Posted on 08/11/2009 7:23:48 AM PDT by pissant
Last fall, American voters were given a choice of two major candidates for the presidency – John McCain and Barack Obama.
Both of them faced questions about their constitutional eligibility to serve.
McCain was not born in the United States. He was born in Panama to two parents who were U.S. citizens, his father serving in the Navy. To make his case for eligibility, he submitted all required paperwork to U.S. Senate investigators.
Obama's story was different. He claimed to have been born in Honolulu and provided to select news organizations and an outfit called FactCheck.org, associated with a former Obama employer, the Annenberg Foundation, a copy of what he claimed was a Hawaiian "certification of live birth," an unsigned document that provided no information about the hospital in which he was born and the doctor who supervised the birth.
The U.S. Senate found, in a unanimous vote, that McCain was eligible because his parents were both U.S. citizens.
But no investigation was conducted by the U.S. Senate or any other official government agency into the eligibility of Obama. Instead, Obama was found to be eligible only by FactCheck.org and the select news organizations provided with the documentation by the Obama campaign.
In other words, it was a total breakdown of the electoral system. Nobody asked Obama to prove he was eligible. He was indeed certified as eligible by one prominent government official – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, not acting in her official role, but rather acting in her private role as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
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Or, as Lewis Black describes them: "Two buckets of sh**."
Prove it.
NO, a veteran, war hero, and senator with many years of experience versus a nonentity.
He should be dragged out by the scruff of his neck.
I feel I’m way past just the B.C. Any credentials from this guy anywhere? Any? Then to be called names for asking when he was running...Liberal-progressives make me ill most every day.
When someone says “it seems unlikely” it is not a statement of fact. There is no proving “seems like”. It is an opinion. I happen to agree with that opinion. And if I clould prove it, I would become quite famous.
There’s a slight factual error here. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, at a time when that was a US possession. He wasn’t born somewhere else in the country of Panama. So he was born on American soil, though not in a state.
And I said, prove it.
I don't agree that Obama, or whatever his name is, should be sitting in the white house without proof of who he is available for all to see.
Anyone can be president now. All they need is a forged COLB document from any state, and a person saying yep, that document is official.
I just can't wait to see our next president. Hope he at least speaks better english than AwwhNolt.
Maybe his name will be Bono
A RINO
I would love to see absolute proof of Obama’s birth....and also what kind of student he was..
okay, a RINO. If it’s a RINO versus a Communist, I’ll take the RINO.
That could very likely be the case! LOL!
Yes... thus, he was the least foul-smelling bucket of ****.
The provinence issue has been lost in the whole argument.
Can anyone say that they have actually seen this "copy" that he provided? To the best of our knowledge, the only "copy" that has circulated is the scanned .jpg first published on Daily KOS, then Factcheck.org, and finally on Obama's campaign website.
Scanned copies are hardly proof, expecially when the chain-of-custody is so backwards. It would be a start if they could just produce the paper copy from which the scan was made.
Sure. His biological father *could* be a US citizen and that may be why he doesn’t sweat the eligibility issue.
But what is on that BC might be so embarrassing or damning that he will go to any length to prevent its release.
Is that what they call it in polite company? lol....we'd prefer grabbing and dragging from a bit lower!
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