Posted on 06/10/2008 10:11:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Jim Geraghty takes a look at longstanding blog buzz over Barack Obamas birth certificate, which the campaign refused to release to the St. Petersburg Times in April:
We tried to obtain a copy of Obamas birth certificate, but his campaign would not release it and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public.
Has anyone seen it? Why shouldnt the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates?
Geraghty walks through various rumors now circulating in the wake of the Obama campaigns birth certificate blackout, including this one:
Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name him after his father, and his birth certificate says Barry. Perhaps the most plausible of the rumors, as Obama was known by that name through much of his childhood and young adulthood. If true, this would spur a new round of When Barry Became Barack stories a minor headache for the campaign, but hardly a major scandal.
Lest the Obama campaign start whining about this issue being an unfair distraction, John McCain underwent intense scrutiny of his citizenship status because of his birth in the Panama Canal zone, leading the Senate to declare him a natural-born citizen in April.
Sorry. No passes allowed when running for public office. Especially for President. If he's worried about privacy, he can drop out now.
Many thanks for your beautiful reply. And for your good fight against Obama.
What about his mother? Is it true that his half-sister said that everyone in the family was Muslim?
I’m not sure we know, but I could be wrong. She did marry two Muslim men, though. Maybe the half-sister meant of those remaining alive today. Neither of Obama’s parents are living.
I’m looking for a post I read earlier in the week (or over the weekend) that said Barack is part Arab. I’m having a conversation about that and would love to read it again...
Can anyone help?
Take a look at this, some of these guys have been very critical of this birth certificate. Does this look like the real thing to you?
(caution - the link goes to a rough-and-tumble anything goes forum, and it gets ugly)
http://beebuh.com/bbs
http://beebuh.com/bbs/show_topic/65892
Caution again, it is a rough place
But the real problem with this picture is that it's not even 10% the quality that clobbered Dan Rather. All I did was blow that image up 500% and shoot a print screen of it. Does it look phony to you?
No doubt about it. Did you noticed that vital statistics are also missing, like the baby weight and so forth? Curious, innit? LOL
Should we get Buckhead on the case?
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