Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate
Jim Geraghty over at National Review has an interesting piece up on the rumor-mill that continues to churn regarding Barack Obama’s birth certificate. You can link to it here. Basically he says that Barry O. could put a lot of this to rest by just releasing the certificate. I second that.
Why wouldn’t anyone just release it? I just don’t get it. If there’s nothing to see, let us see it.
The St. Petersburg Times in Florida addresses some of the issues regarding a Kenyan letter that states Barry O’s name also includes that of Muhammed. They can’t find any evidence to substantiate that, though again, the Barry O campaign won’t release the certificate.
Locally, an attorney here in Anderson County has been on his own quest for quite some time now to substantiate that Barry is indeed a U.S. citizen. He has his doubts and wants proof.
The only suggestion I have for attorney Joe, is to file an official challenge that Barry O is duly qualified, that is, that he meets the qualifications required to run for office.
I don’t know if that challenge would need to be made at the national or at the state level or both, but once an official complaint is filed, it would have to be addressed.
Locally, we removed a candidate from the ballot by challenging his qualification as required by law. The election commission had failed to investigate his qualifications, but as Party Chairman at the time, we found in response to a complaint that the candidate did not meet the qualifications for office by the filing deadline. The candidate in question had been convicted of a crime of infamy and though time had been served, had never had his voting rights restored. We therefore found that he should not have been eligible for office by the filing deadline.
Joe wonders about Barry’s citizenship, though I don’t have any reason to doubt that Barry is a citizen. I do however have to wonder why Barack just won’t produce the certificate. What’s the problem?
Here’s the piece from the St. Petersburg Times:
A chain e-mail that originates with a letter from American missionaries working in Kenya warns about Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to Kenya and its opposition party, encouraging readers “not to be taken in by those that are promoting him.”
Among the many allegations is one about Obama’s name: “By the way. His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won’t that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran! God bless you.”
The e-mail reads like a bad game of “telephone,” its claims drawn from assorted people and sources that have been stitched together. And yet, because it is signed by real people, who have a life in Africa, it somehow carries more credence than your average blog posting — and it’s spreading rapidly. ( Read the e-mail here. )
Let’s be clear: The senator from Illinois who is running for president of the United States is named Barack Hussein Obama Jr. His campaign has insisted that is his full name (no Muhammad). We’ve checked this before and found it to be blatantly wrong. But since the rumor persists, we decided to dig deeper.
and this:
“That was what we heard there (in Kenya),” Davis said in an interview with PolitiFact. He says they’ve lived and worked in Kenya for the past 12 years and this was a personal letter “never intended to be forwarded or sent out to the Web.”
Regardless, it’s time to ground this charge once and for all. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. There is simply no evidence anywhere to support the allegation that his name is something else. We’re going to rule the way we have before. Pants on Fire!
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[...] But this post is so incredibly stupid and vapid and, I think, disingenuous, I want to point it out as an example of why there’s never going to be some Kumbaya moment where I walk hand in hand with the Conservative Tennessee Blogosphere, even on the rare occassion when we share goals. [...]
By Birth Certificates « Tiny Cat Pants on 06.10.08 8:31 am
Thanks be to God I don’t share goals with Aunt B. There’s no talk here of masturbation or crude, amateur attempts at gaining emotional attention for myself in the name of political opinion-making.
Affirmation that I’m on track.
By Terry on 06.10.08 9:47 am
Could it be that the Clinton camp is holding back something about Barry O’s birth certificate?
Could this be the way that Clinton will try to get the nomination, by exposing Barry O’s birth certificate?
We have his earning/tax records, so why does Barry O. keep his birth certificate from public view?
The lawsuit is a good idea. I hope it gets filed the day the State of Tennessee officially announces that Barry O’s name will be on the ballot.
By Fred on 06.10.08 11:33 am
You should try the former. It would improve your disposition. And as for the latter? Please. What do you call this? You’re practically the master of it.
By Aunt B. on 06.10.08 11:40 am
Who cares if he is a natural U.S. citizen? Its only an explicit constitutional requirement. People like Barry have been circumventing that pesky little document for years.
By RIP_Daddy on 06.10.08 2:24 pm
No, B–I’m not the subject of my posts. Unlike just about all of yours–they’re usually about who or what has offended your for the day. As if I cared. I don’t visit your site for that reason.
By Terry on 06.10.08 3:04 pm
Ya know Terry, you’ve never proven that you’re a citizen either. I guess I won’t be reading you anymore in case your some sort of danged foreigner.
By W on 06.10.08 3:23 pm
Uh, W, there are legal requirements for running for office. And I’m happy to show my birth certificate. Why wouldn’t I? Why wouldn’t Barack?
By Terry on 06.10.08 3:29 pm
Fred–It would haven’t to be a lawsuit, just a challenge once the nominee is officially verified.
By Terry on 06.10.08 3:31 pm
I want to know but also wonder if and who will pull that trigger. My money is on the Clinton camp “releasing” it through parties far removed from them so she can sweep in as the newer savior of the Dem party.
By BCB on 06.10.08 3:47 pm
I don’t visit your site for that reason.
Glad to see you made this a bit more polite than “cellar”, because that was sort of nasty.
The thing is–and yes I’m drawn here to defend B. because she’s my friend–that your posts ARE about who or what has offended you, too. Whether it’s Barack Obama offending you by having a spurious background and suspect middle name, Bredesen offending you by supposedly ripping off an old National Geographic or terrorists offending you by blowing up the world trade center…
What you write is about what offends you. Or, more politely, what energises you. That’s what makes for good blogging–being able to communicate the emotion we feel from being energised and possibly energising others.
So the fact that you are energised by politics more often than B. doesn’t make you better or worse–just different.
By Kat Coble on 06.10.08 4:36 pm
Terry, let’s just hope “Aunt B” moves back to her site. I’m often surprised to see other bloggers link to such a vulgar and disgusting forum.
I wish you wouldn’t let her put her link in your comments. I won’t be clicking over.
By TNOPINION on 06.10.08 7:06 pm
I am glad to see all kinds of people get on here, read and participate. I get bored talking with people who agree with me all the time. That’s why I have multiple personalities (haha). My real hope is that those that have the nerve, the ignorance or the spite to disagree with me learn things on here. hahaha Am I helping?
By BCB on 06.10.08 7:27 pm
And if Barack reads this blog, as I’m sure he should, maybe he will learn that all he has to do is release that birth certificate. Isn’t that one of the peices of ID that I might have to show to work at a burger joint? But I guess not the presidency. The ORNL complex requires me to provide it or I am denied access. Will he have to if elected? I’m just saying is all.
By BCB on 06.10.08 7:29 pm
BCB-There may very well be nothing there. But I don’t see why you don’t release it. Do you think maybe that’s why there were low level breaches regarding the passports?
As a friend of mine questioned yesterday, don’t you have to show your birth certificate to get a passport?
I don’t have one, do you know anything about it?
By Terry on 06.11.08 5:04 am
Yes, you indeed do have to show your birth certificate to get a passport.
By Kat Coble on 06.11.08 10:45 am
As you can see here the Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs is very strict on the requirements to get a passport, and very strict on the birth certificate requirements.
Your name on your passport is identical to the name on your birth certificate. If Obama has released his passport information–and I have no idea as I don’t follow such things–then a release of his Certificate Of Birth would be redundant.
If you’d like to file suit to challenge his right to run for president under the Birth Citizen clause of the constitution, such documents would be made available under discovery.
I’m betting, however, that his ducks were in a row long before he ventured millions of dollars on a presidential run. But maybe not.
By Kat Coble on 06.11.08 10:57 am
“… I want to point it out as an example of why there’s never going to be some Kumbaya moment where I walk hand in hand with the Conservative Tennessee Blogosphere…”
Guess Obama’s campaign as the “unity” cnadidate is just another empty promise. I’ll file it here with Hillary’s socialized medicine, Al Gore’s impassioned call for bi-partisan unity in 2000, and Jimmy Carter’s Middle Eastern peace.
By Malcolm Tent on 06.11.08 5:16 pm
“You should try the former. It would improve your disposition”
You sound like an expert on the subject. Guess with personality like that….well they say necessity is the mother of invention.
By Malcolm Tent on 06.11.08 5:22 pm
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