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GOP Rep. Garrett: ‘I Agree’ That Obama Should Produce Birth Certificate
The Washington Independent ^ | November 18, 2009 | David Weigel

Posted on 11/18/2009 8:42:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s been a little while since a good confrontation between a birther and a member of Congress, but here’s one from last week: a constituent of Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) asking his congressman why Republicans won’t do anything about the “eligibility issue.” It makes for awkward viewing, as Garrett’s staff clearly wants a change of subject from an audience that seems to be fine with pushing the question. At around 4:40 in the video, the congressman finally engages.

“Obviously, there is no political solution to it,” says Garrett. “Even if the entire Republican Party was united on the issue–”

He’s cut off by another constituent. “Have him show his birth certificate! It’s as simple as that! None of this ‘talk about it, talk about it’ — just let’s see the birth certificate!”

“I agree,” says Garrett — who’s not one of the 12 sponsors of the “birther bill.”

Video after the jump:


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bho44; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; congress; gop; obama; obamanoncitizenissue
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To: SaraJohnson

Excellent post and reply


41 posted on 11/19/2009 6:38:46 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Oath keepers + The NRA = FReeRepublic (.com baby))
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To: LucyT; SaraJohnson
.... Check out the article, and comment #12.

Check out SaraJohnson's reply at #39

42 posted on 11/19/2009 6:41:42 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Oath keepers + The NRA = FReeRepublic (.com baby))
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To: SaraJohnson

Kennedy said it best -

when peaceful revolution is made impossible,
violent revolution becomes inevitable.


43 posted on 11/19/2009 6:45:16 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: taraytarah
You're not from Garrett's district are you? Maybe you should review his voting record and position statements on economics, immigration, public spending and states rights before you judge.

New Jersey doesn't have A LOT of conservative representation but we do have Scott Garrett who has shown to be one of us - conservative.

44 posted on 11/19/2009 7:26:41 AM PST by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: BP2; RummyChick
“Understand that it's INDISPUTABLE is Obama was born a Dual Citizen (at best)...”

I support your post with one exception. I fear that the FactCheck claim that Obama was “governed by the BNA of 1948” is clever trap. A trap like the trap-door over the shark tank in a Bond flick that Obama is inviting us all to stand on, IMHO!

Ineligibility due to dual citizenship alone can be easily defeated by revelation that his parents marriage was bigamous. I can just see him saying “I had no idea that my father was a bigamist and that his Kenya “tribal marriage” to Kezia actually had legal standing under the 1948 BNA. Who knew?”

Just this past week at least three major stories on Obama’s brother, Mark declare that Mark's mother was BHO Sr’s third or fourth wife explicitly acknowledging the Kezia marriage but with zero fact checking on whether there was ever a divorce from Kezia (while 11 AP factcheckers examine Palin’s book).

Obama would still lack two US citizen parents if bigamy excluded the 1948 BNA, but would not be a dual citizen, making ineligibility more difficult to prove. John Jay specifically cited dual citizenship as the reason for the NBC clause, not lack of two US citizen parents, due to being a legally fatherless child.

45 posted on 11/19/2009 8:05:59 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: BP2
Having gamed the system to get himself inaugurated even after explicitly claiming dual citizenship, I believe that only proof that Obama was born outside the US and that he was aware of and corruptly hid evidence of that fact can result in his removal by existing constitutional means.

This is a high bar.

Even if the HI vital records show report of a home birth reported by grandma, absent proof of a birth elsewhere that meets the federal rules of evidence, the HI home birth report is sufficient to provide legal presumption of an HI birth.

Judge Carter even went so far as to say in effect that if HI has accepted the legal validity of a birth report and Kenya records show a Kenya birth, a US court would not likely prefer a foreign record over the HI record.

To dismiss Kreep and Taitz’s case Carter had to decide whether plaintiffs could prevail “even if all of their claims were true” and Carter seemed to indicate that even if Lucas Smith's Kenya BC were validated, it wouldn't be sufficient to overcome HI’s validation of Obama’s HI birth. Judge Carter ignored and precluded the possibility that evidence obtained in discovery could tilt the court in favor of the Kenya BC over the HI vital recort.

I think Judge Carter is wrong and could be reversed on this point in a different circuit, but it shows how high the bar of proof must be that the HI vital record has an opening that would allow for a Kenya or other non-US birth.

Fortunately for our side, Obama’s desperate attempts to hide the HI vital birth record points to problems that allow for a foreign birth. In contrast, Obama shows no fear at all of the dual citizen issue, even advertising the issue.

46 posted on 11/19/2009 8:42:29 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: BP2; urtax$@work; SaraJohnson; Seizethecarp; rocco55; thouworm; rxsid; GOPJ; Fred Nerks; ...
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Check out #33.

Then, #39.

Also, #45 and #46.

47 posted on 11/19/2009 9:08:59 AM PST by LucyT
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To: BP2

I don’t recall ever seeing that registration of gradebook. Is that new or did I just miss it. Some very odd things on that, very odd.


48 posted on 11/19/2009 9:43:26 AM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This will soon become an avalanche that will grow so that no one can ignore it.

Watch him.

49 posted on 11/19/2009 9:47:06 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Seizethecarp; All

Judge Carter even went so far as to say in effect that if HI has accepted the legal validity of a birth report and Kenya records show a Kenya birth, a US court would not likely prefer a foreign record over the HI record.

Well, that depends on what is in Obama’s official Birth Record file ...

Is it a true LONG-FORM, "CertificATE of Live Birth" signed by a M.D. or midwife?
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... or some type of "Certificate of Late Birth" with modifications, even as late as 2005?
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... or affidavits signed by Ann Dunham or even Obama himself after the birth ...

... leading to a "Certificate of Hawaiian Birth" (permitted for births before 1972)?
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OR perhaps even NOTHING at all (a lost, invalid or incomplete "root document" — remembering that Obama's computer-generated CertificaTION is UNIQUE, stating
"Date FILED by [Local] Registrar" VS "Date ACCEPTED by State Registrar").
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The intricacies of Today's and prior versions of HRS §338, changes in Social Security requirements (in 1972), and Hawaii Department of Health internal policies lend to many, MANY different possibilities that are not obvious to the casual observer ...


50 posted on 11/19/2009 9:50:03 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: LucyT

Thank you for the ping Lucy. Interesting, very interesting.


51 posted on 11/19/2009 9:52:03 AM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Non-Sequitur; All

> This will soon become an avalanche that
> will grow so that no one can ignore it.

>> Watch him.

Never underestimate a man-child narcissist who needs the
ACCEPTANCE from others like the rest of us need air to breath.


Obama's making QUITE the case for the Court of Public Opinion to doubt his Loyalties,
without the need for any Judge subpoena or Grand Jury order:
Kowtow.jpg King A bow KSM


52 posted on 11/19/2009 10:14:01 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Fee; LucyT
Throughout history you will find prosecutions are put aside to preserve stability of a nation during a crisis. Today we have a financial meltdown and currency crisis. Huge debt threaten to destroy the US and world economy.

This is exactly the INSTABILITY we are trying to mitigate or eliminate.

The longer 0b0z0 stays in the WH, the more INSTABILITY we accumulate to the point of a meltdown. Be it financial, National Security, race relations, etc. If critical mass is reached, all of the above will occur and chaos will reign.

To avoid INSTABILITY by policies that lead to INSTABILITY is exactly like 0b0z0's policies of borrowing, spending and DEBT to get us out of, you guessed it, DEBT.

The only solution to our problems is to nullify everything he did or intends to do, think Copenhagen, ASAP. With RATs super majorities, there's only one way out; kick him out of office before the voting booth becomes too late at best or ACORNed at worse.

An un-American ghost of a POTUS isn't the American way, is it?

53 posted on 11/19/2009 10:14:11 AM PST by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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To: little jeremiah

Well said indeed jeremiah!! CO


54 posted on 11/19/2009 10:46:02 AM PST by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what medicine is to a wound - HEALING!!)
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To: Seizethecarp

> John Jay specifically cited dual citizenship as the reason
> for the NBC clause, not lack of two US citizen parents, due
> to being a legally fatherless child.

Do you have a good reference for this — was it before the
signing of the Constitution or when he was Chief Justice?

55 posted on 11/19/2009 10:47:33 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama sure knows how to stonewall.


56 posted on 11/19/2009 10:49:38 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Markos33

#28 - that post is spot on FRiend!! CO


57 posted on 11/19/2009 10:50:59 AM PST by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what medicine is to a wound - HEALING!!)
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To: SaraJohnson

Well said Sarah!! CO


58 posted on 11/19/2009 10:59:32 AM PST by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what medicine is to a wound - HEALING!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone knows.

Out there — perhaps in Hawaii, perhaps in D.C., maybe Chicago, maybe Seattle — someone knows who this man is.

He has protected him, kept quiet. Perhaps he truly believed in him. Perhaps he is a good American who was, like many others, just hoodwinked.

And he’s waking up.

Someone knows. He will eventually produce the evidence.

How can we help him, protect him, embolden him, prod him to do the right thing?

Who is he?


59 posted on 11/19/2009 11:17:52 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah
Who is he?

Soros.

60 posted on 11/19/2009 11:29:23 AM PST by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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