Media Mischief, the Eligibility Issue and the Dispositive Fact

Last week, the media was forced into reporting on the Obama birth-certificate/eligibility issue. It had little choice because respected CNN Journalist Lou Dobbs had the audacity to suggest that Obama should produce his long-form birth certificate to put to rest the doubts of millions of Americans who believe Obama is not constitutionally eligible to serve as President. Immediately and predictably, much of the reporting from the main stream media was in the form of vicious attacks, seeking to discredit Mr. Dobbs and others looking for clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Obama is or is not a “Natural Born Citizen” entitling him to serve as President of the United States. Left-wing bloggers and those in the media who have been carry Obama’s water this past year circled the wagons, and calls that Lou Dobbs be fired rang out. I have to salute Lou Dobbs for his courage and sense of ethical responsibility in addressing this issue at all. Of all the CNN commentators, Lou Dobbs is the one who consistently tries to be fair to all sides.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that “CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers at the cable news network Thursday night that the supposed controversy regarding the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate is a “dead” story.” The article went on to report:

…The website TVNewser reported today that Klein sent an e-mail to staffers of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” just as the program went to air, informing them that CNN researchers had determined that Hawaiian officials discarded all paper documents in 2001. A long-form birth certificate with details about the doctor who delivered Obama no longer exists, they reported. The shorter Certificate of Live Birth noting Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, that has been made public is the official record.

“It seems to definitively answer the question,” Klein wrote, according to TVNewser. “Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead -- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.”…

Whether or not the assertion that Obama’s long form birth certificate has been destroyed is true, the action by Mr. Klein was clearly intended to get Lou Dobbs to stop rocking the boat and move on.

It seems to me that if the facts are as Mr. Klein says, serious reporters and investigators would be turning over every stone to try to find the truth. Serious reporters would be going to Kenya; talking to administrators, faculty, and students at all the colleges Obama attended to discover if he talked about his birthplace, applied/registered as a foreign student or received aid as a foreign student; they'd be looking at his past travel and what passports he carried; and they would be seeking the information provided on Obama's Illinois Bar Application. One would think that an innocent person sitting in the Oval Office would quickly provide all information necessary to put to bed this troubling “eligibility issue”. Obama has not. (George Bush or Bill Clinton would have, I’m sure.) In fact, Obama has spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (some say 1 to 2 million) trying to keep the past hidden. Thank you, Lou Dobbs, for having the courage to ask the simple question - Where's the Birth Certificate?

I seriously long for the good old days, when if a reporter or CNN President said something, there was a better than 50% chance it was true. Unfortunately, regarding the “birth certificate issue” most reporters today are intentionally misstating the facts. In many of today’s news stories, the headline or body of the story will say something like "birthers don't believe Obama is a Citizen” or “of course Obama is a Citizen” or “Lou Dobbs believes Obama is a Citizen”. Such statements are intentionally misleading and are included to portray those asking questions as ridiculous tin-foil hat wearing fools. As Mr. Dobbs has quickly learned, there is a price to be paid for asking questions that might impugn the Obama narrative. (Larry Sinclair was certainly taught this lesson.)

It seems the media is reading from the same playbook. They have somehow decided that if they can blur the meanings of terms “Citizen” and “Natural Born Citizen”, the general public will not look deeply into the issue because the answer is so obvious, and it will go away. I guess they hope that any time the issue comes up in conversation there will be a knee jerk reaction causing someone to say: That’s stupid, of course Obama is a Citizen, only a fool would think such a thing. Ridicule is effective, but it won’t deter those who have seriously looked at the allegations and the “common sense” circumstances that compel further inquiry. Why has Obama not provided his school records, Illinois bar application, long-form birth certificate, passport information, etc., if he doesn’t have anything to hide? Why has he spent such enormous sums of money on lawyers to keep these documents hidden? Common sense says there’s something here. Common sense also says that if these allegations are true, this would be biggest fraud perpetrated against America in her history. To far fetched? Did you see the news about authorities arrest 44 in N.J. corruption case (2 lawmakers, 3 mayors, and rabbis accused)? (Mostly, Democrats as far as I can tell.) The media playbook conveys the understanding that it’s important to blur the definitions of Citizen and Natural Born Citizen because it goes to heart of the matter, the legal and common sense notions of “dispositive facts”. If this is true, then everything else is false or doesn’t matter. Period! Then anyone who raises such questions is a fool. Obama is a Citizen and of course he is eligible is what the media wants people to believe. This is pure media mischief, dishonesty, and treachery through and through.

Here’s what people need to know. Even accepting as “fact” that Obama is a Citizen of the United States, it is not a “dispositive fact” that would determine the outcome of the “eligibility issue”. There are many ways to become an American “Citizen”. How one acquires “Natural Born Citizen” status is determined solely by the Constitution of the United States. “Citizen” and “Natural Born Citizen” are NOT synonymous terms. It is the Law (Constitutionally required) that every person holding the Office of President must meet the "Natural Born Citizen" test, which was meant to provide an added measure of presumed allegiance to the United States and her Constitution. (For example: We would not want an arsonist to be able to become a fireman. If a person does not have a clean record regarding arson, he or she should not be allowed to be a fireman. It’s not a guarantee that a fireman with no criminal record of arson is not an arsonist, but it’s a step that gives an added measure security.) As Obama says, “let me be clear”, one can be a Citizen and NOT be a "Natural Born Citizen."

The flip side of this coin - if Obama is found not to be a "Natural Born Citizen", it would be the "dispositive fact" that would determine the outcome of the “eligibility issue”. Obama could not be President.

So, which type of “Citizen” is Obama? Real reporters would be turning over heaven and earth to find out. The American reporters are turning over heaven and earth to cover it up.

Dispositive Fact - Jural facts, or those acts or events that create, modify or extinguish jural relations. Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edition

Is Obama a “Natural Born Citizen”? It is the one question that must be answered.

There is no middle ground. If Obama cannot serve as Office of the President of the United States, then all appointments (Holder, Sotomayor, Czars, etc.) made by Obama are invalid; as well as any laws, acts or treaties entered into. If Obama cannot lawfully hold the Office of the President of the United States, all “orders” issued to the United States Military are "unlawful orders". This last point is why I am so thankful that it appears that Dr. Orly Taitz's eligibility case will be heard on the merits. Every soldier has a legal responsibility to follow only orders that are "lawful". Given that burden, every soldier must have a right to be certain of Obama’s authority.

When I look at what Obama has done, is doing and/or proposing regarding Obamanomics, ObamaCare, taking over the auto industry, taking over banks, corrupting Inspector Generals’ independence, the unwillingness to audit the Fed., his unjust treatment of Inspector General Walpin, his lack of transparency, his appointment of an army of Czars circumventing Congress, his appoint to the Supreme Court, his appointment to head Science, Gitmo, abortion, eugenics, trans-nationalist ideologies, trampling on State’s rights guaranteed under the 10th Amendment, his assault on the Second Amendment, Homeland Security looking at returning Veterans as Terrorists, ACORN, national security, the Census, his treatment of the Cambridge police, and Cap & Tax; it sure looks to me like an arsonist trying to burn up the Constitution of the United States and replace it with some sort of Socialist manifesto.

If Obama is going to cause the destruction of America and Israel, I at least want to know that he was constitutionally empowered as a “Natural Born Citizen” serving as President of the United States to destroy us. I hate to think all this could have been prevented by some state official somewhere doing their job and asking to see proof that Obama was eligible to run for office. That never happened.

Interesting document. Obama is a lawyer and will not be able to say he doesn’t understand what a natural born citizen is. He knows exactly what he is.

It is, isn't it?

Both parts, for the benefit of all to view:

Found at:

http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=1703

There are two basic groups of people who oppose that the POTUS be NBC. Those who don't understand clearly what NBC is, and those who DO understand, and hate it. I'm sure Chester Arthur understood what it meant, and what he was; that's when he started burning his personal papers.

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I have some comments concerning Obama's 2008 Arizona eligibility form displayed here:

1. Obama's eligibility form was received on Dec. 13, 2008.

2. As I understand it, the people of Arizona have 1 to 5 days to challenge Obama's eligibility form for this coming 2012 presidential campaign.

3. So I hope that in Dec. 2011, when Obama files his eligibility form in Arizona to run in the 2012 presidential primaries, there will be many people in Arizona who will immediately file a challenge to force Obama to provide some documents, like a Hawaii long form birth certificate, that prove that he is eligible beyond a shadow of a doubt to be President of the United States.

4.NOTE: Obama's signature on ARIZONA eligibility form vs. Selective Service form: Has anyone reading this message taken a recent look at Obama's Selective Service document as posted on the internet, specifically Obama's signature?

5. Myself, I was amazed how much Obama's signature has changed from nearly 25 years ago when Obama signed the Selective Service document to the time he signed the Arizona eligibility form in Nov. 2008.

6. It is as if two different people signed the two documents. Interesting.

CORRECTION: I made a typing mistake on a message I posted a few minutes ago.

I meant to type "Dec. 13, 2007", when I mistakenly typed "Dec.13, 2008".

Again, I mistakenyl typed "2008" in several sentences when I meant to type "2007".

Obviously, the presidential election took place in November 2008, so the primaries began in 2007, not 2008.

Sorry.

NOTE: On some message boards, a poster can edit his message AFTER he posts a message, but I guess a poster cannot do that here. Oh, well.

Well said.

Per Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, one must be a natural born American citizen to serve as President. Barack Obama is NOT eligible for the Presidency because he is not a natural born citizen. John A. Bingham, primary framer, 14th Amendment, states- “Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” Obama himself has stated that he is the son of a Kenyan- Kenya being a foreign sovereignty. Thus, Obama is not a natural born citizen even if he were actually born in Hawaii.

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