Let me be clear. Barack Obama meets the Constitutional requirements to be President. He was a young boy when he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro. As a youngster he had no say in the amendment to his original birth certificate. He also was introduced to Islam through his step-father. But that relationship ended when Barry Obama Soetoro returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. He never renounced his U.S. citizenship. The refusal of Barack Obama and his political team to forthrightly address these issues has kept the controversy alive.
Basically, Larry Johnson at No Quarter says that this is all there is. Obama didn't want it to come out during the campaign because he was afraid of how people would react to his being adopted by an Indonesian Muslim. And now he still doesn't want it to get out because he doesn't want to be caught in a lie.
I don't know if I believe what Larry Johnson is saying, though. This is the same man who told us about the whitey tape and the 1,000 page dossier on Obama that the Repubs were going to use to launch a series of Octovber surprises. Since none of this came to pass, I can't be sure about Larry's birth certificate story, either.
Also, I just don't see why Obama would go to such great lengths to hide something that everybody already knows. I mean, who here DOESN'T know that Lolo Soetoro adopted Barry when he was a kid? Most of us also saw Barry's Indonesian school records. Nobody was able to make an issue of it during the campaign last year, so I don't understand why it would be an issue now.
His Indonesian school records were shown on the main stream media. And, now you can view the same sheet of paper on-line. Also, the msm talked about his adoption - in a good light of course, but yes, everyone knows all this information.
Clearly, the only reason not to show a birth certificate is not because of an embarrassment issue, but an illegal issue.
The only reason not to show medical records is because of an illegal issue, such as illegal drug activity.
The only reason to not show school records is that something in them, such as being a Foreign Exchange student would prove that it is illegal for him to be the president.
Common sense tells you that embarrassment is not a good reason in this case to hide all your records.
People defending obama are coming up with all kinds of crazy reasons why he's not showing his records. My favorite reason I have heard so far is from an 'obama loving' friend of mine. He said, "why should he show anything - people will just say it's a fraud. I applaud obama for sticking to it and not giving in - I'd do the same."
Truly scary and laughable comments in obama's defense.
As for Larry Johnson: I love No Quarter and Larry, but he's a know-it-all. It's very simple. Barry/Barack's father was a Kenyan, and therefore British, citizen. So Barack Jr. was, and is, too. Therefore he's not a natural born citizen, and can't be, isn't eligible, for the presidency.
Now, here's the thing: Obama let it be freely KNOWN that his dad was a British citizen. It was on his website. I don't get why that's not being followed up, especially as the Congress passed a resolution or something about John McCain, which mentioned TWICE that, in order to be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, you had to have TWO AMERICAN CITIZEN PARENTS. So, it's really out in the public eye that Obama obviously DOES NOT meet the Constitutional requirement.
But the birth certificate would be the straw that broke the camel's back. I guess they - Obama and his Big Money Backers - think Americans can ignore the British citizen thing, not realizing that his father's heritage makes Obama British, but that Americans would understand very quickly that being born in Kenya or Canada would mean HE'S OUTTA THERE!! (I saw my first professional baseball game this week!)
-- Edited by Alex on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 02:29:47 PM
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The the words of Chief Justice John Marshall, John Bingham (14th Amendment), Patrick Leahy (In Senate Res. 511, or Michael Chertoff (Commenting in 2008 on Res. 511). A natural born citizen is born of the soil, and of parents who are citizens. Barack Obama Jr. has a non-citizen father and does not meet those qualifications. The definition couldn't be more clear, from Law of Nations, Chapt XIX, cited in numerous cases, and by Franklin, Madison, John Jay, G. Washington, and probably lots of others. It doesn't matter whether Barack Jr. is citizen, he is not a natural born citizen unless we pass a constituional amendment, something one Barack's law firms proposed in Chicago Kent Law Review of Feb 2006. He knows. Kent Law knows. Kirkland & Ellis knows (and happens also to have a senior partner representing John McCain). Obama couldn't change the law so his supporters helped McCain pretend he was eligible to keep Republicans quiet about Obama. Article II Section 1 is part of our foundation.
Also everyhing else is moot because Obama admits to dual citizenship:
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”