Can someone refer me to the first time they heard a question about OB’s birth or eligibility issue?
Or the first thread on this site.
Don’t know how to look up old threads.
Thanx.
This has been discussed before; I have no way of knowing how to find old threads other than by using various keywords as searches.
SOmetimes you can find topics by googling screen names or maybe words in titles, and using a date.
I remember the topic starting to be discussed summer 2008. Not in every detail, but starting to be questioned and discussed.
Do an internet search for sometime around April to June 2008. He formally announced he was running Feb. 10, 2007 so there may have been rumblings further back.
http://obamaspeeches.com/099-Announcement-For-President-Springfield-Illinois-Obama-Speech.htm
In fact the issue has been out there for many years.
First public attention I know of was during his campaign for the Senate in 2004.
At that time, the fairy tale about Stanley as the mother and Senior as the father, was the generally accepted legend. However his published biography's recited his birth in Kenya and he went around to coffee hours telling people he was born in Kenya.
The Republican candidate, Allan Kane, properly pointed out that as the legend recited, his birth in Kenya to a US Citizen mother under the age of 18 and her husband, a non US Citizen, would not make Zero a citizen of the US at birth and since there was no other record of his citizenship on record, he was not a citizen and therefore not eligible to the office of United States Senator from Illinois.
There was also gossip in that time frame of which I do not know the origin, that zero was in fact not the child of Senior but instead the child of a prominent Islamic racist Anti-US revolutionary.
Having made some effort to look behind the gossip, I have concluded that you reach a blank wall in looking for the origin of that story. It looks to me as though that gossip was out there, probably as early as the mid-90's.
As to his eligibility to the office of President, and having had some extensive experience, not only as a Constitutional Lawyer but also on the specific issue of Article II, Sec. 1 eligibility, I am of the fairly firm view that the only applicable Constitutional eligibility issue is his birthplace--if he was born within the geographical territory of the US, he is eligible; if he was born outside the geographical territory of the US, he is not eligible.
It should be noted however that his purported prominent Islamic racist Anti-US revolutionary father was a multi generational US Citizen also born in the United States. It is still my opinion that if he was born outside the United States, he is not eligible.
I do not think the entire Indonesian Citizenship argument here is particularly relevant--even if these events affect his US status, if he is a citizen now and was born in the US, he is still eligible.
Having looked at the reams of evidentiary material with respect to his birth, it does not appear to me that he is the person who was born in Kenya.