Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, June 29, 2008 9:14:38 AM
Barack Obama
is on fire. The presumptive democratic nominee for president has
thoroughly defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House,
the two of them have apparently kissed and made up, she's now on the
campaign trail hawking his wares, and all is right with the world as
far as the Democratic National
Committee is concerned. All polls seem to indicate that
Obama
is beating his republican rival John McCain. McCain himself has
indicated that he is the underdog in this race, and has a lot of work
to do between now and November.
Obama is the oncoming juggernaut that cannot be stopped.
Hold the phone.
Obama
may not even be qualified to run for president. And I don't mean
because of his lack of experience in any of the areas that the
commander-in-chief and the leader of the free world has to deal with.
No, I mean he may not meet constitutional requirements to run for the
highest office in the land.
You see my friends, there is a little question of his citizenship. And
Obama may be covering up the truth.
For several weeks now, the Internet has been abuzz with reports that
Obama
may not meet the citizenship requirements as laid out in the United
States Constitution. Those requirements state that a candidate must be a
natural born citizen.
Obama's status has come into question. Supposedly,
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21, 1959.
Obama became a citizen at birth under first section
of the 14
th amendment.
"All
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside...."
Case closed. But wait.
Some questions have arisen about whether there is proof that
Obama
was really born in Hawaii in 1961, as well as the legal status of his
mother at that time, and what is exactly on his original birth
certificate...which by the way, may not even exist. When
bloggers brought
Obama's citizenship into question, the
Daily Kos
published what purported to be the original State of Hawaii birth
certificate. The problem is...the document appears to be a fake, and a
poorly executed one at that. Examination of this document indicates it
has been modified with
Photoshop or other image-editing software, rendering it a forgery.
This could prove very troubling for the
Obama campaign for a number of different reasons. If a true certificate of live birth cannot be produced to prove that
Obama is a natural born citizen rather than a naturalized citizen, one would have to question whether
Obama is qualified under the constitution to run for president.
So why wouldn't the
Obama
campaign just lay all of this suspicion to rest by producing the real
documentation rather than this cheap imitation which doesn't cut
muster? Could it be that The father listed on the birth certificate is
not
Barack Hussein
Obama?
Or the father's race is listed as something other than African, perhaps
Muslim or Arab? Or the mother was no longer at that time an American
citizen? Or the child's name is not listed as
Barack Hussein
Obama II?
Jim
Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot blog of the National Review, cited the "rumor" that
Obama was born not within the United States, but elsewhere, possibly Kenya.
Geraghty stated that "If
Obama
were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not
meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen -- because U.S. law
at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother)
to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least [f]
ive of which had to be after the age of 16.'"
He then points out that Ann
Dunham,
Obama's mother, was 18 when
Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."
If the rumors that
Obama
is not a natural born U.S. citizen are true, it would stop the campaign
in its tracks. So far, no major news organization appears to be
following this important story. The
blogosphere appears to be the only quadrant of the journalistic universe that is attempting to bring this story to the forefront.
And this most recent development regarding the fake documentation published by the
Daily Kos and touted by the
Obama campaign as enough evidence to lay these "smear rumors" to rest only adds to the mystery.
Someone had better pick up the ball on this story and run with it.
If
Obama
is truly eligible under our constitution to run for president, then
let's get the proof out there and move on to finding other ways to
prevent
Obama from being elected. But if this story has legs, let's expose it and stop
Obama dead in his tracks.
Now.
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