Posted on 05/20/2012 5:44:11 AM PDT by pookie18
The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as "Kenya". And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent's website.
Was Barack actually born in Kenya? I seriously doubt it, even though Michelle Obama has publicly stated that Kenya is her husband's "home country". Contemporary newspaper listings in Honolulu, for example, list the time and place of his birth. While this isn't ironclad proof, to be sure, it's good enough for me.
No, my suspicion is that Mr. Obama manipulated his birthplace intentionally (and cynically) to take advantage of certain benefits unavailable to those born in the United States.
Bookworm Room describes why that might have been. We need to set the Wayback Machine to 1978, when young Obama was seeking admission to college.
1978 isn’t just any year. It’s a very special year. It was the year that the Supreme Court decided Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) 438 U.S. 265... [and] held that [the] race-based admission process was unconstitutional.
With that decision, Obama, who was a self-confessed slacker in high school, suddenly lost his e-ticket to a good college. He couldn’t know then (nor would it have mattered) that the various concurrences in this deeply divided opinion would eventually open the door to colleges and universities making race a “factor” in admission, so much so that this “factor-ness” eventually created a whole new quota system.
My best guess is that, denied an opportunity to use quota systems to parlay a lousy academic record into a quality college admission, Obama searched around for other means of bypassing his academic failings. It was this search that led him to announce that he was Kenyan. I’m sure that a certain amount of digging will reveal that, just when the Bakke decision came down, American universities were engaged in some sort of pro-active policy involving increasing the number of African nationals on America’s college campuses. Obama was happy to oblige the universities in this effort by co-opting his father’s nationality, and burying the fact that he was a garden-variety American black kid.
There’s the nexus — In 1978, Obama, who already then was willing to lie to achieve his goals, created a false identity to deal with the changes the Bakke decision wrought on college admissions.
This appears to be an extremely plausible explanation for Obama's refusal to release any of his college transcripts.
My guess is that this scenario -- or one similar to it -- helps explain why Obama enjoys the company of race-hustlers like Al Sharpton.
And where was the media for lo these many years? Busy investigating Sarah Palin's elementary school chums?
The only thing that really boggles my mind is how bad the BC was that Obama released.
If I was running an operation like this, I would have found some really good forgers, sequestered them in a secluded place where they couldn't make extra copies of their work and then had them make a really good BC forgery. I would have also put one or two little embarrassing "facts" on the BC to justify having stalled on releasing it (list Obama as white at birth, or father as Muslim, or no father, or even list Obama as a girl or hermaphrodite).
Not having anything at all embarrassing on that document Obama released, makes me mad and suspicious. Why put the country through so much, if there was no reason for it? Why allow LTC. Lakin's career to be ruined and have him jailed? IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!
One thing - just because people are Evil and have vast resources at their disposal doesn’t mean they are always in agreement - imagine a room full of crazed egomaniacs - nor does it mean that they are geniuses. They can make very, very stupid decisions.
Thanks, butterdezillion—that’s some serious digging!
Sorry, my conspiracy gene just doesn’t go that far. First its “a birth announcement in a paper doesn’t mean anything!! Anyone could have put it in!”. Then its “its been manipulated!! The Russians (or whoever) doctored the microfilm!”. Which is it? Does it matter or not? I think this skullduggery and analysis of a fifty year old birth record in a newspaper (which wouldn’t prove anything one way or the other) is just silly.
I believe Obama is a liar. I believe he manipulated his background to make for a more favorable story, and I think there is a whole lot about his background that is shady and suspect. But when it comes to the birth announcement, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And I believe he was born in Hawaii.
There’s a lot more that I spared people from having to wade through. Most people wouldn’t believe the level of analysis and research done by some people on this issue. To those who have dedicated hundreds or thousands of hours to this I say (and pinging just a few interested persons):
You know who you are. I hope and pray that someday the whole world will know who you are and how much you have done, when we’ve finally gotten our country back. Lord willing... =)
And I believe there should be no doubt whether any candidate for political office especially to be President is eligible or not. There should be no guessing, taking something on faith or such media and candidate deception. Candidates must prove their eligibility or we don't have free and fair elections. PERIOD. The USSC must rule on what is a natural born citizen or we will have doubts until they do. Heck of a way to run a country...
They already have defined natural born Citizen, FOUR TIMES!
Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162 (1875):
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first."
Which means you can add your two cents worth here without taking part in any research, 'I BELIEVE' is all it takes, right? Give us a break. Make a list, tell us - who are his parents, where was he born, what was his date of birth, what was he named when he was born?
And before you reply, think about what you have that verifies anything you are about to say. Because the answer is NOTHING!
'Dreams From My Father' is a novel. It's not an autobiography. The book has no chronology, and the characters are either disguised, totally fictional, or composites.
Now Doug Ross is painting a good fiction story to whitewash the tru bio, “Born in Kenya” and Inspector Smith has the proof that he got long before anyone else were looking into these contradictions!
IIRC, Ross, there is NOT mentioned any place of birth in the paper annoncements!!
Somewhere down in this muddy mesh, a valid b.c. and SS card or numbers had to be presented, Ross. So your theory and whitewashing and damage control does not WASH with any of it all!!!
Maybe YOU Ross should have been his Lit. Agent, hmmm???
How did prominent scratches on a roll of microfilm disappear a month later?
How do you get to this idiot directly???
Sure they have, then why was Obama sworn in as President....
Like I said, I think Obama lies about a lot of things. And I think his whole background is a lie. But do I believe a 17 year old girl flew halfway around the world in 1961 (it was a MUCH bigger world back then) to give birth to the Messiah in a Kenyan manger because there was no room at any Inns in Hawaii? No.
And for the record, I believe Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK, and acted alone.
He forgets that obama forged the birth certificate that he showed to the public. No reason to do that if he had one on file.
And why was Chester Arthur sworn in? (father born in Canada)
...bless you butter, no one has tried as hard as you have...take care
And grandma TOOT was never carted out for support in contrary to Hitlery & Juan McPain, but she received a soft air tight pillow a cople days before election!
Hitlery and Bill’s friend Bill Gwartney was shot to dead taking care of the Clinton’s “Loyalty”!!
The piece now at the surface probably the reason for Andrew was Breitbarted, and his left behind fellowers woke next morning with a dead horse head in their bed ala Godfather Chicago style!!!
And grandma TOOT was never carted out for support in contrary to Hitlery & Juan McPain, but she received a soft air tight pillow a cople days before election!
Hitlery and Bill’s friend Bill Gwartney was shot to dead taking care of the Clinton’s “Loyalty”!!
The piece now at the surface probably the reason for Andrew was Breitbarted, and his left behind fellowers woke next morning with a dead horse head in their bed ala Godfather Chicago style!!!
Piece of cake butter. The survived stimulus money guy, the drew guy, aka SP, can answer that. He’s so clever he can tell us SAD’ mindset after she’s dead(???) he has one of those boards where you can communicate with dead people!!!
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