Yes, it’s a Constitutional issue that only about 15% of nutjobs think happened. He was born in Hawaii. End of story. Can we concentrate on kicking this guy to the curb rather than this silliness?
His mom was an American, there are multiple announcements in a Hawaii newspaper AT THAT TIME of his birth, certification of live birth, etc, etc. Way too much evidence to suggest anything other than born in Hawaii. Yes, it’s not 100% concrete, but it leans so strongly to the fact that he did and we’re looking like nutjobs bringing this up.
No wonder so many independents and Reagan Democrats don’t vote Republican any more.
There are many holes in your story.
That being said, the eligibility issue should not and will not be the only issue as the election approaches. I share your feelings about that for sure. That was my concern weeks ago too. It is for that reason I’m doing what I’m doing now to help get the facts out there so that we can indeed move on.
I agree 100% with you about gas prices, jobs, Libya and yes we do need to focus on those issues and they need to be the primary issues.
But at this time, there are no candidates so I’m taking advantage of the time. The majority of Americans question Obama’s eligibility.
I do think you will be proven wrong about Obama’s eligibility though. But I hope you’re right.
You are probably correct SideoutFred. But it doesn't matter. He was not born to parents who are citizens. Both conditions, born on our soil AND parents who were citizens, are required for natural born citizenship. The citizen parents requirement was loudly proclaimed by both Republicans and Democrats to deem McCain eligible. It is not true of Obama. Do we have different rules for different races?
Inherited allegiance was important enough for John Jay to remind Washington to include it in 1787. It is at least as important today. Barack spelled out why in his book Dreams From My Father. Whether or not he spent time with his father, his mother made Barck with Barack Sr. His relatives talked about him. This is human behavior, and covered by what the most influential philosopher to our founders, Vattel, called “Natural Law.”
Your daughter is going to marry, to join two families and what do you ask, only knowing that the young man is on good behavior and wants to do natural things with your daughter. You want to know the parents, their ethics, their morals, possibly their religion, their financial status. That will tell you more about the young man than he will.
The English won't permit naturalized citizens to be Members of Parliament. Our founders and framers let naturalized citizens hold every office in our government but the presidency (and vice presidency by implication). Barack/Barry is a naturalized citizen if he was born in Hawaii, though may not actually be a legal citizen. And while being born there makes no difference to his eligibility, I too suspect that he was born in Hawaii and is withholding his documents because he can.
Barack knew that those who voted for him wouldn't care, or understand, or believe those who questioned his eligibility. Most young voters wouldn't have known that McCain was sued three times by Democrats who questioned his eligibility in the 2000 campaign. Now Obama can release his birth certificate if Trump should become our nominee, and embarrass him. Trump knows that. We can only guess why he is raising just the birth certificate issue. But it isn't an honest effort to question Barry's eligibility, so we should assume, with eighty percent of his campaign contirubutions going to Democrats, that Trump has chosen to help what he considers to be the winning side. That is probably why few Conservative or Republican potential contenders will touch the "birth certificate" issue. They know they could be stung. It would be a surprise to learn that any legislator does not know the definition of a natural born citizen. They simply see no gain in combating the ignorance of the public, assuaged by the phony birth certificate agitprop, and a press which will do anything to keep the public confused.