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To: MelSmith

I have seen a copy of BOs birth certificate. It is the copy on factcheck.org. Please don’t tell me that it has been proven a fake (I need more “proof” than an anonymous blogger’s opinion) Please don’t tell me Hawaii issues birth certificates to foreign born children (they don’t unless they are adopted and they never have) Please don’t tell me he was born in Kenya (there is zero evidence that this is true, only a recording of a woman saying she is his grandmother)

I am not opposing your right to see his birth certificate. He has provided it, and if there was any real doubt that he was born in Hawaii, Rush, Hannity, Anne Coulter, and Laura Ingraham would have been all over it. There is simply nothing to this story. I wish that he wasn’t going to be the president of the US. I truly do. But all the whining and complaining and conspiracy theories aren’t going to keep him from taking office. It just makes those who keep repeating them look crazy. When your conspiracy theory requires you to believe that all the media, including Fox, and the conservative commentators, and every single US Supreme Court Justice are in the tank for Obama, it is time to rethink things. When you start following a crazy, 911 conspiracy theorist like Berg, who has no credibility, it is time to look into psych meds.


42 posted on 01/04/2009 1:52:32 PM PST by ga medic
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To: ga medic

Being a natural born citizen is one of the few requirements needed to be President. Why is one considered a conspiracy theorist for simply asking for proof that he meets the requirements? It should be standard operating procedure. We all have to produce our birth certificates at one time or another to prove we are who we claim to be. At this point, I have less respect for the Supreme Court for not upholding the Constitution than I do for Obama. He’s a scammer used to getting over. And boy did he get over this time...... in a big way.


44 posted on 01/04/2009 2:03:29 PM PST by jersey117
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To: ga medic
if there was any real doubt that he was born in Hawaii, Rush, Hannity, Anne Coulter, and Laura Ingraham would have been all over it.

Hillary would've crushed him with it in the primaries. It is that simple. To maintain that the Clinton campaign machine negligently overlooked Obama's eligibility or that Hillary was somehow bribed into secrecy with a Secretary of State appointment is downright delusional.

46 posted on 01/04/2009 2:29:52 PM PST by Drew68
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To: ga medic

I disagree.

There are many reasons for this to be formally resolved.

The most important one, for me, is to set a precedent requiring ALL future Presidents Elect to confirm PUBLICLY that he/she meet the Constitutional requirements for the office.

Key word, PUBLICLY.

Suppose Obama did this behind closed doors, months if not years ago, just like every other Presidential candidate did, and his status was deemed as “natural born” as all the other candidates’. It would not have been at all newsworthy!

In fact, the MSM would only be interested if the candidate FAILED such a verification and turned out to be an illegal.

I’ve been wondering why so few people in Washington or in the GOP would discuss this issue, even 6 months ago when this would’ve been rather crucial to their own political interests. I can only assume that the Clinton, Palin and McCain campaign teams looked into it in some detail, ALL of them realised that there actually is no story there whatsoever, and ALL of them concluded that Obama can debunk it with no effort at all.

Had that been the situation, any PR man worth his salt would recognise it as career suicide to accuse a Presidential candidate of not being a natural born American if everyone else in all the different camps already knew he could prove that he was natural born.

So, if this is the case why do I think it’s important to have Obama produce it?

Well, no President (as far as I know) has been compelled to prove, in public, that he or she was elegible to run for office AFTER he’s got it!

In my opinion, a check this basic ought to be carried out BEFORE the candidates stood for nomination. In all probability that check does happen and is so routine nobody in the MSM reports on it.

But there’s no reason why you can’t make it part of the ceremony of the Inauguration, to require the incoming President to put his BC down on the desk, have it independently verified there and then, and finally have the incoming President swear under oath in front of millions, that he fulfils the Constitutional obligations for the Office. Preferably with suitable wording to the effect that, if he’s found to be lying, he should be hung from the White House flagpole.


47 posted on 01/04/2009 2:31:55 PM PST by Don Stadt
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To: ga medic

Go back to the Muslim/Marxist- and don’t forget your kneepads.


51 posted on 01/05/2009 6:09:57 AM PST by patriot08
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