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To: LorenC
What makes Obama different from all those other Presidential contenders whose citizenship wasn't questioned in the same fashion?

The moment that Obama admitted, on the very same web page that you cite (http://www.fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate.html), that he had dual Kenyan citizenship, he opened this can of worms:

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s 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.”

Admitting any type of dual citizenship quickly leads to legitimate questions about Obama's natural born citizenship status.

The way to clear these questions completely is by releasing all of the Hawaiian vital records and any Kenyan ones (his father was a government official in Kenya, and I think it is highly likely that he would have filed paperwork regarding the birth of Barack Hussein Obama II), any passports both current and expired, and details of his citizenship or visa status in Indonesia.

None of this would take more than an afternoon, yet he would rather engage DoJ lawyers to spend many hours fighting the production of any documents.

173 posted on 10/13/2009 9:46:53 AM PDT by snowsislander
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To: snowsislander
The moment that Obama admitted, on the very same web page that you cite

I didn't cite any web pages.

(http://www.fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate.html), that he had dual Kenyan citizenship, he opened this can of worms:

So if this is the problem, then how does seeing a birth certificate solve anything? People regularly say that he could end the questioning by releasing his birth certificate, but here you state flat-out that nothing about his birth certificate itself can end anything.

Admitting any type of dual citizenship quickly leads to legitimate questions about Obama's natural born citizenship status.

Not so much. Whether dual citizenship exists at birth is determined by foreign law. Do you want foreign countries determining who can and can't be President?

The way to clear these questions completely is by releasing all of the Hawaiian vital records and any Kenyan ones (his father was a government official in Kenya, and I think it is highly likely that he would have filed paperwork regarding the birth of Barack Hussein Obama II), any passports both current and expired, and details of his citizenship or visa status in Indonesia.

And how would producing any of those documents address any problems with his citizenship if the problem is dual citizenship? He admits he was born with dual citizenship; that's not disputed. How would birth certificates or passport records change that?

215 posted on 10/13/2009 10:08:22 AM PDT by LorenC
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To: snowsislander
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.”

Leo Donofrio has debunked that statement. According to his research THAT citizenship Kenya/British has NOT expired!!!

546 posted on 10/13/2009 1:33:38 PM PDT by danamco
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To: snowsislander
None of this would take more than an afternoon, yet he would rather engage DoJ lawyers to spend many hours fighting the production of any documents.

And who is footing that bill???

550 posted on 10/13/2009 1:35:59 PM PDT by danamco
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