My doom meter has risen to new levels in the last few weeks. It is about time for one or more of the states to declare themselves as patriot sanctuary states.Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
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My doom meter has risen to new levels in the last few weeks. It is about time for one or more of the states to declare themselves as patriot sanctuary states.Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
[quote="[url=http://jbjd.org/2010/01/06/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/comment-page-1]jbjd[/url]"][size=117]Students attending this inner city high school not only are racially and ethnically diverse but also hail from several other native countries. For the most part, the students supported the Presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. Some of them even met the future Commander in Chief when he came to town during the primary campaign, their encounters captured forever in photographs proudly displayed in the lobby of the building. Pictures of Michelle appear there, too, under a banner proclaiming her, “Our Queen.â€
Excellent post, MinuteMan. Thanks.
From this link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52670734/John ... Corruption
We have this text:
We have to consider the potential problem of election fraud, which is the illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of election fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include illegal voter registration, intimidation at polls, and improper vote counting.
Looking at recent years, and regarding potential election fraud in 2008, where local officials either allowed or perpetrated the actual fraud, Jon Christian Ryter documented problems he saw with the total election vote counts, and Fred Dardick wrote about perceived precinct fraud that occurred during the same election. Ryter points out in his article:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23495809/Jon- ... the-Future
The FEC reported that 56.8% of the registered voters voted. That's 96,992,000 actual votes cast by registered voters who voted once. But the total number of ballots in the ballot boxes totaled 132,618,580. It appears that a lot of people voted a lot of times, (or a whole big, big bunch of ballots in a whole big bunch of States were simply added to the mix before or after-the-fact and counted with the legitimate ballots). Regardless how they got there, when you do the simple math, there were 35,626,580 too many votes counted.
Dardick makes the point in his own article that he thinks the 2008 election fraud followed a clear Democrat plan:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34325799/Fred ... o-Articles
[i]“The voter fraud stories so far are just the tip of a very large iceberg. No one really knows the full extent of the problem and the Democratic Party is counting on Americans to shrug it off as just another conservative conspiracy theory.
“But take it from a lifelong Chicagoan, it’s not just Bosnia that needs election observers to keep voter fraud in check.â€
Thank you, HighlanderJuan. But I would rather you had pointed out my neglecting to mention various initiatives by state Secretaries of State, elections commissions, Governors, legislatures, and Attorneys General, including lawsuits brought before the U.S. Supreme Court directly by the states.
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April 7, 2011: Hawaii Judge Fuddy denied a lawsuit for access to Mr. Obama's birth record. So much for a subpoena by a state court with jurisdiction. Few expected anything to come of it, but it hadn't been tried: now we know.
http://www.courts.state.hi.us/docs/o...r/ica30176.pdf
[quote="[url=http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/03/26/birthright-citizenship-and-judicial-incompetence/]Jim Delaney, blogging at Opinerlog,[/url]"][size=117]Thomas Jefferson was right when he viewed with horror the growing menace of a runaway Supreme Court which increasingly valued “judicial supremacyâ€
I don't know whether or not this is a good thing. The Ninth Circuit is progressive as hell, and this could be just a trap to slam the door forever against the plaintiffs.
Challenge to President Obama's Eligibility to be Heard by 9th Circuit
Written by Joe Wolverton, II
Monday, 25 April 2011 09:42
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/consti ... cuit-court
Arguments in one of the lawsuits challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States has finally worked its way through the California court system and will be heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 2.
“I can’t believe it, but after two years of Obama litigation, for the first time the court of appeals scheduled oral argument in [the] Obama case,â€
[quote="HighlanderJuan"]I don't know whether or not this is a good thing. The Ninth Circuit is progressive as hell, and this could be just a trap to slam the door forever against the plaintiffs.
Challenge to President Obama's Eligibility to be Heard by 9th Circuit
Written by Joe Wolverton, II
Monday, 25 April 2011 09:42
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/consti ... cuit-court
Arguments in one of the lawsuits challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States has finally worked its way through the California court system and will be heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 2.
“I can’t believe it, but after two years of Obama litigation, for the first time the court of appeals scheduled oral argument in [the] Obama case,â€
White House Blasts Franklin Graham for Birther Comment
Monday, 25 Apr 2011 03:39 PM
The White House angrily lashed out Monday against renowned evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham for questioning President Obama's birthplace.
Graham’s sin? The son of the Rev. Billy Graham questioned on ABC’s “This Weekâ€
I'm starting to get signals that all of this is too late, and it is time lock and load. I'm not so gloomy myself, but the temperature of the 3% fever seems to be going quite high.
Just an FYI.
[quote="AirborneSapper7"]White House Blasts Franklin Graham for Birther Comment
Monday, 25 Apr 2011 03:39 PM
The White House angrily lashed out Monday against renowned evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham for questioning President Obama's birthplace.
Graham’s sin? The son of the Rev. Billy Graham questioned on ABC’s “This Weekâ€
It is certainly suspect. Knowing the nature of the 9th Circuit Court, they could be taking this on just to dismiss it, heap scorn on the litigants, and sanction Atty. Orly Taitz (again) for "filing a frivolous lawsuit, to teach her a lesson she won't soon forget."Quote:
Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
I can't imagine any intention to give the case a fair and honest hearing. I would say "nevah hoppun," if I were not concerned that the Lord would call my hand and show me to be "not a prophet." So I will say that I do not know what will happen on May 2nd and thereafter, but I won't be surprised by the ultimate travesty of justice, not even if Dr. Taitz be imprisoned.
I smell an ambush.
He does not meet the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution
Father’s race on the Obama birth certificate: only a curiosity or a smoking gun?
- Lawrence Sellin
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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I would like to begin by stating unequivocally that, for me, it does not matter if Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii because he has never been eligible to be President. He does not meet the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution i.e. born in the United States, of parents who were both U.S. citizens at the time of the candidate’s birth.
I admit that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, an expert on birth documents nor am I terribly familiar with the details of the current birth certificate controversy.
Nevertheless, there is one thing that I don’t quite understand.
On the Certification of Live Birth (COLB), now widely available on the internet, Obama’s father’s race is listed as “Africanâ€
http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilli...ms_com_hdr.jpg
PRESS LIES ON OBAMA ELIGIBILITY GET LOUDER
By J.B. Williams
April 27, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
[Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article are solely those of JB Williams and not necessary the opinion of NWV, it's staff or other writers.]
Business giant Donald Trump has placed Obama’s eligibility for office at center stage again as Obama continues to insist he was born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother. But despite hundreds of challenges, Obama remains defiant, refusing to release any vital documentation to back up his story and thus, doubts persist.
In a CNN “investigativeâ€
Well, lookie here, they claim to have released the long form.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ertificate
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default ... g-form.pdf
My gut reaction, from having been alive (age eight) in 1961 is that they called the father "African" to distinguish him from an American "Negro."
It looks legitimate to me, with everything in order, except it lacks the photostat "VOID" markings.
But where's the embossed seal of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, without which it is not a legal birth document?
Can this be a certified copy without the embossed seal of the certifying Notary Public? (a rhetorical question)
At 58, you're proud of your age, BetsyRoss. That's a good thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by BetsyRoss
I think the classification was divided into "RACE: Negro" and "ETHNICITY: African". In 1961, "African American" was unheard of, and "RACE: African" would have been an anachronism from the future.
On the U.S. Standard Birth Certificate in 1961, the correct corresponding entry for "RACE" was "Negro" or "negroid"; "mulatto" or "colored" was accepted.
Although an applicant could have written "African" in the "FATHER'S RACE" box, it would have been erroneous for the clerk to transcribe "African" into the official record.
It is interesting how the conservatives invariably call someone by a truthful name (e.g. usurper), while the left always uses derogatory name calling tactics (e.g. “the carnival barkerâ€
News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal
The White House released President Obama's original "Certificate of Live Birth" from Hawaii amid persistent questions about the president's citizenship. The decision came because the issue "was crowding out the debate" on the budget, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said. The White House said Hawaii doesn't generally release long-form birth certificates but did so at the president's request.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... malertNEWS
View the certificate: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 84620.html
This didn't take very long to disprove. The obama birth certificate appears to be fraudulent. Who would have seen that one coming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7oi2qfxlY
and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbasVmebCUI
I'm collecting a list of the errors and flaws in the fake "Certificate of Live Birth" presented by the usurpation today.
In the meantime, suffice it to say that:
- Today's fake Certificate lacks the requisite embossed seal of the State of Hawaii Department of Health.
Today's fake Certificate has been altered (from the earlier fake Certificate) by adding a wide green hatched border on all sides, most noticeably on the left side, where the curvature of the book suddenly turns into flat green hatched border - a physical impossibility in the real world.
The lower half of the earlier fake Certificate has been chopped off - the part with the stamps - and on today's fake Certificate, the stamps have been moved to the front side, where they do not belong.
The bottom border of the earlier fake Certificate has been cropped. On one revision, there was an addendum there which read:
23. Evidence for Delayed Filing or Alteration
1. Birthplace: Kenya;Registered Honolulu HRS 338-17.8 per Grandmother
But that could easily be a fake, just as today's revision is a fake.
Where can I obtain the PDF version of this long form that has been issued? I want to do some additional research myself.
I'm looking for a pdf, but here is a zoomable view. Looks like maybe embossing above the stamped date.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 84620.html
I don't feel the race descriptor is a closed case. Especally in Hawaii where they were more used to dealing with mixed race and non white people. BTW I just got a short form copy of my bc from Virginia. It looks a lot like the short form originally released by Obama, but mine doesn't even mention my race, and it's from a Jim Crow state (Virginia). In fact, I have a funny Jim Crow story related to my birth. Funny because nobody got hurt and the joke was on my grandmother.
TexasBorn, here is a good explanation of the layering and artifacts that show up when one views Wednesday's fake Certificate with Adobe Illustrator.
http://market-ticker.org/post=185094
I feel that our defense of the U.S. Constitution suffered a severe setback with the release of Wednesday's fake Certificate. A friend told me this evening, "I saw it on CNN ... the long form. That proves he's eligible. Now I don't want to hear any more about it."
:(
This is an example of the strong resistance to our constitution by lawyers on the left. These people need to be exposed and shunned by the public.
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Amending the Natural Born Citizen law – an attorney’s view
July 13, 2009 By admin
http://usjf.net/2009/07/amending-the-na ... neys-view/
This article was written in 2005 by an attorney affiliated with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis (that has ties to Mr. Obama) promoting the idea of doing away with the “natural born citizenâ€
Quote:
Originally Posted by [url=http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=292397
Alex Jones has his own ideas on why this obama birth certificate was created and released as a fake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g30VCl_cgk
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WorldNetDaily seems to be withholding judgment on the 4/27/11 counterfeit Certificate. WND has not fully committed to reject the latest forgery. For the moment, WND is leaving that decision for the reader poll and discussion.
But the ship is leaving the dock, and those with one foot on board and one foot on the shore are going to be all wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by [url=http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=292165
Saw the Alex Jones video. It only solidifies the volume of evidence mounting that this is another fraudulent document. But to what end? Was it deliberate? Or, are his gophers really that stupid? If I were Trump and I really wanted to make waves, I would be all over this like a blanket. Let's see. Trump DID mention that he would announce something in the next 3 weeks that would surprise us all.
PROVE TO YOURSELF IN JUST 52 SECONDS THAT THE 4/27/11 CERTIFICATE IS A FORGERY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMxVbPCPBY
http://bryankeithnixon.com/wp-content/u ... g-form.jpg
Don't believe your eyes? Download a trial version of Illustrator from www.adobe.com ;
download the official (counterfeit) long form Certificate of Live Birth from www.whitehouse.gov ;
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default ... g-form.pdf
open the document with Adobe Illustrator, right click on the official (counterfeit) document, and select "Release Clipping Mask."
Then you can move around the building blocks from which the document was assembled.
It's a fake.
A few obvious problems, before the Document Professionals tackle this (H/T BrianRoy):
1. At a glance, it looks legitimate to me, with everything in order, except it lacks the photostat "VOID" markings. But where's the embossed seal of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, without which it is not a legal birth document?
Can this be a certified copy without the embossed seal of the certifying Notary Public? (a rhetorical question)
2. So, who will be blamed for the layering, which happened when the electronic document was either in the hands of the White House Press Secretary, or the new State of Hawaii Dept. of Health Director, Dr. Loretta Fuddy, or Corley in D.C., perhaps? If the document were authentic, why is it an electronically layered and alterable document? Why is it NOT simply a physical copy or photocopy? Wasn't a LAWYER at Perkins Coie supposed to receive an actual physical copy? What's with this sloppy, cut and paste, electronic version?
The amateurs who created this counterfeit certificate neglected to "flatten" the layers, which would have welded them together into a single image and erased the incriminating evidence of layers or component images.
3. The defective "M" was carried over from the previous forgery, but not the "K"... sometimes?
In Box 5b, where the listing of the Hour "M" in PM suddenly shrinks to half size or less, the forger forgot to carry over the defective "K", which was allegedly typed with the same defective typewriter. Boxes 1a and 8 have the matching capital "K" in BARACK. Could that same "K" suddenly become a broken key in box 16 for "Kansas"? While there is a slight shift in the "O" in Oahu in 6b, "K" in "Kansas" is suddenly laid back and at an angle.
An examination of the image file with a text editor immediately showed evidence that the document was produced on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 Quartz PDF template, and it was timestamped at 8:09 am on April 27, 2011.
4. Address issues. Why was Ann Dunham Obama's address left blank and the Hospital address designated as 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., her parents' address?
CORRECTION: Box 7d is not supposed to be the hospital address. Boxes 7a through 7g all refer to the mother.
(Compare this counterfeit to Miki Booth's husband's 1949 Long Form Certification of Live Birth.)
5. This counterfeit Certificate still designates "Race of Father" as "African" rather than "Negro" or "negroid", the prescribed wording in 1961 for a U.S. Standard Birth Certificate. There are Caucasians, Arabs, Polynesians, and other races in Africa, too.
On the U.S. Standard Birth Certificate in 1961, the correct corresponding entry for "RACE" was "Negro" or "negroid"; "mulatto" or "colored" was accepted.
In 1961, "African American" was unheard of, and "RACE: African" would have been an anachronism from the future. Although an applicant could have written "African" in the "FATHER'S RACE" box, it would have been erroneous for the clerk to transcribe "African" into the official record.
6. Today's fake Certificate has been altered (from the earlier fake Certificate) by adding a wide green hatched border on all sides, most noticeably on the left side, where the curvature of the book suddenly turns into flat green hatched border - a physical impossibility in the real world.
The lower half of the earlier fake Certificate has been chopped off - the part with the stamps - and on today's fake Certificate, the stamps have been moved to the front side, where they do not belong.
7. The bottom border of the earlier fake Certificate has been cropped. On one revision, there was an addendum at the bottom which read:But, of course, that could easily be a fake, just as today's revision is a fake.
- 23. Evidence for Delayed Filing or Alteration
1. Birthplace: Kenya;Registered Honolulu HRS 338-17.8 per Grandmother
8. On this forgery du jour, the same person dated both signatures; look at the numbers.
On the Nordyke copies, there are clearly two distinctly different signatures.
9. The Certificate Number at the top of the form now lacks the erroroneous "1961" in the middle from the previous forgery. But the top right file numbers are out of order with the Nordyke twins' Certificate Numbers. The forger for Mr. Obama did not bother to offset the type in the same way as it is on the Nordyke originals.
10. In Box 1b and 8, we read the capitalized "HUSSEIN". So when the word "East" appears in box 11, the vertical line now becomes cursive... it is no longer straight but arched back.
Meaning, the document was forged.
But the crux of the matter is, this forgery steadfastly holds out a father of record who was not a U.S. citizen. This attests to Barack Obama II's dual allegiances, from birth to age 23 with Kenya, and from birth until he renounces his citizenship with the U.K., which he has yet to do.
For 2500 years, and affirmed by seven U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the definition of "natural born Citizen" is, "a citizen born in the country of parents who are citizens." Therefore, "natural born Citizen" is a more restricted category than "citizen", "born a citizen," or even "native-born citizen."
Mr. Obama is Constitutionally ineligible for not being a natural born Citizen of the U.S., which requires not only birth on U.S. soil (ius soli, the law of the soil), but that each parent was a U.S. citizen when the child was born (ius sanguinis, the law of the bloodline).
Still confused? Would another video help explain it? Try this one.
http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilli...ms_com_hdr.jpg
OBAMA CONFIRMS - NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
By J.B. Williams
April 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
[Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article are solely those of JB Williams and not necessary the opinion of NWV, it's staff or other writers.]
As the media blitz to silence questions about Obama’s eligibility for office become shrill, Obama finally releases his so-called “long formâ€
We need to be calling our worthless representative and senators and demanding an investigation into this trickery/ fake BC. Demand that they look into it. Obama and masters are depending on MSM to smack us down enough that we will not stand up and demand answers. Obama has been flipping us off and laughing in our face his entire presidency. To ignore this layered fake BC IMO is beyond stupid, let them call us all the names they want, it is better than being a fool and just rolling down the BS lane again.
Here is a good Link to send with emails:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2 ... is-a-fake/
I agree with April. It is better to be called a fool than to be one. I would not call for impeachment (unlikely); I recommend an official House investigation instead. A House investigation is much easier to start, is the correct process for crimes committed before taking office, doesn't involve the Senate, and has the same result (the fraudulent impostor resigns).
Anyway, here are the links from J.B. Williams' article. The linked contact can include a personal message, such as,
"I call for a House investigation with subpoena powers, which covers misconduct before taking office, such as misrepresentation of identity and election fraud."
This picture in the gatewaypundit article is quite convincing.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.B. Williams
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/w ... m-Fake.jpg
Remember Snopes claiming that the widow of Dr. Robert T. West,
who supposedly delivered Barack Obama II at Kapi'olani,
confirmed that Mr. Obama was born in Honolulu?
http://img227.imagevenue.com/loc154/..._122_154lo.jpg
That certainly looks more like "David A. Sinclair, M.D.", than it does "Robert T. West, M.D.".
SNOPES = FAIL.
http://img192.imagevenue.com/loc335/..._122_335lo.jpg
Below "Date Accepted by Registrar," the year looks so much more like "1351" than it does "1961".
FAKE.
The first one has been deleted by the user.Quote:
Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
Anyone have a .flv copy?
Here's Dr. Orly Taitz, on Russia Today (in English), about the latest fabrication from the usurpation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mnu9IgEYQQ
[size=117][list]“born in the US = natural born. Parentage is irrelevant.â€Quote:
Originally Posted by Harold
MinuteMan, I have FLV copies of both on my system, but I don't know how to upload to alipac. Maybe I'll see if I can find another copy on YouTube.Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
Juan
There are an additional copies of both videos found here:Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3-jbmQa8E
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O0V4dWdzcE
I would suggest that we all download copies of both videos. Remember that Alex Jones also has a video that addresses this same topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FDWWk_MWo
.
Personally, I am tired of the Games... The Brush offs from the Worthless Reps. in DC.
We cannot trust the Judicial System anymore, By allowing this Criminal and his TERRORIST Organization the Presidency... It makes OUR Constitution nothing more than Toilet Paper. He will give Amnesty to the 20-30 MILLION Illegals, by Presidential Directive... ALL in the Name of "National Security".
The 2012 Election is already stolen, and God only knows what the POS has in store for America after that.
No... I'm Sick and Tired of The Games.
Read the FOIA documents linked in this post
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-236525.html
Let me know what you think?
http://www2.az-independent.com/2011/04/ ... irthplace/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard ... tion-files
Liberal blogger Andrew Rice explores the way Africans handle marriages "concurrently" and not "consecutively" ...
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/c ... hite-women
Quote:
Hard as it may be to believe today, it seems clear from a close reading of the the file that the president's father was driven from this country because of his messy personal life. And reading between the lines, it's not hard to see a subtext of miscegenation.
First, a little historical background: the elder Barack Hussein Obama arrived in the United States in 1959, via an exchange program known colloquially in Kenya as the "Tom Mboya airlift," after the politician who sponsored it, a Luo tribesman of his. (These sorts of ethnic connections matter in Africa.)
During his first year of studies at the University of Hawaii, Obama took a Russian-language class where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, the president's mother. The earliest non-routine memo in Obama's file is a 1961 memo in which the I.N.S. is warned by a foreign student adviser at the University of Hawaii (a "Mrs. McCabe"), who informed the authorities that Obama had married Dunham. Further, the informant noted that he had been "running around with several girls" and had been "warned about his playboy ways." He had been confronted by school officials about another wife he had back in Kenya, from whom he claimed to be customarily divorced.
I have no intention of arguing that the elder Obama conducted himself honorably in his relations with women. However, having lived in East Africa, his explanation rings familiar to me. Even today, it is common for a well-traveled young person like him to have a first wife back in his home village. We call this "polygamy;" they see it as moving on with life.
First marriages fizzle out in Africa, as they do everywhere else. The difference is that culturally, legal divorce is very frowned upon: It's viewed as shirking financial and familial responsibilities. Epidemiologists, who have studied this cultural pattern because of its impact on the spread of H.I.V., often say that Africans tend to have "concurrent" relationships, while Americans have "consecutive" ones. That's a wild generalization, but the point is that Obama Sr. would not have viewed his first marriage back in Kenya as something disreputable. It clearly became worthy of investigation to school and immigration officials, though, after he started fooling around with white women.
After the 1961 report about Obama's marriage to Dunham, the I.N.S. resolved to keep eye on him. Polygamy is not a charge meriting deportation, the memo notes, adding that "If the subject were convicted of bigamy we might get a deportation charge but not before." But it recommends that Obama be "closely questioned before another [visa] extension is granted—and denial be considered." This sets the tone of the rest of the file, throughout which the issue of his American wife back in Hawaii keeps popping up.
The birth of Obama's mixed-race son—the one who would go on to be president—is duly noted, and then things go quiet for a couple of years. During this time, the president's parents separated and Obama Sr. went to Harvard to study for a graduate degree. The relationship went on as a long-distance proposition for a little while, though it was over by Jan. 1964, when Dunham filed for a divorce that Obama did not contest.
The same month as the divorce, another note appears in Obama's file. There seems to have been some kind of affair with a Kenyan exchange student (the file indicates a high school student, but that doesn't necessarily mean a minor—African children often started school quite late in the 1950s and '60s). The Unitarian Universalist Service, which had sponsored the woman's scholarship, is up in arms about the relationship and an unpermitted overseas trip. "The suspicion exists," says a memo, "that she may have gone to London for [redacted]."
We don't know what the couple was suspected to have done, but since this was a decade prior to Roe v. Wade, we can guess. A related memo reports that an informant considers Obama to be a "very slippery character."
Maybe he was. But again, what the I.N.S. really wants to know about is the elder Obama's situation with his wife back in Hawaii. The authorities get in touch with Harvard and ask officials there to press him on his marital status. Obama tells the school that he is separated from Ann Dunham, who is reported to be now living in the Philippines. (Though that's what the report says, it's inaccurate: Dunham was still residing in Hawaii in 1964, where she met her second husband, who did eventually take the family to Indonesia.)
In a handwritten note, the agent says a school official promises to talk to the student, "re his marital problems." Clearly, Harvard has decided that it has a problem with Obama's personal life.
In May 1964, Harvard gets back to the I.N.S. and reports that while the student has passed all his exams, the university is "going to try to cook something up to ease him out." The school follows up with a letter telling Obama that they don't have any more money to fund his scholarship and suggesting he finish up his thesis back in Kenya. Without the scholarship funding, his student visa won't be renewed. A follow-up memo says that Obama "was not satisfied" with the decision and has appealed.
Still, it seems that Obama can't stay out of trouble. In July, there's a handwritten note that says someone has called to complain that her 27-year-old daughter has agreed to marry him. This is almost certainly the mother of Ruth Nidesand, who met Obama's father at Harvard and eventually became his third wife. Again, another white woman. The I.N.S. investigates and determines that Obama had already departed for Kenya. The last note of interest in the file is a follow-up report—once more, circumstances strongly suggest it came from Nidesand's family—complaining that their daughter had eloped to Nairobi despite knowing that Obama had a couple of other wives floating around. The memo says there's nothing the government can do, since the woman was an adult and went of her own free will.
Again, the very fact that the memo exists and was placed in the immigration file—which presumably would have been consulted if Obama ever wanted to come back to live in America—is an indication of the seriousness with which the authorities at the time viewed the nature of his supposed misconduct.
It's clear that Obama Sr. marked himself as an undesirable from the very moment he married a white woman, and the racist subtext is pretty overwhelming throughout the documents. Sure, he seems to have behaved like a cad. But ask yourself this: if the male student involved was, say, French, is it conceivable that the U.S. government would have spent so much time investigating his romantic entanglements with various Americans? And, it seems clear, not-so-subtly nudging the Harvard authorities to cut off his scholarship? The answer to these questions is self-evident.
We know that Barack Obama Sr. died young, disappointed about many things. One of them, I have to imagine, was that his education at Harvard was cut short. Until now, it has typically been said that he "gave up" his doctoral studies, but this file makes it clear that he was never given a choice about leaving Cambridge. Who knows how his life might have turned out if he had been allowed to stay? Maybe he would have become an economics professor at some Northeastern liberal arts college, maybe he would have played a little more of a role in his son's life, and maybe his son would have never written Dreams From My Father, which would have been too bad, because it is a fantastic book and an unparalleled source of insight into the president's personal history and character.
For all the personal anguish described in that memoir, things turned out just fine for Barack Obama Jr. But we can't say the same for his father, who ended his life a disillusioned alcoholic, believing that he had been the victim of immense injustices. From reading this file, I think he had a pretty good case against the U.S. government.