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'Obama was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii': President claims he WAS born in Africa
Mail Online ^ | 17 May 2012 | Beth Stebner

Posted on 05/17/2012 1:43:58 PM PDT by Brown Deer

In the cover for a 1991 booklet, President Obama is billed as ‘the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, (who) was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’

‘It is evidence – not of the President’s foreign origin, but that Barack Obama’s public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.’

President Obama released his birth certificate to the public last April. He said during a press briefing at the time that he was ‘puzzled at the degree to which this thing just keeps going on.’ He said: ‘We’ve had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.’

The internet took to the Breitbart story like wildfire, with both the left and right coming up with heated responses to the article. Media Matters for America, a politically progressive watchdog group, called the article ‘the latest instalment of the self-serious and wildly incompetent Breitbart.com-let “vetting” of President Obama.’ They point out an article published February 6, 1990 in the New York Times, which declares that Mr Obama, 28, was elected as the first black president to The Harvard Law Review. It read: ‘His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr Obama was born in Hawaii.’ Mr Obama submitted a book proposal to Simon & Schuster imprint Poseidon Press worth more than six figures in November 1990. The book, tentatively called Journeys In Black And White, was later abandoned for the autobiography Dreams From My Father.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
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To: David
...because it is settled law that a person born in the United States under any circumstances is a Natural Born Citizen for all purposes.

Were and when was it settled? I would really like you to explain that to me.
Was it a court case? Was it passed legislation? Was it the 14th Amendment?
A link to an article or a post where you explained this would suffice.

And please don't say it's from English common law. Common law in America is precedence established from court cases, not "tradition" or some other BS.

121 posted on 05/20/2012 6:57:45 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SaraJohnson
The GOP chose the one candidate who cannot attack Obama in any of his vulnerable areas:

Natural Born Citizen?
Islam?
Socialized medicine?
Abortion?
Homosexual marriage?

When you think about the selection of an ineffective GOP candidate, you couldn't invent anyone more perfect than Mitt Romney.

122 posted on 05/20/2012 6:58:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: David
...a person born in the United States under any circumstances is a Natural Born Citizen for all purposes.
When you say "for all purposes" I understand that to simply mean that the same rights and protections are extended to all, whether naturalized or natural born, and nothing more.
If that is what you mean then I agree.

And if it is "settled law", as you claim, then you'll also need to explain why there have been so many attempts, even as late as 2008, @to change Article 2, Section 1.
If it's "settled" law then were are our legislators still seeking to change it after all this time?

123 posted on 05/20/2012 7:11:16 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: GOPJ

I am sure they are working on that as we communicate in this forum.


124 posted on 05/20/2012 7:14:00 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: David
Oops...then why were...
125 posted on 05/20/2012 7:15:04 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
And if it is "settled law", as you claim, then you'll also need to explain why there have been so many attempts, even as late as 2008, @to change Article 2, Section 1.

Good question, I'll look forward to reading the response you get.

126 posted on 05/20/2012 7:20:08 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The Diversion Continues.

Even if Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had been birthed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House Obama is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

127 posted on 05/20/2012 7:33:18 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

It defies logic! If it’s already “settled law” then there would be no need to seek the changes being sought after.


128 posted on 05/20/2012 7:35:44 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

I agree, that is why I’m looking forward to the posters response.

Too early for popcorn, unfortunately!


129 posted on 05/20/2012 7:48:14 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; philman_36

Me to. If there is one I’d appreciate a ping if it’s not too much trouble.


130 posted on 05/20/2012 8:39:04 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

I’ll check back later to see if there is a reply and ping you to it.


131 posted on 05/20/2012 9:02:47 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

He used to say that born on US soil with one citizen parent was NBC. Now it’s “any” person born on US soil is a NBC? That’s nuts.


132 posted on 05/20/2012 9:06:11 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the ping.

I am confident that the truth will be revealed.


133 posted on 05/20/2012 9:48:24 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: David
a person born in the United States under any circumstances is a Natural Born Citizen for all purposes.

So basically Hamas or OBL could send one of their pregnant wives to America. She would have a anchor baby here so that one day their child could be POTUS?

I missed the birth in New York you mentioned. Is it in your forum posts?

Also what do you think of the book, I believe Pigeon (?) who says Obama changed his name in Canada and he was probably born in Washington state?

OMG, why are we even here wondering about this lunatic man's past?! Laws must be passed so we know who we elect. Who they are and who they bow too.

134 posted on 05/20/2012 10:22:57 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: dfwgator

Thank you for pointing that out. Rove and Co. knew that you keep your man high and dry and clean and let others do the dirty work.


135 posted on 05/20/2012 10:30:33 AM PDT by Jedidah ("In those days Israel had no king. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.")
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To: SaraJohnson

Mitt Romney’s father, George, was indeed born in Mexico, but to two U.S. citizens. Thus, George Romney was a citizen at birth, although arguably not a natural born citizen due to being born on foreign soil.

That might disqualify him from eligibility for the Presidency, but not his son. As far as we know, and there is no reason to doubt the official bio, Mitt Romney was born on U.S. soil to two citizen parents, thus making him constitutionally eligible.

I don’t like Romney for many other reasons, but his eligibility is not an issue.


136 posted on 05/20/2012 10:43:48 AM PDT by Jedidah ("In those days Israel had no king. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.")
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To: little jeremiah; Las Vegas Ron; David

No reply.


137 posted on 05/20/2012 6:13:47 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Maybe he will still.


138 posted on 05/20/2012 7:06:43 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
Maybe he will still.
Nope. Doesn't look like it.
Too much to "hope" for?
139 posted on 05/21/2012 5:14:14 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: David
You really need to address my questions...especially this...

And if it is "settled law", as you claim, then you'll also need to explain why there have been so many attempts, even as late as 2008, @to change Article 2, Section 1.
If it's "settled" law then why were are our legislators still seeking to change it after all this time?

Your longevity doesn't render you with an immunity of any sort.

140 posted on 05/22/2012 5:13:52 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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