Posted on 08/25/2008 7:42:37 PM PDT by neverdem
If fastcheck says it’s authentic, I believe them. They are non-partisan AFAIK.
There are plenty of things to criticize Obambi about that are legitimate. Pushing this story I believe is similar to the people trying to claim that McCain isn’t a citizen because he was born in the Panama Canal-relying on deception.
Something to read in the morning ping
They’ll look at the Hawaii birth cert and the newspaper entry, and throw it out. That will be that. I bet it does not even get to discovery.
Unless someone can prove somehow that Barack was born in Kenya , good luck, then they’d need to prove that Stanley Ann was not a citizen.
The article is wrong on one count- the Constitution does not require that the president be born in the USA, but insists that the president be “natural born”.
Two US citizens can have a child in Uzbeckistan and that child will be a US citizen.
The Constitution does not define “natural born”.
Nobody can touch, examine and photograph an original birth certificate except a government official. It is kept by the state/city and only certified copies are given out, specifically to the person whose birth it records.
Anything else is a copy - period.
More Obama BS and lies.
Definitely NOT UNBIASED.
AFAYK is not very far. FactCheck is part of the Annenberg Challenge, part of which Obama and William Ayres belong(ed) to.
“We think he was born in Kenya.”
Let’s go on a safari.
I don’t think that the democRATS would be so brazen as to run somebody who could be disqualified by demonstrable ineligibility.
I put noting past the d’RATS but those are some pretty high stakes, don’t you think? If they lose and Obama is not eligible, they are absolutely finished as a political organization. This would be an unrecoverable error.
Welcome to Free Republic. Thanks for demonstrating that this story is getting legs, because it has started attracting newbies like you.
The same Annenberg.org which owns/runs/affiliated with "factcheck.org" that is connected with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired and which Ayers co-founded?
LoL!
Yeah. I used to believe google would honestly report results of a search, too.
Last month half a million image results to "Obama birth certificate" disappeared in the space of a few days.
FactCheck is wholly owned by the Annenberg Foundation.
Obama and Ayres ran the Anneberg Challenge program in Chicago.
No bias here, no sirieee.
I dont think that the democRATS would be so brazen as to run somebody who could be disqualified by demonstrable ineligibility.
***It’s not done out of brazenness, but out of stupidity. Also out of trust — they trusted Obama when they asked about the rumor. Once the higherups in the demorat party realize they’ve been lied to on something as big as this, Obambi will likely pay a high price.
Yeah, but one parent was UNQUESTIONABLY a Kenyan.
Guess what? Citizenship goes with the FATHER'S citizenship if the kid is born in the father's country.
You wrote: “ then theyd need to prove that Stanley Ann was not a citizen.”
I am suspecting you have not read the other 70 threads on this. The law at the time of Obama’s birth did not give citizenship to children born out of wedlock to only one young American parent when born overseas.
Essentially, it prevented illegitimate children of servicemen and foreign woman from claiming citizenship. If Obama was born in Kenya or Canada he is likely not a citizen.
I believe that is the operative word. Stanley Ann was a minor and Obama Sr. was not a U.S. citizen.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.