Posted on 08/01/2009 7:43:48 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
And, for those of honor and integrity, it's a simple thing to put to rest. I have a passport and a birth certificate. I can produce them at my house in a matter of minutes. I have not spent a million dollars to either acquire them...or to hide them.
This is not a unreasonable thing to ask for since being a "natural born citizen" of the US is a constitutional requirement for the job of President. It's not hateful, and it's not racist.
Proving that you are should be an honor.
Yet Obama cannot and will not produce either. Why?
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Obama hasn’t been running from anything. He is just standing in front of you, thumbing his nose at all of us. Has no one noticed that he hasn’t said a word to the American people about his birth certificate or any other papers concerning his past? He is being quiet about all of it, when all he has to do is address the subject. He has been well schooled to keep his mouth shut.
I’m glad to see one person gets it. Is this actually from the Canada Free Press, or is this a personal blog?
At any rate, it’s a crying shame we can’t get something like this out of even the Heritage Foundation. This nation is so in the tank for Obambi on the issue of his past.
What a dark time in our nation’s history. I’d say it’s our darkest. What others couldn’t do to us, we are doing to ourselves. May God have mercy...
Do you think one journalist could actually confront him?
Since they won’t..we need a Joan the midwife to do it.
Some citizen needs to corner him on camera. Why won’t you release your original birth cert?
“They put the requirement in the Constitution because they knew the danger of having a quisling and ringer in the White House.”
And yet there he is.
btt
Look at what ignoring that Constitutional requirement has given us — a usurper who just ignores other parts of the Constitution at will. His stimulus program is a “Cash for Constitution” bribery scheme.
Like John McCain I was not born in this country but am eligible to run for president. This is the military brat exception. My Army Officer (just barley 2nd Lieutenant) Father and Army bride mom were stationed in Japan. I was born in the local Army Hospital. I was an American Citizen at Birth. I however, have no State Birth Certificate. I have a Report of Birth from the State Department. I also have a Passport. It has been a problem from time to time. I am just sick that Obama has no problem getting where he's got ton and I had hell securing my first drivers license/entering school/college getting married because the low level civil servant in each instance did not know what my report of birth was and assumed I was a legal alien. Without a "Birth Certificate I have not moved through the system with the ease this man seems to have."
Here’s a great video explaining the difference between a “citizen” and a “natural born citizen.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI
You bring up a good point which State-Run Media chooses to ignore: before the "birther" movement really got off the ground, Democrats were already asking questions about John McCain's eligibility to be President. The other day some Lefty wrote a piece in which she credited Congressional Democrats with "ending the controversy" by declaring McCain eligible (after the Senator had already made all the documentation a matter of public record).
In the murky world of "opposition research", when your candidate's opponent is looking into some particular area or peccadillo, it may well suggest that the opponent has a problem in that area (hence, the vile rumors about President George H. W. Bush by Bill Clinton's campaign and media allies). Of course, the notion of Obama's ineligibility does not simply rest on whether he was born in Kenya or Hawaii, there are other areas that should have been explored, such as possible multiple instances of renunciation of citizenship (would Lee Harvey Oswald, had he not "taken the shot" at JFK, have been eligible to be President, having once renounced his citizenship?), possible unverified claims of dual citizenship, unanswered questions about possible allegiance to other governments or anti-Constitutional creeds.
That the term “birther” should be used as a pejorative is not what concerns me. After all, the birth certificate issue run the gamut — from those who believe that Obama was born in Kenya to those who believe that Obama was born in Hawaii (and thus a citizen) but that something incriminating/damaging is contained within the long-form BC. More to the point, I have yet to find the legal distinction between a “natural-born citizen” and: (a) a citizen born on American soil of at least one American parent; (b) a citizen born on foreign soil to at least one American parent; or (c) a citizen born on a military installation abroad to least one American parent (e.g., John McCain).
At any rate, what truly frightens me is that the term “Constitutionalist” is now pejorative and, indeed, is used by our own government as a euphemism for “domestic extremist” or “domestic terrorist”.
“FREE THE LONG FORM!”
I am the only one that thinks the founding fathers were so smart its spooky? If anything suggest aliens on are planet it is the brilliance that existed in creating our country...
I am not sure any of our current politicians are even capable of being in the founders league.
Saw the video after my post above.
Very interesting... Logically consistent and comprehensive.
Damn. We’re over a barrel on this one.
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Consider how the thrones of Europe got passed around as prizes by the royal houses who often had no ethnic connection to the people they ruled.
The throne of England has been held by Danish, French, Welsh, Scottish, Dutch and German sovereigns.
The ruling House of Windsor is the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha renamed during World War I at the height of anti-German sentiment.
The Spanish have had Austrian Habsburgs and French Bourbons (Borbon) on their throne. About all that was Russian about the Romanov dynasty towards the end was the name.
The Founding Fathers were wise to leave the Presidency reserved to natural-born citizens, rather than have it become a prize open to foreign schemers who would have converted it to a monarchy.
I weep for a country where the truth is considered a conspiracy. With all his talk about transparency Zero is the biggest say one thing and do another politician to ruin Washington
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