'Fight the Smears' Website Admits Obama was Kenyan Citizen: Where's the MSM?

NewsBusters ^ | September 29, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Following the controversy over the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate can be a bit confusing with all its detailed analysis. Your humble correspondent will leave that up to the experts. However, in response to the charge that Barack Obama is not an American citizen, Obama's Fight the Smears website, quoting FactCheck.Org, has made a bombshell admission...Barack Obama was once a citizen of Kenya. You read that right, Obama had Kenyan citizenship until 1982. Here is the startling admission published in Fight the Smears (emphasis mine):

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

[Non-Sequitur]

Why do you keep missing this point?

Because the point you seem to be trying to make is nonsense.

[PJ-Comix]

OK, if true that would mean that until he was 18 Obama had dual citizenship. So?

21. So this means the public hasn't been informed of this dual citizenship by the MSM. No other presidential candidate has ever held citizenship in another country so this is a very interesting biographical fact that has NOT been reported to the public. It doesn't disqualify Obama but it shows this information has been suppressed until now.

[torchthemummy]

In my opinion, duel citizenship does not disqualify him, especially since he has not been a Kenyan since 1982. I think there are about a billion other reasons to vote against him. I don’t think the voters will be concerned about this...there are lots of duel citizenship people in this country due to their parents, birth, etc.

While I agree in principle the fact is that Obama posture and of his surrogates and media syncophants is that this was simply a smear and a lie. Now they finally admit it wasn't which highlights the question - "Why were you denying this before?"

By the way, I thought it was kind of funny that you wrote "duel citizenship" when obviously you meant "dual citizenship." And yet in a way "duel citizenship" makes sense in that being a citizen of two countries could create a "duel" internally for one's loyalties. Doesn't mean one is not loyal to both just that often their is no perfect parity of affection.

[PJ-Comix]

What a complete non-issue. There are so many more important things the press is ignoring about Obama, why would you care about this?

Because, until now, this dual citizenship story has been suppressed. Having once held dual citizenship is an important biographical fact. Never reported by the MSM. If McCain or Palin once held dual citizenship, it would have been all over the news.

[Non-Sequitur]

Having once had dual citizenship doesn't disqualify Obama from running but it is a very interesting biographical fact that has been suppressed.

I wouldn't say suppressed. I'd say ignored, because it is completely irrelevant. The whole Kenyan citizenship was a bureacratic matter that was resolved when he turned 18. Obama did nothing to acquire dual citizenship and he did nothing to retain it. If he had, then you'd have a story.

I understand that in the recent past if you had gone to DU and other similar sites you would have seen a whole series of posts, much like this one of yours, questioning McCain's qualification for the presidency since he was born in Panama. Some may well have made the same claims about dual citizenship in Panama. None of that got any play in the MSM, I imagine because it too was irrelevant.

[Doug TX]

It’s a non-issue in a sense because everyone can obtain a COLB...its common, BUT BHO CAN’T FIND HIS! He’s responsible for keeping this story alive BECAUSE HE CAN’T MAKE IT GO AWAY by producing a COLB!

Big Red Flag!

[sbMKE]

The Obama ads on Drudge are part of a network buy — Obama’s ad planners buy online ads by the 100’s of thousands of impressions. Drudge is just one of perhaps dozens of news and politics sites where Obama ads run. The top spot of Drudge is often allocated to Tribalfusion client ads; TF is a network with wide reach across the web and the Drudge top position, IMO, is one of the best ad units on the web — way above the fold and uncluttered by naviagation, mastheads, or other content.

Obama’s folks wouldn’t pull the ad unless Drudge went off the deep end and was involved in some sort of scandal.

[Lets Be Frank]

Ah shoot, I was trying to figure out if it was duel, or dual. It figures I picked the wrong one.

[wtc911]

No I am not missing the point. Read your own words...

"to the MSM, everything McCain or Palin do is a MAJOR issue."

obama didn't "do" anything except be born with a Kenyan father.

Anything he did (and there's a lot there) is fair game but unless you can tell me how he is responsible for who is father is this is a non-issue.

[mlizzy]

Please add me to the list. Thank you!

[usmcobra]

Before there was a push to "correct" the record Kenyans and Obama's own family were proud to say he was born there.....

At least until someone figured out if he was Kenyan born then he couldn't be president, then stories changed or just disappeared.

We should be able to beat him on the issues and thanks to a completely unbiased and nonpartisan press corps accurately delivering the facts instead of greasing the ways for the Obama ship of state we will.

[jaydubya2]

Please add me to you list. I love Newsbusters!

[Incorrigible]

Show me evidence he wasn't born in Hawaii!

Circulating a known fake certificate as authentic is sufficient for me to question if he is a "natural born citizen".

.

[Eagle Eye]

There is no credible evidence that Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii.

Really, the problem seems to be that Obama cannot provide credible evidence that he was born in Hawaii, not that anyone need prove he was born elswhere.

It should be up to him to prove it, not up to everyone else to simply accept his claims.

I'll bet that McCain, Palin, and Biden can all produce original, authentic birth documents and a supporting paper trail. Can Obama? So far seems not.

[Non-Sequitur]

Really, the problem seems to be that Obama cannot provide credible evidence that he was born in Hawaii, not that anyone need prove he was born elswhere.

He doesn't have to.

It should be up to him to prove it, not up to everyone else to simply accept his claims.,p> The onus is on those making the the charged to prove their case, not the one the charges are leveled at. The whole 'innocent until proven guilty' deal. And to date nobody has shown any evidence he was not born in Hawaii.

I'll bet that McCain, Palin, and Biden can all produce original, authentic birth documents and a supporting paper trail. Can Obama? So far seems not.

Because neither he, nor Palin or McCain or Biden...or Bush or Kerry or Gore are/were required to do so.

[Non-Sequitur]

Circulating a known fake certificate as authentic is sufficient for me to question if he is a "natural born citizen".

No evidence, huh? Well better luck next time.

[Miss Didi]

Thanks for explaining the ads deal...I thought it was curious that for hours on Saturday, Matt was running two stories regarding Barry's goon squads in Missouri that suddenly disappeared. I then noticed the “Obama wins!” ad front and center and thought that was the reason he took them down.

[Miss Didi]

Bailout break ping!

[softwarecreator]

Because the point you seem to be trying to make is nonsense.

To you, as yours is to me.

[C210N]

this man might have strong feelings of loyalty to another country

There is another BIG REASON that this story needs to have legs. There is the ODinga angle - a family of Kenyan Marxists, Raila the current prime minister of Kenya whom Obama supported with a visit[s] and LOTS OF MONEY.