Posted on 05/15/2010 3:23:59 PM PDT by circumbendibus
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, a Republican, signed legislation Wednesday that will allow state officials to ignore repeated requests for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Why? The state has been overwhelmed with requests for the document — the stack of queries through March measures 13 inches high — and the demand is burning up staff time.
It is amazing that more than a year after the president took office, the “birthers” are still alive and kicking, trying to prove that Obama wasn’t born in the United States and is thus ineligible to be president. Nevermind the proof that he was born in Hawaii, like his Hawaiian birth certificate. Birthers say it’s not the “legitimate” birth certificate, even though Hawaiian officials, including the Republican governor, say it is. The birthers also dismiss the fact that two Honolulu newspapers printed birth announcements shortly after he was born. Anyone, after all, could have submitted those announcements.
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I believe your reading comprehension needs a bit of work as well. If you viewed the image I posted, you would see that it was not issued in 1961. It was a reprint from (presumably) microfiche in 1966. One might expect a recently issued copy to look identical, as it would be prepared from the same microfiche.
I too had to send away for a certified copy of my birth certificate twenty years ago. The State of Maryland sent me a photocopy of the original long-form certificate with an embossed seal. I have it in an envelope here somewhere.
Maybe Obama was born in Hawaii and maybe he wasn’t. I used to think he was born in Hawaii—now, after months of stonewalling by Obama’s attorneys, I’m not so sure. Now I want to know what Obama is hiding! At a minimum, Obama should be subjected to the same standard of proof applied to McCain during the Senate’s investigation of his eligibility.
If you are unwilling to apply the same standard of proof to Obama, then I respectfully submit that you are not an impartial observer to this slowly unfolding drama.
If it were a Republican President, the communists in the WH and the Media would have thrown him out of office in shackles inside a year.
OTOH, a combination of vicious Communists in power, aka the Chicago mob and balless Republicans who should confront them but wouldn't, is the reason why it ain’t happening.
If it were a Republican President, the communists in the WH and the Media would have thrown him out of office in shackles inside a year.
OTOH, a combination of vicious Communists in power, aka the Chicago mob and balless Republicans who should confront them but wouldn’t, is the reason why it ain’t happening.
I believe your reading comprehension needs a bit of work as well. If you viewed the image I posted, you would see that it was not issued in 1961. It was a reprint from (presumably) microfiche in 1966. One might expect a recently issued copy to look identical, as it would be prepared from the same microfiche.
I too had to send away for a certified copy of my birth certificate twenty years ago. The State of Maryland sent me a photocopy of the original long-form certificate with an embossed seal. I have it in an envelope here somewhere.
Maybe Obama was born in Hawaii and maybe he wasn’t. I used to think he was born in Hawaii—now, after months of stonewalling by Obama’s attorneys, I’m not so sure. Now I want to know what Obama is hiding! At a minimum, Obama should be subjected to the same standard of proof applied to McCain during the Senate’s investigation of his eligibility.
If you are unwilling to apply the same standard of proof to Obama, then I respectfully submit that you are not an impartial observer to this slowly unfolding drama.
The standard of proof that seems reasonable to me is the standard set by the Department of Homeland Security (and when this standard applied to Obama and McCain, it was the Bush administration’s Department of Homeland Security).
That standard is as follows:
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Section 7211, mandated that minimum standards be set for birth certificates acceptable for federal purposes. The Department of Health and Human Services (of which the National Center for Health Statistics is a part) was tasked with issuing the standard. The statute defined a “birth certificate” as follows:
(a) DEFINITION- In this section, the term `birth certificate’ means a certificate of birth–
(1) for an individual (regardless of where born)–
(A) who is a citizen or national of the United States at birth; and
(B) whose birth is registered in the United States; and
(2) that–
(A) is issued by a Federal, State, or local government agency or authorized custodian of record and produced from birth records maintained by such agency or custodian of record; or
(B) is an authenticated copy, issued by a Federal, State, or local government agency or authorized custodian of record, of an original certificate of birth issued by such agency or custodian of record.
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 specifically mandates three categories of minimum standards for vital registration, including standards on (1) the certification of birth certificates and the use of safety paper, (2) proof and verification of identity as a condition of issuance of a birth certificate, and (3) processing of birth certificate applications to prevent fraud.”
If a birth certificate meets the standards listed above, it should be good enough to qualify the person named as being eligible for the presidency. A birth certificate contains two pieces of information that are relevant to qualifying as natural born under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution: place of birth and date of birth.
The bet is on. You will not be wasting money, Free Republic is a great cause.
Dick Cheney can't be blamed for everything as in the proverbial "it's Bush's fault." Strange, you're not blaming anybody else.
What about the chief rats, Pelosi and Reid PLUS the DNC big wigs? We must not forget the illegal monies and bribes to keep the cover up in force. Soros anybody??
Anybody who knew that 0bagger was not eligible for POTUS and kept quiet or helped in the cover up must serve time and should be financially wiped out.
This wouldn't pay a drop of the deficit spending flood, but a country of laws should act to show that crime doesn't pay.
Dick Cheney can’t be blamed for everything as in the proverbial “it’s Bush’s fault.” Strange, you’re not blaming anybody else.
What about the chief rats, Pelosi and Reid PLUS the DNC big wigs? We must not forget the illegal monies and bribes to keep the cover up in force. Soros anybody??
Anybody who knew that 0bagger was not eligible for POTUS and kept quiet or helped in the cover up must serve time and should be financially wiped out.
This wouldn’t pay a drop of the deficit spending flood, but a country of laws should act to show that crime doesn’t pay.
Yeah, that’s good but he should have been swift boated before he was elected president because the usurper is trying to destory this country and that is a shame.
Why, James, COMPLICITY means an act associated with the commission of a crime or illegal activity. Republicrats are complicit all right.
At least, if 0b0z0 was born in HI and you say that's enough to be eligible for POTUS, then what crime was committed by 0b0z0 for which "complicity" was required?
I hope that was your humble opinion, rather than a Freudian slip! LOL!
Now, which is it?
The standard of proof which seems reasonable to you is not the one which applied to McCain’s eligibility hearing. McCain provided his long-form certificate to the Senate. There is no legitimate reason Obama should not do the same.
I wish I could see your IP address. You’re probably posting from inside the White House...Rahm, is that you?
The standard of proof which seems reasonable to you is not the one which applied to McCain’s eligibility hearing. McCain provided his long-form certificate to the Senate. There is no legitimate reason Obama should not do the same.
I wish I could see your IP address. You’re probably posting from inside the White House...Rahm, is that you?
Would you trust a document provided by Barack Obama or released under his authority to be genuine?
“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”—July 27, 2009
I live in San Diego, California and I post from here. There are really good medications for paranoia these days. I suggest you look into it.
Even John Avlon at The Daily Beast knows where this started.
I was here at FR watching Hillary’s PUMAs ask frantically for help. I was the one who found the Obama-in-Kenyon-Muslim-garb photo on an obscure African news website and posted it, only to be asked by a desperate PUMA where I found it. I gave her the link.
That is the first I've heard of such a distinction. Your basis for arguing this distinction? Link?
My own mother was a U.K. subject (still) when I was born in Indiana. You telling me I am not a "natural-born citizen"?
Excellent article written in Feb of this year!
Party Unity My Ass, PUMA, is a new one one me. Good. I hope they’re still active.
Good for you for posting the pix of 0 in Muslim garb. I am not a “wing nut”. I am interested in the truth. ;)
There is certainly one supposed 'professor of constitutional law' who could provide some paperwork for evidence, but beyond the Community Organizer in Chief's, professors' opinions usually don't carry much legal weight.
I know there have been quite a few attempts made to have a judge rule on obama's eligibility, but don't know what approaches have been tried other than gross legal incompetence. Orly has mastered it and she has enjoyed the predictable success.
I would welcome any and all states requiring candidates provide their long form BCs. One of the few great things about obama so far is state's rights battles against the Fed.
So what is with these Hawaiian Republicans? Death threats? Blackmail? Their actions are simply impossible to understand.
James is an 0bama toady, btw.
It is an ongoing research project on various threads on FR. Traditionally the founders used various legal precedent and the common understanding, as expressed in various tomes and dictionaries, is that a Natural Born Citizen is one born on the soil to two parents who are citizens themselves. One citizen doesn’t cut it. Until a few generations ago, a foreign woman marrying a US citizen was accepted as a citizen at marriage; so the citizenship of the husband conferred US citizenship upon her automatically, or naturally. I believe this changed around 1913 or so. Then the mother also had to attain citizenship herself to enable both parents to be citizens at the time of the birth of offspring for them to be NBC.
There are many lengthy legal discussions and I can post which names to do searches on or which threads. One or two people in particular have been doing incredible research with finding books that the founders studied while writing the Constitution, and constitutional professors of that era and shortly after and what has been said and understood to mean NBC.
It never meant just being born in US soil. In fact I’ve learnd that the 14th amendment does not actually grant any kind of US citizenship to those born on US soil from foreigner parents at all, it was meant to grant US citizenship to slaves and their descendents. So all these anchor babies legitmately are not US citizens at all; just a terrible and wrong application of the 14th amendment that should never have occurred.
Freepmail me if you want names etc. I’ll be in and out. Hope this makes sense...
Here’s an active research thread, not long:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2512143/posts?page=95#95
Research - Vattel & the meaning of the Constitutional term “Natural Born Citizen”
Numerous ^ | 5/12/2010 | many
No, you’re not a natural born citizen.Natural born citizenship requires ‘full and complete allegiance at birth’ ( both parents U.S. Citizens).The official definition used by Congress is CHILDREN OF CITIZENS SHALL BE CONSIDERED NATURAL BORN. U.S. Supreme court definition: CHILDREN WHOM PARENTS ARE U.S. CITIZENS ARE NATURAL BORN. IN both cases Parent(s)and Citizens(s) the pural was used implying both parents. As a U.S. citizen(naturilized by code)you have every right that a natural born citizen has except you are ineligible to be President. obama (if he was born in Hawaii) is a naturalized and is ineligible to be President. Even is he is sitting in the White House , he is NOT the legal President of the U.S.
So what is with these Hawaiian Republicans? Death threats? Blackmail? Their actions are simply impossible to understand.
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