SOME GOOD QUESTIONS More questions and this time, they're really good questions.
I have little interest in getting into the middle of the Obama birth issue, but yesterday Paul Hollrah over at FSM did so and he believes the issue can be resolved by having Obama answer one simple question: How could a young man arrive in New York in early June 1981 without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly, only one month later, find the money for an around-the-world trip?
And, once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York, Jakarta, and Karachi, what passport was he carrying when he passed through U.S. Customs and Immigration?
The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, as concerned citizens, they must have the answers.
The ongoing debate over Obama's citizenship can now become a very short and simple one.
Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20? A : Yes, by his own admission.
Q: What passport did he travel with? A: There are only three possibilities.
1) He traveled with a U.S. Passport,
2) He traveled with a British passport,
3) He traveled with an Indonesian passport.
Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled on a U.S. passport in 1981?
A: No, it is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981.
Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he was traveling on either a British or an Indonesian passport.
If he were traveling on a British passport, that would be proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, and not in Hawaii as he claims.
And, if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport, that would imply that he relinquished whichever citizenship he had held, British or American, prior to being adopted in 1967 by his Indonesian step-father .
Whatever the truth of this matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008..
Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as indicated by his speech before Congress, and his disastrous spending plan that Congress has passed, the sooner we learn the truth, the better.
If you don't care that your President has not proven that he is a natural born citizen, and may be in clear violation of the Constitution, then just delete this and go back into your cocoon. If you do care, then send this to as many as you can!
Fred L . Languell Lcdr, USN, Ret
” Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled on a U.S. passport in 1981?
A: No, it is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department’s “no travel” list in 1981.”
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Sigh. One more time: There was no “travel ban” to Pakistan in 1981. This stuff (almost always copy-and-pasted) keeps reappearing on these threads. I’ve even seen copy-and-pasted stuff that I’ve written, the person apparently unaware I’m debunking the story!
1981 NYTimes travel section article on visiting Pakistan:
Letter to NYTimes from Reagan’s Ambassador to Pakistan, welcoming more tourism to Pakisstan:
U.S. State Dept. travel advisory on how 30-day tourist visas available at airport:
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/travel/cis/southasia/TA_Pakistan1981.pdf
Not that this will make any difference. These threads will still be clogged with the “Pakistan Travel Ban” months from now.