“Better people than me have speculated that Obama keeps it hidden because there is other embarrassing stuff on the birth certificate. So use your imaginations”
I’m a bit late to the game, what are the possibilities if anyone here can tell me, that would be embarrassing? Like dual citizenship?
It would be a tad embarrasing to know he is ineligible to run for El-Presidente. Other than that, discretions frowned upon would probably be forgiven by the people.
He's admitted and asserted having dual citizenship at birth.
The following in reverse chronological order, most recent presented first:
... I should have been more precise. As I understand it, Obama's "Kenyan" citizenship (which really is the Brit-lite citizenship you are talking about) is a result of Britain's Nationality Act of 1948. Technically speaking, Barack Obama Sr. was a British overseas subject resident of what was then the Kenyan protectorate, which status passed automatically (by operation of Kenyan law) into Kenyan citizenship when Kenya became independent in late 1963. If one in this situation is deemed a Brit/Kenyan citizen automatically because his father is a Kenyan, the (now) Kenyan citizenship lapses unless one does something affirmative to claim it. I am no expert in this area, but that's what I think the law is.Andy McCarthy @ 07/30 03:24 PM
... there clearly are potential legal consequences inherent in the circumstance of dual citizenship. It would be incompetent to discuss presidential eligibility under Article II without addressing it.Andy McCarthy @ 07/30 02:50 PM
For now, let's just stick with what's indisputable: He was also born a Kenyan citizen. In theory, that could raise a question about whether he qualifies as a "natural born" American - an uncharted constitutional concept. ...Suborned in the U.S.A. by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review OnlineAs noted above, we now know Obama, by operation of British and Kenyan law, was a citizen of Kenya (a status that lapsed in 1982, when he turned 21). That's something voters would find relevant, especially when Obama's shocking 2006 conduct in Kenya is considered. But we don't know about his Kenya citizenship because the media thought it was newsworthy. We know it only because of the birth-certificate controversy: Pressed to debunk the allegation that Obama was born in Kenya, his embarrassed supporters felt compelled to clarify his Kenyan citizenship.