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Carney sighs at birther question (more dissembling)
politico ^ | 4/26/2011 | matt negrin

Posted on 04/26/2011 12:14:52 PM PDT by milwguy

Jay Carney lamented Tuesday that the conspiracy theory about President Obama’s birth is getting “serious attention” while more important matters are getting overlooked.

CNN’s Ed Henry asked the White House press secretary to react to Donald Trump’s seemingly constant presence on TV, in which the real estate mogul has stoked the myth that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii. In response, Carney said that CNN itself had reported a “highly credible piece on an established fact” — that “the president was born in the United States of America.”

“This was a settled issue,” Carney said, calling it “unfortunate” that “for whatever reason, that instead of focusing” on the economy, unemployment, the deficit, energy, education and foreign affairs, “that this is the subject of – that gets any kind of serious attention.”

“I'll leave it at that,” Carney said. But then Henry asked about the birth certificate’s release, to which Carney replied, “the birth certificate that the campaign put up online has been available for everyone to see online around the globe.”

Carney said the document can be used to get a driver's license, and that anyone who was born in Hawaii uses the same documentation.

“I just think this is, it's a distraction,” Carney said. “And it's an unfortunate distraction. ... Anybody who is watching this exchange, the West Wing of the White House, would be appalled – or most Americans would be appalled.”


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To: Danae

Team Obama keeps misrepresenting a COLB as a Birth Certificate, and the “media” just nods their heads in agreement.


41 posted on 04/26/2011 1:15:54 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: eCSMaster
He hasn't gone as far as stating that he wasn't born in Hawaii, but he has stated that his Birth certificate is missing from Hawaii.

Excerpt from CNN Cooper Anderson and Trump April 25, 2011

(CNN) – Real estate mogul Donald Trump's latest claim about President Obama's birth certificate is that it's missing.

"Well I've been told very recently, Anderson, that the birth certificate is missing," Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday. "I've been told that it's not there or it doesn't exist. And if that's the case it's a big problem."

When asked from whom he received the information, Trump said he didn't want to say and that he feels bad about the situation.

42 posted on 04/26/2011 1:26:58 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: milwguy
I am going to address something that Carney and Anderson Cooper et al gloss over. Yes, the COLB can be used for most things like getting a drivers license (Yo, Carney, a DL is NOT acceptable ID for Proving one is a Natural Born Citizen... duh). HOWEVER, there are instances in which a Long form is NECESSARY.

One instance where it is necessary is in establishing Genealogy.

Another is when it is necessary to look at the Parents place of Birth!!! That is important!!!!! Why? Because Obama's father is British, so under the section of Parents place of Birth ("If not in U.S.A. Name Country" Boxes 6c and 8c On the Hawaiian Certificate of Live birth the name of the Long form in 1969), Obama's father is listed as having been born in Kenya - a British commonwealth.

What is the significance of that?

Well, golly, just that it PROVES that Obama was NOT born under the Sole Jurisdiction of the United States - Is not a Natural Born Citizen because he was born under the jurisdiction of TWO nations. In the debates on the 14th Amendment, the Honorable John Bingham deliberately stated, and was unchallenged on defining a Natural Born Citizenship as having been born under the Sole Jurisdiction of the United States!

Remember, it is the SHORT FORM which is Prima Facie evidence, it serves in a court of law. Yet, it does NOT contain the information absolutely NECESSARY in determining Natural Born Citizenship!!! The evidence of Barack being born under two Jurisdictions has NOT been presented as Prima Facie Evidence!!! It is legally UNPROVEN!!

Is THIS why Obama refuses to provide it? Because once he does.... the two jurisdictions issue is literally out of the bag... and public evidence! It also proves him to be an usurper.

Barack Obama's continued pretense in the Oval Office is 100% dependent on keeping his original Long Form Birth Certificate unpublished and unreleased! That is pure insanity.

Now, that Prima Facie evidence, the Short Form COLB only includes certain details, and does NOT include Parents Birthplace. In the case of determining Natural Born Citizenship, THE PARENTS BIRTH PLACE MUST BE KNOWN. Once it is, Obama has nothing to hide behind.
43 posted on 04/26/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: milwguy

“Carney said the document can be used to get a driver’s license, and that anyone who was born in Hawaii uses the same documentation.”

And one of Obama’s half-sisters, born in Indonesia uses that same documentation Damn those distracting facts.


44 posted on 04/26/2011 1:31:48 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Rational Thought

See post 43. It does not prove Obama a Natural Born Citizen because it does not list the birthplace of his parents.

Natural Born Citizenship is as dependent on the Parents Citizenship as it is the place of birth. Both MUST be citizens. Otherwise the child inherits the citizenship of the foreign parent, particularly when it’s Daddy’s citizenship!

Yea... the more I think about it, the more this makes sense. As long as the information which GENERATED the COLB is unpublished and formally unknown, it isn’t evidence. It could be just that simple. By relying on the COLB, it continues to successfully prevent the legal declaration that his father was British, because until it is released, it is legal hersay?? Is that it? Could it be that simple?


45 posted on 04/26/2011 1:40:39 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: little jeremiah; STARWISE; rxsid; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; ...

Ping to post 43, and this one, post 45.


46 posted on 04/26/2011 1:45:14 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: raygunfan

Well, interestingly, Chris Matthews did, of all people. But beyond that that there has been the constant false assertion that a COLB is a “birth certificate,” which it clearly is not.


47 posted on 04/26/2011 1:46:38 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Danae

Thanks for the pings. What is especially disturbing is how people know something stinks and yet they all have Stockholm syndrome, are quislings, or support the fiend and don’t care how many lies or crimes are committed.

They actively do not want the truth to be shown. It’s beyond disgusting and horrible and is destroying all faith in government because more and more people know now that head of gov is a fraud and all the rest of ‘em (say 95% or more) are aiding and abetting, even if by silence.


48 posted on 04/26/2011 1:50:10 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Here on FR they have said the video was doctored and Obama did not say that.


49 posted on 04/26/2011 1:51:24 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: raygunfan

True enough. The Short form doesn’t show the location of the PARENTS birth! That is as ESSENTIAL in determining Natural Born Citizenship as the location of the child’s birth!!!!!

A COLB doesn’t have that information does it? So the Prima Facie evidence Obama points at, doesn’t prove he is a Natural Born Citizen. It proves he has Hawaiian documents. Thats it. Only the document which GENERATED that COLB has the information needed to determine Natural Born Citizenship and that is PRECISELY what Obama does NOT want to talk about, because one MUST have two parents who are citizens at the time of birth, otherwise the child inherits that foreign Parent’s Nationality, particularly Daddy’s Nationality.

Obama REALLY does NOT want to be talking about that!


50 posted on 04/26/2011 1:52:55 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

It could be.

I don’t buy the theory that the nondisclosure of the Birth Certificate is some sort of brilliant political ploy or trap.

The more time goes by the more it appears there is something on the Birth Certificate that would be (at the minimum) politically damaging, that is, if it does indeed exist.


51 posted on 04/26/2011 1:52:57 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: little jeremiah

See Post 50, it is furthering this line of thinking.


52 posted on 04/26/2011 1:54:32 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Rational Thought

Read post 43. It might just be this simple. The Prima Facie evidence Obama points to does NOT have the information necessary to proving Natural Born Citizenship. This REQUIRES knowing the Parents place of birth.

Obama inherited his father’s British Nationality at birth. He states he was born under the British Nationality Act of 1948, but that is hearsay until proven by a factual document, such as a Certificate of Live Birth (long form) which the Certificate of Live Birth (COLB Short Form) does NOT have.

Maybe it really is just that simple. By presenting Prima Facie evidence, he can legally say he has Hawaiian Documents. However, sometimes you have to know what generated that COLB, and 100% of the time in determining Citizenship, it is required to establish genealogy. In fact, if Obama presented the Long Form to the British Consulate, he could claim his British Citizenship, and get a British Passport. GUARANTEED. He wouldn’t even need to apply for it, just present his Long Form.

Maybe that is literally all that the cretin is hiding, certainly from a legal standpoint it makes sense. Obama, the Constitutional “professor” would have been familiar with the debates on the 14th Amendment... in which the primary author John Bingham of Ohio states unequivocally and with out challenge, that a Natural Born Citizen is one born under the SOLE JURISDICTION of the United States. So he hides the evidence of his dual jurisdictional Birth. The COLB does not give the information NECESSARY to determine his Natural Born Status, and maybe THAT is why it has been shoved down everyone’s throat, and why he refuses to release the thing.

It might just be that simple.


53 posted on 04/26/2011 2:04:03 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae
Obama doesn't deny his father was a Kenyan born British subject...so why would you need the BC?
54 posted on 04/26/2011 2:10:17 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: milwguy
“This was a settled issue,” Carney said, calling it “unfortunate” that “for whatever reason, that instead of focusing” on the economy, unemployment, the deficit, energy, education and foreign affairs, “that this is the subject of – that gets any kind of serious attention.”

No, it's not settled.

Obama's open admission of Kenyan citizenship was and remains a matter of grave concern with respect to his natural born citizenship status.

All of the Kenyan clown's records relating to his citizenship(s) must be aired: natal records, visa and passport records, and all other documentation related to his status as an admitted Kenyan citizen, a likely British citizen, a possible Indonesian citizen (he had to either have a visa or citizenship to have lived there so many years, and since he was adopted by an Indonesian citizen, he most likely was a citizen), and his hypothetical American citizenship.

The constitutional requirement is for natural born citizenship. The Kenyan has admitted to circumstances which clearly cloud any such claim on his part; it is incumbent on him to clear these clouds by releasing all of the primary documents, and the most important of all is the long form birth certificate.

55 posted on 04/26/2011 2:13:37 PM PDT by snowsislander (The Nigerian 419 scammers must be envious of what this Kenyan fraud has accomplished.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Because there is a difference between saying something, and producing Prima Facie evidence.

One is hearsay, the other is a legal document.

The question being glossed over is this, What generated that COLB? Once that question is answered, we can address LEGALLY the fact that Obama was born British as well as American, and THAT discussion is the one Obama REALLY doesn't want to talk about.

Notice how the talking heads are pointing at the "Prima Facie Evidence" notation on the COLB? That is what they are resting on isn't it? The Certificate of Live Birth - the Long Form is the only document which generates the Certification of Live Birth the COLB, yet the Long form isn't Prima Facie evidence... well lets look a tthe defination of Prima Facie:

From Legal Dictionary: Law.com http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1598

"prima facie

: (pry-mah fay-shah) adj. Latin for "at first look," or "on its face," referring to a lawsuit or criminal prosecution in which the evidence before trial is sufficient to prove the case unless there is substantial contradictory evidence presented at trial. A prima facie case presented to a Grand Jury by the prosecution will result in an indictment. Example: in a charge of bad check writing, evidence of a half dozen checks written on a non-existent bank account makes it a prima facie case. However, proof that the bank had misprinted the account number on the checks might disprove the prosecution's apparent "open and shut" case."

"unless there is substantial contradictory evidence presented at trial" What is Obama using the COLB to prove? Natural Born Citizenship, only it doesn't prove Natural Born Citizenship, because it does not list the parents birthplace, something which is necessary in determining Citizenship!!! Only the Long Form can do that.
56 posted on 04/26/2011 2:41:26 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: freekitty

It’s not just the BC. Almost all of the Zero’s paper trail is MIA.
WTF is he hiding?:

Here ya go...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/madsen1.1.1.html


57 posted on 04/26/2011 2:55:07 PM PDT by maxsand
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To: Danae
What generated that COLB?

This is a key question.

Where did the data on the COLB come from?

58 posted on 04/26/2011 3:01:58 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: milwguy

““This was a settled issue,” Carney said, calling it “unfortunate” that “for whatever reason, that instead of focusing” on the economy, unemployment, the deficit, energy, education and foreign affairs, “that this is the subject of – that gets any kind of serious attention.” “

We can “focus” on all of the above, Mr Carney. The little people are smarter than you think.

Now they’re pointing to the msm as proof of 0Bummer’s eligibly? That’s pretty low.


59 posted on 04/26/2011 3:06:11 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: Beckwith

It comes from the Long Form, the Certificate of Live Birth.

The COLB may be Prima Facie evidence, however, it does not have all the information from the Long form, only part of it, and the part it lists is NOT sufficient for establishing Natural Born Citizenship.


60 posted on 04/26/2011 3:08:31 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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