How did Obama conceal his father's nationality so well, and how was it eventually found out?
Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship?
The Rocky Mountain News has reported (below) that Barack Obama "Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship." Is this true? The Rocky Mountain News
August 6, 2008 Entered Harvard Law School in 1988, was elected the first AfricanAmerican editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991. Won two Grammys for Best Spoken Word Albums for an autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and his second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, published in October 2006. Mother Ann Dunham died of ovarian cancer in 1995. Father Barack Obama Sr. was killed in a car wreck in 1982. Spent four years in his stepfathers native country of Indonesia. Is the fifth African-American senator in U.S. history Is the first presidential candidate to come from Hawaii. Favorite movies: The Godfather (Parts I and II) and Lawrence of Arabia. In his early years he was known as Barry. According to his memoirs, he admitted using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine in his youth. His first name comes from the word that means blessed by God in Arabic. At his wifes suggestion, he quit smoking before his campaign to win the Democratic nomination began. Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship. Named one of Time magazines 100 most influential people in the world list in 2005 and 2007. Chosen as one of 10 people would change the world by New Statesman magazine (2005). Source: biography.com , Internet Movie Database, Atlanta Journal Constitution No. He held both U.S. and Kenyan citizenship as a child, but lost his Kenyan citizenship automatically on his 23rd birthday. The Rocky Mountain News did in fact run an online article asserting that Barack Obama holds both American and Kenyan citizenship. The article was incorrect, and the paper removed the item from the article and ran a correction. The paper's editor, John Temple, formally apologized for the error in an Aug. 15, 2007, column. Neither the correction nor the apology has prevented the column from circulating across the Internet as part of the latest set of baseless rumors that Obama is ineligible to run for president. British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth. In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC. 1. Every person who, having been born in Kenya, is on 11th December, 1963 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963... As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama's father automatically received Kenyan citizenship via subsection (1). So given that Obama qualified for citizen of the UKC status at birth and given that Obama's father became a Kenyan citizen via subsection (1), it follows that Obama did in fact have Kenyan citizenship after 1963. So The Rocky Mountain News was at least partially correct. 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. 4,1984. |
Rocky Mountain News Staff. "Things You Might Not Know About Barack Obama." 6 August 2007. The Rocky Mountain News. 24 August 2008.
Temple, John. "8-word Gaffe Ripples Across Web." 15 August 2007. The Rocky Mountain News. 24 August 2008.
The British Nationality Act, 1948. 1948. 24 August 2008.
"The Constitution of Kenya." 1963 (revised, 2001). The Parliament of Kenya. 24 August 2008.
In this article, it is admitted that Obama was born under the British Nationality Act. This means he was born BRITISH, a dual citizen at best, and you cannot be of divided loyalties (citizenship) and be a Natural Born Citizen. |
Further, by putting it out in the open they tried to diffuse the situation in essence saying that ‘if we published this fact, then of course it doesn’t matter..... there isn’t anything to see move along’.
Um hum. They were relying in the ignorance of the American public with regard to citizenship issues, and a general lack of knowledge and familiarity with what a Natural Born Citizen is.
Most Americans aren’t willing to do the reading required to figure out that the man is an usurper. Many knew it long before the election, but again, no one wanted to listen, the ONE had arrived etc ad nausem.