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What Obama Has Said about His Own Birth
The American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2011 | Jack Cashill,

Posted on 01/17/2011 2:50:06 AM PST by Scanian

While Republican Congressman Frank Pallone read the "natural born Citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor last Thursday, a spirited female in the audience shouted out, "Except Obama! Except Obama! Help us, Jesus!"

Later that day, NBC's Brian Williams improbably chose to assign blame for the woman's outburst on newly elected House speaker John Boehner. "How much responsibility do you feel?" Williams asked pointedly.

"The state of Hawaii has said Obama was born there," said Boehner, who is no more intimate with the "Birther" movement than Williams himself. "That was good enough for me."

The person Williams should have been asking about "responsibility" is the president. Obama's conspicuous fabrications over the years have caused even the sober among us to doubt his origins story.

In September 2009, President Obama addressed the nation's schoolchildren writ large, an innovation that struck many on the right as a wee bit too Big-Brotherly. In the talk, Obama asked America's students to take personal responsibility. That was all well enough.

Missed in the media hubbub, however, was his take on why this could be difficult for some students. "I get it," he told the kiddies. "I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother."

In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama made the same claim. "He had left Hawaii back in 1963," he wrote of Obama Sr., "when I was only two years old."

When Obama wrote this in Dreams, he may have been relating what he had himself been told. By 2009, he knew better, but so vested was he in the story, and so useful had it been in his rise, that he continued to dissemble, even before millions of schoolchildren

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; constitution; naturalborn; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamasr
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To: Scanian

BTTT.


21 posted on 01/17/2011 6:51:43 AM PST by snowsislander (Chicago-style politics at a national level is a national disgrace.)
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To: nuconvert
It really doesn’t give much of an argument for him not being born in either Hawaii or WA.

Perhaps that's the wrong argument. Too many have leaped to the conclusion that Obama's bizarre behavior aimed at removing all records of his early life means that he was not born in the U.S. and is therefore not eligible to be President. While that is possible, the evidence remains hidden from public view.

What the evidence does show is that the life story that Obama and Ayers created for Obama's autobiography is inaccurate and incomplete. Whatever the truth might be, it would have clashed with Obama' own narrative and caused serious problems for the campaign. It was a real threat to Obama's election. So, he took extreme measures to hide his past from view. With the willing support of the press, he succeeded and the truth remains hidden.

I'd like to know where Obama was born, but more importantly, I'd like to know who this man is, what about his life story does he not want the voters to know, and who are the people who advanced this man from obscurity to the White House.

22 posted on 01/17/2011 6:54:12 AM PST by centurion316
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To: Scanian

I am sure his birth was described in Rosemary’s Baby.

That was a little bitty Obaby in that carriage.


23 posted on 01/17/2011 6:55:47 AM PST by dforest
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To: MrB

——The “race card” is simply all the left has left these days-——

Au Contraire mi Amigo....... The left has invented the Palin card and is playing it 24/7


24 posted on 01/17/2011 6:55:56 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: bert

IMO, Palin is the “winnowing fork” of the current time.

Each time she is dragged into the news,
she becomes an even more effective winnowing fork.


25 posted on 01/17/2011 6:58:26 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: centurion316

But if his “autobiography is inaccurate & incomplete” as far as his childhood, that may go to why he’s been hiding his true birth certificate, ie: that it doesn’t necessarily reveal that he was born in another country (which is certainly important), but that he’s hiding something embarrassing about his mother or that she never declared who his father was, or wrote in a ficticious name. (none of which are really important IMO).

As for his young adulthood and college history, there’s a lot being omitted there that the public has a right to know, and is slowly leaking out. (as in Stanley Kurtz’s book, “Radical-in-Chief” )


26 posted on 01/17/2011 7:09:56 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: jazzlite

yes, this is madness
there is no rule of law.
we are living in a nightmare from which we can’t wake up.


27 posted on 01/17/2011 7:54:54 AM PST by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Scanian

If we are trying to compile an honest and complete tally of what BHO has said over time about his birth, we must also include what he has said by his actions such as spending more than a million dollars on attorneys to resist attempts to uncover documents in the hands of third parties that would help to shed light on the facts.


28 posted on 01/17/2011 8:00:01 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: jazzlite
Any individual seeking that office should know that there can be no secrets in matters which require documentation of one’s life.

Seems reasonable to me.

29 posted on 01/17/2011 8:03:34 AM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Huebolt

“Above the Law” has applied to Obama, OJ Simpson, Sharpton, Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, Algore, Clinton, Frank and Dodd. They are above the law the same way the mafia in Sicily is.
These folks laugh at the law, the constitution, and us.


You forgot to mention the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his chip off of the old block son JJ Jr.


30 posted on 01/17/2011 8:08:34 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Scanian

Now that the Republicans have control of the House of Representatives, any House committee or sub-committee can conduct an investigation into Obama’s eligibility as a Natural Born Citizen and a House Committee can issue a subpoena for Obama’s original, vault copy, birth certificate.
Both the place of birth issue and the two citizen parent issue can be investigated by the House.
It will be interesting to see if Republican control means those steps will be taken.


31 posted on 01/17/2011 10:10:54 AM PST by jamese777
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To: Scanian

BTTT!


32 posted on 01/17/2011 10:18:40 AM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Scanian

Has Hawaii Gov. Abercrombie (or is it Fitch?) had any luck getting Li’l Barry’s b.c. released?


33 posted on 01/17/2011 10:20:09 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Has Hawaii Gov. Abercrombie (or is it Fitch?) had any luck getting Li’l Barry’s b.c. released?


He needs his appointees for new state Health Department Director and new Attorney General to be confirmed by the state Senate first and the Senate reconvenes on Wednesday.


34 posted on 01/17/2011 11:11:05 AM PST by jamese777
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To: Scanian

I’ve never heard much mentioned about this discrepancy:

In his book, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama makes reference to having seen his birth certificate during his high school years. This would have been some time around the years 1976 to 1979.

The widely-circulated (and debunked) Obama birth certification appears to have been computer generated and date stamped “JUN - 6, 2007” - about 30 years later.

Where is the document Obama refers to in his book?
Why did he choose to circulate a different document for authentication purposes?


35 posted on 01/17/2011 11:38:34 AM PST by TexasVoter (No Constitution? No Union!)
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To: TexasVoter

I’ve never heard much mentioned about this discrepancy:

In his book, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama makes reference to having seen his birth certificate during his high school years. This would have been some time around the years 1976 to 1979.

The widely-circulated (and debunked) Obama birth certification appears to have been computer generated and date stamped “JUN - 6, 2007” - about 30 years later.

Where is the document Obama refers to in his book?
Why did he choose to circulate a different document for authentication purposes?


Would you trust the information on a birth certificate released BY Obama?

The short form Certification of Live Birth that appeared on Obama’s campaign website was ordered from the state of Hawaii and is an official document of the state of Hawaii.

A House of Representatives subpoena can release Obama’s original birth certificate without Obama’s permission for comparison to the information on the scanned image of the short form COLB that is on the internet.

“It’s crazy,” said Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health. “I don’t think anything is ever going to satisfy them.”

Okubo, who said that she gets weekly questions from Obama ‘Birthers’ that are “more like threats,” explained that the certificate of live birth reproduced by Obama’s campaign should have debunked the conspiracy theories. “If you were born in Bali, for example,” Okubo explained, “you could get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali. You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate. But it’s become very clear that it doesn’t matter what I say. The people who are questioning this bring up all these implausible scenarios. What if the physician lied? What if the state lied? It’s just become an urban legend at this point.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/51489/birther-movement-picks-up-steam


“For more than a year, the Department of Health has continued to receive approximately 50 e-mail inquiries a month seeking access to President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in spite of the fact that President Obama has posted a copy of the certificate on his former campaign website.”—Hawaii Department of Health Director, Chiyome Fukino, M.D.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Testimony/SB2937_TESTIMONY_JGO_02-23-10_LATE.pdf


36 posted on 01/17/2011 11:56:56 AM PST by jamese777
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To: TexasVoter

The Obama File

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaCOLB.htm


37 posted on 01/17/2011 12:26:59 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Carley

“The birth certificate issue is a diversion from the fact that this man is destroying our economy, our national security, and our standing in the rest of the world, who sees him as weak weak weak.”

The BC issue is in fact the most important issue to ever need to be addressed by SCOTUS and the news media.


38 posted on 01/17/2011 12:53:56 PM PST by stockpirate (Sen. Mitch McConnel (R) has betrayed the Nov. 2, 2010 voters w/his tax bill!)
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To: Scanian

Poor child Obama was abandoned and neglected, handed to a pedophile, and had no raison d’etre. His parents did not appear to love him at all. I feel for that innocent little boy, and eventually he made up an identity for himself in order to proceed with his life, like every other unloved child.

Now, what I believe is that he found ways to “get over,” and one of them was through his newfound Muslim friends. Nearly everything he has, and has become, was bought and paved for him by Muslims (and the Anglo terrorist Ayers).

Therefore his narrative HAS to include the “fact” that he is a paternal Muslim, for his benefactors. If Obama knows that the truth is that he aint no “Obama,” he is a deceiver and liar of the worst caliber. Angry Saudi and Palestinian benefactors would then call in his chips, and that would be worse to Obama than the disgust of the American people that his narrative was made up. I think we can imagine the power of the angry Islamic world at having been duped.

Occam’s razor dictates that he was born near his grandparents, only because a pregnant teenage girl is so defenseless and would want to be near her Mommy. She would not be traipsing to Kenya to give birth, especially when Obama had other women there. That’s not something a teenage girl would want.

Perhaps Obama Sr. agreed to pretend to be the baby’s father (and maybe marry her), but he was soon “outa there.”


39 posted on 01/17/2011 1:22:26 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: wintertime

Any news on the Supreme Court case concerning Obama’s non-eligibility ? was it suppose to be either the 15th or 17th ?


40 posted on 01/17/2011 1:40:51 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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