Personally, I despise the term “birthers”. Harkens back to the term “truther”, which referred to the nut-cases that surmised that the Bush Administration was involved in 9-11.
The term is intentionally marginalizing, and seeks specifically to make well-meaning conservatives with honest questions seem like raving lunatics. I am honestly not sure on which side of the birth certificate controversy I fall — but the marginalization of honest questioning is not a good thing.
SnakeDoc
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 Kingdoms 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.
10 posted on
08/02/2009 2:40:22 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)