If you’re serious, and for what it’s worth (I’m currently agnostic on the subject) here’s a brief run down.
1) The original COLB was released on the Daily Kos. It then miraculously appeared a few days later on Obama’s website.
2) After spending $2 million of his own money defending lawsuits requesting that he release his long form BC, he finally releases one after The Donald mocks him (while letting an Army Colonel languish in prison for six months because he refused to show it).
3) Sheriff Joe’s “cold case posse” asked forensic graphics experts to examine the released long form BC and concluded that it was a forgery.
4) Obama was an Indonesian National when he was young. He traveled to Pakistan in 1981 (by his own admission) at a time when he could not have entered on a US passport.
5) He sealed, by his first executive order upon becoming President, ALL records from his past (School records, etc).
6) His Selective Service application has some anomolies including an obviously forged USPS date stamp.
7) Three men were busted during the 2008 nomination process breaking into the US Passport office specifically looking for Obama’s passport records (see 4). (one is now, mysteriously dead, shot in the head while sitting in his car in DC).
8) There appear to be numerous Social Security numbers linked to Obama, including some issued from states in which he never lived.
9) Obama hid his long time association with Bill Ayers (who wrote “Dreams of My Father” for him).
10) According to the INS, the records of ALL entries and exits into and out of the US for the supposed week of his birth (August 4, 1961) are missing from the archives (all the rest, for a 10 year period around that week, exist).
Obama has the most secretive past of any President in recent memory. The thinking is that where there’s smoke there’s fire.
Is it enough to draw a final conclusion on the subject? Some say yes, some no.
But it’s not crazy to want to continue to ask questions.
SORRY IT WAS the newly elected Governor of Hawaii that caused the birth certificate to be posted. He promise upon taking office would make his original publice. Several weeks after taking office a reporter asked him about his promise. He reply was that he could not find it but knew it existed. That in turned increased the DB level on asking for his long form.
Excellent summary.
“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” is a reasonable way to sum the history of this affair. His actions, the facts and the circumstances do not yet convict him but they certainly make him suspect.
The book is Dreams From My Father, but so many people say "of" that you can probably find it by that title too, LOL!
There was no problem with traveling to Pakistan in 1981 under a U.S. passport. There was a travel advisory. You were advised that it might be dangerous. But there was no prohibition on traveling to Pakistan in 1981 on a U.S. passport.
Your point #4 is false. Americans can and did travel to Pakistan. This is a myth that somehow keeps going.