Well, the cable networks are finally giving the Obama birth certificate/natural born citizen issues some air time. Right? Well, not exactly.
Last week the words “Obama, ineligible to be president, and birth certificate” were spoken over at FOX and at CNN. The Lou Dobbs radio show devoted a significant amount of time to the topic and asked the question we have been asking for months, “Why not release the darn birth certificate?” No need to ask that question anymore. It hasn’t been released because it has information on it that would prove Obama has no right to be called President.
The Dobbs radio show was in sharp contrast to the televised segment hosed by Kitty Pilgrim. Instead of giving us honest reporting, most of the FACEOFF segment was spent defending Obama and trying to “debunk” the legitimate issues surrounding Obama’s refusal to produce ANY documents supporting his claim to American citizenship.
It appears the only reason CNN focused on the ongoing issues surrounding Obama’s birth certificate was to take issue with Dr. Orly Taitz and Alan Keyes and to make them look foolish. The CNN segment ran 6:45; of which more than 3 minutes were spent defending Obama’s phony COLB (certificate of live birth). Using Annenberg’s Fact Check and two announcements of Obama’s birth in Hawaiian newspapers to buttress the claims that this story has been “thoroughly investigated” and reported, Pilgrim sucked up air time and droned on and on. It wasn’t until the last 30 seconds of the segment that Taitz had time to mention Obama’s dual citizenship, and that was virtually drown out as the segment was fast coming to a close.
Watch the video and ask yourself if you think Obama’s ineligibility to serve as POTUS was given a fair hearing.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Ru7dnfSjI[/youtube]
Here’s the ongoing major problem with most of the focus on Obama’s birth certificate. The focus on the birth certificate has obscured the larger issues with Obama’s claim to US citizenship. The MSM’s “analysis” of Obama’s Hawaiian/Kenyan birth never gets any further than his mother was a citizen of this country. Those who want to silent us use, “She was an American citizen, case closed.” In truth, I’ll bet you couldn’t find two “reporters” in the MSM who could give an explanation of the differences between a citizen, a natural born citizen, a naturalized citizen.
As Leo Donfrio (Donfrio v. Wells) has said numerous times and in various ways:
It’s obvious that the framers drew a distinction between the meaning of “citizen” and the meaning of “natural born citizen”. A “citizen” can be Senator or Representative, but in order to be President one must be a natural born citizen.
In order to be a natural born citizen BOTH parents have to citizens of this country. Team Obama has embraced his father’s nationality. This cannot be side stepped. That means the best case scenario for Obama is he was born with dual citizenship. The Constitution does not allow for our country’s President to hold dual citizenship.
In reality, there is a strong legal case to be made that Obama was born a British citizen. Obama’s father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen at the time BHO was born. Because his mother was too young enough to confer her citizenship to Obama, it was Obama’s father’s nationality that was passed onto Obama. This is a FACT, end of story.
Again, from Donofrio:
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It’s the difference between a fact and a legal status.
Whether you are a natural born citizen is a fact of nature which can’t be waived or renounced, but your actual legal citizenship can be renounced. The difference is subtle, but so very important. “Natural born citizen” is not a different form of “citizenship”. It is a manner of acquiring citizenship. And while natural born citizens may end their legal tie to the country by renouncing citizenship, they will always have been naturally born into that nation as a citizen.
Although this has been stated elsewhere, this comment from Watching the Nation succinctly states the legal status of Obama:
According to common law and Vattel (mentioned above) it seems the term “natural born” was and is and has always been understood to mean born to parents who are citizens (with an s) (and with emphasis on the father) of the United States.
What we have in our current president is a man who is the child of a British national.
Whether Obama was born in Hawaii, or Kenya, or Timbuktu, doesn’t matter one whit. His father’s nationality was passed on to him, thus making Obama ineligible to be President of the United States!
Obama’s mother was too young at the time Obama was born. She was 18 at the time and Obama’s father was Kenyan citizen.
Mother was too young and dad wasn’t a U.S. citizen.
Obama is INELIGIBLE to be President. PERIOD.
Yes, Kathy, Resolution 511, sponsored by then, Senator Barack Obama. It stipulate. To be eligible as president of the USA, both parents has to be (must) American citizens. Obama’s father has just a student VISA and citizen of UK – British, as 0bama recognzsed by himself he is dual citizen by birth.
Something still seems to be lost in this discussion; namely, “does the Constitution of the United States Matter?” It is the language of the Constitution that is at issue. The words mean something or they don’t. Frankly, we follow all of the Constitution or we follow none of it. We don’t pick and choose. This has nothing to do with Obama’s ethnicity, or his administrative abilities. It has everything to do with the qualifying language of the Constitution. All of the arguing seems to miss this point. What does the Constitution say and what does it mean? Does the holder of the office meet the requirements?
If we are going to ignore the Constitution, let’s be sure of what we are doing.
Doug
Below are two official emails that dispute the public version of Obama’s Birth and his mother’s marriage to BHO Sr.
From: pubrec@u.washington.edu [mailto:pubrec@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Subject: Re: Stanley “Ann” Dunham 1960 to 1970 class registration
Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham (BHO II’s mom) was enrolled at the University of Washington for:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962
The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University’s response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.
Madolyne Lawson
Office of Public Records
206-543-9180
From: Stuart Lau [mailto:stuartl@hawaii.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008
Subject: Re: Inquiry
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham:
Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 – Summer 1966
Fall 1972 – Fall 1974
Summer 1976
Spring 1978
Fall 1984 – Summer 1992
Degrees awarded:
BA – Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967)
MA – Anthropology, Fall 1983 (December 18, 1983)
PhD – Anthropology, Summer 1992 (August 9, 1992)
Sincerely, Stuart Lau
****************************************
Stuart Lau
University Registrar
Office of Admissions and Records
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph: (808) 956-8010
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Commentary on University Emails:
For the BHO II Hawaiian Aug 4 1961 COLB to be accurate the following improbable events needed to occur:
1 month after starting classes, Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack’s mom, at age 17, got pregnant by the only black African man on the entire chain of Hawaiian islands.
2 months after getting pregnant, she drops out of college.
3 months after getting pregnant, she marries BHO Sr.
10 months after her first day at the U of HI, she delivers BHO II and immediately leaves her parents, her new husband, and her home, to fly alone with a newborn 2800 miles to Seattle to start college at the U of W.
Stanley Ann Dunham does not return to Hawaii until AFTER BHO Sr left the islands for Harvard.
This is an implausible series of events made even more nefarious because Obama II in his 2 bio books never mentions his mom left Hawaii when she was married to BHO Sr, nor does he mention she was in Washington State during this time.
Just the fact that CNN is dipping into this subject at all tells me that CNN is seeking to be relevant when this comes to a head or the birth certificate issue is going to be the straw that breaks Obama’s back(so to speak) and CNN wants to be able to run with it when it breaks as though they were on board all along. Someone, behind the scenes, is manuevering and it doesn’t look good for Obama.
Great post and thanks for the pingback. (What..someone is quoting me!) Another tidbit of info…Obama even says in his book Dreams From My Father (I believe) that his father was a British national. I found the same info on Wiki, but then it got scrubbed. The whole thing is very confusing and needs to be cleared up. The resolution that the Senate passed is very interesting BECAUSE they are the ones that acknowledged natural born citizenship as being born of two citizen parents. Could turn out to be a catch-22 for Obama, who was sitting right there! But he was “above” all that, I’m sure.