Posted on 08/23/2010 7:28:47 AM PDT by IbJensen
Just who exactly is this man posing as President of the United States? That’s a question being asked by a growing number of Americans.
In fact, a recent poll by CNN — a news organization that has been downright gushing in its praise of Barack Obama — showed that six out of 10 people are uncertain the President was even born in the U.S. And that includes about one-third of all Democrats.
It’s troubling that so many question Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President but that so few of the elected class and those of national prominence will even broach the issue. It demonstrates what a superb job Obama’s team and the Democrat party have done in casting those who question his status as a natural born citizen as the lunatic fringe.
In fact, if you are a “birther” — a term coined by the mainstream press to disparage those who doubt Obama’s eligibility to hold office based on his citizenship — even so-called conservative icons like Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck consider you a nut.
All this proves is that the elitists who shape messages are a clique interested not in seeing that the U.S. Constitution is upheld, but in maintaining their power and protecting their own. This was demonstrated once before, when the House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton for lying to a grand jury, but the Senate voted 100-0 not to remove him.
When was the last time the Senate was unanimous on anything? Democrats and Republicans never agree unanimously. The fix was in from the beginning.
So, too, is the issue of Obama’s citizenship and eligibility. The fix is in, even though the evidence that he is not a natural-born citizen, and therefore ineligible to hold the office, far exceeds evidence that he is.
The Republican governor in Hawaii says a birth certificate exists but she has sealed access to it, thereby eliminating one avenue of determining whether he was born in Hawaii, as he says, or in Kenya, as Michelle Obama, several of Obama’s Kenyan relatives (his paternal grandmother, half sister and half brother) and a couple of Kenyan officials have said. And for you Obama sycophants, don’t even bring up the certificate of live birth (COLB) posted online as proof. The COLB was available to anyone. It is not a legal document, does not list the attending physician, does not include his fingerprints or footprints, could not have been used to obtain his passport and is only a diversion to a weak-minded press and public.
Earlier this year a senior Honolulu elections clerk went on local television and said that it was common knowledge among election officials that no official birth certificate — he called it the long-form birth record — exits in Hawaii, despite what Governor Linda Lingle has said.
The whole situation remains a muddle, just as Obama and his handlers want it. Documents disappear. Other documents crop up — some that cast more doubt on his story and some that seem at first glance to support his claims but simply serve to send the discussion on a tangent. And Obama fights disclosure at every turn, sending agents from the U.S. Justice Department out to block all efforts at obtaining his records.
Thankfully, one news organization is doggedly pursuing the story. Joseph Farah and his reporters at WorldNetDaily (WND) hammer on the Obama eligibility story relentlessly, slowly chipping away at the facade. Some other conservative, fearless publications and websites are also digging for the truth and opining on the eligibility question.
Yet despite a total blackout from the main stream media on the subject of Obama’s citizenship, 60 percent of the American public still doubt Obama’s story that he was born in Hawaii. As Farah says, that means the birthers are winning.
There are some things we do know — or can surmise — about Obama, thanks to WND, some other publications and Obama’s own book, Dreams From My Father.
The man who would ascend to the Presidency in 2009 was born to Ann Dunham on Aug. 4, 1961. The father is purported to be Barack Hussein Obama, a Kenyan student in Hawaii who married Dunham on Feb. 2, 1961.
Some have speculated that Barack Obama II’s (this is how Obama’s name is listed on the COLB) biological father was actually Frank Marshall Davis, a black friend of Ann Dunham’s parents and the man the young Obama would later claim in his autobiography was his mentor. The speculation about Davis — a radical communist — as possibly Obama’s biological father stems from a book Davis wrote under a pseudonym in which he describes having sex with an under aged white girl. The idea is plausible, as Davis was a good friend of Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, Ann Dunham’s parents.
The irony is that this is one nativity story that would cement Obama’s claim to be a natural-born citizen. If Obama Sr., a Kenyan citizen, is Obama’s father, Obama is not a Constitutionally described natural-born citizen because one parent is a non-citizen and the other was a minor and therefore unable to bestow citizenship on the child — if Obama was born in Kenya, as many believe.
As lawsuits have claimed, there is no evidence — beyond the afore-mentioned COLB — that Obama was born in Hawaii. Both Obama and a half sister have named two different Hawaii hospitals as his birth place, no records exist that Dunham was hospitalized in Hawaii and no physician or nurse has stepped forward to claim they assisted with the birth.
Obama’s supporters have pointed out that newspaper articles published in August 1961 in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin prove Obama was born in Hawaii. The address listed was the address of Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, Ann Dunham’s parents. WND has reported that official documents show Obama Sr., had a residence at another address at the same time. And neighbors of the Dunhams told WND they don’t recall a white woman with a black baby ever living next door. College transcripts indicate Dunham moved with her new baby to Seattle within days of Obama’s birth and enrolled in the University of Washington for classes that began on Aug. 19, 1961.
These birth announcements prove only that someone submitted information to two newspapers to herald the birth of a baby. They document the timeframe of the birth, not the location. The baby could have been born on Mars and these announcements could have still run in the newspapers.
Another problem Obama faces is found in his mother’s trip to Indonesia with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in the late 1960s. WND has reported that several lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility hinge on this time in Indonesia, which does not allow dual citizenship. Documents released by the U.S. State Department under two Freedom of Information Act requests indicate he may have given up his citizenship when he moved there.
Those documents show that Obama’s mother sought to have “Barack Obama II (Seobarkah)” removed from her passport, possibly as a prelude to obtaining Indonesian citizenship for him. If she did this it was more than likely for the child’s safety, as it was a turbulent time in Indonesia and there was a strong anti-American sentiment there.
While in Indonesia Obama was enrolled in school under the name of Barry Soetoro, as proven by school records photographed by an Associated Press photographer in 2007. Those school records list Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961, and records his religion as Muslim.
According to WND, Obama was either 5 or 6 years old when he traveled to Indonesia. This is important because if Lolo Soetoro adopted him at age 5 then he would have automatically become an Indonesian citizen. The law differed for children aged 6 and up and an adoption for a 6-year-old would have had to take place through legal channels.
Another puzzle uncovered by WND revolves around a photograph of Obama — or Soetoro, whoever he is — with another child at a school in Hawaii at the same time he was enrolled in school in Indonesia. The photo is marked has having been taken in 1969, and there is no good explanation as to how he was attending school in two different places at the same time.
The Obama camp has also refused to explain why Obama/Soetoro is using a Social Security number issued in Connecticut. WND has reported that two private investigators discovered the Social Security number anomaly and filed documents in an eligibility lawsuit showing the number was issued in Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama’s/Soetoro’s earliest reported employment was at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Hawaii in 1975.
The Social Security website confirms that the first three numbers of Obama’s/Soetoro’s Social Security number are reserved for applicants with Connecticut addresses. That Social Security number corresponds with Obama’s/Soetoro’s Selective Service registration, according to WND.
Finally, questions surround a trip Obama/Soetoro has admitted he took to Pakistan in 1981, WND reports.
“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college — I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” Obama/Soetoro reportedly stated at a fundraising event.
Pakistan in 1981 was under military rule. It was difficult for U.S. citizens to travel to the country without assistance. It would have been easier for someone to enter Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, WND reports.
Obama/Soetoro could easily clear up the confusion by releasing his birth records, his school records, college records and other official documents. Instead, he is spending millions of dollars to fight all attempts to obtain documents that most public officials release by habit. That begs the question: What is he hiding?
Some brave souls are fighting the good fight in trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious background of the 44th President. Some military people are putting their careers on the line in an attempt to get proof that any orders Obama/Soetoro issues are legitimate.
However, the court system seems hell-bent on covering up any efforts at discovery. It consistently throws out lawsuits on standing and is frequently hostile to plaintiffs. Several judges have threatened lawyers and plaintiffs with stiff fines if they continue to pursue the matter.
Meanwhile, the only logical conclusion is that Obama/Soetoro is not Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President. Any other view is only based on hope — Obama’s/Soetoro’s favorite theme.
A Constitutional crisis is in the offing and when the truth finally gets out about Obama’s/Soetoro’s citizenship, the legitimacy of orders signed by an illegitimate President will be called into question. Expect mass chaos to ensue.
That very well could be the culmination of the whole plan by Obama/Soetoro and those pulling his strings.
After a year and a half, it should be obvious to the robotic, rockhead progressive that this pretender can’t walk on water, raise the dead, turn water into wine or unite America. I doubt if he can balance his check book without legions of CPAs.
Even a phony president who dares to think Americans will blindly follow him into a self-destructive future has mistakenly assumed that Americans will surrender and put their trust in him. Trust is given to those who earn that trust. Those who demand complete trust without earning it deserve nothing but contempt.
In respect to race relations, I haven’t seen such a reversal of race relations since the death of MLK!! And I believe this reversal is much worse as it will outlast Obozo's one term in office!!!
A greater number in Kenya don't believe it either. See my tagline from the Kenyan Parliament.
Ummm, no they didn't.
Here is the list of the 55 who let him skate on the perjury charge:
Voting not guilty (10 Rep, 45 Dem)
Republicans: Chafee (Rhode Island), Collins (Maine), Gorton (Washington), Jeffords (Vermont), Shelby (Alabama), Snowe (Maine), Specter (Pennsylvania), Stevens (Alaska), Thompson (Tennessee), and Warner (Virginia).
Democrats: Akaka (Hawaii), Baucus (Montana), Bayh (Indiana), Biden (Delaware), Bingaman (New Mexico), Boxer (California), Breaux (Louisiana), Bryan (Nevada), Byrd (West Virginia), Cleland (Georgia), Conrad (North Dakota), Daschle (South Dakota), Dodd (Connecticut), Dorgan (North Dakota), Durbin (Illinois), Edwards (North Carolina), Feingold (Wisconsin), Feinstein (California), Graham (Florida), Harkin (Iowa), Hollings (South Carolina), Inouye (Hawaii), Johnson (South Dakota), Kennedy (Massachusetts), Kerrey (Nebraska), Kerry (Massachusetts), Kohl (Wisconsin), Landrieu (Louisiana), Lautenberg (New Jersey), Leahy (Vermont), Levin (Michigan), Lieberman (Connecticut), Lincoln (Arkansas), Mikulski (Maryland), Moynihan (New York), Murray (Washington), Reed (Rhode Island), Reid (Nevada), Robb (Virginia), Rockefeller (West Virginia), Sarbanes (Maryland), Schumer (New York), Torricelli (New Jersey), Wellstone (Minnesota), and Wyden (Oregon).
Specter's vote to acquit was actually his famous Scottish Law "Not Proven" verdict, so deemed by the presiding Supreme Court jurist to equal a vote to acquit.
“Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let’s face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father — my grandfather — was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before.” – Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
Ann Dunham started part time classes at U of W in September 1961.
mmm mmm mmm
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I am glad it mentioned impeachment. One part of the constitution that birth-certificate-ers ignore is that only congress can remove a sitting president (who is in office)with impeachment. And claiming that Obama is not really president so wouldn't have to be impeached is truly imagination-land. That is like claiming you can fly by flapping your arms and jumping off the roof.
Coulter and Beck are hardly elitists as this article claims.
The lid will not stay on much longer as Nov. 2nd approaches, and as Obama continues to destabilize our nation anyway he can to incrementally bring about domestic violence.
I've taken to calling him the occupier (not occupant, occupier) of the White House...
That may not be the worst of it. What logically follows after the American people realize they’ve been the victim of MASSIVE identity fraud?
If we are not careful , it will be civil unrest and domestic violence, quickly followed by martial law, and a fixed election on 2nd November.Its the October surprise.
We need to have this election desperately, and all our focus should be about keeping it sacrosanct.
Whatever the executive branch does needs to be put on hold in terms of reactive electorate.. We need a shift in Congressional power, and Obama knows we will get it. He will try everything in his power to prevent it, including disappearing people. That is just what fascists do.
As you know by now, I completely agree with you :-)
We shouldn’t give 0h0m0 a chance to “protect the people” and restrict assembly, ergo, postpone or cancel the election, which as you said, we desperately need.
However, if the elections are ACORNed or we see the Barack Panthers, or recounts to find “missing ballots” in the bottom of the ocean, etc. all bets are off because our beloved country can’t take two more years of communist dictatorship.
Think it through. The problem will be packaged and perceived as what can happen when there is no foolproof method of establishing true identity.
Follow where that leads to the bitter end.
Hint: Rev 13:15-17, where 15 is the 'disappearing' part the worst follows
Well written article. Thanks for the ping.
And Arlen Specter, thinking he was in Scotland, voted “Not Proven”
I guess I better start digging a shelter/bunker in my back yard!
“including disappearing people.”
I hope you are wrong. Just who did you have in mind?
His most vocal opponents are pretty out in the open.
Rush Limbaugh and his new wife vanish in a small plane crash over the ocean.
Glenn Beck goes blind and walks in front of a truck.
I hope to God you are wrong but anything like this would obviously be a red flag/blinking blue lights!
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