Posted on 11/17/2009 10:40:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Congressman running for governor calls on president to produce birth certificate.
It's the question that keeps poking its head up through piles of debunking documents: Is Barack Obama eligible to be president?
U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal says Obama can dispel it with a birth certificate showing he's a U.S. native and therefore qualified for the White House.
Deal, a Republican running for governor in 2010, called on Obama on Tuesday to "put the matter to rest ... and provide the documentary evidence."
But two independent fact-checking groups and the state of Hawaii say he already has. Their conclusion: Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu.
Deal, who discussed the matter when a reporter asked about it earlier this month, was asked about it again Tuesday during a campaign stop in Savannah.
"My office, and I'm sure many other offices," the Gainesville lawmaker said, "continue to get inquiries. ... The president has the ability to put this to rest completely, and I think he should do that. ...
"It takes up my staff's time. We are constantly required to answer these kinds of inquiries. ... I'm willing to take his word for it, but I think he needs to convince those who still have doubts."
Under the U.S. Constitution, only native-born citizens may serve as president. Hawaii became a state in 1959.
Early in the campaign for the 2008 presidential election, critics of Obama argued he was born in another country.
Obama's presidential campaign posted online what it said was a copy of the document.
FactCheck.org said its staffers have "seen, touched and photographed" the certificate and concluded it's genuine.
PolitiFact said it sent an online copy to Hawaii's Department of Health and that the department responded the document is authentic.
The Associated Press has reported it received the same response from the department.
Both fact-checking groups have posted online rebuttals of contentions by Obama critics that the document is a fake.
And FactCheck.org has posted online a copy of a birth announcement it said was published Aug. 13, 1961, in the Honolulu Advertiser.
The announcement says a son was born to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama" on Aug. 4.
Several judges have rejected lawsuits based on claims Obama is not lawfully president.
In July, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed such claims as "made-up fictional nonsense."
Asked why the issue keeps surfacing, Gibbs responded, "Because, for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want."
"This question has been asked and answered, and I have no additional comment," White House Spokeswoman Gannet Tseggai said Tuesday.
Deal, due to continue campaigning in Savannah today, said he and other House members will sign a letter to Obama asking him to provide the birth certificate.
"They just want to get it off their plate," he said. "... It just needs to be put to rest."
But he did not appear eager to press the matter.
"I did not think that was an appropriate question to be asking in regard to a governor's race," he said, referring to the initial inquiry.
A reporter posed the question during what was billed as an online chat between Deal and supporters.
If Obama will "simply tell us where we should refer ... inquiries that come to our offices," he added Tuesday, "we'll do that. And we'll be satisfied."
Wow, a repub with actual balls! I’m fully expecting the treasonous Obots in the rest of the GOP to start pressuring him out though.
The more he acts Un-American, the more people will want this challenged. The 9/11 trial is just a slap in our face. Thanks for the ping.
That child may be a citizen; it doesn't follow that the child is a natural born citizen. How can you conclude the child is natural born?
The only thing Barry Zeero has produced thus far is a lot of propaganda, misdirection, obfuscation, and redirection.
He has produced ZERO as a factual accounting of his lineage.
Period.
Of course it’s a deliberate obfuscation.
And it’s “freedom of SPEECH,” not “freedom of expression.” If the Supreme Court hadn’t invented “freedom of expression,” they’d have a tough time defending nude dancing as “speech.”
I read your statement and see that your post is itself an obfuscation. Obfuscation is all you have.
It’s the self-imposed prison of leftist thinking. By the relativistic nature of their view of reality, leftists have forfeited their own access to rational discourse.
You shouldn’t be surprised or offended, it’s your chosen path. Alinsky came the closest to admitting the truth when he idolized the prince of chaos.
The Rinos are not going to like this threat of exposure one bit. They are really dead meat when it becomes clear that Obama is not a NBC and they were in on the cover-up and traitors to the constitution.
Prediction: I think one day we will all wake up and find the White House empty, Zero and the belt lady gone, wisked off to some foriegn country in hiding (just like Osamas Family after 9/11) with lawyers in DC fighting for his legal right to return to power (like Honduras).
Because the child has citizenship by birthright, not by subsequent naturalization. Duh.
Very good, but I didn't ask how you concluded the child was a citizen; I asked how you concluded the child was a natural born citizen. Do you even know there is a difference?
“Mother was a citizen” = “citizen by birthright” = “natural born citizen”. Please try to keep up with the class.
“Because, for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want.”
And for $15 and a .44 cent stamp he can put this to rest. But noooooo, lets drag it thru the courts for years and millions of dollars and wasting the courts time with all of these lawsuits.
PS. BHO is creating jobs by keeping this out there!LOL
Are you sure you’re telling the truth?
What were the laws in Hawaii at the time? Assuming O was born there.
Isn’t it true that the “citizen” mother had to be at least 21?
All of this though makes me wonder WHY Obama doesn’t just release the long form birth certificate, along with the dozens of other documents, like his LSAT scores.
We just want transparency. The Birthers wouldn’t have a point if Barack was transparent. Of course, the fact that EVERY SINGLE FRIEND of HIS is a raging lefty gives America lovers cause for pause.
Bumperoo!
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