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For my own documentation and records, are there specific links you are referring to?Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
More to add to the missing Obama background information situation. Combining the following WND June 9 article with the past Google and Yahoo data destruction, there is now way too much obvious evidence of Obama covering up his past.
Let's face it, folks - Obama IS a fraud, he IS NOT a natural born citizen, and he IS a usurper to the presidency.
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Obama: Where have all his records gone?
Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up
Posted: June 09, 2009
8:34 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php? ... eId=100613
While nearly 400,000 concerned citizens demand President Obama present his elusive "long-form" birth certificate, more than a dozen other documents remain unreleased or otherwise blocked from the public eye.
Numerous documents which have yet to be surrendered include the following.
Obama kindergarten records
The Maui News reported that Obama attended kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School on Oahu during the school year 1966-67. It released a photo of two teachers, Katherine Nakamoto and Aimee Yatsushiro, with five students. The teachers claim one of the children is Barack Obama.
According to the Hawaii Department of Education, students must submit a birth certificate to register. Parents may bring a passport or student visa if the child is from a foreign country.
So far, no records have been released by the school. Noelani Elementary School officials have not responded to WND's request for comment.
and more...
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Juan,
I have to agree, his own actions are the strongest evidence uncovered so far. He is BEHAVING like he is guilty.
Please join in as we LAUNCH PHASE 4 Amnesty SHUTDOWN!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-158996.html
BORN IN THE USA?
Rush Limbaugh pummels Obama on birth certificate
Radio giant clowns about president's similarities, differences with God
Posted: June 10, 2009
2:38 pm Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images/RushLimbaugh.jpg
Rush Limbaugh
Nationwide attention about President Obama's lack of producing a long-form birth certificate proving his eligibility for office got a boost today when top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh joked about the subject in comparing Obama to God.
Asking rhetorically what God has in common with Obama, Limbaugh said, "Neither has a birth certificate."
"How do they differ?" Limbaugh continued. "God does not think he's Obama. And there's another difference. Liberals love Obama."
Limbaugh repeated the punch lines several times throughout his show and noted, "another difference is that Obama gets better press. ... Another difference is that God only demands to be worshipped once a week."
Later, he sprinkled in other differences, including:
God asks for only 10 percent of your money
God gives you freedom to live your life as you choose
God's plan to save us is actually written down for you to read
Upon hearing the discussion, one listener in Miami phoned in to tell Limbaugh, "You're acting like you're God."
Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 380,000 others and sign up now!
The host responded, "I am better than most people but I don't think I'm God. Obama does. He's got a messianic complex."
Limbaugh commented that left-leaning listeners "can't stand any comedy about Obama."
The comparison to God comes after recent comments by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, who said on MSNBC's "Hardball" that Obama was "sort of God."
With the exception of extensive coverage by WND, the subject of Obama's eligibility for office based on his birth record has received little, if any, attention from large media outlets.
Limbaugh previously mentioned the birth certificate issue just days before the 2008 election, when Obama's campaign announced the candidate would rush to Hawaii to visit his dying grandmother, but took several days before actually making the trip. Limbaugh said on Oct. 23:
See, I think this is about something else. You know what's really percolating out there? I've been laying low on this because it hasn't met the threshold to pass the smell test on this program.
This birth certificate business, this lawsuit that a guy named Philip Berg filed in Philadelphia in August for Obama to produce his genuine birth certificate and he still hasn't replied. You've got a deathly ill grandmother, you are going to rush to her side a few days from now, when you first announced this, you're going to rush, you're going to hurry, you're going to make tracks, you're going to get over there because you don't want your grandmother to die before you got there like your mother did, but somehow you keep campaigning, you take three days to get over there, if he's left yet, and this birth certificate business, I'm just wondering if something's up. I have no clue, and folks, I'm telling you, this has not reached the threshold until now, and it's popping up all over the place. There are a lot of people now that are starting to speculate and be curious about this.
I don't know, let's say for example that somebody does come up with proof that something's screwy with his birth certificate and something's screwy about the fact that he's allegedly a natural citizen, American citizen, but may not be, dual citizenship, born in Kenya, who knows, there's all kinds of stuff out – so what? What's going to happen this late in the campaign? Do you think if it's proven that they're going to dump him? That's not going to happen. But still, these are just questions that I have. And, look, both of my parents have died. When I was told the end was near, bam, I got there, fast as I could. I didn't announce to the audience, "I just got word my father is said to be passing away and in four or five days I'm going to go to Missouri. In the meantime, I will not leave you here on this radio program." These are just natural questions. I think any inquisitive reporter – I know the risk I'm running here by raising all this. But I wouldn't be me if I didn't do that.
WND has been reporting since before the election on questions – and lawsuits – raised over Obama's birth and eligibility. He reported in his book he was born in Hawaii and his half-sister agrees. But the woman the president says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Complicating the issue are Obama's move to Indonesia as a child, where he reportedly attended that nation's public schools, and his later travels to Pakistan, raising questions about on what nation's passport was that travel accomplished. Then there are the multiple law firms hired to make certain Obama's long-form birth certificate information, and other documentation such as college records, remain sealed from public view.
Obama's presidential campaign released to select news organizations only what is known as a "certification of live birth," a document obtainable in Hawaii in 1961 by Americans actually born outside the country. However, Joseph Farah, WND editor and chief executive officer, has been calling for the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate showing the hospital of his birth, attending physician and other details to confirm his citizenship status.
Farah launched a national billboard campaign last month in an effort to keep the issue before the American people. The billboards, being leased around the country, ask the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" Farah is asking the public to support his campaign with donations. So far, more than $75,000 has been collected.
The billboard campaign followed one launched months earlier to collect the names on an electronic petition demanding accountability and transparency on the issue. So far, that petition has gathered nearly 400,000 names.
The campaign got a boost recently when WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asked Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president wouldn't release his birth certificate. Gibbs' response was covered live on C-SPAN and by Fox News Channel and others – excluding CBS.
It was the first time any member of the press corps has publicly asked a member of the administration a question directly related to Obama's constitutional eligibility for office as a "natural born citizen."
Congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," but no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Both the petition and the billboard campaign are part of what Farah calls an independent "truth and transparency campaign."
The first sign to be posted under the campaign, a digital, electronic one, is up and online on Highway 165 in Ball, La.. In addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first days of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing three more standard billboards – one in Los Angeles, another in Orange County, Calif. and a third in Pennsylvania.
Farah said the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.
"As Obama transforms this country from self-governing constitutional republic to one governed by a central ruling elite, the simple fact remains that no controlling legal authority has established that he is indeed a 'natural born citizen' as the Constitution requires," Farah said. "Obama's promises of transparency have become a bad joke as he continues to hide simple, innocuous documents like his birth certificate and his student records."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php? ... eId=100717
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BORN IN THE USA?
Obama: Where have all his records gone?
Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up
Posted: June 09, 2009
8:34 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Obama's alleged kindergarten class (photo: Maui News)
While nearly 400,000 concerned citizens demand President Obama present his elusive "long-form" birth certificate, more than a dozen other documents remain unreleased or otherwise blocked from the public eye.
Numerous documents which have yet to be surrendered include the following.
Obama kindergarten records
The Maui News reported that Obama attended kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School on Oahu during the school year 1966-67. It released a photo of two teachers, Katherine Nakamoto and Aimee Yatsushiro, with five students. The teachers claim one of the children is Barack Obama.
According to the Hawaii Department of Education, students must submit a birth certificate to register. Parents may bring a passport or student visa if the child is from a foreign country.
So far, no records have been released by the school. Noelani Elementary School officials have not responded to WND's request for comment.
Punahou School records
Punahou's alleged 1979 yearbook photo of Obama playing basketball
Though from a modest background, Obama began attending the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, one of Hawaii's top private institutions. He reportedly received a scholarship and attended the school from the fifth grade until he finished high school, though no financial records have been released.
The Boston Globe reported, "In 1979, the year Obama graduated, tuition for high school students at Punahou was $1,990, a sizable expense compared with Hawaii's median family income of $22,750 that year.
Obama, reportedly a "B" student, studied among the island's richest and most accomplished students. According to the school's website, he also played forward on Punahou's 1979 state championship basketball team.
Occidental College records
Obama arrived at Occidental College, a small liberal arts school in Los Angeles, Calif., in the fall of 1979. He only briefly mentions the school in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father."
Obama attended the school on a scholarship. Some question whether the financial aid he received was reserved for foreign students. Financial records have not been released.
In a legal action, handled largely by Gary Kreep of the U.S. Justice Foundation, officials at Occidental College were served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama's attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national.
Kreep petitioned the college with a demand for its records concerning Obama.
Occidental College library
"The gravamen of the petition is the question as to whether United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, of Illinois, is eligible to serve as president of the United States pursuant to the requirements for that office in the United States Constitution," he wrote. "The records sought may provide documentary evidence, and/or admissions by said defendant, as to said eligibility or lack thereof."
College officials then contacted Obama's lawyers, who argued to the court that the election was over and that future concerns should be addressed to Congress.
The motion stated that the records, which could reveal on what name Obama attended classes at Occidental and whether he attended on scholarship money intended for foreign students, "are of no relevance to this moot litigation."
The motion also claimed the petitioners failed to serve the subpoena properly.
Get your "Where's the birth certificate?" bumper sticker here.
"The subpoena directed to Occidental College should therefore be quashed. Alternatively, this court should issue an order directing that the deposition of the custodian of records of Occidental College not take place," the firm working on Obama's behalf stated.
"The central issue in this lawsuit … is whether any Respondent had a legal duty to demand proof of natural born citizenship from Democratic Party's nominee," the motion said. "None of the documents sought by petitioners could possibly assist in answering this question."
A judge granted a motion to quash the subpoena.
"Obama's attorneys bent over backward to block us," Kreep told WND. "Obama doesn't want anyone to see those records. He's trying to hide them."
(Story continues below)
His efforts resulted in a threat from Obama's attorneys to seek financial sanctions against the plaintiff's lawyers.
Kreep said a notice of appeal will be filed next week.
A notice posted on the Occidental College website states, "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations protect the privacy of student education records. We, therefore, cannot disclose students' classes, grade point averages, majors or other such information."
Columbia University records
Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University in 1981, at the age of 20.
According to the New York Times, Obama "suggests in his book that his years in New York were a pivotal period: He ran three miles a day, buckled down to work and 'stopped getting high,' which he says he had started doing in high school. Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, "He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life."
In a 2005 profile in a Columbia alumni magazine, Obama called his time at the school "an intense period of study."
"I spent a lot of time in the library. I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk," he said.
Columbia University hosts outdoor viewing of 2009 Inauguration on large screen
Obama claimed to be a part of the Black Student Organization and anti-apartheid activities. But according to the New York Times, several well-known student leaders did not recall his involvement.
Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.
The Columbia University chapter in Obama's life remains blank, according to the New York Sun.
"The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago," the Sun reported in September 2008. "The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public."
When the newspaper inquired, the Obama campaign did not offer an explanation for why the transcript had not been released.
According to the New York Sun, a program from Columbia's 1983 commencement ceremony lists Obama as a graduate. University spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a major in political science but without honors. Nonetheless, he was later admitted to Harvard Law School.
Columbia thesis "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament"
Before applying to Harvard, Obama is said to have written a major thesis in his senior year. It has not been released.
Soviet nuclear missile
An Oct 30, 2007, a New York Times article stated, "[Obama] barely mentions Columbia, training ground for the elite, where he transferred in his junior year, majoring in political science and international relations and writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament."
Former Columbia professor, Michael Baron, told NBC News Obama excelled in his year-long honors seminar called American Foreign Policy.
He also said Obama spent a whole year writing a "thesis" or "senior thesis" on the topic of nuclear negotiations with the former Soviet Union.
"My recollection is that the paper was an analysis of the evolution of the arms reduction negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States," Baron told reporters in an e-mail. "At that time, a hot topic in foreign policy circles was finding a way in which each country could safely reduce the large arsenal of nuclear weapons pointed at the other … For U.S. policy makers in both political parties, the aim was not disarmament, but achieving deep reductions in the Soviet nuclear arsenal and keeping a substantial and permanent American advantage. As I remember it, the paper was about those negotiations, their tactics and chances for success. Barack got an A."
Baron said he saved Obama's paper and recently searched through boxes hoping to find it, but he told reporters he may have thrown it away during a move several years ago.
Baron wrote a letter of recommendation when Obama applied to Harvard Law School. According to Federal Election Commission records, he also donated at least $1,250 to Obama's presidential campaign.
On July 24, 2008, the Obama administration told NBC News Obama was unable to release copies of his thesis paper.
"We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said.
According to MSNBC, Columbia University officials claim they do not have a copy available in the college's archives.
Harvard Law School records
Obama at Harvard (photo: Obama campaign)
With less than steller marks upon his graduation from Columbia, Obama was accepted into Harvard Law School.
WND columnist Jack Cashill wrote, "If Obama's LSAT scores merited admission (to Harvard), we would know about them. We don't. The Obama camp guards those scores, like his SAT scores, more tightly that Iran does its nuclear secrets."
He continued, "We know enough about Obama's Columbia grades to know how far they fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard."
Cashill wrote, Khalid al-Mansour, principle adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama's behalf. Al-Mansour reportedly mentored founders of the Black Panther party in the early 1960s.
Cashill suggests Obama's "shyness" about his Harvard experience may stem from his reluctance to broadcast his connections.
According to Politico, Obama's name does not appear on any legal scholarships during his time at Harvard. His campaign reportedly said his Harvard education was a product of hard work and student loans. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
Harvard Law Review articles
In 1990, Obama beat out 18 other contenders to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, where he spent at least 50 hours a week editing submissions from judges, scholars and authors.
According to Politico, there were "eight dense volumes produced during his time in charge there – 2,083 pages in all."
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told Politico Obama didn't write any articles for the Review, but he did leave behind numerous case analyses and unsigned "notes" from Harvard students.
As Matthew Franck noted in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time."
Susan Estrich, the first female president of the Review who served 14 years earlier, said Obama must have had something published that year, even if his campaign denied it.
"They probably don't want [to] have you [reporters] going back" to examine the Review, she said.
Staff of the 1990-1991 Law Review with Obama at center (photo: Obama campaign)
However, Politico later reported it had unearthed a 1990 article that "offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days."
His six-page summary answers a legal question about whether fetuses should be allowed to file lawsuits against their mothers.
"Obama's answer, like most courts': No," Politico reported. "He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy."
The report continued, "His article acknowledged a public interest in the health of the fetus, but also seemed to demonstrate his continuing commitment to abortion rights, and suggested that the government may have more important concerns than 'ensuring that any particular fetus is born.'"
Despite its earlier statement, the Obama campaign later confirmed Obama's authorship of the article and claimed it was the only piece he had written for the Review.
University of Chicago scholarly articles
(photo: Obama campaign)
Obama lectured at the University of Chicago Law School, a top school where the faculty is known for voluminous scholarly publishing, from 1992 until 2004.
The university offered Obama a full-time tenure-track position, an honor typically reserved for published instructors. However, reporters have been unable to find scholarly articles authored by him. The university reports that Obama declined the tenure offer.
Sarah Galer, news editor at the Law School and Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, told WND, "President Obama wrote 'Dreams from My Father' while at the law school but did not produce any scholarly articles as far as I know."
Passport
According to March 2008 reports, State Department employees conducted an unauthorized search of Obama's passport files during the recent presidential campaign. CNN reported that three different contract workers accessed his information on separate occasions – Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14 – without authorization. Two workers were fired and another faced discipline.
Obama's files reportedly contained copies of passport applications, birth date, basic biographical information, records of passport renewal and possibly citizenship information.
The Obama campaign demanded a thorough investigation to determine which employees looked at the file and why.
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN in a statement. "Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes."
Meanwhile, a key witness who had been cooperating with federal investigators was later found fatally shot in front of a Washington, D.C., church. A police officer found the body of Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, slumped dead inside his car.
At the time, investigators said they didn't have any information connecting the murder to the passport case. After one year of investigation of the homicide, there have been no arrests.
The passport has not been released.
Medical records
During his first presidential campaign in 1999, Sen. John McCain released 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records collected by the Navy. In 2008, McCain allowed reporters to spend three hours sifting through 1,200 pages of health records.
In 1999, former Vice President Al Gore released medical records revealing "mildly elevated" cholesterol levels and removal of a common form of skin cancer from his forehead in 1997. The documents disclosed his weight, resting heart rate, resting blood pressure, cardiovascular fitness and a variety of other health details. Gore's records were compiled after a complete physical examination by several military physicians.
Likewise, President George W. Bush allowed the media to view about 400 pages of personal medical information in 2000 and 2004.
After initial reluctance, Sen. John Kerry allowed the Navy to release his full medical records in 2004.
While not all have done so, it has been common practice for presidential candidates to release medical records.
However, Barack Obama, a relatively young candidate who was said to have been in "excellent health," refused to release medical records. Instead, he simply provided a six-paragraph note from his physician briefly summarizing 21 years of doctor visits and health information.
The letter contained no supporting documentation.
Other documents
Couple said to be Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham (photo: Obama campaign)
According to additional records listed at the Obama File Report, other documents that remain unreleased include:
Complete files and schedules of his years as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004
Obama's client list from during his time in private practice with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard
Illinois State Bar Association records
Baptism records
Obama/Dunham marriage license
Obama/Dunham divorce documents
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license
Adoption records
Birth certificate
WND has been reporting since before the election on questions – and lawsuits – raised over Obama's birth and eligibility. He reported in his book he was born in Hawaii and his half-sister agrees. But the woman the president says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 380,000 others and sign up now!
Barack Obama
Complicating the issue are Obama's move to Indonesia as a child, where he reportedly attended that nation's public schools, and his later travels to Pakistan, raising questions about on what nation's passport was that travel accomplished. Then there are the multiple law firms hired to make certain Obama's long-form birth certificate information, and other documentation such as college records, remain sealed from public view.
Obama's presidential campaign released to select news organizations only what is known as a "certification of live birth," a document obtainable in Hawaii in 1961 by Americans actually born outside the country. However, Joseph Farah, WND editor and chief executive officer, has been calling for the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate showing the hospital of his birth, attending physician and other details to confirm his citizenship status.
Farah launched a national billboard campaign last month in an effort to keep the issue before the American people. The billboards, being leased around the country, ask the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" Farah is asking the public to support his campaign with donations. So far, more than $75,000 has been collected.
The billboard campaign followed one launched months earlier to collect the names on an electronic petition demanding accountability and transparency on the issue. So far, that petition has gathered nearly 400,000 names.
The campaign got a boost recently when WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asked Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president wouldn't release his birth certificate. Gibbs' response was covered live on C-SPAN and by Fox News Channel and others – excluding CBS.
It was the first time any member of the press corps has publicly asked a member of the administration a question directly related to Obama's constitutional eligibility for office as a "natural born citizen."
Congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," but no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Both the petition and the billboard campaign are part of what Farah calls an independent "truth and transparency campaign."
The first sign to be posted under the campaign, a digital, electronic one, is up and online on Highway 165 in Ball, La.. In addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first days of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing three more standard billboards – one in Los Angeles, another in Orange County, Calif. and a third in Pennsylvania.
Birth certificate question being raised in Ball, La
Farah said the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.
"As Obama transforms this country from self-governing constitutional republic to one governed by a central ruling elite, the simple fact remains that no controlling legal authority has established that he is indeed a 'natural born citizen' as the Constitution requires," Farah said. "Obama's promises of transparency have become a bad joke as he continues to hide simple, innocuous documents like his birth certificate and his student records."
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Originally Posted by cayla99
It was Mama Sarah Obama, Barack Obama II's (step-)grandmother in Kenya, who started this "rumor".
"This video has been removed due to a terms of use violation."
Former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania Philip J. Berg talks to Michael Savage about the Supreme Court case to reveal Barack Obama II's birth certificate. "... a natural born citizen - and he is not!"
http://www.talkradionetwork.com is no more.
http://comments.obamacrimes.com
Gone, but hopefully Mr. Berg refiled all those comments at http://obamacrimes.us/phpBB3/index.php .
Here's a Petition:
www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/view_all/464/
"This petition is no longer available or has expired."
That's just on page 1. Need I continue?
Much of Dr. Orly Taitz' material was lost when she had to change to another web page host.
But some of her deleted material has been recovered.
Passport file tampering - CNN video of Mar. 22, 2008
www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/03/22/verjee.candidates.passport.cnn
"The video you are trying to access is no longer available."
I'm only suggesting that you "File / Save Page" for your own posts so the information can be retrieved when needed, even if the original article you referenced has been run off the i-way.
The Certificate No. on the FactCheck image of the "Certification of Live Birth for Barack Obama" is 151 1961 - 010641 .
(Not that it matters without the embossed seal and the bleedthrough signature that appear on all legitimate Certifications.)
Does anyone have a way to find someone else who also filed with the Hawaii Registrar of Vital Records on or around Aug. 8, 1961? When we compare that person's Certificate No. with Mr. Obama's, they should be close. If not . . .
[ED.: Among births on Aug. 4, 1961, the Nordyke twins were 10637 and 10638, but Virginia Sunahara, who died the next day, is now said to be 11080. But that is so far out of sequence that it appears that she was actually the original 10641, but she was assigned a bogus number, 11080, and her in-sequence number, 10641, was stolen for a previously non-existent birth certificate for Barack Obama II.]
The following are comments that "Dr. Ron Polarik" (pseudonym) found on HotAir.com on June 12, 2008, the day that the Daily K0s published the first Certification image. These are independent appraisals, not responses to Dr. Polarik's analysis.
From JM Hanes:
it really bothers me when something like this simply makes no sense. I couldn't begin to guess who would have fiddled with the document - or the when & why either - but I also can't think of a single logical reason (including filters, sharpening, or conversions) that a scan of an original document could result in the kind of selective pixelization/artifacting in evidence here. Pasting from one image into another, however, would produce precisely that effect.
"The pixilation around the text is...completely inconsistent with the background, which is discontinuous behind the text. Zoom in on the faint image of the reverse JUN 6 2007 in the lower middle of the doc for comparison and you'll see that the regular jpeg pixel blocking is uninterrupted. That's part of whatever this original document was before someone Photoshopped it. The SEAL was probably scanned from another actual document and pasted up along with the necessary text. Nice try with the "Photoshop filter."
Stanley Ann Dunham's Application for a Social Security Account Number
The form, Revised 7-55, has for item 10:
COLOR OR RACE
WHITE NEGRO OTHER
This was the terminology in use around the time of Barack Obama II's birth.
His birth certificate application might have used the term "CAUCASIAN" in 1961,
but "AFRICAN" is absolutely an anachronism, out of place in 1961, and incorrect, vague, and not definitive of race, no matter what the year.
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1...ham1959ssn.jpg
Maybe George Soros HAS already bought Fox.
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BORN IN THE USA?
Shep Smith attacks right-wing 'crazies'
Rips people questioning eligibility as being 'out there in a scary place'
Posted: June 10, 2009
8:30 pm Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100732
Fox News' Shepard Smith
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the top-rated evening cable newscast, believes Americans challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president are "crazies," saying "there is no truth whatsoever" to the suggestion Obama is not a "natural born citizen."
Smith made the remark during analysis of today's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where an elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle, killing a security guard before himself being shot. Police were probing an alleged white supremacist, James von Brunn, as the assailant.
During his interview with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Smith said:
"There are these crazies out there who want to pretend [Obama's] not a citizen of the United States, who want to pretend that his religion is something they see as in some way troublesome to them and all of us. And there is a group perpetuating this thought, and there is a culture to which you can attach yourself very easily through the Internet. ... We know it's absolutely – there is no truth whatsoever – zero – to any of those ideas, yet they live within the computer and they fester in people's minds."
Beirich agreed completely with Smith's remarks, as she responded:
"You're hitting the nail on the head about these kinds of crazed conspiracies whether they're about the president, or we're hearing things like FEMA setting up camps to round up Americans and put them in. I'm getting bad sort of deja-vu from the 1990s when anti-government militias were on the rise, when Tim McVeigh committed that [bombing] in Oklahoma City and I really am hoping that we're not going through a repeat of that."
And more
Complete article at: http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100732
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This is all bull crap, and really turns me off on Fox. First it was O'Reilly, long time celebrity and great apologist for Obama, and now it's Shepard Smith, news commentator. Doesn't anyone at Fox do any investigative reporting? Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are the last ones standing at Fox, and they aren't addressing the issue.
I really wish someone in some media company would address this issue in an investigative and truthful manner. It's supposed to be done by the government, and it's not. We are supposed to have checks and balances with the media, and we don't. That leaves the investigative work up to the private citizens and a couple of attorneys like Orly Taitz.
Common sense and evidence we have seen shows us that Obama is a liar and a fraud, but it seems everyone is afraid of him in spite of that knowledge. What happened to the white knight Americans that stand for 'truth, justice, and the American way?'
Are they all dead?
PLEASE LISTEN TO PETER INTERVIEW THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER WHO WROTE THIS ITS VERY GOOD!!!
http://khow.com/pages/boyles.html
AND HERE IS THE ARTICLE
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Obama: Where have all his records gone?
Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up
While nearly 400,000 concerned citizens demand President Obama present his elusive "long-form" birth certificate, more than a dozen other documents remain unreleased or otherwise blocked from the public eye.
Numerous documents which have yet to be surrendered include the following.
Obama kindergarten records
The Maui News reported that Obama attended kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School on Oahu during the school year 1966-67. It released a photo of two teachers, Katherine Nakamoto and Aimee Yatsushiro, with five students. The teachers claim one of the children is Barack Obama.
According to the Hawaii Department of Education, students must submit a birth certificate to register. Parents may bring a passport or student visa if the child is from a foreign country.
So far, no records have been released by the school. Noelani Elementary School officials have not responded to WND's request for comment
Punahou School records
Though from a modest background, Obama began attending the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, one of Hawaii's top private institutions. He reportedly received a scholarship and attended the school from the fifth grade until he finished high school, though no financial records have been released.
The Boston Globe reported, "In 1979, the year Obama graduated, tuition for high school students at Punahou was $1,990, a sizable expense compared with Hawaii's median family income of $22,750 that year.
Obama, reportedly a "B" student, studied among the island's richest and most accomplished students. According to the school's website, he also played forward on Punahou's 1979 state championship basketball team.
Occidental College records
Obama arrived at Occidental College, a small liberal arts school in Los Angeles, Calif., in the fall of 1979. He only briefly mentions the school in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father."
Obama attended the school on a scholarship. Some question whether the financial aid he received was reserved for foreign students. Financial records have not been released.
In a legal action, handled largely by Gary Kreep of the U.S. Justice Foundation, officials at Occidental College were served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama's attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national.
Kreep petitioned the college with a demand for its records concerning Obama.
"The gravamen of the petition is the question as to whether United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, of Illinois, is eligible to serve as president of the United States pursuant to the requirements for that office in the United States Constitution," he wrote. "The records sought may provide documentary evidence, and/or admissions by said defendant, as to said eligibility or lack thereof."
College officials then contacted Obama's lawyers, who argued to the court that the election was over and that future concerns should be addressed to Congress.
The motion stated that the records, which could reveal on what name Obama attended classes at Occidental and whether he attended on scholarship money intended for foreign students, "are of no relevance to this moot litigation."
The motion also claimed the petitioners failed to serve the subpoena properly.
Get your "Where's the birth certificate?" bumper sticker here.
"The subpoena directed to Occidental College should therefore be quashed. Alternatively, this court should issue an order directing that the deposition of the custodian of records of Occidental College not take place," the firm working on Obama's behalf stated.
"The central issue in this lawsuit … is whether any Respondent had a legal duty to demand proof of natural born citizenship from Democratic Party's nominee," the motion said. "None of the documents sought by petitioners could possibly assist in answering this question."
A judge granted a motion to quash the subpoena.
"Obama's attorneys bent over backward to block us," Kreep told WND. "Obama doesn't want anyone to see those records. He's trying to hide them."
His efforts resulted in a threat from Obama's attorneys to seek financial sanctions against the plaintiff's lawyers.
Kreep said a notice of appeal will be filed next week.
A notice posted on the Occidental College website states, "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations protect the privacy of student education records. We, therefore, cannot disclose students' classes, grade point averages, majors or other such information."
Columbia University records
Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University in 1981, at the age of 20.
According to the New York Times, Obama "suggests in his book that his years in New York were a pivotal period: He ran three miles a day, buckled down to work and 'stopped getting high,' which he says he had started doing in high school. Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, "He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life."
In a 2005 profile in a Columbia alumni magazine, Obama called his time at the school "an intense period of study."
"I spent a lot of time in the library. I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk," he said.
Obama claimed to be a part of the Black Student Organization and anti-apartheid activities. But according to the New York Times, several well-known student leaders did not recall his involvement.
Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.
The Columbia University chapter in Obama's life remains blank, according to the New York Sun.
"The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago," the Sun reported in September 2008. "The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public."
When the newspaper inquired, the Obama campaign did not offer an explanation for why the transcript had not been released.
According to the New York Sun, a program from Columbia's 1983 commencement ceremony lists Obama as a graduate. University spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a major in political science but without honors. Nonetheless, he was later admitted to Harvard Law School.
Columbia thesis "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament"
Before applying to Harvard, Obama is said to have written a major thesis in his senior year. It has not been released.
An Oct 30, 2007, a New York Times article stated, "[Obama] barely mentions Columbia, training ground for the elite, where he transferred in his junior year, majoring in political science and international relations and writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament."
Former Columbia professor, Michael Baron, told NBC News Obama excelled in his year-long honors seminar called American Foreign Policy.
He also said Obama spent a whole year writing a "thesis" or "senior thesis" on the topic of nuclear negotiations with the former Soviet Union.
"My recollection is that the paper was an analysis of the evolution of the arms reduction negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States," Baron told reporters in an e-mail. "At that time, a hot topic in foreign policy circles was finding a way in which each country could safely reduce the large arsenal of nuclear weapons pointed at the other … For U.S. policy makers in both political parties, the aim was not disarmament, but achieving deep reductions in the Soviet nuclear arsenal and keeping a substantial and permanent American advantage. As I remember it, the paper was about those negotiations, their tactics and chances for success. Barack got an A."
Baron said he saved Obama's paper and recently searched through boxes hoping to find it, but he told reporters he may have thrown it away during a move several years ago.
Baron wrote a letter of recommendation when Obama applied to Harvard Law School. According to Federal Election Commission records, he also donated at least $1,250 to Obama's presidential campaign.
On July 24, 2008, the Obama administration told NBC News Obama was unable to release copies of his thesis paper.
"We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said.
According to MSNBC, Columbia University officials claim they do not have a copy available in the college's archives.
Harvard Law School records
With less than steller marks upon his graduation from Columbia, Obama was accepted into Harvard Law School.
WND columnist Jack Cashill wrote, "If Obama's LSAT scores merited admission (to Harvard), we would know about them. We don't. The Obama camp guards those scores, like his SAT scores, more tightly that Iran does its nuclear secrets."
He continued, "We know enough about Obama's Columbia grades to know how far they fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard."
Cashill wrote, Khalid al-Mansour, principle adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama's behalf. Al-Mansour reportedly mentored founders of the Black Panther party in the early 1960s.
Cashill suggests Obama's "shyness" about his Harvard experience may stem from his reluctance to broadcast his connections.
According to Politico, Obama's name does not appear on any legal scholarships during his time at Harvard. His campaign reportedly said his Harvard education was a product of hard work and student loans. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
Harvard Law Review articles
In 1990, Obama beat out 18 other contenders to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, where he spent at least 50 hours a week editing submissions from judges, scholars and authors.
According to Politico, there were "eight dense volumes produced during his time in charge there – 2,083 pages in all."
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told Politico Obama didn't write any articles for the Review, but he did leave behind numerous case analyses and unsigned "notes" from Harvard students.
As Matthew Franck noted in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time."
Susan Estrich, the first female president of the Review who served 14 years earlier, said Obama must have had something published that year, even if his campaign denied it.
"They probably don't want [to] have you [reporters] going back" to examine the Review, she said.
However, Politico later reported it had unearthed a 1990 article that "offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days."
His six-page summary answers a legal question about whether fetuses should be allowed to file lawsuits against their mothers.
"Obama's answer, like most courts': No," Politico reported. "He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy."
The report continued, "His article acknowledged a public interest in the health of the fetus, but also seemed to demonstrate his continuing commitment to abortion rights, and suggested that the government may have more important concerns than 'ensuring that any particular fetus is born.'"
Despite its earlier statement, the Obama campaign later confirmed Obama's authorship of the article and claimed it was the only piece he had written for the Review.
University of Chicago scholarly articles
Obama lectured at the University of Chicago Law School, a top school where the faculty is known for voluminous scholarly publishing, from 1992 until 2004.
The university offered Obama a full-time tenure-track position, an honor typically reserved for published instructors. However, reporters have been unable to find scholarly articles authored by him. The university reports that Obama declined the tenure offer.
Sarah Galer, news editor at the Law School and Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, told WND, "President Obama wrote 'Dreams from My Father' while at the law school but did not produce any scholarly articles as far as I know."
Passport
According to March 2008 reports, State Department employees conducted an unauthorized search of Obama's passport files during the recent presidential campaign. CNN reported that three different contract workers accessed his information on separate occasions – Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14 – without authorization. Two workers were fired and another faced discipline.
Obama's files reportedly contained copies of passport applications, birth date, basic biographical information, records of passport renewal and possibly citizenship information.
The Obama campaign demanded a thorough investigation to determine which employees looked at the file and why.
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN in a statement. "Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes."
Meanwhile, a key witness who had been cooperating with federal investigators was later found fatally shot in front of a Washington, D.C., church. A police officer found the body of Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, slumped dead inside his car.
At the time, investigators said they didn't have any information connecting the murder to the passport case. After one year of investigation of the homicide, there have been no arrests.
The passport has not been released.
Medical records
During his first presidential campaign in 1999, Sen. John McCain released 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records collected by the Navy. In 2008, McCain allowed reporters to spend three hours sifting through 1,200 pages of health records.
In 1999, former Vice President Al Gore released medical records revealing "mildly elevated" cholesterol levels and removal of a common form of skin cancer from his forehead in 1997. The documents disclosed his weight, resting heart rate, resting blood pressure, cardiovascular fitness and a variety of other health details. Gore's records were compiled after a complete physical examination by several military physicians.
Likewise, President George W. Bush allowed the media to view about 400 pages of personal medical information in 2000 and 2004.
After initial reluctance, Sen. John Kerry allowed the Navy to release his full medical records in 2004.
While not all have done so, it has been common practice for presidential candidates to release medical records.
However, Barack Obama, a relatively young candidate who was said to have been in "excellent health," refused to release medical records. Instead, he simply provided a six-paragraph note from his physician briefly summarizing 21 years of doctor visits and health information.
The letter contained no supporting documentation.
Other documents
According to additional records listed at the Obama File Report, other documents that remain unreleased include:
* Complete files and schedules of his years as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004
* Obama's client list from during his time in private practice with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard
* Illinois State Bar Association records
* Baptism records
* Obama/Dunham marriage license
* Obama/Dunham divorce documents
* Soetoro/Dunham marriage license
* Adoption records
Birth certificate
WND has been reporting since before the election on questions – and lawsuits – raised over Obama's birth and eligibility. He reported in his book he was born in Hawaii and his half-sister agrees. But the woman the president says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 380,000 others and sign up now!
Complicating the issue are Obama's move to Indonesia as a child, where he reportedly attended that nation's public schools, and his later travels to Pakistan, raising questions about on what nation's passport was that travel accomplished. Then there are the multiple law firms hired to make certain Obama's long-form birth certificate information, and other documentation such as college records, remain sealed from public view.
Obama's presidential campaign released to select news organizations only what is known as a "certification of live birth," a document obtainable in Hawaii in 1961 by Americans actually born outside the country. However, Joseph Farah, WND editor and chief executive officer, has been calling for the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate showing the hospital of his birth, attending physician and other details to confirm his citizenship status.
Farah launched a national billboard campaign last month in an effort to keep the issue before the American people. The billboards, being leased around the country, ask the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" Farah is asking the public to support his campaign with donations. So far, more than $75,000 has been collected.
The billboard campaign followed one launched months earlier to collect the names on an electronic petition demanding accountability and transparency on the issue. So far, that petition has gathered nearly 400,000 names.
The campaign got a boost recently when WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asked Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president wouldn't release his birth certificate. Gibbs' response was covered live on C-SPAN and by Fox News Channel and others – excluding CBS.
It was the first time any member of the press corps has publicly asked a member of the administration a question directly related to Obama's constitutional eligibility for office as a "natural born citizen."
Congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," but no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Both the petition and the billboard campaign are part of what Farah calls an independent "truth and transparency campaign."
The first sign to be posted under the campaign, a digital, electronic one, is up and online on Highway 165 in Ball, La.. In addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first days of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing three more standard billboards – one in Los Angeles, another in Orange County, Calif. and a third in Pennsylvania.
Farah said the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.
"As Obama transforms this country from self-governing constitutional republic to one governed by a central ruling elite, the simple fact remains that no controlling legal authority has established that he is indeed a 'natural born citizen' as the Constitution requires," Farah said. "Obama's promises of transparency have become a bad joke as he continues to hide simple, innocuous documents like his birth certificate and his student records."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100613
By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Fox News' Shepard Smith
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the top-rated evening cable newscast, believes Americans challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president are "crazies," saying "there is no truth whatsoever" to the suggestion Obama is not a "natural born citizen."
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I couldn't help but laugh when I read about Shephard Smith's comment above.
1. I like Shepard Smith. I have been watching his good show off and on for several years.
2. But I started thinking about the following statements the more I thought about Shepard Smith and Obama's eligibility issue:
a. Smith says he attended the University of Mississippi. I guess he graduated. I don't know. I'll just take his word for it, because, like Obama' college records, I have not seen Smith's college records.
b. NCAA football eligibility: Smith often talks about how much he likes and follows Universisty of Mississippi football.
c. I too am a big football fan, espcially when it comes to Notre Dame football.
d. What Shephard seems to have forgotten: The NCAA, the governing body of major college sports, is one of the strictest in-your-face organizations when it comes to checking the eligibility of its student-athletes.
e. For instance, did a player have his grade in high school secretly changed so that he could qualify for entrance into a major school like the University of Mississippi? If he did and the NCAA found out about it, he and the University of Mississippi could be in a lot of trouble.
f. For instance, a player transfers from an obscure junior college where his academic record was tampered with so that he could qualify to play major college football/basketball, well, again, if the NCAA found about it, the player and the university could be in a lot of trouble.
3. My point is this: Men and women who want to play major college sports have to pass strict NCAA eligibility requirements and have to present VERIFIED documents that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are eligible under NCAA rules.
4. In fact, I wouln't be surprised if the eligible requirements for NCAA athletes are more strict than the eligibility requirements for those candidates who run for President of the United States.
5. So I say this to famous tv host Shephard Smith: I like you, but if you are so upset because Americans want Obama to prove that he is eligible by showing them his long form birth certificate---the one with the names of his birth hospital and birth doctor on it---then I say you are clearly wrong when you call such Americans "crazies."
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations . . . are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any way wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.
Pres. George Washington, in his Farewell Address (1796)
Quoted by Carl Swensson on his Rise Up America / American Grand Jury video.
"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?" - Washington's Farewell Address
Kerchner v. Obama: Judge Grants Defendant’s Second Time Extension (Apuzzo Update)
Submitted by Phil on Wed, Jun 10, 200922 Comments
Kerchner v. Obama: Judge Grants Defendant’s Second Time Extension (Apuzzo Update)
Mario Apuzzo, attorney for Plaintiffs in Kerchner v. Obama, reports that US Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider granted the Defendant’s second request for a time extension in this case (Court document follows).
As Mr. Apuzzo noted on April 13, the government is always given 60 days by which to respond to any complaint brought against it. On that same date, the federal government requested an additional 15 days by which to respond, making the deadline May 5, 2009 for any motions on their part. Subsequently, per paragraph 10 of the motion, the Defendants had requested an additional 20 days to respond. Today’s order now makes the new deadline June 29, 2009.
Mr. Apuzzo is in New Jersey Superior Court over the next two days on another case and will be responding to this Order sometime thereafter.
Of the reasons for the time extension request, Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Pascal mentioned that Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had both requested the DOJ to represent them in this matter. Also, Attorney Pascal mentioned in the Defense’s original motion:
“I was unaware that I could move for an extension of time to answer, move, or otherwise respond to the complaint pending the representation decision for those Defendantsâ€
[quote][size=150][b]April 14, 2009: Obama Administration Claims “Sovereign Immunityâ€
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[size=117]Eligibility prosecutors can expect the government to claim to have sovereign immunity. Oh, just let them try that!
A lawsuit against the United States in federal court does not invoke or imply concerns of sovereignty. [url=http://openjurist.org/23/f3d/1166]Such broad exceptions have been carved out of federal sovereign immunity that, “Congress, on behalf of the United States, has surrendered any comparable right not to be a litigant in its own courts.â€
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Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
Any totalitarian government believes it can discourage revolt, though the seeds of tyranny always beget its fall, eventually.
Just look at history. . . ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, the Kingdom of Israel after David and Solomon, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Median and Achæmenid Empires, the Macedonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Inca Empire, Napoleon's Empire, the British Empire, the Imperial Japanese Empire, the Third Reich, the Soviet Empire, Iraq under Hussein...
Tyranny is the final stage of a rotting nation. Tyrants fall much more quickly in these times than thousands or even hundreds of years ago. To think that the future pseudo-messiah will have only seven years to rule the one-world government before he spends eternity in the lake of fire. It's hardly worth it to rule the world anymore.
I don't know what we do. But I don't expect the uniformed military and the citizen militia to long continue to put up with this regime.
I pray, putting no trust in rulers or governments or laws. He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword. Better to be a live dog than a dead lion. Just pray and proclaim the Truth: let the truth be known.
David Barton of Wallbuilders has numerous accounts of Divine intervention on behalf of America's soldiers, in response to believing prayer and trust in the Lord.
Half of the Pilgrims died in the Massachusetts winter of 1620-1621. In the spring, Samoset, a Wampanoag Indian, approached the settlers and spoke to them in their native English language. He then brought Squanto, who lived with them and received Jesus Christ. Governor William Bradford described Squanto as “a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . and never left [us] till he died.â€
Minuteman,
Thanks for your comments. Most of my experience and knowledge is based on business and technology. I appreciate your clear thinking and knowledge of history.
I'll probably never be satisfied with any answers because I am impatient and am frustrated that the usurper will be in office for ANY additional time. He's wrong for America and he needs to be removed from power before he destroys us completely. I don't like tyrants.
So far for this summer, I have 17 books I will be reading before I start school again in the fall, and they include several each history, law, economics and political books.
I feel like I'm just beginning my studies.
Juan
This morning's TownHall has one particularly important article, and one that I can agree with completely.
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Senior Democrat Says Obama's Czars Unconstitutional
Ken Klukowski
Monday, June 15, 2009
Article is here: http://tinyurl.com/nttvp9
Last week President Obama appointed yet another “czarâ€
When press secretary Gibbs responded at the news briefing a few weeks with "It's on the internet" to the Obama birth certificate question, I couldn't help but laugh a little.
1. I couldn't help laughing because Gibbs seemed to be saying that if something---say, a document like a birth certificate---was posted on the internet, it must be factual, true, and honest.
2. Of course, we all know---and I'm sure that Gibbs knows too--that if something is posted on the internet, the first thing we need to do is to look at it with the greatest caution and distrust.
For instance, we have all heard horror stories of people who have bought items on the internet and who have found out later the the item that was advertised on the internet was not the item that they actually bought.
3. How about this: Let's say that the President of the highly-respected University Notre Dame posted the following statement on his website: "I have a copy of Obama's long form birth certificate for everyone to see, but I can't let anyone see it or touch it in person."
4. I love Notre Dame University football, but my response would be: " Sorry, President of Notre Dame, but if you can't let the public see it and touch it, I don't believe that you really have Obama's long form birth certificate."
5. Press Secretary Gibbs says "It is on the internet". But what is on the internet?
6. Fact: The Obama birth certificate on the "internet" is stamped "2007" on the back.
7. My followup question to Gibbs would have been: You are correct. It is on the internet. But why does Obama end up displaying an obvious 2007 Hawaii birth certificate? Why doesn't Obama display a birth certificate with a much earlier date? Did Obama lose his original birth certificate?
8. "Oh, yes. Mr. Gibbs. If you are so naive to believe that everything on the internet is true and should be trusted absolutely, I have some oceanfront property in Nevada that I am selling on the internet. Please check it out."
"Off with his head!" I thought that was the Red Queen, not Pres. Bush. Perhaps the possibility of Mr. Obama invoking such a privilege has intimidated the governing authorities from functioning as checks and balances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Klukowski
We'll monitor those CEO lawsuits for a judge with integrity and courage. Then we will know where to direct an eligibility lawsuit to annul the Presidential election.Quote:
Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
There are a lot of updates on Leo Donofrio's site regarding Jeffrey Taylor's resignation:
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com ... /#comments
One post by Chris Strunk is of special interest.
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Chris Strunk Says:
June 11, 2009 at 4:08 pm
[Ed. Below is a very well written letter and request sent to Taylor by Mr. Strunk. Interesting that Taylor resigned a few days later.]
Taylor got the following on May 26, 2009 and resigned effective May 29, 2009.
SERVICE of NOTICE of Relator’s Verified Quo Warranto Complaint affirmed 5-19-09
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:06 PM
From:
“Christopher Strunkâ€
Not holding my breath, FYI
[quote]Schneller v. Cortes: Distributed for SCOTUS Conference
Submitted by Phil on Mon, Jun 15, 200915 Comments
Schneller v. Cortes: Distributed for SCOTUS Conference
A concerned Pennsylvania citizen and the pro se Plaintiff in Schneller v. Cortes, James Schneller had originally brought a suit against his Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pedro Cortes, alleging that Pennsylvania’s certified ballots were improperly transmitted to the federal government due to a stay of such activity and that Sen. Arlen Specter had been improperly placed as an Elector for the McCain/Palin ticket. His application for stay had originally been denied by Associate Justice Souter back on January 8, 2009 (docket).
According to the case’s current docket (also referenced via my “Supreme Court Infoâ€
This doesn't sound right to me. Unless this wording is required, I don't understand how a court could address this complaint seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christopher-Earl Strunk
I realize that many of us have sent letters of support to one or more U.S. Attorneys about quo warranto actions, but they may turn out to be another effort for justice that will fall on deaf ears. I have had my doubts about Patrick Fitzgerald since the Valerie Plame debacle, and now we see this unsettling article in NewsWithViews.
JOURNALIST THREATENED FOR EXPOSING COVER-UPS
By Cliff Kincaid
June 18, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy Award winning journalist formerly with ABC News, has uncovered evidence of al-Qaeda involvement in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 has been threatened with a lawsuit by powerful U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Government officials blamed the crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230 people, on a mysterious mechanical malfunction, while the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168, was quickly labeled the work of domestic “right-wingâ€
You should have received the return receipts within a week. Nothing yet here from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, but I mailed 11 days after you. Procrastination is a tough habit to break.Quote:
Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
Don't assume the worst based upon OKC and TWA800. Mr. Fitzgerald is just doing his job and obeying orders. We can only assume that if Mr. Fitzgerald took up our complaint publicly, AG Holder would immediately order him off the case. Yet, he obviously has a great deal of independence in order to attack corruption in government.
Mr. Obama probably considers him a most dangerous opponent. He may deem it better to have Mr. Fitzgerald working for him than working against him.
Senator calls for vetting of candidates' eligibility
GOP's Coburn likes plan to require birth certificates
Posted: June 18, 2009
9:46 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says it's the responsibility of the states to make sure political candidates are eligible for the offices they seek, but he's in favor of both state and federal demands that future presidential candidates have a formal procedure to document their qualifications. (emphasis mine)
The relatively strong statement from Coburn on the issue of the eligibility of a president came in a recent letter to a constituent who contacted WND.
WND has reported on a federal plan in the U.S. House by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., that would require documentation of eligibility from presidential candidates, and Coburn confirmed he would view that positively.
"The bill requires any federal candidates' campaign committee filing with the Federal Election Commission to produce a copy of the candidate's birth certificate," he wrote. "If the bill makes it to the Senate, I will likely support it."
Complete (lengthy) article here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php? ... eId=101492
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It only requires a single state enforcing its nbc eligibility laws to blow the cover of a fraudulent nominee (like Obama) by not accepting candidacy of the candidate. Having said that, implementing both federal and state eligibility compliance laws (as suggested in the article above) would be the best, and most redundant, insurance policy Americans need.
High level intensive FBI background checks of all POTUS nominees, including forensic examination of the nominee's submitted birth certificate, prior to the nominee's approval as a party candidate, would be another vital insurance policy for voting Americans.
And, finally, imposing severe criminal penalties on electors and secretary of state officers for violating these federal and/or state eligibility laws would be America's third insurance policy.
I would also suggest for the states the same mandatory eligibility compliance and background requirements be imposed on all individual federal senators and congressmen. No sense in allowing anyone to get into any federal elected office that is not a verified natural born U.S. citizen with a clean record, and who would NOT ultimately be eligible to be POTUS (either by election or by emergency).
States can enforce the eligibility requirements on their own governors and state senators and representatives if they think it is a good idea. I raise this 'state' question because Bobby Jindel (Governor of Louisiana) is being talked about as a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012, and he's NOT a natural born citizen - a fact that everyone who loves him as governor seems to be ignoring. It's OK for Jindel to be a state governor because, as governor, he's not in the eligibility chain to become POTUS. States aren't required to be anal about nbc status of their own elected state officials, but the people the states send to Washington should be required to conform.
I don't want to have us all go through this POTUS eligibility fire drill every four years, so an ounce of prevention ahead of time is well worth a pound of cure at a later time.
..usurp the usurper..!!! :twisted:
..thanks to ALL of you on this thread AND behind the scenes.. :D
..keeping myself and MANY others informed..!! 8)
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Here is a suggestion... Lets Waterboard the whole lot of them!!!
Grandma Obama, Barrack, Michele, Rev. Wright, Obamas' Brother, EVERYONE in Obamas Cabinet.
I bet someone spills the beans on the phoney SOB! :evil:
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PoP, let us know how your visit from the Secret Service works out.Quote:
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I understand waterboarding is out of vogue with this Administration. Surfboarding at Waikiki Beach is in, though.
After Mr. Obama warned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the world will be watching, Ahmadinejad responded in kind about the Waco burnout tragedy. Thank goodness he didn't know about this Constitutional crisis. I shudder to think of how he could blackmail Mr. Obama on the world stage to quit whining about human rights violations against Iranian "election" protesters.
Are you sure Ahmadinejad does not know? Lets look at Obama's strong condemnation of the situtation:Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
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Obama, noting the 30-year-old freeze in diplomatic relations between the two nations and high-stakes international tensions over nuclear issues, told reporters at the White House, "It's not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling."
"This is a debate inside of Iran for Iranians," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/ap_ ... us_us_iran
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Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
Interesting idea about making Reps and Senators show status as nbc'ers. It was floated many years ago.
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From The Files of The Court
150 YEARS AGO
November 5, 1798
At the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven on the second Thursday of October, A.D. 1798
A RESOLUTION of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, passed the 28th day of June, A.D. 1798... recommending an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall exclude foreign influence from her councils, viz... no person shall be eligible as President or Vice-President of the United States; nor shall any person be a Senator or Representative in the Congress of the United States, except a natural born citizen...
Reprint of an item appearing in 1798, and republished in The Hartford Courant issue of Oct 31, 1948.
Meanwhile, as foreign influence is a concern in 2009, some interesting news about a Sovereignty Caucus in the Congress.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009 ... t-week.php
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Congressional Sovereignty Caucus Launching Next Week
By Eric Kleefeld - June 19, 2009, 5:40PM
A new group is set to launch in the House of Representatives, made up of conservatives set on defending American power and interests against encroachment from international institutions: The Congressional Sovereignty Caucus.
Their kickoff meeting will be this coming Wednesday, featuring co-founders Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), plus Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) -- and special guests Oliver North, Frank Gaffney and Doug Feith.
Rep. Lamborn declined to comment, but his office did point us to an opinion column he wrote last week, mainly targeted at the nomination of Harold Koh to be the legal counsel to the State Department, in which he explained the importance of American sovereignty.
"Sovereignty is vital for America because we are an exceptional nation," wrote Lamborn, "one uniquely blessed with a vibrant Judeo-Christian heritage, as demonstrated both through its founding documents and by the witness of history. For any nation, and I believe especially for America, to give up any degree of control of its destiny to transnational bodies is irresponsible and wrong."
Their first meeting sure will have an interesting line-up. North, for example, covertly sold weapons to the Khomeini regime in Iran and then wore his Marine uniform at a Congressional hearing in order to justify himself. And Gaffney has written opinion columns in which he's raised suspicions that President Obama might not be a natural-born citizen, or could be a secret Muslim.
according to the SCOTUSblog live feed, Once again SCOTUS is not touching the eligibility issue.
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The Court has granted certiorari in 3 cases
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Graham County Soil & Water Conservation Dist. v. U.S. ex rel. Wilson (08-304)
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08-1224; United States v. Comstock
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Florida v. Powell (08-1175)
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The Court has released the first opinion: Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, et al. and Alaska v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, et al. (07-984/07-990)
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The decision below is reversed and remanded in a 6-3 opinion by Justice Kennedy
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Justice Ginsburg filed a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Stevens and Souter. Justice Breyer and Justice Scalia filed concurring opinions
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We will post a link to the order list and to slip opinions as soon as they are available
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Links to the cert papers in Florida are available here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/petitions- ... e-of-6409/
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Graham : http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/petitions- ... 08-121208/
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Comstock: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/petitions- ... -of-61809/
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We are awaiting more opinions
Farah's $10,000 birth certificate challenge
Editor encourages readers to help him up the ante
Posted: June 22, 2009
9:00 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama – and he's asking Americans to donate to the cause in hopes of raising the bounty to an irresistible amount.
"Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961," explains Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in the interest of truth, justice and the Constitution, I am making the extraordinary offer to entice someone to come forward with the facts of his birth – whether it took place in Hawaii or elsewhere."
Obama has steadfastly refused to release evidence of that Hawaiian birth – a valid, long-form birth certificate that would show details of the birth, such as the hospital and the attending physician. Because the short-form "certification of live birth" he released to select news organization was at least sometimes issued for foreign births on the basis of an affidavit by one parent, it proves nothing as far as constitutional eligibility – and, in fact, raises suspicions about a foreign birth.
To date, no hospital in Hawaii has come forward to claim this historic birth.
No doctor or nurse has come forward to say they were present for that historic birth.
No witness of any kind has come forward to say they have first-hand knowledge or involvement in that historic birth – at least in Hawaii.
Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claims to have been present for the birth in Mombassa, Kenya.
"It is clear now that Obama will never willingly release his birth certificate," said Farah. "It's time for Americans who still value the Constitution to step up and force the issue. It's time for us to learn the truth of where Obama was born. We may find he was born in Hawaii. We may find he was born elsewhere. I have no pre-conceived ideas. But this issue has haunted the American people long enough. It's time for some truth and transparency."
To collect the reward, the subject must:
1. Agree to an interview with WND journalists;
2. Provide persuasive evidence, such as pictures, documents or verifiable details;
3. Agree to a polygraph test.
"I think it's disgraceful that Americans should be forced to go to such lengths by the intransigence of public officials toward accountability," said Farah. "But that is what it has come to in 2009 with our current president. He prefers to dodge and weave, while his apologists in government and media viciously attack citizens for attempting to see that the Constitution is observed."
Farah launched a petition drive earlier this year that has accumulated nearly 400,000 signatures demanding that all controlling legal authorities pursue proof of Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." That petition campaign is still on-going.
More recently, he launched a billboard campaign raising the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" That campaign has raised $85,000 so far. Farah says there are plenty of billboards available, despite a ban on the campaign by several major outdoor advertising companies. But donations have dried up because of an apparent misperception among readers that billboards are not available due to the bans imposed by a few companies.
In addition, Farah points out those interested in backing his latest campaign can also raise visibility for the issue by purchasing magnetic bumper stickers, tea party rally signs and yard signs that raise the same simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?"
All funds not used specifically for a reward will go toward the purchase of more billboard space.
If you would like to raise the reward, WND is accepting contributions in any amount. Donations can be made online, by phone and credit card or checks can be mailed to:
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Here is an actual Hawaiian birth certificate from 1963 (the same era as Obama's birth), which while redacted includes detailed information documenting a birth, including the name of the birth hospital and the attending physician.
Long-form birth certificate from state of Hawaii (Image courtesy Philip Berg)
http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/longform.jpg
Here is the "Certification of Live Birth" presented by Obama:
http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/shortform.jpg
Short-form "Certification of Live Birth"
If you are a member of the media and would like to interview Joseph Farah about this campaign, e-mail WND.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101892
Dropping In on Obama's Kenyan Grandmother
What it means to be an Obama in Africa.
By Andy Isaacson [for Slate]
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, at 2:36 PM ET
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Sarah Onyango Obama reading Kenyan
press coverage of the U.S. campaign
at her rural homestead in Kogelo.
KOGELO, Kenya - Last Sunday morning, while Barack Obama stumped in Colorado, his paternal grandmother, 86-year-old "Mama Sarah" Obama, stood before a microphone and a crowd of several hundred villagers on a plot of land in Kogelo. Beside her was Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose helicopter had descended unexpectedly onto her tin-roofed homestead moments earlier. Streams of excited villagers ran across the surrounding corn and cassava fields and from a soccer game at Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.
Odinga addressed the crowd and the Kenyan TV cameras that followed him in Luo, the local tongue: "Today we have gathered here to say hello to Mama Sarah. The boy from here, he's gone to compete. We are praying for him so that he succeeds. Are you happy with Obama?"
"We are happy!" the crowd responded.
"Are you happy with him?"
"We are!"
Though I may have been the only person for miles around who actually has a vote in the U.S. presidential election, the occasion seemed oddly like a campaign rally. In a sense, it was. For Prime Minister Odinga, who, like the Obamas, belongs to the Luo tribe, and whose loss in a tainted presidential election last December touched off devastating ethnic violence, the appearance with Sarah Obama was not only an expression of solidarity, but also unambiguous political groundwork for what he might one day claim as a direct channel to the White House. For Obama's grandmother, the arrival of the Kenyan prime minister was another indication of how the phenomenal rise of an Obama child has changed the lives of the other Obama family half a world away.
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Sarah Onyango Obama in her living
room in Kogelo, as her grandson's
likeness stands in the corner
"At the beginning, I thought it was something that would be short-lived, but it's been getting bigger every day," Obama's uncle Said had told me earlier that day on the drive from the provincial city in Kisumu for what I expected would be a quiet interview with the family matriarch. "It will continue to be a major preoccupation - or maybe my employment." Said wasn't referring only to his changed daily routine, which now involves rising at 4 a.m. to track the latest U.S. campaign news on Anderson Cooper 360 - "people will ask me to comment on a development, and I don't want to be caught unawares" - before a full workday as a technician for a spirits company, followed by night school for his business management degree. Said was also referring to what it has meant, and what it may mean for at least the next four years, to be an Obama in Kenya: the frequent visits from people asking for money or help getting a U.S. visa; the requests to help sponsor scholarships for study in the United States; and the random pale faces, African dignitaries, and international journalists that have been arriving at Mama Sarah's home on a daily basis for the last year, paying respects and seeking favors and quotes.
"You can't fail to see there's a perception that we are in a better place economically," Said said. "People know that if you are in a senior position, you become rich. Leaders here steal. But our lives go on. We are a hardworking family. We should not just stand idly and think Barack is going to fix everything for us."
A 36-year-old cousin of Barack's, a hairdresser in Nairobi who has returned to Kogelo to support Mama Sarah during the final weeks of the campaign, told me that he tries to maintain a low profile. "I won't be able to walk freely," he said, asking that his name not be publicized out of concern for both unwanted attention and personal safety. His girlfriend, he added, doesn't even know about his family ties to the U.S. senator. "She might think I've been hiding money from her. She'll expect a lot." Last August, Italian Vanity Fair "discovered" Barack's half-brother George, who lives in the marginalized outskirts of Nairobi; his plight was sensationalized by international media and in turn exploited by conservatives who suggested that the candidate doesn't care for his own family. Because of the widely brachiated nature of the Kenyan Obama family tree, as for many traditional African families, notions of family are very complicated. Certainly, the Obamas that Barack seems closest with appear loved, financially secure, and not at all resentful.
A perception of family wealth was likely the motive of an attempted burglary of Mama Sarah's home in September. When I arrived at the homestead, I was met by armed Kenyan police officers posted behind a newly erected 8-foot fence. I was asked to sign a visitors log. Hundreds of names from all over the world had filled the book since the first entry on Sept. 16. The guards were securing what may be the world's most modest gated compound: With the exception of a small solar panel on the corrugated tin roof of Mama Sarah's two-room home, the most obvious signs of affluence appeared to be a pair of cows, which mooed as I walked in.
Mama Sarah's living room had obviously been configured to accommodate visiting delegations. Several wood couches and chairs were neatly arranged arm-to-arm around the perimeter of the cement floor, their cushions covered by plain white cloths with embroidered fringes. A television draped in a decorative cloth sat atop a table in one corner, and a life-size photo cutout of a smiling Barack presided over the room from another. Other Barack memorabilia and family portraiture hung from the walls: a framed black-and-white image of Barack Obama Sr., an image of Sasha and Malia Obama watering a seedling in front of a Masai tribesman while Barack snapped a picture, and an autographed poster from Barack's Illinois state Senate campaign, signed, "Mama Sarah: Habari! And Love."
"Barack is a good listener," Mama Sarah told me. "He is somebody who pays attention to the plight of people. With those kinds of attributes, I think he will be in a better position to sort out the problems that are bedeviling the world. I think he's got all it takes to be a world leader." Clearly reining in her normally spontaneous personality, Mama Sarah was proud and on-message: "We are leaving everything to God. We know it's been a long wait, and, God willing, we hope that everything is going to be OK."
The day before, in Kisumu, I was talking about Obama to a boatman on Lake Victoria when a nearby car radio blared the following judgment: "God has already chosen Obama on Nov. 4! Who are you to say no?" Nowhere in Kenya - perhaps nowhere in the world outside of blue-state America - is there more optimism about an Obama victory as in Kisumu, a predominantly Luo city on Kenya 's western border with Uganda, which still bears the scars of last winter's election violence. Indeed, the widely held fear that vote-rigging on Nov. 4 could snatch the election from Obama reflects the lingering sentiment among Luos here that Kenya's tainted presidential election - in which Odinga officially lost to Mwai Kibaki - was stolen from them. I've been asked several times, "Do you think John McCain can steal the votes?"
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Obama merchandise for sale in Kisumu
Obama's likeness appears on watch faces, key chains, posters, T-shirts, calendars, and women's shoes. Hawkers offer CDs of Obama-inspired reggae and Luo songs in the open-air bus depot. Mockups of $1,000 bills with Obama's portrait filling the oval are plastered on public minivans. ("I just asked the designer to pimp the van, and it came back like this," the driver told me.) A generation of newborns named "Obama" are entering the world. A schoolteacher in a local village says her students sing Obama songs: "He is a genius/ He is a hero/ He comes all the way from Africa/ To go compete in the land of the whites/ He makes us proud/ For at least he's made Africa known to the world." The campaign 8,000 miles away has been closely observed. When I arrived in town, my tuk-tuk driver offered punditry of the third debate: "For the first 20 minutes, it was competitive and McCain was good, but then Obama was much smarter."
Daniel Otieno, the local bureau chief of Kenya's the Nation newspaper, believes the fierce partisanship is a legacy of the area's early bullfighting days, when Luo clans rallied behind their favored bull. "Barack Obama is their bull," he says, adding that "a victory on Nov. 4 will be felt as a consolation for the Kenyan election." Bundled with that pride is an exaggerated expectation that Obama will support Kenya, and especially the Kisumu area, currently crippled by the country's highest incidence of HIV/AIDS. Unemployment here is rampant, and many of the young and jobless I spoke with believe an Obama presidency will directly improve their lives - a belief that I hope does not turn into resentment if and when they are disappointed.
While the TV cameras rolled in front of Mama Sarah's home, Prime Minister Odinga attempted to temper these expectations. "Kenyans know that Barack will be first and foremost the president of the United States of America, not a Kenyan president in the United States." He added, "Under an Obama presidency, trade and investment between Kenya and the United States will increase. Kenyans hope that there will be more scope for cooperation. We also think that Africa will get more attention than it has received in the past."
With that, Odinga and Mama Sarah walked toward the car that would drive the prime minister to his helicopter. He was a step ahead of her, and just as it seemed he was about to get into the car, a reporter reminded him that Mama Sarah was behind him, anticipating a goodbye. Odinga turned, offered a warm and genuine embrace, and then drove out of the compound.
The villagers dissipated, the reporters disassembled their tripods and climbed into SUVs, and Mama Sarah headed toward the house. Said called out, "Intercept her!" Then he led her by the arm to a waiting chair in the shade of an avocado tree, where a Canadian TV crew was setting up for an interview.
Re: the scriptural command to submit to the governing authorities
Dear Dr. So-and-So on the ray-dee-oh,
Your intelligent messages quite often find disagreement in this quarter. But they make me wiser by requiring me to compose my thoughts into cogent arguments to counter your assertions.
Your attack on Christians' political activism seems, to me at least, to run afoul of the Lord's command to "Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's, and unto God the things which are God's." We are to be involved in the temporal human government, just as we are subjects of the King in the Kingdom of God. Recall that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christian believers who trusted in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and for eternal life.
Jesus taught us to pray, "Our Father... Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." We are to be salt and light in a decaying and darkened world. But as Vance Habner said, "If America's Christians are salt and light, why is America so corrupt and dark?"
In the U.S., the ultimate (temporal) governing authority is supposed to be the U.S. Constitution, not Washington, D.C., the government, the President, the Congress, the courts, the military, the church, the family, or even a democracy of We the People. All government officials and military personnel are sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." On our money, George Washington represents the Constitution, not Washington, D.C., even though presidents in the past 20 years have not followed his example.
(To anyone looking for a reason to rumble: you are in the wrong discussion group and need to leave.)
We are not revolutionaries plotting armed revolt or insurrection against the government. We submit to the legitimate government legitimately exercising legitimate authority. We profoundly support and defend the authority of government in the United States - the U.S. Constitution - against those government agents who have gutted it and perjured their oaths to defend it. Should such rogue government agents persecute us or prosecute us for our adherence to the U.S. Constitution above mob rule and "might makes right," we will have to pay the consequences, go to jail, or even go to the FEMA camps for "reeducation" or execution. May God help us to be as strong and courageous as the patriots of old and the Iranian dissenters dying in the streets of Tehran.
If Christians do not stand up for the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion, who will? The Anti-Christian Lawyers Union? Consider who had to come to our rescue :rolleyes: and stand up against the secular government's latest encroachment in California last week.
Who will stand up to the homosexuals at their annual day of debauchery in Philadelphia now that Michael Marcavage is under such intense scrutiny? Maybe the Women's Christian Temperance Union... no, they can't do it, ;) they are Christians, too.
Who will stand up against the American holocaust now that a proponent of infanticide is signing the bills in the Oval Office? Perhaps the Hippocratic oath will compel the altruistic AMA to stand in the gap. :confused:
Who will protect us from the brownshirt brigades after they confiscate our weapons in the name of making us safe? (Safe from whom? Ourselves?) After all, the Dept. of Homeland Security has already named returning war veterans, along with us, as potential terrorists; and current military indoctrination lists us as "low-level terrorists."
I don't smell burning flesh from the ovens yet, but I don't have to drive far to see an empty FEMA camp with razor wire facing inward.
After we pay all taxes required of us and submit to legitimately exercised government authority, wouldn't it be wise to use all available legal recourse, including legislation, litigation, petitions, and public assembly for the redress of grievances (protests), to keep Washington out of God's business? While there is still day, before the night comes?
The one reason I stand in the gap is to hinder the barbarians from overrunning the city set on a hill and destroying whatever opportunity remains to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Truth. No such opportunity remains for me personally as an unemployed person. But there are still some open doors for proclaimers such as you. Or would you prefer that we do nothing to thwart the "Fairness Doctrine," which would effectively do away with Christian broadcasting? In the face of hate crime legislation such as S. 909, which has already passed the House as H.R. 1913, would you imply that we should not lift our voices, our signs, our telephones, and our keyboards against it?
Dust off the history books and study Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the Confessing Church, especially about how they differed from Ludwig Müller, the "Reich Bishop" who supported Hitler.
Moses brought down Pharoah with just a staff in his hand and with himself in the Lord's hand. Elijah slew all of Jezebel's prophets of Baal, and if he hadn't been exhausted, he would have finished the job. Instead, he left that mopping up operation to Jehu and Elisha. Amos prophesied against the rulers of Israel, as did the other prophets. John the Baptist boldly and publicly indicted Herod Antipas (the third King Herod) for taking for himself his brother Philip's wife, the mother of Philip's heir. Jesus so despised Herod that He didn't even speak to him, much less lift His finger to do a miracle to convince Herod to subject himself to this Messiah-King, before it was eternally too late for Herod, the usurper-king of the Jews.
The tribulation saints of the future will surrender their heads rather than submit to the pseudo-messiah. That doesn't look like "submitting to the governing authorities." It looks more like "obeying God rather than men" when the governing authorities are opposing God by their malfeasance of governance.
I shudder to think of how you would do the word in Romans 13:1-7 and Titus 3:1, if you were to discover that your government had been overtaken by a foreign usurper who rendered fealty to Dar al-Is|am and submitted to the Mus|im authorities of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kenya, Dearbornistan, Indonesia, Syria, and Iran; who implemented Marx's communist policies and nationalized America's banks, industries, private enterprise, and personal stockholdings; and who intentionally bankrupted the country so as to make it fall into the tender mercies of its creditors: China, OPEC, and the globalist financiers behind a future one-world government based in Olde Europe (Rev 13:1-8 ).
I do not expect you to believe that such a thing could ever happen here, but I do ask that you decide how you would act upon the word in such circumstances, should they ever come to pass before the tribulation and before the rapture of the saints.
Sincerely in Christ,
Excellent letter Minuteman
Interesting twist in the ongoing saga of the Obama cases:
Judge: Eligibility dispute is 'serious'
Says case will be expedited when representation lined up
Posted: June 26, 2009 12:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102156
A judge hearing one of the cases challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president has taken the unusual step of describing the dispute as a serious constitutional issue and further has begun adding letters of comment from the public to the court record.
Word of the action by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider in Camden,
N.J., comes from attorney Mario Apuzzo, who is handling the Kerchner vs. Obama case.
Apuzzo filed his lawsuit in January on behalf of Charles F. Kerchner Jr., Lowell T. Patterson, Darrell James Lenormand and Donald H. Nelson Jr. Named as defendants are Barack Hussein Obama II, the U.S., Congress, the Senate, House of Representatives and former Vice President Dick Cheney along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The case focuses on the alleged failure in Congress to follow the Constitution. That document, the lawsuit states, "provides that Congress must fully qualify the candidate 'elected' by the Electoral College Electors."
The Constitution provides, the lawsuit said, "If the president-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the vice president elect shall act as president until a president shall have qualified."
"There existed significant public doubt and grievances from plaintiffs and other concerned Americans regarding Obama's eligibility to be president and defendants had the sworn duty to protect and preserve the Constitution and specifically under the 20th Amendment, Section 3, a Constitutional obligation to confirm whether Obama, once the electors elected him, was qualified," the case explained.
"Congress is the elected representative of the American people and the people speak and act through them," the lawsuit said.
The defendants "violated" the 20th Amendment by failing to assure that Obama meets the eligibility requirements," the lawsuit said.
Apuzzo told WND that while the judge recently granted the government extra time to line up defense counsel for the named defendants, his ruling described the issue as a serious constitutional question.
"Plaintiffs' complaint raises significant issues necessitating that the named defendants engage competent counsel to represent their interests. Given the high ranking positions of the defendants, the decision as to who will represent them in this case is not simple and straightforward," the judge said.
But as soon as attorneys are lined up, "the case will proceed expeditiously," he said.
The case has attracted numerous public comments directed at and delivered to the judge, who has started adding them to the case file, Apuzzo noted.
"It's unbelievable," he said. "The court put the letters on Pacer."
Pacer is a fee-based court website through which interested parties can research cases and their documentation.
"This is really strange," said the attorney, noting that judges typically do not accept or even acknowledge public commentary on cases that are pending before them.
"The point is the letters are there in the docket," he said.
WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
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