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Go `Birthers' go! (MSM starting to make arguments to cover Obama even if born in Kenya!)
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Posted on 07/21/2009 6:32:52 PM PDT by pissant

The increasingly popular term for them is "Birthers" -- the indignant, frantic, seething fringe Republicans who are persuaded that there is strong doubt about where President Barack Obama was born and, therefore, strong doubt about the legitimacy of his presidency.

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Even assuming Obama was born in Kenya despite the considerable evidence that he was born in Hawaii, that five-year provision in the law was intended, pretty clearly, to prevent a person from claiming U.S. citizenship when he was born in another country to parents who were long-time residents of that country, simply on the grounds that one of his parents was still, technically a U.S. citizen.

Say "Jim" is born in the U.S., lives here until he's 11, moves with his parents to Germany, comes of age there, marries a German woman and, when he's 25, has a child. As a matter of national policy and common sense, we don't want Jim's child to be able to claim automatic U.S. citizenship -- he is born in Germany to long-time residents of Germany. Declaring him a U.S. citizen is fundamentally absurd.

The thinking behind the law seems to be that if Jim spent at least five of his 10 years after age 14 in the U.S. before moving to Germany, he has been sufficiently "Americanized" that his children shall be considered U.S. citizens.

It's fairly clear to me and, should push come to shove, will be fairly clear to the courts and to Congress, that the law was not intended to be a "gotcha!" moment used to deny citizenship to the children of life-long U.S. citizens in their late teens who happen to be out of the country when they give birth.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho; bho44; birthcertificate; certifigate; colb; kenyabelieveit; larrysinclairslover; obama; truthers; usurper
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To: pnh102
Here is Gov (commerce secretary elect)Bill Richardson saying in Spanish that Obama is an "immigrant." (So he understands understands "immigrant" issues.)The context suggests that by "immigrant" bill richardson means "illegal immigrant"



Here in plain English is the Kenyan Ambassador saying that Obama is born in Kenya.



Obama's own flacks deny that obama was born in Kenya but do acknowledge that he had a dual citizenship up until 1982

from obama's own site factcheck.org(this is cached as the original was taken down) by way of fightthesmears on his dual citizenship at birth

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”(Someone will want to cache the above web page because it will be taken down eventually. Ah here is the cached version.) Here is a better cached versionHere's a third Kindly cache these too.

Here is the problem with fighthesmears narrative: We already have recorded that Obama's wife michellle said Obama's mother was "very young and very single" when obama was born. British law at the time of obama's birth only gave citizenship from the father to the son in the case that the father is married to the mother:ie the son is legitimate. See wikipedia 2.4.3Since obama's parents were NOT married -- how did obama get his British/Kenyancitizenship? Its not unreasonable to think that he got his British/Kenyan because he was born there--and not because of his parentage. As to the famous newsclipping in Hawaii that states that bama was born there in 1961--there is evidence to suggest that the house named as the place where Obama was born -- was lived in by someone else besides his parents. Once again, Just one piece of evidence could easily be dismissed. It is the accumulation of evidence that is troubling.
It is well established that Obama did travel to Indonesia and Pakistan in 1981. In a tape of his speech at this April 6, 2008 San Francisco Fundraiser, Obama discloses his trip to Pakistan (40:17) when he was in college. On what passport did he travel?

A last arguement for baraks people might be that of course the Kenyans would have an interest in claiming that obama was a "son of the soil" both as a matter of pride and as a matter of bucks coming their way. However, if Obama was not born in Kenya -- then why wouldn't Obama release his original long form birth certificate. Instead of just releasing his long form birth certificate he has paid his lawyers 1 million dollars from campaign contributions since Sept 08 to squash the suits brought on the issue. On top of that according to the LA Times since the election -- the Kenyans feel that Obama has gone out of his way to snub/ignore/distance-himself them. The Kenyans are putting up reasons like perhaps they are insufficiently perfected for him to notice them--but here in the USA we have seen Obama throw a number of embarrasing people from his past under the bus. Obama is going to Africa. Will he visit Kenya? Nope. Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?

The thing has become a joke in washington. Joe Biden Joked at the Gridiron Dinner in March 09.

After mentioning one of the Republican speakers for the evening, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was born in Austria and that one of the Democratic speakers, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, was born in Canada, Biden chortled: "Folks, this is going to be Lou Dobbs' worst nightmare. "

From there, Biden transitioned to the birth certificate controversy.

Les Kinsolving asked the Presidential Press Secretary Gibbs to release the long form birth certificate. The press secretary suggested mockingly that the copy of the short form birth certificate supplied online is Obama's long form birth certificate. Not so.(However, as of july 2009--eight months after the election-- Hawaii changed their rules so as to make the short form legal.There is even evidence to suggest the online "certification of live birth"--ie not a birth certificate--obama presented... was a forgery. See the press conference out take here.

The White House 'dialogue' site has to be scrubbed regularly because of long form birth certificate eligibility posts.

Rush Limbaugh joked several times on his radio show on 6/10/09: "What do God and Obama have in commen? (Answer) Neither have birth certificates."

Even the liberal LA Times on June 30, 2009 in an article dripping with contempt--conceded that the thing Obama's people posted online was "technically... not a birth certificate".

A bill in the US congress with five backers currently -- calls for future presidential candidates to be required to show a birth certificate. The library of congress has recently started including the Obama File in its historic collections of Internet materials related to the Presidential Transition during a Time of Crises. The Obama File holds that Obama's birth certificate as presented online is bogus.
61 posted on 07/21/2009 6:54:40 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: pissant; Polarik; justiceseeker93; freekitty; Faith; unkus; flat; blackbart.223; BossLady; TXRed

This BS won’t fly with millions of Patriotic Americans that believe in our Constitution. Gonna get ugly!!!


62 posted on 07/21/2009 6:54:58 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: del4hope
At least Biden will “inadvertantly” tell us the truth....

LOL oops.
63 posted on 07/21/2009 6:55:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: conservativegramma
Wish they would start to address the underlying issue here that you cannot be natural born with a non-citizen father.

That point needs to be hammered home.
64 posted on 07/21/2009 6:55:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: tbpiper
A detroit radio station called the Kenyan embassy after the election of Obama. After a a few minutes they get through to the ambassador of Kenya.

The ambassador of Kenya says that obama was born in Kenya and that his birth place has become a national shrine.

Listen to the recording here

The quote is around 12:35, so if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, you can jump ahead.
The transcript reads:

Radio Jockey: President elect Obama's birth place over in Kenya -- is that going to be a national spot where he was born

Ambassador Peter Ogego: its already an attraction. his paternal grandmother is still alive

Radio Jockey:But his birth place...they'll put up a marker there

Ambassdor Peter Ogego: It would depend on the government. Its already well known.

Here is an abridged Utube version of the the radio interview. So you can hear just the relevant parts.

It can be reasonably pointed out that the DJ was trying to entrap the Ambassador and that the Ambassador fell into his trap.
However, if you listen to the long version of the radio interview --you’ll notice he used the same strategy on two different occasions and the ambassador gently brushed him off.

First, he tried to force the ambassador to sing the Kenyan national anthem. The ambassador referred him to the kenyan website.

Second he tried to push the ambassador into saying something about maybe Kenya becoming the 51st state. Again the ambassador said that Kenya was a sovereign country. ie No.

He used the same technique on the question of Obama’s birth place. This time the ambassador did not brush him off. Rather in answer to the question as to whether Obama was born in Kenya --he says "It is well known."

Because the ambassador answered no in the two previous examples -- you can't say that the ambassdor was either a fool or ill advised.

Finally, you might ask well doesn't he know that saying Obama is born in Kenya would make trouble for Obama? The answer there is why should he be concerned? He has heard no suggestion in the mainstream media that there might be a problem there. So to say what is already well known--as he says--would be no problem.

Here is a utube video of Ambassador Peter Ogego speaking at a conference. Ambassador of Kenya H.E. Peter Ogego To verify that the voice on the radio is Ambassador Ogego-- compare the radio voice with the DJ to the voice on the Utube that goes with Ambassador Ogego. Ambassador Peter Ogego is introduced a bit after minute 18..

They are the same.


Subsequently, the Kenyan ambassador said that he meant Obama's father was born in Kenya. However, when pressed about Obama's birth place:

"I don't know," he said with a tone of irritation. "You should ask your government. I know his father is Kenyan."

However, that's not what the original transcript suggests. clear="all" /> Finally, there is a Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae which is part of the Berg case. The Bishop says pretty much the same thing as the Ambassador.

"Additionally, it is common knowledge throughout both the Christian and Muslim communities in Kenya, that contrary to news media propaganda here in the United States, US Senator Barack Obama is a Muslim and not a Christian, and that he was born in Mombasa, Kenya and not in the State of Hawaii as falsely purported by the Obama campaign for presidency of the United States."

While you cannot impeach the ambassador's character, you can impeach McCrae's character. After all, he's just an itinerant preacher. But McCrae has been to Kenya. Still that makes two people who say that it is common knowledge in Kenya that Obama was born in Kenya.
Then of course there is a video of Obama's grandmother saying that Obama is born in Kenya
There is a case to be made that Obama mother didn't mean Obama was born in Kenya but rather that he is a "son of this village". However, witnesses insist that she said she was present at obama's birth in Kenya. If taken alone, perhaps she could well be ignored. However, her take is in keeping with others both high and low.

Again here is a pdf transcript of Kenyan National Assembly on Nov 5, 2008, the day after Obama was elected. Over and over again there are references to Obama being a "son of the soil" of Kenya and a Kenyan. On page page 3275 there is this passage:

HOUSE SHOULD ADJOURN TO DISCUSS ELECTION OF MR. BARRACK OBAMA

Ms. Odhiambo: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is not on this issue. I stand on a point of order under Standing Order No.20 to seek leave for adjournment of the House to discuss the American presidential election results.

(Applause)

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President-elect, Mr. Obama, is a son of the soil of this country. Every other country in this continent is celebrating the Obama win. It is only proper and fitting that the country which he originates from should show the same excitement, pomp and colour.



Again. It is not the one thing. Rather it is the tide.

In July 2009 a Ghanian newspapersays of Obama that ""For Ghana, Obama's visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American president on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth," The American Thinker explains here why Obama's short form released by fightthesmears is not sufficient for Hawaii. There is evidence to suggest that the home named in the newspaper archived article as the place where Obama was born -- was lived in by a couple not Obama's parents. Even the Honalulu Advertiser has a different address of record for Obama's father than the one listed newspaper birth listing. The hospital where Obama claims he was born--refuses to either confirm or deny that he was in fact born there--and that despite the fact that Obama has said he was born there in writing--and presented the hospital a memo to that effect...right after he was elected. What's more newspaper accounts of his birth place him in other hospitals around Hawaii. None of these will comment either.

Again. It is not the one thing. Rather it is the tide.

The Obama administration could put this to rest by releasing his long form birth certificate. But he doesn't. Instead of just releasing his long form birth certificate he has paid his lawyers over 1 million dollars from campaign contributions since Sept 08 to squash the suits brought on the issue. Why bother. The Arnold would have run for president long ago and likely won if he were a "natural born" american. He's not. He's naturalized. So he can't run. And he knows it. (though there were some trial balloons sent up a couple years back about changing the law--that went nowhere.)

Like the Arnold, Obama looks to be a naturalized citizen--but maybe he's not even that. Here's a footnoted timeline of obama's life 1961-2008. Its especially helpful to look at 1961 and 2008. Of interest is this: Interesting timeline with footnotes of obama's life.

of note

On April 10, 2008 Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduces Senate Resolution S. Res. 511 to “recognize that John Sidney McCain is a natural born citizen.” The resolution is allegedly meant to clarify that McCain is eligible to be President even though he was born in Panama. Because McCain’s parents were both Americans and he was born in Panama because his father was stationed there while in the military, existing law already covers McCain and he is eligible to be President. McCaskill’s resolution thus serves no purpose – except that language is included to try and provide a “blanket cover” for other foreign born candidates without military backgrounds, in order to enable Obama to be eligible to be President. This is the language that Obama inserted “Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President;” This Clause has no particular relevance to McCain [The language is inserted by Obama.][301,303]

301# http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/obama-born-in-kenya-new-information/#more-3844

303 # http://watchdog.net/b/us/110/sr511

Obama's Senate efforts to airbrush his past were augmented by his top Intelligence Advisor in March 2008. Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach. Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March [2008] for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July. The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies. During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation. Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information. In this video of Obama's reaction to the break in...he says twice that his reason for being concerned about the matter is not that he is concerned about what the records may reveal about himself...but rather etc. One denial is ok. Two denials in short order is of a piece with the other anomolies in his record.
65 posted on 07/21/2009 6:56:14 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: RummyChick
.But this brings up a marriage that was invalid if Obama Sr was already married. I don’t know when Daddy got married to his bride in Africa.

He was already married to an African lady.

66 posted on 07/21/2009 6:57:33 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: cripplecreek
At least Biden will “inadvertantly” tell us the truth....

Think maybe he did with that six months into the presidency, this young president will be tested....hmmm, it's been six months and this thing is starting to boil over....

67 posted on 07/21/2009 6:58:42 PM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: ExTexasRedhead
It already is "ugly".

Way too ugly to my liking.

My friends here in Japan are even AMAZED at the abject left-wing, communist turn that America has taken in the extreme under only six months of this imposter in the Oval Office. It is emerging in open conversations in Tokyo recently. I get for example, "what in the hell is going on with you Americans these days and your Obama!?"

68 posted on 07/21/2009 6:59:13 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Wanted Bumper Sticker: "Hey! America! How's that Obama thing working out these days, hmmm?")
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

I doubt it.

I would be pleased as long as he’s out of power, personally and financially destroyed............ and serving time at GITMO.


69 posted on 07/21/2009 7:01:53 PM PDT by Gator113 (I live in "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Imam Obama told me so.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I thought there was Obamania in Japan even worse than the U.S.? Who are they to talk.


70 posted on 07/21/2009 7:02:11 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Squash the fascist insect that preys upon the lives of the people -- FUBO!)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight; DMZFrank
Will Barry Soetoro actually be tried for treason when this is proven?

I'll settle for totally discredited and removed from office. As some have said, DMZFrank, you can't try someone for treason if he's not a citizen.

71 posted on 07/21/2009 7:03:15 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: pissant

I love it. It makes the liberals and the fake conservatives mad. I love these holly bloggers getting their panties in a bunch ripping us like they do Coulter and Palin and Bachmann. Hot Air etc..


72 posted on 07/21/2009 7:05:44 PM PDT by Brimack34 (I hate people that hate Palin)
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To: pissant

Wow. Not only do we have a “living” Constitution according to the leftist kooks, we have a “living” U.S. Code: “well, even though Obama is technically ineligible, that isn’t really what the law meant.”


73 posted on 07/21/2009 7:05:44 PM PDT by GnL
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To: pissant
Oh I love these parts of the article:

The Birthers' theory ...

The whole thing is so nutty that conservative pundit Michael Medved was quoted in Politico as wondering if the Birthers weren't, in fact, the victims of "a very big conspiracy to make conservatives disgrace themselves."

The only ones that have disgraced themselves are the COWARDLY LAPDOG journalists and ALL OF OUR CONGRESSMAN AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICES!

NOT ONE JOURNALIST CAN PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF WHAT HOSPITAL BHO WAS BORN IN!

NOT ONE JOURNALIST CAN TELL YOU THE STREET ADDRESS OF HIS PARENTS!

NOT ONE JOURNALIST CAN TELL YOU THE NAME OF THE DELIVERING DOCTOR!

All these cowardly journalists do is produce ad hominem attacks against people who love the constitution!

74 posted on 07/21/2009 7:06:35 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Red Boots

If Obama was already married then the marriage was not valid in the US . Would this mean he was born out of wedlock? One more twist to the bizarro commie’s heritage. One would need to see the law back then.

Here is the current law

Birth Abroad Out-of-Wedlock to a U.S. Citizen Mother:

A child born abroad out-of-wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother may acquire U.S. citizenship under section 301(g) of the Act if the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the child’s birth, and if the mother had previously been present in the U.S. or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year.


75 posted on 07/21/2009 7:07:00 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: pnh102
>"I don't understand why 0bama simply doesn't make his birth certificate an open record"

The easiest reason why is, he doesn't have an American BC, but a Kenyan one.

76 posted on 07/21/2009 7:07:08 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
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To: HerrBlucher
Yes, true, it was unbelievable, but it is indeed beginning to turn now here in Japan and people are increasingly questioning this Obama, where he came from, what he intends for US-Japan relations, a host of issues.

I dont defend their quackiness at all in intially drinking the Obama-aid in a mass, unquestioning manner. I was one right in there trying to convince others about this guy, long ago. NOW it seems more and more listen. It is apparant the damage this fellow is doing is opening more eyes.

77 posted on 07/21/2009 7:08:02 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Wanted Bumper Sticker: "Hey! America! How's that Obama thing working out these days, hmmm?")
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To: pissant

>And executed for treason.

And those in the government who give the traitor “aid and comfort” thereby becoming traitors themselves. Let Obama become a fatal political leprosy.


78 posted on 07/21/2009 7:08:13 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: pissant; All
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79 posted on 07/21/2009 7:08:51 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: missnry

One of many reasons I can’t stand the ignorant Medved. People told him time and again that McCain was to squishy to engender conservative enthusiasm, yet Medved continued on his Mccain/Amnesty crusade.


80 posted on 07/21/2009 7:09:17 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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