And now Granny sleeps with the fishes.
Posted on 08/04/2009 1:15:21 AM PDT by markomalley
A Mission Viejo-based lawyer claims to be in possession of a copy of what she says is President Barack Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
Orly Taitz said the document could bring along a speedy resolution to a lawsuit she's handling, challenging Obama's eligibility to serve as the president. That is, even she admits, if it's genuine.
The Hawaiian state health director reiterated last week that he'd examined the pertinent documents and that Obama was indeed born there.
Over the weekend, Orly Taitz filed a motion in federal court for expedited discovery. Among the pleas, Taitz asks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make an official request to Kenyan authorities for authentication of the document.
"There are no ready means of authentication except by recovery of the original document," the motion states, noting Taitz's fear the original may be lost: "It is also apparent … that political pressure may be brought to bear to destroy all relevant evidence, whether such evidence exists within or outside the borders of the United States of America."
Taitz did not say how she came across the copy.
A photo of the purported document posted to Taitz's Web site shows a folded, typewritten document, embossed with a seal. It lists Obama's birth on "4th August, 1961, at Coast General Hospital" in the coastal city of Mombasa.
The document itself has a Feb. 17, 1964 date and reads, "Republic of Kenya." The date, Taitz said, is because it's a certified copy, not an original.
The Obama-friendly group Media Matters says the document is a forgery. It says that while Kenya gained it's independence in 1963, it did not become a republic until Dec. 12, 1964.
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Right. And FR doesn’t seem to have progressed one iota in unraveling that yet.
Is there no member with a connection through which some of these things can be answered informally (without the State Department’s non-help)?
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Difficult. Where have all the British FReepers gone? I know MadIvan left over the Guillani thing, but all the others? There must be someone with a relative born in Kenya during the same time period.
At the moment it really appears to be up to Orly Taitz and Amb Keyes to solve this by taking direct contact with the authorities in the UK and in Kenya. I only wish they had done that before publishing info of the document on the net.
Well, I have joint British citizenship (as well as Australian). Seriously - the birth certificate looks like an Australian one to me. I suppose it’s perfectly possible Kenya used the same model for its certificates, but it really does look like an Australian one with a few modifications.
Can't speak for anybody else, but I did.
Reason I posted this article was that this was the first MSM state-run media brownshirt media article that has talked about this specific issue in a neutral fashion. Even though the paper is the OC Register, which, for a newspaper, is relatively conservative, the fact that a neutral article was posted, is significant (IMHO)
My own Australian certificate (2008 copy - older copies looked much closer to what we have seen) with identifying details removed.
If this isn’t authentic, then why is Hillary going to Kenya?
I suppose it’s perfectly possible Kenya used the same model for its certificates (emphasis added)
And that's the problem. Unless we find someone who really knows the arcana of the administrative procedures of the British Empire and the Commonwealth, there are too many possibilities. But one should take your comment very seriously, and certainly look at the published document with a healthy dose of scepticism.
I like Andy Martin’s version; The Meathead Media.
I like Andy Martin’s version; The Meathead Media.
You’re right in that the punk Schuster nearly threw a few rods through the oil pan on that one.
Yeah, Caligula gave her the pain pill. Rather conveniently, too.
You might want to copyright that one.
Would it be unusual for all of the british colonies to have used the same type of form? Most likely not since printing forms was not just a simple act of going to Kinkos at the time. They most likely came out so the same printing office in jolly old England. Why reinvent the wheel?
Obama was born somewhere...
Where in the world is Obama’s...birth place...
I agree. The authentication should have occurred before release, but there maybe have been no choice in view of rules of evidence. I just don’t know.
It’s unsettling to think of the main reason for not holding it back.
where oh where has my birth certificate gone......oh where oh where could it be?.....
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