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Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery
wnd ^ | November 25, 2008 1:00 am Eastern | Janet Porter

Posted on 11/24/2008 11:19:03 PM PST by Red Steel

The media bought it. The voters bought it. And now some in Congress are resisting the idea of congressional hearings because they believe that Barack Obama's "birth certificate" has been posted online.

Not so.

What was posted was not a birth certificate, but something that resembles a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB, which, even if authentic, does not prove "natural born" U.S. citizenship. You see, in Hawaii, a Certification of Live Birth is issued within a year of a child's birth to those who register a birth abroad or one that takes place outside a hospital.

It's Rathergate all over again with more amiss than a 1970s Selectric typewriter. But before I tell you what the experts found, let me ask you a few questions:

1. If you were a natural born American citizen and had it within your means to quiet all the lawsuits and questions with proof, would you do it?

2. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you spend thousands of dollars to fight the legal cases against you, or would you simply answer the legitimate question of whether you meet the constitutional requirements for office?

3. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you forge a document called a "Certification of Live Birth" and tell the public it was a real "birth certificate"?

If someone were to violate the law by manufacturing a forgery in order trick the public, would that be enough evidence for members Congress to conduct hearings and for a court to issue an order for the critical records, including the original long-form birth certificate (signed by the doctor) to ensure that the

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1 posted on 11/24/2008 11:19:03 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Marker


2 posted on 11/24/2008 11:24:05 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Red Steel
The COLB is redacted. The COLB says if there is a redaction the COLB is not valid. Is "African" a race? Why would such a document be either presented or considered?

3 posted on 11/24/2008 11:26:53 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: LucyT

Ping!

Btw, add me to your list please :)


4 posted on 11/24/2008 11:33:56 PM PST by Txngal
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To: Red Steel
1. If you were a natural born American citizen and had it within your means to quiet all the lawsuits and questions with proof, would you do it?

But the topic never really caught the public attention. Those who were watching weren't Obama voters anyway. Thus he could ignore it at no cost to him.

2. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you spend thousands of dollars to fight the legal cases against you, or would you simply answer the legitimate question of whether you meet the constitutional requirements for office?

Obama had more money than the Republicans. If he got into a dollar for dollar fight with us, we would fall behind with every dollar spent.

3. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you forge a document called a "Certification of Live Birth" and tell the public it was a real "birth certificate"?

If someone were to violate the law by manufacturing a forgery in order trick the public, would that be enough evidence for members Congress to conduct hearings and for a court to issue an order for the critical records, including the original long-form birth certificate (signed by the doctor) to ensure that the

Was there a direct path from the Obama campaign (or even Obama himself) of the COLB? Or did Obama have plausible deniability of it so if it was exposed as a forgery he could just claim "It's not ours. We can't control what friendly bloggers post about it."

If he does have a real birth certificate, we never pushed him to the point where he had to pull it out and show us. No court has ordered it and the lack of it never caused any problems. Even if it did start causing problems, if he had one he could just pull it out and make us look silly and make the issue go away.

I don't know if he has a real one or not, but he was never weakened by not showing it, so his not showing it isn't evidence that it didn't exist. If he started getting hurt in the polls but still didn't show it, then we might be able to claim that was evidence of it not existing.

The easy way for this issue to be handled is for the Supreme Court to order Obama to turn over a certified copy of the birth certificate. You have four definite votes against that, four possible to likely votes for it and once again Justice Kennedy turns out to be the most powerful man in America as the likely deciding vote.

5 posted on 11/24/2008 11:40:10 PM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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To: Txngal

Sure - you’re added Txngal.


6 posted on 11/24/2008 11:41:32 PM PST by LucyT (.......................Don't go wobbly now.......................)
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To: Red Steel

For your consideration: An opposing view from a conservative point of view which says the birth certificate issue is a net negative because it makes conservatives appear to be foolish.
http://hawaiifreepress.com/Main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/92/Barack-Obama-Born-in-Hawaii.aspx


7 posted on 11/24/2008 11:43:44 PM PST by jamese777
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To: jamese777

Bookmarked.


8 posted on 11/24/2008 11:50:02 PM PST by EternalVigilance (AIPNEWS.com - America's Independent Party: "Peace through superior firepower!")
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To: KarlInOhio

“Was there a direct path from the Obama campaign (or even Obama himself) of the COLB? Or did Obama have plausible deniability of it so if it was exposed as a forgery he could just claim “It’s not ours. We can’t control what friendly bloggers post about it.””

Yes, there was. It was posted, and certified as correct, on Obama’s own Fight the Smears website - set up to separate the truth from the lies, or so they said!


9 posted on 11/24/2008 11:50:29 PM PST by Nipfan
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To: Red Steel

This whole issue of birth has become so strange and convoluted it defies explanation and begs a full investigation.

Why would the Republican Governor of Hawaii state that she had seen a birth certificate if she had not? Why were those records sealed? Why not produce the very document that would end any doubts about his birth, once and for all?

I don’t have any answers just more questions. It is very hard to prove a negative, especially when it is not possible to obtain the document that would be that proof. The election is over so this is not some grand scheme by Obama to make his opponents look silly when he produces the document.

No, there is something amiss here and if not, one would certainly have to question the reasoning skills 0bama possesses. No man could run for and win the Office and be that possessive of his own privacy. Especially a completely media-driven campaign in which he offered very little but his personality. Here’s wishing he had been so enamored with the privacy of his, fellow citizen, Joe the Plumber.


10 posted on 11/24/2008 11:51:58 PM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: KarlInOhio

“If he does have a real birth certificate, we never pushed him to the point where he had to pull it out and show us. No court has ordered it and the lack of it never caused any problems. Even if it did start causing problems, if he had one he could just pull it out and make us look silly and make the issue go away.”

Oh, he has one all right. And he’s already spent about $800,000 to prevent having to show it to us.

I believe that if just one court forces him to produce it he’s finished.


11 posted on 11/24/2008 11:53:01 PM PST by Nipfan
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To: jamese777

The COLB your article mentions is an obvious fake. That tears the guts out of the writer’s position. And that’s just for starters.


12 posted on 11/24/2008 11:56:57 PM PST by EternalVigilance (AIPNEWS.com - America's Independent Party: "Peace through superior firepower!")
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To: WildcatClan

Ya know in his book Obama said he had a copy of his birth certificate and he kept it in a box along with some other memories of his father so why doesn’t he just produce that one and laugh at those of us who are asking to see it?


13 posted on 11/25/2008 12:03:03 AM PST by missanne (If we lost the war in Iraq, who won?)
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To: Nipfan

as most of who are informed and have been following this story since mid-summer or so 2008,the cat was out of the bag when the “BC” was posted on DailyK and Barack-ho-humma-hamas’website


14 posted on 11/25/2008 12:04:46 AM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Good Morning Mr & Mrs Scooter and All The Ships At Sea)
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To: Nipfan

I have a feeling it will never happen. The USA is on a highballin’ train to socialism , with the almighty O at the controls


15 posted on 11/25/2008 12:05:11 AM PST by KTM rider (keep thy powder dry, gird thy loins, and brace for the winds of change)
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To: Red Steel; All

This story seems to be picking up some steam. Whaddya think folks? Will this go anywhere? Anyone.....?


16 posted on 11/25/2008 12:30:00 AM PST by no dems (George W. Bush: America's last White President. ACORN will see to it.)
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To: Red Steel

Plus, there’s the forged draft card.


17 posted on 11/25/2008 12:36:19 AM PST by IreneE ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy." - my paraphrase of Thomas Aquinas)
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To: Red Steel; All

18 posted on 11/25/2008 12:40:20 AM PST by musicman
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To: Red Steel

do something about it otherwise this will look like another API video story


19 posted on 11/25/2008 12:41:47 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: Nipfan
I believe that if just one court forces him to produce it he’s finished.

The BC was questioned yesterday with a deputy press secretary at the W.H. and got NO answer, and the PS closed all other Qs and walked off the podium!!!

No media outlet and many top radio talk show hosts will NOT touch it either, why???

20 posted on 11/25/2008 12:42:05 AM PST by danamco
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To: jamese777

thank you


21 posted on 11/25/2008 12:43:55 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: jamese777

That opposing point of view is rife with untruths and misunderstandings of fact.

And what makes you say he is a conservative?


22 posted on 11/25/2008 12:46:17 AM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: Nipfan
Oh, he has one all right. And he’s already spent about $800,000 to prevent having to show it to us.

I had wondered whether he had lawyers on the job on this one -- sounds like a pretty serious effort. Where did you come by the figure for the legal bill?

23 posted on 11/25/2008 12:51:23 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Red Steel

Until he produces proof of his natural born citizenship, I must refuse to acknowledge him as “President”. It is an easy thing to do, if he can do it. Somehow I think he can’t.


24 posted on 11/25/2008 12:52:58 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: jamese777
...the birth certificate issue is a net negative because it makes conservatives appear to be foolish

In the hermetically-sealed, liberal-controlled MSM, conservatives always look foolish, especially when they have a point or an issue. That is the nature of polemic offered as journalism.

So why does that amount to a reason why conservatives should back off when they think they have a legitimate issue?

By that reasoning, conservatives should have given up on sovietized medicine and universal gun bans a long time ago.

25 posted on 11/25/2008 12:55:31 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Right here. It was mentioned in a couple of other threads. It sounds quite reasonable, too, when you consider that there are about 20 ongoing cases, although I think some have been rejected.

This site is keeping track (click Related Lawsuits for a list):

http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx


26 posted on 11/25/2008 1:03:37 AM PST by Nipfan
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To: Nipfan
Thanks for the link. I'll send it to a couple of relatives who will refuse to look at it.
27 posted on 11/25/2008 1:20:36 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: missanne
he kept it in a box along with some other memories of his father

Maybe it is a Kenyan BC? :)

28 posted on 11/25/2008 1:21:03 AM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I read - I think today - that he has three law firms engaged in these lawsuits.

But that assertion wasn’t sourced, so what do I know. I’ve seen that figure many times; also not sourced.

I’ve been uncontrollably reading these birth certificate threads for days and I really need to stop!


29 posted on 11/25/2008 1:23:35 AM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

And you’ve had good posts: I go over and read the world net daily.

The Birth Certificate is a Red Flag on anyone, anyone, anyone, anyone...the world net daily raked O over some stretches alright, but the BC question begs an answer for anyone. We all have to respond to such questions or questions similar to this.


30 posted on 11/25/2008 1:59:37 AM PST by RGPII
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To: lentulusgracchus

don’t be diverted from more productive issues


31 posted on 11/25/2008 2:05:03 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: Red Steel

Obama is acting all weird about producing proof of eligibility to be president.

That’s really all I need to know about this.


32 posted on 11/25/2008 2:22:20 AM PST by sazerac
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To: ari-freedom

I can’t think of a more productive issue than getting Obama kicked off the podia for being illegible, and the Dems put away for election fraud.

The only defenses they have are
* a piece of paper they haven’t got
* the silence of the media
* and (with respect) FReepers who think that defending the Constitution is somehow an unproductive issue.


33 posted on 11/25/2008 2:32:50 AM PST by agere_contra (So ... where's the birth certificate?)
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To: danamco; All

“No media outlet and many top radio talk show hosts will NOT touch it either, why???”
>>>>>>>>>>>...................
FEAR..the fix is in, the face of the ruling class has become exposed..too many issues from the planned wall street meltdown crisis to global warming to open borders on and on the ruling class has become very brazen indeed.
welcome to the new world order.
USSA


34 posted on 11/25/2008 2:49:15 AM PST by shadowgovernment (From the Ashes of a Republican rout will raise a Conservative Party)
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To: sazerac

Obama is acting all weird about producing proof of eligibility to be president.

Obie is weird but he will never produce it and if the real one comes out and shows he is not a natural born, Pelosi and gang will just change the rules.


35 posted on 11/25/2008 3:47:32 AM PST by blueyon (Every one will have their 15 mins under the bus)
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To: Red Steel
It seems that there is a systemic error in failing to qualify a candidate for some office that has pre-qualifications prior to putting him/her on the ballot.

Not surprising, felons run for office frequently - and sometimes get elected by the ignorant electorate.

This country is very sick!

36 posted on 11/25/2008 4:25:03 AM PST by GregoryFul
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To: Red Steel


37 posted on 11/25/2008 4:27:46 AM PST by pookie18 (Jindal-Palin or Palin-Jindal '12)
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To: Red Steel

Watch how Obama inserts himself everyday since the popular vote.

He had a press conference yesterday and plans one today under the guise of his “economic plan.” This is all staging to him.

His continued “campaign promises” make the news everyday. There are at least 2-3 press releases per day. They say nothing but he is in our face.

He knows he is not eligible to become President under the constitution but he is trying to distract the media and the public into already accepting him as President.

The press in print, radio and television are already calling him President-Elect. He is not. Even our own conservative radio talk show hosts have incorrectly refer to him President-Elect. This is part of his continued manipulation. Wake up Laura, Sean, Rush, etc.

He continues to paint an anxiety-ridden picture of our current economic condition which is only made worse by his continued depressing rants (brainwashing has begun.)”Rub the resentments raw...Alinsky.” He wants to make us feel that we are in a very weak, desperate and vulnerable position. Don’t rock the boat mentality. This way Obama will have a ground swell of support in case SPOTUS dares to interject with any question of his legitimacy as President.

Now we have certain people in the media wanting him to become President now with a fever urgency. This is all smoke-and-mirrors to try and circumvent anything the SPOTUS has planned. Remember he voted against Chief Justice Roberts and filibustered against Justice Alito. He has little respect for some of the Justices and we know how he feels about the Constitution.

It is disgusting how easily the media is manipulated. His “chief of staff” (Ramen noodles..I call him) the other day said, “in a crisis there are certain things we can do that we would otherwise not be able to do. We need to take advantage of this.”

This corrupt team is so power hungry. It is disgusting. Obama will continue to use this current economic circumstance that he and Congress have created to carry out all his self-serving plans.

Also, watch groups like Acorn get more federal money. Citigroup cut a deal with Acorn recently. Obama is also looking to steal the next election so he will continue to spend taxpayer money to buy his votes for 2012. A real tragedy.

I don’t have any answers but Obama is trying to distract everyone away from his lack of eligibility.

Will the SPOTUS fall for it?


38 posted on 11/25/2008 4:28:13 AM PST by joygrace
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To: WildcatClan
Why would the Republican Governor of Hawaii state that she had seen a birth certificate if she had not?

Didn't say that the birth certificate announced a US citizen, did they?

39 posted on 11/25/2008 4:40:31 AM PST by GregoryFul
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To: Red Steel

As much as I wish Obama wasn’t going to become president, it’s just plain illogical to think that he was really born in Kenya, for several reasons:

1) There’s no reason why Obama would have had to live his entire life pretending that he was born in Hawaii if he were really born in Kenya.

2) He would have had to expect to become President of the US his whole life, which he clearly did not (he wrote about his crack dealer, for heaven’s sake! His autobiographies are far too candid to be the work of anyone who was planning on being president... although unfortunately his unsavory connections ultimately did not make a bit of difference).

3) If he had been born in Kenya, he would have certainly used that as street cred when he was trying to build up his identity as a black man. There’s no reason why he would have kept that secret from all his black-supremacist friends and associates.

It’s incredibly hard to believe that Obama has harbored an ambition to be President his entire life, and saw the need (along with his parents) from a very early age to suppress the truth about his birthplace. I think that’s a stretch too far.


41 posted on 11/25/2008 5:05:04 AM PST by jane_finn
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Obama needs more time to acquire a better forgery artist before his court cases. These last two documents have been pathetic!

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/exclusive_did_n.html

http://polarik.blogtownhall.com


42 posted on 11/25/2008 5:05:05 AM PST by dianed
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To: Vancouverite
According to the person in charge of the documents, Obama was born in Hawai’i.

Re-read that sentence. It says no such thing.

43 posted on 11/25/2008 6:00:46 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Nipfan

Thanks for the site of related lawsuits against Obama. Have you also seen this one:

http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244


44 posted on 11/25/2008 6:10:41 AM PST by real_patriotic_american
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To: Red Steel

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137876/posts

The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08
Tulsa Today ^ | Monday, 24 November 2008 | Joan Swirsky

Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 9:38:43 PM by ckilmer

The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08

By Joan Swirsky
Monday, 24 November 2008
Analysis: Last week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda’s #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. “The report has not been confirmed by the State Department,” they all said, but they reported it anyway.

Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three “anonymous” insiders of Sen. McCain’s campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. He – and dozens of others who picked up the story on other channels – never identified, or even verified, the sources of the quotes, but they reported them anyway.

Contrast these shabby examples of “journalism” with the legions of identifiable, verifiable and credible sources who for months have been investigating the disturbing allegation that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency because he has failed to meet one of the three requirements that the U.S. Constitution mandates, specifically that he provide proof of his “natural born” U.S. citizenship.

What follows is a partial list of people and organizations that have challenged Obama’s eligibility. Further on I will comment on how egregious the media’s failure to cover this story has been. And last, I will speculate on the reason for the cover-up of this full-blown scandal.

Attorney Philip J. Berg, former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania and a longtime Democrat partisan, sued Obama and the Democratic National Committee for what he alleged was the DNC’s failure to vet Obama, and Obama’s failure to provide an authentic and verifiable U.S. birth certificate. The suit was dismissed as “too vague…” Berg filed a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct.30, to force Obama to produce his birth certificate. On Nov. 3, Justice David Souter rejected Berg’s emergency appeal for the court to halt the tabulation of the 2008 presidential election results, but set a schedule for a response from Obama, the DNC and all co-defendants on or before Dec. 1. Berg claims to have a tape recording of Obama’s Kenyan grandmother saying that she was present at Obama’s birth in Kenya, along with his half-brother and half-sister. Here is his website.

According to WorldNetDaily, blogger Jeff Schreiber said a second case was presented to the Supreme Court on the same issue, i.e., the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has waived its right to respond to a complaint brought by attorney Philip Berg, possibly – among other reasons – because they liked their odds of Berg’s petition getting denied. Berg said that if the FEC filed not solely on its own behalf but “on behalf of the DNC and Barack Obama too, it reeks of collusion.”

Dr. T.B. Bradley, a forensic psychologist, stated, as part of the Berg case, that, “Upon reading all of the books written by or about Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. aka Barry Soetoro (hereinafter Obama) Applicant discerned that Obama was not a natural born citizen of the United States or if he was a natural born citizen that he had lost his citizenship when his biological mother married Lolo Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia. Obama then became a citizen of Indonesia as a result of his mother’s expatriation of herself and her son, by self declaration on legal public educational records that Obama was formally known as Barry Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia [and] was not US Constitutionally qualified to hold the Office of the United States Senator from Illinois or the Office of the President of the United States.”

Author, radio host, blogger, and Chicago attorney Andy Martin filed a suit in Hawaii’s Supreme Court to compel Gov. Linda Lingle to release a certified copy of Obama’s vital statistics record. His request was denied. On Nov. 18, he petitioned a judge in Hawaii for access to Obama’s original 1961 birth certificate, and reported that “the judge reserved judgment.” But when he arrived back in the states, he learned that Judge Bert Ayabe had dismissed the case.

Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes filed a suit with the California Secretary of State asking that the state’s 55 Electoral College votes not be cast on December 15 until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. Keyes’ suit was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, along with California Electors Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson. The action states: “Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States, and, thereby, his election declared void….(a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.” Former California Secretaries of State have reviewed background documents to verify the eligibility of candidates. In 1968, the Peace and Freedom Party submitted the name of Eldridge Cleaver as a qualified candidate for POTUS. Then Secretary of State, Frank Jordan, found that according to Cleaver’s birth certificate, he was only 34 years old, one year shy of the age needed to be on the ballot. Mr. Jordan removed Mr. Cleaver from the ballot. Cleaver unsuccessfully challenged this decision to the Supreme Court of the State of California and to the Supreme Court.

Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan, a retired 23-year veteran of the Army, National Guard, and Air Force filed another suit in North Carolina, which claimed Obama should not have been on the state’s election ballot because his citizenship is in doubt.

David M. Neal of Ohio filed a suit in Warren Common Pleas Court to force the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.

Cort Wrotnowski of Connecticut asked the court to order Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, to verify Obama’s citizenship before allowing the candidate to appear on the state ballot. The case was denied.

Steven Marquis filed a suit Washington State Superior Court, calling for Secretary of State, Sam Reed, to determine whether Obama is a citizen before Election Day, claiming the Hawaii birth certificate reveals neither the hospital where Obama was born nor a doctor’s name the baby’s footprint. The case was denied.

Rev. Tom Terry of Georgia appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court the day before the election to determine authenticity of Obama’s original birth certificate and his qualifications to be president. Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter denied Terry’s request for an injunction against Secretary of State Karen Handel.

Author Jerome Corsi, who has written extensively about this case, traveled to Hawaii and Kenya. He learned that the Certification of Live Birth that the Obama campaign posted is, according to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, not the same as a Certificate of Live Birth, which authenticates Hawaiian birth.

Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. In November 2004 she said he was born at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, but in February 2008, she said he was born in the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. Before the election, the Internet site, WorldNetDaily, retained a private investigator in Hawaii to visit both hospitals, but he reported that sheriff’s deputies were stationed at both hospitals to fend off inquiries.

Leo C. Donofrio a retired attorney, started a website and filed a suit in New Jersey on November 3, asking Secretary of State, Nina Mitchell Wells, for an emergency stay prohibiting Obama, Sen. McCain, and Socialist Worker’s Party candidate Roger Calero, from appearing on New Jersey’s ballot, claiming all three are not “natural born citizens.” On Nov. 6, Supreme Court Justice David Souter denied Donofrio’s application. But the case has now entered the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas has decided to send it to conference on December 5th! This means that only 10 days before the Electoral College votes, the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet privately to discuss Donofrio’s case.

Douglas J. Hagmann, director of HomelandSecurityUS.com, has reported that 17 lawsuits in 12 states are challenging the eligibility of Obama to become the next President of the United States.

Numerous activist groups have undertaken letter-writing campaigns to the Supreme Court Justices, members of the Electoral College, and elected officials, as well as sending urgent appeals to the White House and the Department of Justice.

Websites like Citizens for the United States Constitution, We The People, , America Must Know, and Faith2Action have sprung up in passionate defense of our Constitution’s integrity. The last of these has even posted the names and addresses of Electoral College members from each state, as well as an ad in The Washington Times.

Dozens of petitions, like this one, have been circulated.

And dozens of mostly-conservative writers (including Devy Kidd and Miichelle Malkin), bloggers and journalists have written about his strange case and potential Constitutional crisis, as I have in a series of articles – here and here and here and here.

Coverage of the above by the media: Zero.

A DEAFENING SILENCE

It is no mystery that the leftist media have refused to mention this potentially looming Constitutional crisis in virtually all of their print and electronic coverage. Having shilled for Obama for the past two years – dismissing his longtime radical associations, obfuscating his radical voting record, and taking a pass at their jobs of vetting a presidential candidate – their failure to cover the most explosive story of the 2008 campaign speaks volumes about collusion of the highest order.

Then there are the late-night comics, as well as snarky “humorists” like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, who take pride in being irreverent and “outing” both people and subjects that others avoid. Not a word.

But what about the failure of the powerful conservative media – how to explain their total blackout of this story? Let’s look at their reactions:

Fox News: Total Silence. Did the healthy shares that Saudi Arabia bought of Fox influence the network’s non-coverage of this story? After all, it’s no secret which candidate the Saudis endorsed! We know that TV shows, including Fox, are on a seven-second delay, the better to bleep out offensive or inappropriate material. Doesn’t it strike Fox viewers as strange that not one of their outspoken guests, even once, mentioned this story? Who warned them not to?

Rush Limbaugh: Total Silence. Why has the Excellence-in-Broadcasting’s “Dr. of Democracy” – the man who eats sacred cows for breakfast – not touched this story?

Mark Levin: Total Silence. Why has this popular radio host, commonly known as “the Great One,” abandoned his well-deserved reputation as a Constitutional scholar to studiously not address this Constitutional issue?

Laura Ingraham: Total Silence. Here is another radio powerhouse and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas taking pains not to mention this case…not a word!

Bill O’Reilly: Total Silence. Yes, the guy who claims he’s “just looking out for the folks”…voiceless!

Sean Hannity: Total Silence. The iconic radio and TV host who tackles every controversial subject under the sun…missing in action!

I could go on and on, but you get the picture. The very people – the so-called loyal opposition – who should have been shouting this story from the rooftops for months on end went mute. Ordinarily they would be the first to tell you that our Republic has no more precious document than the U.S. Constitution – a document that set the stage for the greatest experiment in human freedom since the beginning of recorded history. People like me – and multi-millions of others – are aware of what happens when the “salami tactics” of tyrants are employed in the service of leftwing ideology.

First, there is a charismatic character promising “change” and “hope,” but who changes his tune once in power. Second there is a whittling down of the laws of the land and the arrogant dismissal of the documents on which the nation was founded. Third there is the blacking-out of all media that disagree with Dear Leader’s message. And fourth there is the rounding-up and incarceration – or worse – of all dissidents.

This is not theory. This is history. But while both left and right media thought it appropriate to comment at length about Obama’s seven-page for those seeking work in his administration – a probing that makes a Pap Test, Questionnaire mammogram, colonoscopy, and endoscopy in one visit seem mild by comparison – not one of these cowardly journalists has asked the simple question: Mr. Obama, where is your birth certificate?

Or were they not cowards but patriots?

SCROUNGING FOR ANSWERS

I’ve written several books, not one of them fictional. And thousands of articles, not one of them based on sinister suspicions or conspiracy theories. But the case of the U.S. media’s complete non-coverage of this major story has gotten me to speculate on what – or who – may be behind this phenomenon. What force could be so powerful as to silence our country’s putative guardians of free speech – the titans of the Fourth Estate?

Perhaps the mystery goes back to 2004, when President Bush won his second term in office and in his first press conference in the White House said that he had “earned political capital and intended to spend it.”

Then – suddenly and inexplicably – he went into a year-long hibernation. He rarely appeared in public and gave no major speeches. Finally he reemerged – albeit weakly – in late November or early December of 2005

Could it be that shortly after the president’s reelection, he and major government officials received highly credible evidence from America’s ruthless Islamist enemies that they had a number of devastating (probably nuclear suitcase) weapons – set up and ready to be activated in as many as six-to-10 of our major cities – unless he (the president) tacked left and played nice for the following two years?

Was America taken hostage?

The president, one could speculate, had only two choices: (1) play “chicken” and possibly sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans and the destruction of major American cities, or (2) opt for the lesser of two evils, the second being to pave the way for a dangerous Trojan Horse – qualified or not – to capture the White House.

Could it be that the media blackout of the most explosive story of any presidential election in American history has been choreographed by none other than the current POTUS – the most powerful man in the entire world? This would certainly explain why President Bush has not “been himself” since January 20, 2005. It would also explain why the all-powerful media have taken his marching orders – including the New York Times, which takes particular pleasure in undermining and sabotaging the president, even when it comes to national security issues.

If this happened, it would have had to involve the highest echelon in our intelligence services, who might have paid personal visits to publishers throughout the United States, as well as to top TV and radio executives, who themselves would have passed down iron-clad orders – to their anchors, broadcasters, even comedians – to follow the blackout order or face Draconian consequences.

On November 4 – Election Day – the Dow was above 9,000. It is now plummeting, suggesting that even the “globalists” among us prefer tax cuts and capitalism to tax hikes and not creeping but galloping socialism – or what the esteemed Dr. Jack Wheeler insists is fascism.

Buyers’ remorse is in the air. America has been hijacked. What a price we will pay if the Supreme Court and the Electoral College abandon their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution by capitulating – as the media have – to our enemies. God Save America!


About the author:
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.

Last Updated ( Monday, 24 November 2008 )


45 posted on 11/25/2008 6:33:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (This is the link to Leo Donofrio's new website: http://thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com)
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To: jamese777
Well, that settles it.

How foolish to question the Daily KOS or even Obama’s campaign. The audacity of these conservatives - to not accept these documents from the Daily KOS and Obama operatives themselves as the simple truth.

You're so right - once the Supreme Court reads that editorial from that Hawaiian newspaper, these cases will evaporate faster than Obama’s grandmother was thrown under the bus.

46 posted on 11/25/2008 6:40:05 AM PST by motoman
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To: Vancouverite

So you joined this site today just to tell us not to bother with this?


47 posted on 11/25/2008 6:50:30 AM PST by redk
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To: Vancouverite; pissant; SE Mom; STARWISE; LucyT; Calpernia; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; PhilDragoo; All
Vancouverite Since Nov 25, 2008

Who has the Viking Kitty list to expunge vile trolls.

Congratulations on being one of the best, paid trolls to defend your beloved Zer0 the Magical 0re0 re his birth lies. This bs was very good: "Obama was born in Hawai’i. ‘Nuff said, so let’s move on from this unproductive line to something that has a chance to bear fruit. Continuing to flog this dead horse will only allow more perjoratives along the line of “paranoid”, “tin-hat-wearers”, and “wingnuts” to be tossed at the Conservative movement." ---However, the use of the phrase "Move On!" was a little too obvious.

This is the daily lament from trolls and those with their own personal identity problems whenever their hero, the Zero‘s birth issues are posted on Free Republic:

"I'm so depressed and embarassed that Free Republic Freepers are demanding that Obama prove he is eligible to be president! I will not be able to function today! So I will post nonsense about how stupid Freepers are about Zer0‘s lack of birth honesty."


48 posted on 11/25/2008 6:58:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (This is the link to Leo Donofrio's new website: http://thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com)
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To: KarlInOhio
Or did Obama have plausible deniability of it so if it was exposed as a forgery he could just claim "It's not ours. We can't control what friendly bloggers post about it."

Nope!

It's posted on his own "fightthesmears.org" website which he controls.

49 posted on 11/25/2008 7:10:46 AM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: ari-freedom
don’t be diverted from more productive issues

More productive issues would be what? And according to whom? Y'know, with 300 million people in the US, more than one issue can be handled at a time. I can't think of anything less productive than everyone doing the same thing. Division of labor is how things get done.

50 posted on 11/25/2008 7:11:02 AM PST by Eroteme
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