Don't look, birthers: Obama's passport

Politico ^ | August 17, 2010 | Josh Gerstein

[Natural Born 54]

Here's something new for the birthers to chew over: President Barack Obama's passport. Says he was born in Hawaii! But the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, so the mystery continues.

Now, it's his official passport, which means it's new, so the true believers will not be persuaded. Not that they ever would.

[Red Steel]

Detritis is a brand new signed up troll.

Yeah this new troll has stepped in it with both feet.

[SeattleBruce]

“I’m not a ‘birther’ either, but I do believe this is an issue.”

Then you’re a birther, or an NBCer! Wear the badge of honor proudly. Screw the RATS!

[TheBigJ]

I believe this is all the American documentation Zero officially has at this pathetic point — which he’s proud of. Why is this being released now? Berg mentioned the First Tranny was partying it up in Spain as she knows it will come to an end soon. Monday, Rush Limbaugh mentioned at the start of his show in pre-comments either to Dawn/Sniggerly/someone in studio that “the President is a foreign agent.”

Keep up the pressure!

[SeattleBruce]

“I want to see his expired passport, the one he used for his stay in Pakistan. I’d like to see where else he went that he’s not telling us about.”

Good luck with that! ;) (Wouldn’t we all love to see that!)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

What proof did Obama present to the Passport office when he applied for his new passport: Certified copy of his Birth Certificate; Certificate of Birth (COB) a Hawaii document; his pay check, his school registration from Indonesia, etc.?

[Cuttnhorse]

You don’t get a new one when filled...just keep adding more pages...I added pages to my old PP twice...at about 20 per pop if I recall.

[Blogger]

I just got my expired one renewed. Had to get a new photo and everything. New book as well.

[Brown Deer]

Bernardine is back in business?

[bill1952]

Produce a certified certificate from the Bureau of Vital Statistics that states that a search revealed no birth certificate in my name.

There are people who have none - like me.

[Brown Deer]

SNOPES? The Mikkelson's are frauds.

"Barack Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, his father moving to Connecticut to continue his education before returning to Kenya. When the younger Obama was six years old, his mother married again, this time to Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager."

In 1964, Barack Obama, Sr. was living at 170 Magazine Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts NOT Connecticut!

His mother married Soetoro in March of 1965, when Barry was only three years old!

[SvenMagnussen]

"C" is for communism.

[Brown Deer]

Yes, I’m sure that is more important to protect the dates on his passport than the thousands of CLASSIFIED Documents that he gave away to our enemies!

[Brown Deer]

lol, that's him!

[TheCipher]

They pulled a little "bait and switch" with the passport. I have provided screenshots of the video. The first view of the passport is of a closeup of the passport page with his picture on it. They then cut to a different shot of them opening a passport to show the stamps on it. They never showed the cover of the passport that they showed his picture from ( which is significant since it would show if it was a diplomatic one or not ). Now about the screenshots.

Shot 1

Shot 2

New Issue

Shot 1 - is the page with his picture. They blur out the date of issue and the date of expiration. Why do that ? It is obvious his presidential passport was issued shortly after his taking office. There is no need to redact that info.

Shot 2. You will notice a few differences between this and shot 1.

1), Look at the photo. The top of his head is cut off. They may try to explain that away with light bouncing off the hologram. However, it would not make a clean line and mine has the same hologram overlapping my head. No matter what angle of light I use, you can still see the top of my head through the hologram. Plus you see them bending the passport at various angles and the hairline remains the same. Not to mention, they do not look like the same photos.

2) Right at the top where it says United States of America in green, if you look right below it, you will see the word STATE. That is not on the Shot 1 photo. What is in that position is ( what is on mine also ) Type, Code, and Passport number

On closer examination of Shot2, it looks like that is a piece of paper attached by some tape ( the green rectangle at the top - typical office tape used on file folders ). They are covering up the name and info section on this persons passport. Why do that when you supposedly just showed that info a few seconds before. Plus from the video, they imply that he opens the passport to show the front page, then flips through it to the stamp page ( which there was no need to since it is right next to the photo page when he shows it ). When did he have time to put the taped page on ? One other thing doesn't ring true about the second passport photo. The page they are showing above his photo has stamps on it. On passports, the page above the photo is the page where the holder of the passport signs his name ( see new issue). Where did that page go ? You can also see it is labeled page 7. What happened to pages 1 through 6 ? You can't just remove them.Also you can't fold them under the other pages without folding the photo page as well. If you look closely at the video ( at 1:50 ) you can see the stamp page move a bit ( look at the lower left corner and follow the "straight line" of the fold of the page. The distance between that and the United States of America on the photo page shrinks and it looks like the lower left corner moves) . It is not attached to the passport.The only thing that explains how you can show a stamp entry page next to the photo page is that they are holding the stamp page of one passport in front of the signature page of another passport. In other words THAT STAMP PAGE DOES NOT BELONG TO THAT PASSPORT . If you have access to a viewer where you can slow the speed down, it is easier to see.

One other thing about that video. Notice it is taped in three separate sessions. The first is the closeup. The second showing the stamp page. The third showing the last page. THEY NEVER SHOW THE LOGICAL FLOW FROM ONE SECTION TO THE OTHER.A normal person would have taped it in one continuous flow- showing the photo page- flipping to the stamp page and then to the last page. Going from the stamp page to the last page would have been easy. Just flip to the end But they couldn't do that. If they flipped to the end it would have shown that the stamp page was not part of the passport they were showing.

[Art in Idaho]

What proof did Obama present to the Passport office when he applied for his new passport: Certified copy of his Birth Certificate; Certificate of Birth (COB) a Hawaii document; his pay check, his school registration from Indonesia, etc.?

Read somewhere, I can't pinpoint so maybe shouldn't post this, but read that all New Senators get a newly issued passport, so maybe that's the first time he was legit, so to speak. Don't know if they have to present documentation or not or is it, 'Oh, you're a Senator, you automatically get a Passport'. Anyone know the facts on this?

[thecodont]

He just got that passport. That’s his official presidential photo. This entire article is bullsh$t.

Good eyes!

[bushpilot1]

Greetings troll. WE know your mission. It matters not where your Obama was born. His father was an alien, that makes Obama half alien.

This passport business is a ruse.

It is impossible Obama can be a natural born citizen, born without foreign influence or attachments.

What belongs to the son belongs to the father.

[Red Steel]

Shot 1 - is the page with his picture. They blur out the date of issue and the date of expiration. Why do that ? It is obvious his presidential passport was issued shortly after his taking office. There is no need to redact that info.

Right makes no sense.

And the visa stamps in shot 2 on page seven appears to be adjacent to the inside cover page where Obama's picture and pertinent personal info is written. The adjacent page should be page 6.

Bump for later review....

[thecodont]

What information from a long form birth certificate is relevant to being a natural born citizen that isn’t on a short form? The US Constitution requires birth in the US, age 35 and 14 years residence in the US.

Whoa there fella. Does the U.S. Constitution equate being natural born with mere "birth in the U.S."?

"Natural born" is citizenship as a result of natural law. An anchor baby isn't a natural born citizen.

The moment you have to reach for a man-made law to define someone's citizenship, you know the person in question is not natural born.

[TheCipher]

And the visa stamps in shot 2 on page seven appears to be adjacent to the inside cover page where Obama's picture and pertinent personal info is written. The adjacent page should be page 6.

Actually, the adjacent page to the photo page should be page 3 - the signature page. Where is it ? ( he even mentions in the video when showing the photo page that he sees the signature ) You can't just remove the signature page. The passport is invalid without it. A passport is a bound book. In order to advance to page 7, you have to cover the photo page with pages 3,4,5,6. There is NO WAY you can show a stamp page next to the photo page. The only way is if you are holding the stamp page of one passport against the signature page of another passport.