Obama Should End The Birth Certificate Controversy

The Bulletin ^ | 11/26/2008 | The Rev. Michael Bresciani

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11/26/2008

Obama Should End The Birth Certificate Controversy

By The Rev. Michael Bresciani, For The Bulletin

The question of whether Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya thus disqualifying him to run as a presidential candidate will not go away. It is like the little mushrooms that appear every morning under the tree, they keep coming back. What should the president-elect do?

It is not fair to label those who want answers as racists, disillusioned right-wingers, conspiracy nuts or any other convenient appellation thereby asking them to simply shut up. Lawsuits filed to require that an official vault document be produced have come from African-Americans, democrats and a host of constitutionally concerned citizens.

In fact one You Tube offering about the matter garnered 750,000 views alone and the total viewing of videos and articles on the subject is somewhere near 3 million to date.

The problems with the birth certificate offered on the extreme left Web site the Daily Kos and a few other Internet sites are too many to ignore. The short list is first that the document is not signed. Secondly, it has no seal. Third, is that the security border doesn't match similar documents from the same time period. Other objections are that the race of Mr. Obama's father is listed as African. In the early '60s the State of Hawaii listed African- Americans as Negroes.

What is missing from the document is the doctor's signature and physical characteristics at birth that every original birth certificate reveals.

Some interested party's have submitted the internet document to the scrutiny of Adobe and graphic experts who all agree the document is highly questionable or a complete fraud. Is it? Who knows at this point? What is far more intriguing is the resistance being thrown at uncovering the true vault document. This is what is spawning suspicion and doubt.

Attorney Philip Berg has filed a writ of certiorari that should force the president-elect, the DNC and co-defendants to produce the document in accordance with law. Ambassador Alan Keyes has pending suits and a total of 17 others are submitting their quests to various levels of state courts.

Here are the important reasons President-elect Obama should cooperate and put the whole matter to bed as quickly as possible.

Because he can. With a simple request to the Hawaii Bureau of Vital Statistics he can quash all doubt and get on with his administration.

He will remove the suspicions of millions of Americans, republicans, democrats and independents alike. If ignored it could cause a constitutional crises unlike anything ever seen in this country. It would make questions of chads and incomplete voting cards look like a kindergarten problem by contrast.

It will indicate that Mr. Obama means business when he takes the oath of office and declares that he will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It will give confidence to many of his opponents who may not agree with all his policies, but want to know that he is a completely honest man with the country's best interest in mind.

It would put to rest the assertion that he is an elitist. All Americans must submit proper documentation of birth to get Social Security cards, driver's license, security clearance and passports. He should be willing to carry out the first and the least of all his campaign promises contained in the slogan "Yes, we can." In America we can and according to law "we must."

We will all sleep better at night!
It is a surprisingly simple matter to make it all go away but it is presently entrenched in court battles and suspicion. In a full page ad in the Washington Times Nov. 17, 2008 three questions are asked. Was Barack Obama born in Kenya? Is he really a citizen of Indonesia? Does the Constitution still matter?

Good questions, we're listening.

The Rev. Michael Bresciani is an author of "An American Prophet and His Message" and columnist for several online and print publications.

©The Bulletin 2008

[rovenstinez]

How did he get a passport?

[Ronin]

It keeps on coming back to one simple fact that has been mentioned countless times. There is no way in Hell he would be willing to pay between 750,000 and 800,000 dollars to keep it hidden if there wasn’t something on the thing that he felt needed to be hidden.

[Cicero]

Just produce your real birth certificate, Obama.

[exist]

Maybe Congress should end it by impeaching him.

[apocalypto]

Obama should produce the birth certificate. Everyone who runs for president should produce one.

[AGreatPer]

If Obama is telling the US public to “stick it in your ear” on this subject. What else is he not telling us?

[Red_Devil 232]

Obambi has his birth cert. which is all he needs for a Passport. What he has not done is prove that the BC he has would prove he is a “Natural Born Citizen” which is required for the Presidency .... but not for a Passport.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Passport? Hell, I needed my kid’s birth certificate to get a driver’s license. Funny though tha he’d have a “certificate of live birth” since he doesn’t seem to approve of live births. He won’t produce the proper document because he can’t in my opinion. He’s a fraud from the ground up.

[kjo]

Of course you are right...but the simple fact is the media will not cover this...and if they don’t, then it’s not news.

[Eagle Eye]

Impeachment is silly and ignorant.

If he cannot prove his qualifications he never takes office plain and simple.

[wolfpat]

I have a question that I haven’t seen addressed.

Doesn’t the fact that his mother was an American citizen make his birth place irrelevant?

[Riodacat]

Jeezuz H, can we give it a rest already.
We can't be that gawd damned stupid as to believe there is a chance in hell that the majority of the country would ever allow Obama to be removed from office regardless of his actual place of birth...

[DooDahhhh]

No, she did not meet the requirements of living in us and age, I think.

[KevinDavis]

He could be impeached from the office of the President Elect..

[Spatha]

I’ll pass on what I read on another board.

The theory is that Obama, being a Constitutional scholar, feels that ordinary citizens lack standing to challenge anything in or about our Constitution.

Therefore he is using this ‘birth certificate’ deal as a test case to verify his theory.

In other words, only the courts could challenge him on this issue, and since the court has decided that Mr. Berg et. al. do not have standing, and the court has stated that it doesn’t feel the challenge is really necessary, because it would cause a great deal of pain and suffering to all those who have voted, it looks as if nothing will be done.

Soooo, Obama will be free to say that The Constitution is a ‘flawed document’ after all, and change it as he sees fit, or do away with it altogether

I know, it’s a reach.
But stranger things have happened in this election cycle!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

IIRC, there’s a requirement that, if a child is born out of the country to parents only one of which is an American citizen...that citizen, in this case the mother, had to reside within the area of the U.S. proper for a period of 5 years after her 16th birthday. Since Obama’s mother was 18 at the time of his birth, she nor he would not qualify if he was born in Kenya.

[RummyChick]

This is a new one for me:

“In the early ‘60s the State of Hawaii listed African- Americans as Negroes.”

[AnalogReigns]

A NATURALIZED citizen has no trouble getting a passport. Of course naturalized citizens are ineligible to be president—the question is whether he is a natural born citizen.

Obviously he must have the real vault birth certificate somewhere—it’s just worth a million dollars (and counting) to Obama up to this point to avoid producing it.

[wolfpat]

Technically, he hasn’t been elected yet.