Pissant... this is not a reply to you. For some reason could not post a public reply to the proper person... Anyway..
I can’t believe that anyone would say this is a non-issue. The only reason is IS an issue is that the Osamabama campaign has refused to provide a document. Very easily corrected and put all of us tin foil wearing hard-right types in our place. Easily done. So why not? The constitution clearly says you must be a Native Born Citizen to be president. Either he is or he isn’t. Not a hard question, but certainly one that deserves a simple answer. Not :anyone wants a DNA sample to prove babies weren’t switched at the hospital. Just a simple, believable copy of a Birth Certificate. Since you can get a U.S. Passport with one of those I would think the real deal would have a stamp, embossment, or some way of validating it as an official copy.
This will only be a non-issue when its settled. How could anyone think that even the possibility of a non-Citizen being president is not an issue :(
“I can’t believe that anyone would say this is a non-issue. The only reason is IS an issue is that the Osamabama campaign has refused to provide a document. Very easily corrected and put all of us tin foil wearing hard-right types in our place. Easily done. So why not? The constitution clearly says you must be a Native Born Citizen to be president. Either he is or he isn’t. Not a hard question, but certainly one that deserves a simple answer. Not :anyone wants a DNA sample to prove babies weren’t switched at the hospital. Just a simple, believable copy of a Birth Certificate. Since you can get a U.S. Passport with one of those I would think the real deal would have a stamp, embossment, or some way of validating it as an official copy.
This will only be a non-issue when its settled. How could anyone think that even the possibility of a non-Citizen being president is not an issue”
You’ve pretty much cut to the heart of this controversy.
Obama is hiding something.
Something that is simply embarrassing.... or...
Something that is explosive.
Freepers, use your own logic for a few moments.
We have a candidate running for the presidency of the United States of America, arguably the most politically important position on Earth. This is all the moreso because of the struggle that is building between the West [in general] and the U.S.A. [in particular] vs. Islam.
Of course it’s reasonable to expect that someone running for the presidency must be properly vetted in order to gain the public trust, and thus win the election before us.
But Obama is trying to stonewall us on this. He may even be trying to deliberately deceive us with a document that may be phony.
Again, what is he hiding?
Let me pose a question - and let me direct this PARTICULARLY to those individuals who keep showing up on these threads claiming this is a “non-issue”:
Put yourself in the shoes of Obama, or consider what your own position might be as a candidate for high office...
What snippet of information could possibly be so embarrassing that you would endeavor to hide information (in this case ESSENTIAL information, in order to be Constitutionally qualified to hold the office being sought) from public view?
I cannot imagine a similar controversy engulfing ANY Republican candidate for major office in which that candidate could not survive politically unless he/she “came clean” and allowed access to such historical information. You and I know the media would be hounding the candidate UNTIL full disclosure was attained.
Whatever is being kept hid strikes me as NOT merely belonging to “the category of embarrassment”. If that is true, what about the _other_ category I mentioned above?
Also consider that the mainstream media is doing their best to ignore this. They know EXACTLY how damaging this could become to the Obama campaign.
This is why the “pajamas media” - such as FreeRepublic - should keep hammering on it, until it “breaks out” beyond which point the mainstream can no longer keep the controversy under wraps.
Theoldmarine says it plainly: there is only one way to “settle” this issue. There is only one way to transform it into a “non-issue”.
If Obama is in possession of his original birth certificate (NOT a copy), he must allow it to be seen by reporters and examined by professionals.
If the original is still existant in Hawaiian archives, then Obama must give consent that the original (or microfilmed copy of the original, or microfiched copy of the original) must be made available to reporters and professionals who can examine it and comment on its authenticity.
Only then should we agree to “drop the issue”.
Only then will I be convinced that there is nothing on the original document that suggests that he may not be qualified to serve as president of the United States.
- John