Posted on 07/19/2009 6:49:59 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
Fair-minded people are still baffled by Obama’s refusal to clear up the continuing controversy over his birthplace, and by his determination to stop every attempt to delve into this matter through harassment and costly litigation. He is reported to have spent over a million dollars in legal fees fighting the determination of this issue.
His relatives have testified that he was born in Kenya, but not under oath. His original birth certificate has been withheld; what are we to believe? Our Constitution clearly states that a person born on foreign soil when only one parent is a USA citizen cannot become President.
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It won’t go away unless he wants to provide the information that is being requested. None of it hard to provide.
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Why has no one asked him directly about this topic during a press conference? I realize that during a town hall he’ll just get the questions that were screened, but all it takes is for a reporter to stand up and ask for it. When he begins to dance around the question, hold his feet to the fire and have him produce it for verification.
A person born on US soil is not a natural born citizen if both parents were not citizens - not necessarily natural born ones themselves - naturalized would do, but they must BOTH be citizens of the US.
Not exactly.
When he leaves office, some tiny village in Kenya is going to put up a sign that says “Birthplace of Barack Obama.”
“Our Constitution clearly states that a person born on foreign soil when only one parent is a USA citizen cannot become President.”
not quite....
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
It won’t go away unless he wants to provide the information that is being requested. None of it hard to provide.
I saw someone on another forum try to say that Obama couldn’t release his original BC based on Hawaii law.
That’s BS, he’s the only one that CAN RELEASE by Hawaii law, correct?
Our Constitution clearly states that a person born on foreign soil when only one parent is a USA citizen cannot become President.
Not exactly.
I thought one person could pass it based on living here so many years and being over the age of 18, blah blah blah.
Which from all accounts Obama’s mother didn’t meet these requirements.
The law states that. The Constitution is silent on the definition of a natural born citizen.
“A person born on US soil is not a natural born citizen if both parents were not citizens - not necessarily natural born ones themselves - naturalized would do, but they must BOTH be citizens of the US.”
Reread what I said, which was the effect of the Constitutional restriction.
I totally agree. But I’m so burned by his type that even if he were to whip it out at this late date, I would always wonder if it, too, is a perfectly aged-looking fraud. If it could be independently verified by the world’s highest-ranking, apolitical document fraud expert, then I might think about believing it. (Sorry for my jaded attitude!)
I saw someone on another forum try to say that Obama couldn’t release his original BC based on Hawaii law.
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Ha - must’ve been the same person who called into talk radio and stated Obama was raised in Kansas by a white family.
But what I want to know is why is this story getting legs now? What changed?
You misstate the case. It’s not all about his birthplace. It’s about his eligibility for the Presidency under the Constitution. His father was not even a resident alien in the United States; he was a British citizen of the colony of Kenya. That is pertinent, and has a great deal of bearing on the matter, moreso perhaps than where Barack Obama was born.
That is why so much time and effort, and such smokescreening, to keep people thinking it’s all about a birth certificate. It’s not all about a birth certificate. He’s got an obvious problem, as far as being natural born as required, a problem that is a matter of public record, available for all to see. Concealing his birth certificate could very well be masterful sleight of hand, to take focus off of this obvious problem.
But, no President in my lifetime has been immune to rancorous calls for disclosure, of medical records, of college transcripts, you name it. Obama does not get a pass. Keep the pressure up, certainly. Just don’t misconstrue this as the be-all and end-all of determining his eligibility. Because, it’s not.
But what I want to know is why is this story getting legs now? What changed?
Well, then the next step in discerning its definiton is to read all writings about the topic contemporary to that time period. Read about what exactly LED to that proviso. Like other early American terms and words, its meaning for the founders can, and most likely has, been determined.
Think about it? 1 million dollars to shackle talk radio. That’s a cheap price tag.
Someone I know is convinced he will wait until this goes mainstream and whips into a frenzy, then he will pull out all the necessary documentation currently sealed and blame it on Evil Republicans because ‘that’s all they’ve got’- just prior to election time. Money is no object for Obama - he’s got plenty of it and will continue to have access to it.
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