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What about Colin Powell? Pro-Obama writers conveniently forget Colin Powell, the distinguished, highly respected former Secretary of State who many good people were trying to talk into running for president a few years ago. And he is black like Obama is black.
1. Why do I bring up the name of Colin Powell, born in New York City ?
2. Here's why: It has to do with the Obama long form birth certificate controversy.
3. If Colin Powell had run for president a few years ago, I believe that a lot of Americans would politely ask Powell to show us his birth certificate for this reason: As is widely known, Powell's parents were born in the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
4. We would want to look at Powell's long form birth certificate to merely make sure that his Jamaican parents were American citizens when Powell was born in New York City and not citizens of Jamaica.
5. It would have had nothing to do with racism or that Powell is black.
6. It had more to do with verifying that Powell's parents were American citizens at the time of Colin's birth.
7. And I wouldn't expect the respected and distinguished Powell going crazy like Obama has gone crazy when the public asked Powell to show us his long form birth certificate.
8. In fact, I believe that Colin would have been happy to show us his long form birth certificate so that he could put any question about his eligibility quickly to rest.
9. So those pro-Obama writers who continue to say that asking Obama to show the public his Hawaii long form birth certificate is a racist act are sick writers, because if the respected Colin Powell ever ran for president, we would also ask him to show us his long form birth certificate to verify that he was eligible to run for President of the United States. So there, you pro-Obama sick writers.
While NY long form certificates do list the birthplace of the parents, they do not identify their citizenship.