running for his first public office.


14 posted on 02/21/2009 3:40:02 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: All

wasn’t there also some question about him never registering for possible military service until he was in his 30’s or 40’s? I was always under the impression you could never be a govt. employee if you didn’t send im that info when you were eighteen?


15 posted on 02/21/2009 3:55:27 PM PST by uncle fenders
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To: BP2

BINGO! We have a winner.

Barry Soertoro perhaps.


16 posted on 02/21/2009 3:56:01 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: BP2

What’s with the “issue” date?


17 posted on 02/21/2009 3:56:35 PM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: Bon mots

18 posted on 02/21/2009 4:08:58 PM PST by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

He started at some small college in California (Occidental, maybe?)...if he went to Columbia for 4 years, he didn’t have to...


19 posted on 02/21/2009 4:25:29 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: All

How come it’s only good for 2 years and six months?

OT: FYI, in case you missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg

Discussing the case, debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXgcB2NzPgE&feature=related


20 posted on 02/21/2009 4:57:35 PM PST by AliVeritas (And while the rest of the nation was still sleepin', they'll be bidding America goodbye.)
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