Posted on 11/25/2008 8:54:50 AM PST by Maelstorm
No Curiosity Excited in the Mainstream Media
About Obama’s Selective Service Registration
Learning a Lesson from the 1990s Clintons
Say what you will, Debbie Schlussel is interesting.
Last week, the motor behind debbieschlussel.com posted an interesting article about the Selective Service registration of Barack Obama. Multiple screenshots–complete with letters A-H highlighting areas that raised questions–make the provocative post must-reading for anyone who has wondered about the squeaky-clean, scrubbed Obama narrative.
In our opinion, Schlussel gets some things right, while other items are a bit less clear. One claim Schlussel makes that falls into the “dubious” category: Obama signed his name with a peace sign. Our view is that this is an overly-dramatic interpretation; interested readers can visit Schlussel’s site, examine the BHO signature and make their own judgment.
DBKP attempted to contact Schlussel, but got no response.
Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?
It’s either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama’s official Selective Service registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to me.
Breitbart TV’s B-Cast did an informative show on the subject, interviewing Schussel, who walked viewers through the document and the questions about its authenticity.
Though the video is 30 minutes, it’s well worth watching for those who are interested in our next Commander-in-Chief’s past. Many pieces of the Obama puzzle are, and have been, hidden from public view–including birth, medical, college and university records.
During the campaign, the Mainstream Media exhibited a singular lack of curiosity about their Fab Fave candidate and his past, preferring instead to quote from Obama’s two memoirs or the campaign’s canned answers.
Inquires about actual records–which would’ve helped shed light on Obama’s background–was a subject that, like the John Edwards’ Scandal–remained off-limits in the polite MSM conversations that passed for election news.
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Great question!
I’ve sent it to our guy in Hawaii and am awaiting his reply.
There are so many holes in Obama’s history. None of this was important during the election. We may find that America has elected a fraud not just in his politics but in his persona.
Well, yes. He committed at least two felonies in order to get himself elected: a forged COLB and a forged selective service registration.
Those are not just your ordinary, garden variety felonies, like robbing a bank or mugging someone or selling drugs. Those are felonies committed with the purpose of getting himself elected president, an office for which he is apparently not qualified under the Constitution.
Whether or not the courts act, whether or not the justice system acts, he will never be a legitimate President of the United States unless and until he clears away these doubts, which it is now pretty clear he cannot do, short of coming up with still more forgeries.
I asked on another thread - what are the common documents which requiring attesting that you have registered for Selective Service? I believe college loan apps. require it, what about driver’s license apps., tax returns, government job apps.? I’m not a male, so I don’t pay attention to it.
If Obama attested he was registered on many forms, it would have been necessary to retroactively create a registration before releasing any of the other documents.
Are driver’s license apps., college loan apps., etc. available through FOIA?
Where’s Buckhead?
If you are a naturalized U.S. citizen, are you still required to register for Selective Service?
I haven’t given much credence to the COLA challenges, but it just occurred to me that if Obama was a naturalized citizen, registering for the Selective Service, may not have been a requirement.
Anyone know?
It’s been so long since I was in the service that I don’t remember. I have kept my records in the bank vault, but I don’t believe I have ever had to produce them since I left the university.
I think you DO need to at least declare that you are registered when you apply to college. I don’t know if you need to submit proof. But of course that’s one reason why Obama may have refused to release his college records—because of his draft status, and (more important) because he might have said he was Indonesian or Kenyan in order to improve his chances for admission.
I’m pretty sure that all male citizens within the age range have to register. The draft wouldn’t be very effective if it was limited to only natural born citizens. When you become a citizen, you undertake the responsibility to serve your country if necessary, like everyone else.
Yes, in fact even resident aliens must register and are subject to call up.
If I remember correctly if they have reached the age of 26 by the time they are naturalized, they do not have to register for selective service. I used to deal with this issue at work.
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