You claim to be "just asking questions" but then make an assertion misrepresenting the facts.
There are numerous threads on this subject, which go into excruciating detail on all these matters, which you could easily read if you genuinely want to know more about this rather than mislead people.
Look, for all I know he was born in Hawaii. But among the questions you are "just asking" is NOT the question as to why Obama is paying lawyers to fight tooth and nail in various courts all over the United States from having to introduce his birth certificate in a court proceeding.
When McCain was challenged in a court proceeding over his own birth issue (regarding the Panama Canal Zone), he simply submitted his birth certificate.
Why do you consider it proper that Obama feels he should be entitled to be president without having to demonstrate the basic constitutional qualification when asked to do so in a court proceeding?
If he actually was born in Hawaii, then I can think of only two reasons why he is fighting so strenuously to conceal his birth certificate.
First, that there is something else important on his birth certificate that he wants to conceal from voters. Given the importance of the office, why are you comfortable with him concealing whatever that is?
Or, second, it has been speculated that perhaps Obama is fighting releasing his birth certificate because he is trying to bait his opponents into raising the issue so he can smear then as fringers and conspiracy theorists. What does this possibility say about the character of Obama? And you have no "questions" as to this?
Or, second, it has been speculated that perhaps Obama is fighting releasing his birth certificate because he is trying to bait his opponents into raising the issue so he can smear then as fringers and conspiracy theorists. What does this possibility say about the character of Obama? And you have no “questions” as to this?
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I have a friend who absolutely insists this is the case. It’s a power play, and Obama will play this card in the future when the Republicans start to gain.
Your questions are thorough and thoughtful. Aroostook Republican is trolling Free Republic and will probably go back to Democratic Underground soon.