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Posted on 08/03/2009 6:05:48 AM PDT by OK Right
President Obama’s Gatesgate was such a tempest that it de-railed most other Obama news, including healthcare issues. There’s one exception: the “birthers” – those who insist that Obama needs to show America his birth certificate – weren’t silenced during Gatesgate. They claim Obama violated Article II, Section I of the Constitution, which states that “No person except a natural born Citizen” can become a U.S. president.
Now Congressman Bill Posey (FL.) has put together a bill (H.R. 1503) that will “require the principle campaign committee of a candidate for the office of President to include with the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, together with other such documentation as may be necessary to establish the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.”
Let’s see if the bill passes. If it does, it may require Obama to produce an authentic and official birth certificate by 2012 and his re-election campaign. No more blurry pixilated web versions, thanks. Let’s see the real thing.
OK has steered clear of the birth certificate circus because so much has been said, shouted and written about it. But the recent Gatesgate fiasco compels us to comment because we see a strong connection between that incident and the Obama birth certificate mystery. That connection is firmly rooted in racism – or more specifically, fears of being labeled a racist.
For months, birthers have been clamoring for Obama, his administration, the state of Hawaii – anyone – to produce his original, long-form birth certificate. Andrew McCarthy’s July 30th article in National Review summarizes the controversy surrounding the version of the live birth form that Obama and camp posted on their “Fight the Smears” website. (The website was recently removed from the Web. And Atlas Shrugs also reports that all of Obama’s birth documents have been scrubbed from the Internet. See: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/obama-scrubs-the-web-of-all-birth-docs.html, July 11, 2009.) McCarthy writes,
"The information in the certification may be identical as far as it goes to what’s in the complete state records, but there are evidently many more details in the state records than are set forth in the certification. Contrary to the editors’ description, those who want to see the full state record — the certificate or the so-called ‘vault copy’ — are not on a wild-goose chase for a 'secondary document cloaked in darkness.' That confuses their motives (which vary) with what they’ve actually requested (which is entirely reasonable). Regardless of why people may want to see the vault copy, what’s been requested is a primary document that is materially more detailed than what Obama has thus far provided." (Andrew C. McCarthy, “Suborned in the U.S.A. – The BC Controversy is About Obama’s Honesty, Not Where He Was Born.” National Review, July 30, 2009.)
The birthers are ambitious and tenacious. Some of their cases have made it to and been filed with The Supreme Court. All have been dismissed. And those which haven’t made it to ‘the highest court in the land’ have been subject to Attorney General Eric Holder and his staff’s interference.
Bottom line: Obama hasn’t produced his long-form birth certificate. It hasn’t happened. And the longer it doesn’t happen, the more rings are added to this circus. The very hospital where Obama’s mom gave birth is now in question. And both Africa and Indonesia are claiming the president as their native son.
This issue could have been resolved during the last presidential campaign if the McCain camp had the – um, gumption – to challenge Obama on the birth certificate and citizenship issue. Instead, Citizen Polite decided to steer clear of that territory. He even muzzled his workers from referring to his opponent by his middle name for fear that calling him Barack “HUSSEIN” Obama might anger American Muslims. (How convenient that Obama sidestepped that minefield until Inauguration Day, when he asked to be sworn in using his full name.)
Obama’s middle name isn’t an issue these days. However, his long-form birth certificate remains one. OK believes that fear of being labeled racists kept Obama’s presidential opponents from pursuing the matter. And the same fear – combined with an Obama-enchanted media and public that steer clear of any question marks about The One – continues to keep the birth certificate question from being fully investigated.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly claims to have seen it. So does Hawaii, a state set to receive top stimulus funding. And yet, so does Obama’s paternal grandmother, who claims he was born in Kenya.
Consider how quickly and extensively the media can dig for facts when doing so means bolstering their chosen candidate. Within hours after asking Obama an innocent question that led the future prez to declare his objective was to “spread the wealth,” America knew way too much about Joe the Plumber. Within hours of Gatesgate, the media dug into Sgt. Crowley’s past. Unfortunately, they found no dirt to dish there and their sleuthing backfired. (Indeed, if anyone related to Gatesgate could be labeled racist, it’s the racism crier himself. Gates frequently brings up his blackness in his speeches and writings and is on record for copping an attitude during a previous encounter when he was pulled over for speeding.)
White Politicians must have feared that raising the Obama birth certificate issue would have led to charges they were trying to keep a black man from becoming president of the United States. As a result, only a few American citizens continue to make noise about the birth certificate. Their reward? The meanstream media has labeled them a loony fringe: wacky, tunneled-visioned, racist, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy buffs.
Yet the birthers won’t go away. They’re persistent. So much so, in fact, that conservatives and the meanstream media alike are finally taking up their cry. Of late, Rush Limbaugh has done a wonderful job poking subtle digs at the prez by way of the birth certificate issue. And even CNN’s Lou Dobbs has grown relentless about the topic, so much so that he was recently ordered by the president of CNN to cut the birth certificate talk.
OK has four simple questions about the birth certificate issue:
* If Obama has absolutely nothing to hide about his birth, why wouldn’t he assign a team of investigators to dig and once and for all find the original birth certificate, or incontrovertible proof that it was destroyed?
* If Obama has nothing to hide about his birth, why did the Army cancel Maj. Stefan Frederick’s July 16 Afghanistan deployment orders when Frederick threatened to defy the orders since they came from a president who hadn’t proven he was eligible to be president? Rather than a court martial, Maj. Frederick got a free pass.
* If Obama has nothing to hide, why has his administration spent over a million dollars fighting birth certificate lawsuits?
* And why did Obama sign an order to have all his records sealed during his first day in office?
The birth certificate issue may just have some teeth to it – but it became an issue in the first place because people were terrified of being labeled racist and never challenged candidate Obama to produce hard evidence that he was a natural born citizen. In this respect, racism is a subject that firmly links the president’s birth mystery to Gatesgate.
And you posted this for what reason ???
It appears Obama is not qualified. He needs to be Impeached and prosecuted for fraud.
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Good article, except that has been debunked. That tape has been edited down. In context his Grandmother at first mistated Kenya, then quickly corrected herself and insisted it was Hawaii. Perhaps a Freudian slip, but for now it just appears to have been a misstatement.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of us CRANKS are democrats. We are all not just ‘right wing nuts’ I’m sure.
Screw the RACErs.
She was confused by which Obama. She meant that she was present and saw Obama Sr born, not Jr.
Not yet—his impeachment will come in time because of corruption. I do not want this clown to gain any Clinton sympathy. He needs to taken down slowly and firmly so this sort of thing never happens to America again. It has nothing to do with race—and all to do with the fact he and his handlers do not know what they are doing.
She wasn’t his mother.
She was Sr’s father’s third wife, Sr was born to the father’s second wife.
And I don’t mean second/third wife consecutively, I mean simultaniously. Sr’s father was a polygamist in the Muslim tradition.
He was the son of Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979) who had at least three wives; Barack Obama Sr. was the son of Habiba Akumu Nyanjango of Karabondi, Kenya, the second wife. However, he was raised by Onyango’s third wife, Sarah Ogwel of Kogelo, after Akumu left her family and separated from her husband in 1945.[3][10]
“FREE THE LONG FORM!”
If not mistaken, All birth certificates are issued in a sequential order. If that's true. And it is. Then someone born in 1961 in Honolulu County would have the numbers adjoining Obama’s numbers both before and after.
His number is reported as ( 151-1961-010641 ).
Who holds 151-1961-010640 ?
Who holds 151-1961-010642 ?
Does anyone else lay claim to his number?
If someone does they better watch out for the feds.
I think they know exactly what they are doing.
As far as Obama is concerned the birth certificate isn't lost. It's right there in Hawaii's records. He just doesn't see the need to give it to anyone.
* If Obama has nothing to hide about his birth, why did the Army cancel Maj. Stefan Frederick’s July 16 Afghanistan deployment orders when Frederick threatened to defy the orders since they came from a president who hadn’t proven he was eligible to be president? Rather than a court martial, Maj. Frederick got a free pass.
Free pass? Frederick's out of a job and I expect will soon be told his services are no longer required by the Army Reserve. Some free pass.
* If Obama has nothing to hide, why has his administration spent over a million dollars fighting birth certificate lawsuits?
His administration hasn't. His campaign may have, but considering that they raised close to $400 million over the past two years the million bucks is petty cash.
* And why did Obama sign an order to have all his records sealed during his first day in office?
He didn't.
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