There’s a silly rumor going around that Sen. Obama was born at Coast Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya and that his paternal grandmother has confirmed it.
Senator Obama long ago released what is known as a short-form birth certificate from Hawaii. However, he has not released his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii. Why not release it? John McCain’s is already publicly available. I’m 99% sure that Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States, but it’s strange that he’s refusing to prove it.
National Review’s Andy McCarthy has weighed in about this, and so has Greta Van Sustern of Fox News. And here’s a recent news report about it:
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Terribly easy for Obama to make this go away
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 8:43PM EST (link)Why they keep stonewalling is odd to say the least.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
I have to say this has "conspiracy" written all over it BUT...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 9:21PM EST (link)I was in my car listening to talk radio and who was Austin Hill and he was talking to an reporter at a local television station in HI….KHON2 and they are on the story….I have to say I was very surprised….and the one thing the reporter said is that in 1961 Barack would not have been listed as African which is what the on line birth certificate states he would have been listed as a negro…..I am just saying!
OBTW we can still beat him without this BUT this is a Constitutional question that NEEDS to be addressed and Obama can end it right now!
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He is hiding something.
Tbone (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 9:22PM EST (link)nt
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Oh on the silly rumor there is another suit filed in Lebanon, OH...see link below
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 9:46PM EST (link)Barack Obama can end this why won’t he?
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My hunch is that he is a citizen
Knox Haley (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 9:56PM EST (link)I think the sticking point for him is that he was adopted and became a citizen of Jakarta, Indonesia. It makes sense that the main reason he won’t release his medical records and college transcripts is because he may have applied for FOREIGN financial aid using his Indonisian citizenship, much like he did when he traveled to Pakistan in 1981. It’s already been documented that he traveled to Pakistan in 1981 using this passport.
I think that Berg’s suit will be dismissed on grounds of lack of standing. However, Jeff Schreiber at America’s Right commented today that he had a hunch that Judge Surrick “may surprise” based on feedback he’s been getting from his sources inside the courthouse. Rumor is that Judge Surrick does a lot of his own research and is very thorough with his order and memorandum.
The Secretary of State in Washington has ordered and filed suit for Obama to issue an original copy of his birth certificate before his name is placed on the ballot in Washington (State) too.
KAH
Are you sure about Washington SoS?
bluechiplaw (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 10:20PM EST (link)My Google search, albeit brief, only yielded a suit against the Washington Secretary of State, seeking a Court to compel him to verify Obama’s natural born status—a very different proposition, and still fraught with standing problems.
Interesting ...
John Steele (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 10:49PM EST (link)If a citizen does not have standing to defend the Constitution then who does?
John – Miami
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That's Part of Berg's Argument
Knox Haley (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 11:16PM EST (link)Berg has made the case to the judge that this is a case about defending the Constitution and so he has a right to request these documents. However, Jeff Schreiber thinks that it will be dismissed on grounds of lack of standing OR the judge will partly side with Berg.
KAH
Well...
PSDA (Diary) Friday, October 24th at 11:46PM EST (link)I saw posted on a number of blogs, including conservative ones, an image of a birth announcement in a Hawaii newspaper shortly after Obama’s birthday that clearly said “Barack Obama.”
Even if he or someone else claimed other citizenship status after that, it seems pretty clear that he was at least born in Hawaii, which fulfills the Constitutional requirement.
While I believe that there IS a media conspiracy to elect Obama to the presidency, I don’t believe that conspiracy began when he was an infant. If so, it’s the most successful nefarious plot in the history of the world.
Everyone wonders why?
IndependentfrMI (Diary) Saturday, October 25th at 9:09AM EST (link)The numbers for his campaign fundraising show enormous amounts of cash. Maybe he’ll need it for his legal problems.
He says he has a Constitutional Law degree, so my guess is he knows exactly what he is doing. He believes the Constitution is a living document subject to re-definition from time to time…….
Hypothetical
AndrewHyman (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 8:25PM EST (link)PSDA, his parents were college students in Hawaii. On summer vacation, why not a trip to Kenya in 1961? Obama was born that summer. If I were such a parent, I might well take him home and register his birth as a home birth, to avoid the hassle of naturalization.