Bingo.
The circumstances suggest that he was born in Hawaii, but the biggest doubt is caused by Obama himself, by the fact that Obama and his allies have so strenuously resisted in dozens of court cases having to actually show it.
He is also a hypocrite. As a law school instructor, Obama famously claimed the Constitution should be interpreted very loosely in order to empower powerless people and to challenge the powerful.
But here he is, relying on the narrowest of technicalities, the doctrine of Constitutional "standing," which says essentially that powerless, ordinary people do not have the right to challenge the most powerful person in the country on the question of whether he has violated the express provisions of the Constitution in obtaining his present position, because the ordinary people challenging him do not have any injury different from that sustained by other ordinary people.
My own take is that he is fighting the birth certificate disclosure for fear of a "crack in the dam" and that it is his other records which would be most damaging.
In particular, I wonder how a mediocre high school student who went to a mediocre college in California was able to be admitted to Columbia University and then Harvard Law School.
I well remember those years in the university community and the initiative by many of the top American universities to become more "world class" institutions in part by expanding and broadening their base of foreign students, which policy for many of these institutions continues to this day.
At the time Lolo Soetoro adopted little Barry and the family settled in Indonesia, it appears that they intended to live there permanently. They didn't foresee that there would be marital problems and that at a later time Ann would want to send Barry back to the US to live with her parents. Barry almost certainly became an Indonesian citizen and probably got an Indonesian passport as a minor.
Later, after he had turned 18, I suspect that Barry (now calling himself Barack) realized that his Indonesian citizenship could allow him to obtain admission to a school like Columbia under their initiative to take more foreign students.
So, I suspect, he renewed his Indonesian passport, as an adult. He probably did not realize that under US law as in effect at the time, by doing this himself as an adult, he lost his US citizenship by operation of law, without anyone in the US State Department necessarily knowing anything about it.
Of course, the Indonesian government would have it in their records. That would be very valuable information for them to have. It would also be very valuable information to the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis or any foreign government negotiating anything with the Obama administration.
There are good reasons why journalists, biographers, historians and just ordinary citizens should want to learn as much about our presidents as possible, and should insist that presidents be open and forthcoming about their lives.
The corrupt mainstream media appears to have taken the lapdog approach of simply relying on Obama's own book about himself for the facts of his life. And by having written his own book, Obama (and any ghostwriter) is able to control all of the facts that are selected to be presented about him and the manner of their presentation.
That was a fabulous post.
Well said.
Occidental College is hardly a mediocre college. It is one of the oldest and most respected liberal arts colleges on the west coast, if not the country. As for how Obama got into Occidental and Columbia and Harvard Law, well, what time frame are we talking about? The 1970's? Does the term 'affirmative action' ring any bells with you? At that time every college in the country was falling all over themselves in their haste to throw tuition aid to any remotely qualified black student in the country.
Barry almost certainly became an Indonesian citizen and probably got an Indonesian passport as a minor.
Under the Indonesian laws in place Obama was not and could not be a citizen.