O'Reilly just said it....the "Birther deal" is madness. We are all nut cases. Maybe he is right. However, he should be asking the question.."why won't Obama unseal his records?"
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O'Reilly just said it....the "Birther deal" is madness. We are all nut cases. Maybe he is right. However, he should be asking the question.."why won't Obama unseal his records?"
No one is nuts for wanting to verify the natural born citizenship qualification or any other qualification to be President of the United States. O'Reilly hasn't investigated it, he has no proof one way or other, therefore, he's being opinionated and silly to make such a statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasBorn
Judy, I think it goes much deeper than that. The evidence is out there so why haven't they take even a few hours to investigate it? I believe they have been told to not go anywhere near this topic for reasons only the network executives know. Very dangerous in my opinion!Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy
[size=117]"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/12/ ... ve-dunham/
[b]His name is “Steve Dunhamâ€
I don't think they care whether he's a natural born citizen or not. These are all globalists who could care less about national citizenship. To them citizenship is a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasBorn
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=123843
We don't need a court to remove the ineligible impostor.Quote:
Courts can remove ineligible chief executive
Precedent cited in appeal of California challenge to president's tenure
We only need a judge to demand discovery. Then the court of public opinion will force him to resign.
[size=117] http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/10/ ... verlooked/
Red Flags Overlooked
HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ACTIVELY COVERING FOR OBAMA’S CHANGED VITAL RECORD
by Nellie Esquire
(Jan. 10, 2010) — People are asking how so many terrorist red flags could be overlooked by so many. The answer is, that they have been overlooked the same way these “birtherâ€
Obama's prayer: 'Don't question my citizenship'
Raises issue of eligibility in speech at annual breakfast gathering
Posted: February 04, 2010
11:34 am Eastern
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
President Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast raised the issue of his own eligibility for office – saying that people shouldn't be questioning his "citizenship."
Talking about the issue of "civility," he said, "Now, I am the first to confess I am not always right. Michelle will testify to that. But surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship."
The video:
civility questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vUSywS ... r_embedded
Obama continues, "Challenging each other's ideas can renew our democracy. But when we challenge each other's motives, it becomes harder to see what we hold in common. We forget that we share at some deep level the same dreams – even when we don't share the same plans on how to fulfill them."
The questions, however, over Obama's "citizenship," actually go to the core of the American republic. Multiple lawsuits have challenged that he is not qualified for the Oval Office under the Constitution's requirement that U.S. presidents be a "natural born citizen."
The plaintiffs – who run into the hundreds so far and who still have a number of cases pending at the appelllate level – have alleged that failing to meet that constitutional requirement means he actually is a usurper, with no actual authority to be president.
On a forum page at The Hill newspaper, one commenter wrote that the president has only himself to blame for the questions.
"Personally I am no birther … but I am curious as to why Obama continues to beat on this issue .. is it a political ploy by his handlers to continue to use this as a divisive issue? To try and embarrass a certain segment of the population? And if not, why doesn't he just provide the certificate and end all the speculation for the conspirators once and for all? Obama has certainly been a little less than forthcoming on his grades, his Harvard review publications and many other accomplishments…"
The reference apparently was the first time the issue has been addressed by Obama, even though he did not provide any answers. His press secretary, Robert Gibbs, repeatedly has ridiculed questions related to the subject, and the White House itself has declined to respond to any of a multitude of questions submitted by WND over months on the issue.
The multiple Obama eligibility cases have cited Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which 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."
Some of the lawsuits question whether Obama was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
See the movie Obama does not want you to see: Own the DVD that probes this unprecedented presidential eligibility mystery!
Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.
Further, others question his citizenship by virtue of his attendance in Indonesian schools during his childhood and question on what passport did he travel to Pakistan three decades ago.
Adding fuel to the fire is Obama's persistent refusal to release documents that could provide answers and the appointment – at a cost confirmed to be at least $1.7 million – of myriad lawyers to defend against all requests for his documentation, such as his original birth certificate. While his supporters cite an online version of a "Certification of Live Birth" from Hawaii as his birth verification, critics point out such documents actually were issued for children not born in the state.
Among documentation not yet available for Obama is his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124115
Another attorney's views on Obama is below.
Anita MonCrief (referenced in Gaynor's article) has much to say about ACORN and Obama at:
http://anitamoncrief.blogivists.com/.
Doug Edelman's Beck article (also referenced by Gaynor) can be found here:
http://westernfrontamerica.com/2010/01/ ... -birthers/
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When it comes to Obama, DON'T assume!
Author: Michael Gaynor
February 5, 2010
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/100205
The sooner the whole truth about Obama and his radical enablers is generally known, the better.
Law students are told not to assume.
It's good advice for everyone, especially when it comes to President Obama, about whom much is assumed and much is not generally known.
Support for Obama's radical policies, like Obamacare, has plunged, but Obama's personal popularity remains high, thanks to the liberal media establishment's lack of scrutiny of, and willingness to turn a blind eye or even cover up or lie for, Obama.
As I reported on October 22, 2008:
ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief "had been working with New York Times national correspondent Stephanie Strom, but what ended up published as Ms. Strom's ACORN articles were so 'watered down' that Anita decided to turn elsewhere.
"Wisely so.
"Yesterday, Anita advised me, Ms. Strom apologetically canceled a meeting for today and explained that New York Times policy was not to publish what might be a game changing article this close to the election."
Neither The New York Times, nor ABC, nor CNN wanted to do a pre-election Obama/ACORN expose, lest it be a game changer.
The ugly truth about Obama and the Obama campaign and such radical organizations as ACORN, SEIU and La Raza should have been generally known before Election Day 2008, but it was not.
It still needs to become generally known and that involves setting aside the assumption that Obama is a person of great personal integrity and scrutinizing the facts.
[i]The so-called "birthers" are intent on ascertaining the facts, but my friend Doug Edelman admonished the Right to "put [Obama's presidential] eligibility question on the shelf until after election night, 2010," because "t is a potentially disastrous distraction before then," in "Beck and the Birthers" (February 3, 2010).
Make no mistake: Doug did not bash "the birthers," like buffoonish Glenn Beck and blustery Bill O'Reilly.
Doug: "There is indeed reason to question Obama's eligibility and he has invested MILLIONS in quashing the probes into the question! Once the security and stability of the fundamental structure of the Republic can be assured (after the 2010 elections), the question MUST be raised and resolved!"
But Doug believes that Beck is right that the eligibility issue "could serve to advance Obama's interests — at least at this point in time!"
If so, that's partly because Beck and O'Reilly tried to enhance their own credibility by using a Saul Alinsky tactic and ridiculing "the birthers" instead of pointing out the obvious: (1) Obama has been hiding his actual birth certificate, (2) it's reasonable to suspect that a hider hides because what is hidden would be hurtful, not helpful, if discovered, and (3) the burden of proof on anyone claiming the presidency is on the claimant, regardless of race, color, creed or sex, and if that person's "national origin" is NOT the United States, that person is not qualified.
I suggest that every presidential aspirant should produce his or her birth certificate.
In 2008, John McCain did, but Obama did not.
That make Obama suspect, not "the birthers" ridiculous.
Doug rightly provided reasons why "the birthers" are right not only to demand President Obama's birth certificate, but also, based on subsequent events in Obama's life, to seek confirmation that Obama remained a "natural-born" United States citizen even if he was born in Hawaii.
Doug:
"...those who dismiss the eligibility debate as unimportant, irrelevant, settled or 'tinfoil hats' nutz really need to cool their jets and open their minds too. While there are those who have made headlines and court cases postulating that Obama was born in Kenya and proclaiming the birth documents Obama has put forth as fraudulent, there are indeed others who reject that theory — yet still hold that there are OTHER constitutional disqualifiers for Obama. To call these people 'Birthers' would be inaccurate, as they don't dispute Obama's Hawaiian origins — as whether he were born there OR NOT, is irrelevant to their ineligibility arguments!
"It IS a fact that the document Obama hangs his hat on, the 'Certificate of Live Birth' IS NOT a 'Birth Certificate,' and CAN BE LEGALLY obtained for a child not born on US Soil. I've written previously on this so won't waste space on it here.
"It is also a fact that Obama was legally adopted by Lolo Soetoro and moved with him to Indonesia, where he was enrolled in school with documents showing him to be an INDONESIAN citizen. Why is this important? Because, at the time, there was NO Dual Citizenship between the US and Indonesia.
"Then there is the Passport Question: What passport did Obama use to travel to Pakistan?
"He couldn't have travelled on a US passport, as Pakistan was a 'no travel' destination for a US Passport holder. Was he using a Brittish passport? This would lend support to the Kenya Birth theory. And if he travelled on an Indonesian Passport, that would prove his Indonesian Citizenship, and by extension his forfeiture of any prior-existing US Citizenship. The answer to the question of what passport he presented on entry into Pakistan is of paramount importance to the eligibility/citizenship debate — and the 'Birth Certificate' is irrelevant to that answer!"
I don't assume that Obama was born in either Hawaii or in Kenya.
I think Obama should prove where he was born by producing his birth certificate, not conceal it and expect us to blindly accept his claim.
After all, Bill O'Reilly is the one who was ridiculous when he said that "birthers" believe Obama was "born on Saturn" or that no one would have falsified the place of Obama's birth because it was not expected that he would run for President of the United States.
Note to Bill: You should NOT assume that the only reason for faking Obama's birthplace would be to facilitate his election as president. There are valuable advantages to being a "natural-born" United States citizen besides being eligible to be President. Think about it! Check with the hospitals along the border to which pregnant mothers come in order to give birth to "natural-born" United States citizens.
Doug:
"Before a war erupts on the Right between the Constitutional Eligibility Challengers and their deriders, BOTH sides need to step back!
"The eligibility issue is a distraction, and as Beck RIGHTLY points out — The focus needs to be on Obama's policies. ObamaCare can still be rammed down our throats. We must put ALL our energies into convincing our elected officials that NOTHING that comes out of Conference Committee can be acceptable and WHATEVER emerges must be voted down. Focusing on 'Where's the Birth Certificate' right now will simply waste energy and resources that we need for the healthcare fight — and failing in that arena will permanently damage our Republic. PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!"
Respectfully, if the goal is to block Obama's policies, HE as well as his policies should be scrutinized.
Doug:
"The issue SHOULD be tabled until after the 2010 elections, when — hopefully — Obama's ability to dismantle our Constitutional Republic will be significantly diminished. Currently, the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Triumvirate bears enough power to do far more damage to our Constitution than the question of whether Obama meets the Constitutional qualifications for the office he was elected to and has held for a year.
"So please, challengers to Obama's eligibility... take a neutral corner for a while. The bell for the round has rung. There will be another opportunity to grapple, but right now is time for a breather, a sip of water, and some towel-fanning!
"Therefore, my admonition to the Right is this: Put the eligibility question on the shelf until after election night, 2010. It is a potentially disastrous distraction before then."
It is also "potentially disastrous" to assume that Obama is qualified to be President and a person of great personal integrity.
The sooner the whole truth about Obama and his radical enablers is generally known, the better.
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Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.
Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.
The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.
Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.
Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.
If there's any question, look at the picture here on Peter Boyles page at KHOW in Denver.
http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html
Are you referring to this?
http://www.khow.com/cc-common/mlib/636/ ... 373724.bmp
"Never stop! Never stop fighting until the fighting is done." - Eliott NessQuote:
Originally Posted by Doug Edelman
in "The Untouchables," speaking to Al Capone upon his conviction for tax evasion.
Perhaps Mr. Edelman would choose to postpone, until he has the children off to school and himself off to work, calling 911 about an arsonist breaking into his house, carrying a gas can and a torch. But then again, he might think better of waiting until he completed his daily routine, even if it would make him late to work.
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Sign posted on the road just outside Nairobi, Kenya.
Can someone confirm that this is a real sign in Kenya?
Obviously :roll: the sign refers to Barrack Obama, Sr.,
the famous Harvard-educated economist. :lol:
Clicking on the image brings up a slightly larger image
and a Red Cross request for Haiti relief donations.
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by FreedomFirst
February 07, 2010
Another Look at Obama's Origins
By Jack Cashill
The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. This article was prompted by two e-mails. The first asked me why I had never weighed in on the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Barack Obama.
I responded that although I was troubled by the lack of documentation regarding all phases of Obama's history -- I'd be content with his SAT scores -- I could not understand why any pregnant American woman would go anywhere near Kenya.
The second e-mail was more interesting. It came from a Michigan entrepreneur named Don Wilkie, with whom I had not previously communicated. Knowing my interest in the authorship questions surrounding Obama's writing, he presumed that I was intrigued as he was by a cryptic poem the nineteen-year old Obama wrote called "Pop," the best thing that Obama himself has actually written. He was right.
"Pop" relates an encounter between Obama and a man most reviewers presume to be Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham. Dunham would have been in his early sixties at the time. In the poem, Obama has "Pop" wondering drunkenly about the boy, "What to do with me, a green young man."
The Obama of the poem is cynical, even a little bitter. He makes several allusions to the fact that he and the old man look and even smell alike, a fact that strikes Obama as more ironic than reassuring. The poem ends, however, with reconciliation when Pop stands and asks for a hug. Writes Obama:
I see my face, framed within

Pop's black-framed glasses

And know he's laughing too.
Wilkie offers a novel interpretation of "Pop." Says Wilkie, "I think the poem zeros in on that poignant moment when Obama was told that his grandfather was in reality his father."
Wilkie concedes his theory is "off-the-wall," but he also offers photographic evidence to show that Obama much more closely resembles Dunham -- especially by the telltale ears -- than he does Barack Obama, Sr.
Intriguing as the theory is, I t hought it would be easy to disprove. I was wrong. For starters, in his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father, Obama refers to his grandfather not as "Pop," but as "Gramps." If he were writing about his grandfather in this poem, the title "Pop" may very well be suggestive of a more direct kinship.
For another, there is little known about the marriage between Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's presumed mother, and Barack Obama, Sr. According to most accounts, Dunham and Barack Sr. were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui -- in some reports on February 2, 1961, and in others, on February 21.
Obama knows little about the wedding. He writes in Dreams, "In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I've never quite had the courage to explore. There's no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride."
In his fair-minded biography, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage, Christopher Andersen concedes, "There were certainly no witnesses -- no family members were present; and none of their friends at the university had the slightest inkling they were even engaged."
Another conflicting bit of evidence is that at the time of his alleged marriage to Ann Dunham, Barack Sr. had a pregnant wife and a son back in Kenya. There is more. In July 2008, speaking at a university roundtable, Michelle Obama said of Barack's mother that she was "very young and very single when she had him." This could well have been a slip of the tongue, but it may not have been.
Obama was reportedly born roughly six months after the February wedding date on August 4, 1961. Andersen reports that Barack Sr. drove Ann to Honolulu's Kapiloani Hospital for Women and Children to have the baby.
Andersen's account, however, suffers from chronology problems. He relates that Ann told the Dunhams of her pregnancy in "late October." Even if she had she been impregnated in early October -- it probably would have been earlier -- Obama's official birth date came ten months later.
In any scenario, Obama had at least one black parent, and if it is not Obama Sr., who then is it? Obama offers a possible clue in Dreams:
I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes. The visits to his house always left me feeling vaguely uncomfortable, though, as if I were witnessing some complicated, unspoken transaction between the two men, a transaction I couldn't fully understand. The same thing I felt whenever Gramps took me downtown to one of his favorite bars, in Honolulu's red-light district.
The "Frank" in question is Frank Marshall Davis, a black communist, pornographer, and poet who had abandoned Chicago for Hawaii. In "Pop," it should be noted, the Pop character "recites an old poem" just before the reconciliation and reeks of whiskey. Davis would have been in his mid-seventies at the time. Some have theorized that Davis, in fact, is Obama's father and the "Pop" of the poem. This theory, though tenuous, cannot be ruled out. A grandson can look more like his maternal grandfather than his father. That happens. And then, too, there is Davis's Chicago connection.
The "Frank" passage and the ones that follow, however, tell us something suggestive about Stanley Dunham, namely that he frequented otherwise all-black bars in an area rife with prostitution. That a black woman -- perhaps a friend of Davis's -- gave birth to a child of Dunham's may explain "the complicated, unspoken transaction between the two men." If this were the case, it would have caused far less societal stress for Ann Dunham to assume maternity of her little brother than for Stanley Dunham to assume paternity of his son.
We also know that Stanley Dunham so desperately wanted a boy that he named his only child "Stanley Ann." That he chose to raise the young Barack would not have been out of character.
Is it possible that Barack Sr. obliged the Dunhams and went along with the charade? If so, as Andrew Young attests in The Politician, he would not have been the last good friend to claim false paternity for a larger cause.
As a Kenyan, Barack Sr. would have given the boy more than a name. He would give him a distinctive identity as an "African," a more respected ethnicity in the America of the 1960s than "Negro." Indeed, Obama has built his career around his exotic identity. Were he named after an American father -- say "Darnell Johnson" -- he may never have been elected president.
This hypothetical extended charade would help explain why Barack Sr. blithely blew off his new family when he headed for Harvard a year later, rejecting a reported opportunity to take both wife and child to New York, and began dating as soon as he arrived at Harvard. It would explain too why Ann Dunham felt free to leave young Barack with her parents for years at a time when her career beckoned.
Barack Sr.'s cooperation would also put Stanley Dunham's fondness for him in perspective. In Dreams, Gramps speaks so respectfully of his prodigal son-in-law that the whole opening sequence rings false to anyone who knows the larger story. A man, and a black man at that, has knocked up Dunham's daughter. Ann and Barack Sr. marry despite reported opposition from both families. The man then abandons wife and child, and the grandfather can only sing his praises to the man's son. This makes no sense at all and would have made even less sense in the racially charged 1960s.
Jerome Corsi of WorldNetDaily has found additional evidence that argues against Obama's birth to Ann Dunham in August 1961. As the records clearly show, "Stanley Ann Dunham" enrolled for classes at the University of Washington at Seattle on August 19, 1961, fifteen days after Obama's presumed birth. It defies all logic -- and logistics as well -- that Dunham would have flown her newborn across the Pacific, found an apartment and a job, and enrolled at school all within two weeks of the birth.
Most accounts put young Barack with Dunham in Seattle when she was attending college, but the sourcing on these accounts is suspect. One person cited often is Dunham's good childhood friend, Maxine Box. In February 2008, Box told the Seattle Times that the last time she saw Dunham was "in 1961," when, says Times reporter Nicole Brodeur, "[Dunham] visited Seattle on her way from Honolulu to Massachusetts, where her then-husband was attending Harvard."
"She seemed very happy and very proud," Box tells the Times of Dunham. "She had this beautiful, healthy baby. I can see them right now."
There are any number of problems with this account, beginning with the fact that Barack Sr. did not attend Harvard until the fall of 1962. Box also gives no sense that Dunham lived in Seattle or attended classes there through the winter and spring sessions of 1962, as records show she did. Whether Dunham was actually heading for Harvard, we have no real way of knowing.
A seeming hole in Andersen's account is that he missed the Washington adventure and has Ann remaining in Hawaii through Obama's first few years. He makes no mention of any trip to Harvard by Ann.
One other scenario makes sense out of a falsely assumed paternity by Barack Sr. This begins with the abrupt departure of the Dunham family from the Seattle area in the late summer of 1960. In Dreams, Obama tells how pleased the senior Dunhams were with the success of Ann in high school, but Stanley forbade her to go to the University of Chicago, "deciding that she was still too young to be living on her own."
Soon thereafter, however, the family decamped for Hawaii.
"Something must have still been gnawing at my grandfather's heart," writes Obama. He attributes the move to his wanderlust and the "limitless" prospects offered by a new furniture store in Honolulu. Adds Obama, "He would rush home that same day and talk my grandmother into selling their house and packing up yet again."
What Obama does not mention is that even at this time, his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, likely earned more than her furniture salesman husband. To move, she had to give up her job as a bank officer in Seattle. Arriving in Honolulu, she worked as a by-the-hour bank teller. This job would, however, have given her the opportunity to tend to the young Barack.
It seems altogether possible that the progressive and adventurous seventeen-year-old Dunham was impregnated by a black man while the family was still living in the Seattle area. If so, this pregnancy could have prompted the family to uproot to Hawaii, where no one knew them and where mixed-race babies were more accepted. According to the Andersen account, whose source was Maxine Box, "There were loud arguments between father and daughter -- fights that sometimes turned violent." Ann did not want to go.
Both the "Dunham as father" and the "anonymous black father" scenarios would make the Obama camp wary of sharing Obama's actual birth certificate, either because Dunham was not Obama's mother, or, if she were, because Obama was born much earlier than August 4, 1961.
If Obama were born, say, in February or March 1961, it would clarify why, as documented, Dunham attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the fall semester of 1960, but not in the spring semester of 1961. This timetable would have also allowed Dunham enough time to recover and prepare for a return to college in Seattle in August with or without the baby. Dunham would not return to the University of Hawaii until 1963. She filed for divorce in 1964, and little was heard from Barack Sr. ever again.
Scientists use the phrase "inference to the best explanation" to illuminate an unproven phenomenon. Given the available evidence, including the fact that some evidence has been strategically withheld, one can infer that Obama likely was born in Hawaii but that Ann Dunham did not give birth to Barack Obama, Sr.'s child on August 4, 1961.
So much depends on Obama's fabled "story," however, that the mainstream media have chosen not to investigate. When Christopher Andersen tried, he found himself immersed in a swamp of conflicting and concocted stories that tested the savvy of even a veteran biographer.
And so Obama's birth remains a mystery a year after his inauguration. The mainstream media, meanwhile, have paid more attention to the origins of Trig Palin than to those of the president, and they have spent their excess energy mocking those who do the reporting they once did.
If my humble efforts to clarify matters make me a "birther," then so be it.
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Interesting article, Airborne.
The discussion and looking at Obama's fathering and birth details adds to my personal confusion. Who IS on first, anyway?
Having said that, how about this as a twisted view of current events. Obama's origins are determined and he is found to be a usurper (big surprise there). Who is next in line of succession as POTUS? Biden? And what if Biden (because he was selected by a usurper) is disqualified from being POTUS also? That leaves next in line as Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.
But, if Nancy Pelosi is viewed as the second coming of Satan (right after Obama), how do you get around the Pelosi selection as POTUS after the demise of both Obama and Biden?
Maybe you wait until there is a new Speaker of the House - a Republican? Perhaps in 2010? And in the meantime, keep the Obama NBC status away from open disclosure and confrontation because the devil you know about is better than the devil you don't know about. Don't let anyone, especially those in the media, seriously discuss or confront the Obama birth issue.
What concerns me most about this scenario is that it continues to support the idea that the American people are being manipulated once again by unknown members of a shadow government. I, for one, am getting so that I hate that scenario more and more every day.
Will we ever see openness and transparency in our government? Will there always be political intrigue, financial manipulation, and control in our government by unelected and unknown forces?
How do we solve THAT problem? How do we get a clean slate in our government?
Rhetorical questions, all.
As if to help answer some of my many rhetorical questions, Jim Raffenburg posted an article on NewsWithViews this morning that I am in total agreement with. I've uploaded a copy of the article to Scribd because for me, it sums up many of my own thoughts and and beliefs as to what our root problems are and suggests a non-violent solution.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26550815/Jim- ... -of-Office
Looking at the problems in America today, including us allowing a usurper into the position of POTUS and Commander In Chief of our armed forces, I am looking more favorably on the Tea Party movements, and the rising expectations of the people of the members of their government.
Our problems would start, it seems, with all sworn-in members of government simply NOT abiding by their sworn oaths.
That has to change.
‘Birther’ Movement Rears Head in Nashville
FOX News.com
February 6, 2010 – 10:06 AM | by: Judd Berger
Posted on | February 8, 2010 |
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=7813
The so-called “birtherâ€
Hopefully this has not been already posted..was digging around and found this
Simandle's 4 strikes against the U.S. Constitution
RULING IN KERCHNER VS OBAMA, TO DIMISS CASE CRITIQUED
legal analysis and critique by an anonymous patriot
(Oct. 22, 2009) - Federal Judge Jerome B. Simandle’s ruling to grant the govt.’s Motion to Dismiss, in the case Kerchner vs. Obama, is not only a clear violation of the laws of the country but also a shabby, shameful exercise in the incorrect and untruthful exercise of logic and common sense. In fact, there may be more than 4 erroneous arguments, but these are just the ones that bubble up to the surface when the opinion is digested together with the plaintiffs and defendants submissions.
In drafting his obviously slanted opinion (that might as well have been written by the DOJ since almost every argument presented by them was accepted en toto by Simandle, but taking MONTHS to do so) the judge notes:
Where, as here, the challenge to subject matter jurisdiction is facial, the Court must, for the purposes of this motion, take all the allegations in the complaint to be true and construe them in the light most favorable to the Plaintiffs.
The judge by the words in his own opinion must then take the plaintiff’s allegations to be true and consider the MTD in that regard. It means for purposes of this action the court assumes Obama is ineligible and Congress completely failed in its duty and assumes all other allegations to be true. In fact, he has done exactly the opposite on at least the four primary points of the Kerchner et al action which are:
1. Obama has not shown his Constitutional eligibility to hold the office he now occupies and the Constitution REQUIRES that eligibility. The judge misstates the position by claiming that the action states that “Obama is not eligible for his officeâ€
BORN IN THE USA?
Oklahoma firecracker takes on Obama eligibility
Candidate for Congress: 'If he claims he was born at Kapi'olani, I want him to show proof'
Posted: February 09, 2010
9:32 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
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Miki Booth
NASHVILLE – Just as a tea-party convention crowd gathered to discuss strategy for the movement, one woman stepped forward to the microphone – holding up two Hawaiian long-form birth certificates and a copy of President Obama's purported short-form certification of live birth – and, referencing the short form, she told the crowd, "This piece of junk is what you get when you don't have one of these!"
The crowd went wild, clapping and cheering.
When the forum was over, tea partiers scrambled around a table to see and photograph her original documents.
The woman, Miki Booth, originally from Hawaii, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Oklahoma's second district as an independent constitutional conservative. She had presented original long-form birth certificates belonging to her son and husband, dated 1981 and 1949.
"They are the 'vault' copies of the original ones filled out at the hospital and sent to the Hawaii State Department of Health Vital Statistics office," Booth told WND. "It is from this office that the newspapers get their stats for births, deaths and marriages to announce in the newspapers."
Her husband, Fred, and son, Alan, were born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii – the same hospital declared as Obama's birthplace in a purported letter from the president.
"If he is going to claim he was born in Kapi'olani like my husband and my son, then I want him to show proof," Booth said, explaining that a certification of live birth only shows that a live baby was born – and not necessarily in Hawaii.
"What he's given us perpetuates the mystery of what he's covering up and gives us more reason to not trust him," she said.
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Booth presented this 1981 long-form Hawaiian birth certificate belonging to her son. It contains information about the doctor, birth hospital, time of delivery and other information.
Asked what she thought of the crowd's overwhelmingly positive reaction when she presented the documents, Booth said, "I was pleased but not surprised, since I get that reaction every time I do it. I think people really appreciate when someone shows them they're not stupid. They know what's going on."
Most of the convention attendees appeared to rally around WND founder Joseph Farah as he presented his speech at the national convention Friday, referencing the eligibility issue. They gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech. However, a small number of people suggested the topic shouldn't have surfaced at a tea party event.
"I would say those people have bought into the notion that it's a dead issue since it was 'proved' to them that Obama was born in Hawaii," Booth explained. "What proof were they convinced by? Bill O'Reilly saying so? Newscasters saying so? ACORN saying so? The Internet copy?"
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Booth also presented this 1949 long-form Hawaiian birth certificate belonging to her husband. It contains information about the birth attendant, birth hospital, time of delivery and other information.
She continued, "I wonder if these same people think we shouldn't question his record of what passport he traveled to Pakistan with – or his Occidental records of foreign student funding and his Columbia records or his Harvard records or his Punahou records."
As WND reported, when Farah discussed the eligibility issue – explaining to the crowd that the president refuses to produce documents proving he meets the Constitution's natural-born citizen requirement – the crowd cheered wildly, whistled and applauded.
Booth added, "The people I hang with enjoyed and appreciated Joseph Farah's speech, and we are with him all the way."
The eligibility issue was a hot topic at the convention even before Farah arrived to present his Friday evening keynote speech. Prior to Booth's presentation of the Hawaii documents and Farah's speech, other convention attendees had expressed concern about Obama's eligibility documentation as well. One tea partier asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton whether his organization would sue the White House for documentation of Obama's eligibility.
"On the birth certificate, we are not pursuing that. I don't think, at this point, that is going to be a fruitful pursuit," Fitton said. "My suggestion to activists is that they go back to their states and ensure that the secretaries of each individual state next time around have the certification process and candidates for the presidency certified for eligibility."
The crowd reacted to his suggestion for a more stringent certification process with booming applause.
Booth wasn't always skeptical about the president's background. She said she and her husband, a 25-year veteran police officer from Hawaii, were registered Democrats when the Obama campaign sent them a promotion card requesting a $75 contribution in 2008.
"His platform sounded great, and I was ready to send the check," she said. "Then I heard he was from Hawaii, so I was thrilled and went online to find out what I could about him."
She said her family originally took issue with his admitted history of cocaine use.
"I spent all my life as a law-abiding citizen and married a cop who enforced our laws," she said. "I just couldn't accept the notion that it would be OK for the leader of our great nation to have done hard drugs."
However, that wasn't her biggest concern.
"What really frightened me and sent me on a mission to warn others was when I found out about his connections to Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi," she said.
"I lived the time when Ayers bombed the judge's house and protesters waged war on our law enforcement."
She continued, "As I connected the dots, I was hit with a cold stab through the heart when I thought, this is a deliberate plan to destroy our country from within."
Booth founded the Route 66 Tea Party last year, became community coordinator for District 2 Oklahoma's ResistNet and FairTax groups and held rallies to promote pro-American programs and protest Obama's health-care "reform."
"I believe in limited government, a free-market system, a strong national defense, states' rights and our right to bear arms against a tyrannical government as our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution," she said proudly.
Booth is also a member of "Get Out Of Our House," or GOOOH, pronounced "Go." According to its website, GOOOH is "a non-partisan plan to evict the 435 career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans just like you. … GOOOH is not just another political party. It is a system that will allow you and your neighbors to choose, among yourselves, the person who can best represent your district."
Booth said the GOOOH system is a plan by Tim Cox of Liberty Hill, Texas, a man who spent his career creating systems for Dell and developed credit card readers for gas pumps. She said candidates answer 100 questions on how they would vote on particular issues.
"That becomes your platform and also documents how you would vote, because it becomes a contract, and you will be held accountable" she explained. "There will be a timeline for candidate selection sessions where all members will go through a process of selecting their peers or be considered themselves, and someone will bubble up to the top after the session is completed. That person will be the GOOOH candidate to go on the ballot."
She said when the organization reaches half a million people who invest $100 each, there will be a $50 million pot to fund national campaigns for those candidates – $1 million in each of the 50 states.
"I went home and asked Fred, 'What would you think if got elected to go to Congress?' He said, 'I would be so proud of you.'"
Even if GOOOH doesn't make critical mass by reaching the 500,000 membership mark, Booth has every intention of continuing her fight for the House seat currently held by Rep. Dan Boren, a Democrat.
In a January letter, Booth, a passionate supporter of Second Amendment rights, challenged Boren to a debate and rifle marksmanship contest.
"[O]ur interpretation of the right to bear arms seems to differ in that I believe the framers of the Constitution armed us in defense of a tyrannical government," she wrote. "It's good and well that we can hunt and target shoot, but if you've discussed guns in the context of the Constitution, I must have missed it. Your record voting 98 percent of the time with your party leads me to believe you might have not read the Constitution because it appears you are not guided by it."
She added, "I did drop a coyote at about 200 yards a couple of weeks ago, so you can be assured I am qualified to challenge you in a shooting match."
Booth recently shot a coyote dead on the spot from 200 yards away with open sights. It was trying to eat her chickens. She said, "I wouldn't mind the coyotes if they earned an honest living. But when they steal chickens, that's crossing the line."
Booth speaks to many groups while she campaigns, and she always starts out her presentation by introducing herself in this way:
"I'm Miki Booth. I'm from Hawaii, and I'm a community organizer."
"I show them the birth certificates, explain them and then hand them out for closer scrutiny," she said. "Overwhelmingly, I'm accepted as being on their side, and I'm appreciated for my willingness to expose myself and my family to criticism and possible danger."
She continued, "Alan and Fred are proud of me for doing it, and they know the danger. But we'll do anything to help our country."
Note: More information about Booth's position on several issues is available at her website. http://mikiboothforcongress.com/
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For the record... the embossed seal on the Booth BC of Nov. 24, 1961, is roughly
140 pixels in diameter of 593 pixels paper width on the 600 x 611 image. 140:593
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Has Janice Okubo resigned?
IT SEEMS THAT FEAR OF LEGAL ENTANGLEMENT IN FUKINO’S STATEMENTS SPURRED MOVE OF SELF-INTEREST
by John Charlton
UPDATE: Miss Okubo emailed me on Feb. 10th, at 7:26 AM, Honolulu time about a UIPA request I had made, so I can confirm that she has not resigned. She explained that responses to UIPA requests have now been assigned to a staff person, and apologized for the inadequate response I received. I apoloize to the readers of The Post & Email for assuming that the HI Department of Health has its act together.
Miss Janice S. Okubo garnered national fame on account of her duty to respond to hundreds of inquiries regarding Obama's original vital records.
(Feb. 9, 2010) — The Post & Email cannot positively confirm tonight that Janice S. Okubo has resigned from her position as Communications Director for the Hawaii Department of Health, but indications given from the Department of Health staff seem to indicate that her resignation has been decided and that it will shortly be announced.
This inference is based on the fact that Okubo, unlike her usual practice, is no longer answering UIPA requests, but instead, these responses are being sent out of an anonymous Department of Health information address.
In an attempt to ascertain whether this interpretation is correct, I called Rita A. Hoopii-Hall of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Human Resource Office and asked her point-blank: “I am calling to confirm or deny the rumor that Janice Okubo has resigned from her position as Communications Director for the Department of Health. Can you tell me if she has resigned?â€
Wow! That might be big news! I hope they get access to the birth records. I do believe the people of our country are constitutionally entitled to them.
Investigators declare, “Obama never attended Columbia Universityâ€
Quote:
Originally Posted by For the New York Sun, Ross Goldberg
Barack Obama's article in the 1983 "Sundial", a Columbia University student publication:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/i ... iginal.pdf
Recollections of Phil Boerner, Barack Obama's roommate at Columbia:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... -roommate/
Of these three, at least the first is credible, IMO.
But, of course, they could all be fake articles, posted after the fact.
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[quote="Nellie at Butterdezillion's Blog"][size=117]In August of 2009, “Terri Kâ€
[quote="At [url=http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/02/13/redstate-com-bans-eligbility-question/comment-page-1/#comment-5589]Post&Email[/url], MinutemanCDC_SC"][size=117]I care not a whit what RedState.com or any other website says.
I care only what the Joint Chiefs of Staff say after the first judge orders discovery of the original documents which would prove Mr. Obama’s eligibility for office . . . and what the Supreme Court says the penalty is for treason.
Please put no confidence in the 2010 elections. Community organizers, such as ACORN, get out the vote and register huge numbers of ineligible voters, felons, illegal aliens, dead people, pets, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and in the state of Nevada, the entire Dallas Cowboys football team. In NewsWithViews.com, Jon Christian Ryder reported that Sen. Obama garnered 69½ million votes and Sen. McCain 58 million votes, while the Federal Election Commission reported that fewer than 97 million votes were cast. If community organizers could do that much damage in 2008, just think of what ACORN can do with the nearly $4 BILLION earmarked for it in Mr. Obama’s requested budget!
We have all marveled at the House, the Senate, and Mr. Obama stiff-arming and snubbing the populace as they drive toward the goal of government control of healthcare. They have ignored the Tea Party’s million (and a half?) person march on the Capitol Mall, the elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, and the polls indicating that more than half of doctors and nurses would change occupations rather than work in a government-controlled healthcare system. Not to mention their continued efforts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, in the face of overwhelming (up to 77%) public opposition to any such comprehensive immigration swindle.
I will not call these Washington politicians “public servants,â€
Everything has two sides. Regarding Glenn Beck, it should be noted that he has probably done more to get Americans to look at the historical and current government issues than anyone else in the media. Having said that, and acknowledging his positive work for the American people, Beck is drawing increasing amounts of criticism from sincere proponents of the ineligibility issue because he appears to be misleading (dare I say lying) and obfuscating elements of the issue.
The following article (including links) offered by Steve Cooper is an example of the criticism that Beck, O'Reilly, and Fox are getting blasted with currently.
http://tinyurl.com/yzvt7rk
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Glenn Beck acknowledges Obama is a 'Citizen', NOT a natural born citizen
Author: Steve Cooper
Date: 1-27-10
The Conservative Monster.com
Conservative News, Politics, Terrorism, CNIN
http://tinyurl.com/yzvt7rk
'We do not want a birth certificate from Obama, we are past that point. We want a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to investigate Obama's ineligibility and the conspiracy by the media to lie to the American people about it. Beck, Matthews and the other liars belong in prison if this is true' - Steve Cooper
Today, one of my loyal little monsters tipped me off that Beck was bashing birthers on his radio show today as a 'bunch of stupid conspiracy freaks'. Then tonight, I was tipped off that the rehabbed libnutarian Beck was again trying to discredit the movement on his TV show this time. I have not watched Beck's show or listened to him in many months due to the fact that I do not trust him any longer.
He asked on his TV show "Do you think Obama is a U.S. Citizen?" Notice he did not use the term "natural born citizen", because the lawsuits are claiming that is one of their main issues with Obama's eligibility. Is he doing this so he can claim later on that he never admitted Obama was a natural born citizen, just 'a citizen.' This guy is a sneaky liar and it is almost time to zap his ratings away from him, because he can not be trusted any longer, anyway.
He then made statements that "This conspiracy could not be possible due to the fact that Obama's birth announcement was listed in the newspaper." So, it is his logic that "how could they know that he would be president one day, for them to plant this story into the newspaper?"
Well Glenn, a newspaper announcement is not a valid birth document to produce as evidence when you are trying to prove your citizenship to be an FBI agent or the President of the United States. So, I guess when you all go for a job interview in the future, you can just bring a clipping of the newspaper birth announcement and the employer will accept this as proof of citizenship?
Then he claimed that "The Clinton's and their powerful machine did not find any dirt, so therefore Obama must be a U.S. Citizen." Once again leaving out the term 'natural born citizen.' Beck was obviously busy with other activities that landed him into rehab, rather than attending law school, because he knows ZERO about the U.S. Constitution that he cries on in front of his audience daily. He does seem to know a lot about being a Saudi puppet and a disinformation agent for the U.S. Government.
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;
Click here for the Beck VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLLs1JTPOk
Beck is clearly trying to sabotage the Obama eligibility movement, (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AAsGR9L4c ) because they all know that this is not going away. Beck's fans know that he is lying and they are furious. How do I know this? I read the comments on the Internet and many have e-mailed me after Operation Flood It on Jan 4th, 2010. Operation Flood It was a little protest that I put together, where thousands of people around the world called Beck's radio show to demand that he take this issue on and that the Fox blackout on this issue be lifted.
Beck then attacked his own fans, (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67TpSAYVJo ) we were fans just looking for him to take the lead on this issue. We thought that he was brave enough to do it, but he disappointed many thousands that day. I actually did predict that I would expose him, for being a huge part of the MSM cover up on this issue and I still do suspect that he is part of that conspiracy. BECK used Saul Alinsky tactics on his own fans on Jan 4th, 2010 and it is documented.
This is not about choosing battles, Beck would obviously rather talk about czars on his blackboard rather than if Obama is a natural born citizen. SOLDIERS in the military are demanding answers, they wanted to know if Obama was eligible and Beck sided with the enemy on this issue. He is a coward.
If Beck wants that red phone to ring (it is all an act) then he just has to write on his little blackboard "Is Obama a Natural born citizen" and stop the crying act about the constitution already, because I am not buying it. He may be able to fool you people, but not me.
Beck and Bill O' have been attacking this issue from afar (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqEQZLqahA ), but they have not had one of the lawyers or plaintiffs involved in the case on their shows to rebut their attacks. What happened to 'Fair and Balanced'? (see: http://tinyurl.com/y8vsxv2 ) Beck can not be trusted, what else is he LYING ABOUT? Go read my Beck archives, I was a fan... WAS is the key word.
Beck said that Obama wants us to talk about the birth certificate issue? (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67TpSAYVJo ) He is lying, because there is nothing further from the truth. As soon as it is brought up in any media, the left wing sites (Soros run) immediately go into full attack mode. The LEFT are scared to death of this issue growing and i suspect that Fox and Beck are too. I suspect that Beck and Fox are scared that violence would break out if Obama were removed from office due to his ineligibility and they are afraid of LIABILITY (see: http://tinyurl.com/ya4k2ma ).
There have been some big news stories on the Obama eligibility issue and the media is HIDING these stories. There have been more since I posted this story the other day as well. (see: http://tinyurl.com/yjbof6p ). Orly Taitz filed Quo Warranto just yesterday in Washington DC.
The left are in full attack mode due to the story growing, rather than dying. Last night Chris Matthews went after JD Hayworth on the Obama eligibility issue. (see: http://tinyurl.com/yaspudq ).
Beck is their ally on this issue, but still there are a few hard core libtardarians that refuse to see the light. I hear from these stooges daily. I will be calling Pastor Manning and we will be discussing the possibility of a Beck boycott for his betrayal in this matter. I think it is time for his fans to go elsewhere for the truth, since he has chosen to side with Soros, Obama and the left on an issue that alleges Obama has committed multiple felonies.
STOP crying on the U.S. Constitution Glenn, if you lack THE GUTS to report about the grossest violation against it...
We do not want a birth certificate from Obama, we are past that point.
We want a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.....
It is time to DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (go to: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2 ... 533&ref=mf ) and shut up these radical leftists once and for all. Once they hear the words SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, I can promise you that they will run into any hole that they can find. There are multiple felonies alleged against the president and this is bigger than Watergate, but it is still ignored? Well, if we were talking about Palin's eligibility, this would not be swept under the rug BY THE LEFT.
The ConservativeMonster.com Obama eligibility archives:
http://theconservativemonster.com/categ ... ility.aspx
HighlanderJuan,
With the exception of the uncalled for name calling of Libertarians (which I am leaning more their way every day) I fully agree with his assessment of Beck. I have not watched nor listened to him since the day he became a hypocrite by mocking those of us who dare "Question with Boldness". I think he was originally on our side, but now he, like so many MSM personalities is only on HIS side. His side means protecting his rear end from being fired by his bosses. He is a chicken and a traitor.
Your comment about "Question with Boldness" reflects the actual Beck hypocrisy in a nutshell.Quote:
Originally Posted by cayla99
Also, maybe we should send a copy of the Federal Rules of Evidence to Beck so that he can't claim ignorance. Newspaper ads don't usually hack it as verifiable and legal evidence of birth in a court of law.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26053897/Fede ... dence-2010
Regarding Beck, Lord Acton's comment "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" comes to mind. Maybe Beck is simply becoming too powerful in the media.
Quote:
Originally Posted by highlanderjuan
Wasn't Lou Dobbs attempting to make Mr. Obama's lack of documents (verifying his eligibility for office) an issue on his show, just before he and CNN parted ways due to irreconcilable differences?Quote:
Originally Posted by cayla99
Yes Minuteman Lou Dobbs was asking about Obamas "Constitutional Eligibility", THEN his wife was SHOT at in his front yard (bullet hit his house). I believe this was a warning for Dobbs, he then resigned and NOW wants Immigrants in this Country.
The guy has done a total 180!
From an e-mail delivery item:
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Erick Erickson joins would-be buriers of the Obama birth certificate issue
Michael Gaynor
February 14, 2010
Note to Erickson, Breitbart, O'Reilly and Beck: At a minimum, Obama has not been fully candid with the American people about his birth certificate. Giving him a pass for that is wrong. The bad news is that you blinked. The good news is that Abraham Lincoln was right: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Red State's well-meaning Erick Erickson has not only banned "birthers" at Red State, but foolishly called them "birfers" "because it sounds as crazy as they are."
Conservatives need to know Saul Alinsky's "rules for radicals," but Alinksy's book should not become a conservative playbook.
Erickson:
"...we have... banned a number of individuals who think Barack Obama is disqualified from being President because despite the Republican Governor of Hawaii confirming the legitimacy of the Democratic President's birth origin as a citizen of the United States these birthers... refuse to move on."
"If you think 9/11 was an inside job or you really want to debate whether or not Barack Obama is an American citizen eligible to be President, RedState is not a place for you. "Birfers and Truthers are not welcome here. Period. End of Story."
Apparently Erickson is helping Andrew Breitbart try to "purify" the Tea Party movement. See "WND Founder Joseph Farah Schools Andrew Breitbart on Journalism and 'Birther' Issue (February 7, 2010) ( http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowAr ... ate=100207 ).
Erickson: "The tea party movement is in danger of getting a bad reputation for allowing birfers and truthers to share the stage. At the National Tea Party, Joseph Farah treated the birfer issue as legitimate. In Texas, tea party activists have rallied to Debra Medina who, just yesterday, refused to definitely dismiss the 9/11 truther conspiracy as crackpot nonsense. If a candidate cannot do that, we cannot help that candidate. It's that simple."
I don't believe that 9/11 was a government plot.
I don't know whether President Obama was born in Hawaii, but I presume that he was and I think that all Americans are entitled to unredacted proof: Obama should produce his original birth certificate, not a certified short-form version of it.
In addition, equating "birthers" and "truthers" is unfair and unhelpful. Erickson apparently realized it was unfair, so he added some distinction, but he still felt in very important to dismiss both.
Erickson:
"We should also remember it was the Clintonistas who started the birfer rumor and the most vocal truthers live in Hollywood and voted for Obama. That is not, however, an excuse for us to associate with the nuts.
"The media never runs stories about the Communist Party USA's routine pronouncements in favor of Barack Obama. The media has never run legitimate stories about Barack Obama's ties to the communist oriented New Party in Chicago. Obama gets a pass even on radicals whose support he personally solicited and those he personally befriended for years. But the moment a birfer opens his mouth and spouts his stupidity from the stage of a tea party rally it becomes headline news on every news network. Complain all you like that that's not fair, but it's the world we live in.
"We must be vigilant. We must be willing to draw a line in the sand and stand against fatuous nonsense that opens up the right to attacks by a left-leaning media intent on embarrassing the good people who have developed through the tea party movement a renewed sense of civic involvement.
"Birfers and Truthers have no place among us. And they are most decidedly not welcome at RedState."
Erickson's seeming security that Obama was born in Hawaii seems to be based on that "Republican Governor of Hawaii," so let's go to USA Today's July 27/28, 2009 article reassuringly titled "Hawaii: Obama's birth certificate is real" ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... waii_N.htm ), by Dan Nakaso of The Honolulu Advertiser.
Nakaso:
"In an attempt to quash persistent rumors that President Obama was not born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961, Hawaii's health director reiterated Monday afternoon that she has personally seen Obama's birth certificate in the Health Department's archives:
'I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago....'
"On Oct. 31, Fukino originally tried to put an end to the belief among 'birthers' that Obama was born in Kenya and thus was ineligible to run for the office of president.
"Despite Fukino's statements, the issue has continued to resonate from Capitol Hill to the national airwaves.
"Last week, CNN's Lou Dobbs demanded Obama's original birth certificate. CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers of Lou Dobbs Tonight that the issue is a 'dead' story, Kline told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Sunday.
"In an e-mail, the Times reported, Klein wrote that CNN researchers determined that Obama's 1961 birth certificate no longer exists because Hawaiian officials had discarded paper documents in 2001 — a claim denied Monday by Hawaiian health officials.
"In 2001, Hawaii's paper documents were reproduced in electronic format, but 'any paper data prior to that still exists,' Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.
"Okubo would not say where Obama's original birth certificate is but said, 'We have backups for all of our backups'...."
Dr. Fukino's prior statement (issued on Halloween 2008):
"There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's official birth certificate. State law (Hawai'i Revised Statutes §338-1 8 ) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record.
"Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai'i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.
"No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai'i."
After reading Dr. Fikino's statement, blogger Michael Patrick Leahy posed these dozen questions ( michaelpatrickleahy.blogspot.com/2008/11/official-statement-of-dr-chiyome-fukino.html ):
"1. Did you review the content of your October 31, 2008 statement with the Hawaii Attorney General and receive a written opinion from him that such a statement would not violate Hawaii privacy laws before you released it?
"2. If you reviewed it with the Attorney General, and he responded to you in writing, can you share that response with us ? Did he give you a legal opinion that you could issue such a release and not be in violation of the State of Hawaii's privacy laws?
"3. Did you review the content of your October 31, 2008 statement with Governor Lingle and receive her approval of the statement before you released it?
"4. Did you personally view an actual physical copy of the long form original birth certificate from August 4, 1961 signed by the attending physician at a Honolulu hospital?
"5. What was the name of the hospital?
"6. What was the name of the attending physician?
"7. Besides holding an actual hard copy of the original August 4, 1961 birth certificate signed by the attending physician at a specific hospital in Honolulu, are there any other means by which, as you say 'the state of Hawaii can have Barack Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with the state's policies and procedures regarding maintaining "original birth certificates on record'.
"8. Was the original birth certificate on record submitted as part of the 1911 Hawaii Birth Certificate program, which allowed parents of children residing in Hawaii who were over one year of age to submit alternate birth documentation to the Department of Health and still be called 'an original birth certificate.'?
"9. On what date was the original birth certificate on file registered?
"10. Did Senator Obama personally authorize Dr. Fukino and Dr. Onaka to personally view his 'original birth certificate on record.'? If so, when and how?
"11. Did Senator Obama personally authorize Dr. Fukino and Dr. Onaka to issue the statement of October 31, 2008? If so, when and how?
"12. Have Dr. Fukino and Dr. Onaka had any communication with Senator Obama or did they meet with him in person on any occasion in the last 30 days or in the last year? If so, were those communications or meetings negotiations related to statements to be made about his birth certificate?"
Leahy probably is still waiting for answers. They are not in Dr. Fukino's terse supplement to her Halloween statement or at Erickson's Red State.
The certificate of live birth provided by the Obama campaign provides only some of the information on Obama's actual birth certificate (assuming one was issued in Hawaii).
Obama chose what parts he wanted made public and what parts he didn't.
Thomas Bowdler would be proud! (In 1818 Bowdler published a censored version of Shakespeare, expurgating 'those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.'"
BUT... Obama waiving privacy with respect to some parts of his birth certificate while insisting upon it as to others is unacceptable.
(Assuming that Obama was born in Hawaii and has a Hawaii birth certificate,) Obama chose to keep parts of his birth certificate concealed.
Why?
And why did Erickson and Breitbart join Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck in ridiculing "the birthers" as nuts who believe Obama was born in Kenya (or "Saturn," according to O'Reilly) instead of concerned Americans who believe that presidential candidates owe the voters access to ALL of the contents of their birth certificates?
Note to Erickson, Breitbart, O'Reilly and Beck: At a minimum, Obama has not been fully candid with the American people about his birth certificate. Giving him a pass for that is wrong. The bad news is that you blinked. The good news is that Abraham Lincoln was right: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
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Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.
Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.
The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.
Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistle-blower Anita MonCrief.
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Keeping score and taking names . . .
BORN IN THE USA?
Oops! Obama tells another nativity fib?
Records indicate father not part of Kenyan airlift, as prez said
Posted: February 16, 2010
11:00 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125351
Official documents catch Barack Obama in another apparent misrepresentation of his life story, this time challenging a claim made during his campaign that his father was part of a JFK-era airlift to bring Kenyan students to the U.S. to study in American universities.
WND research indicates Barack Obama Sr. was not brought to Hawaii in 1959 by any airlift of Kenyan students organized by baseball great Jackie Robinson, John F. Kennedy or the African-American Students Foundation, the AASF.
Nor was Barack Obama Sr. on any of the three subsequently chartered airplanes in what became known as the "second airlift" organized by Kenyan Luo politician Tom Mboya in 1960 after the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation contributed $100,000 to AASF.
Moreover, after a thorough search of the Jackie Robinson papers at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, WND can find no mention of Barack Obama Sr. in the files on deposit, either as an applicant or candidate for an airlift from Kenya to study in the U.S.
The manifest of the 81 students actually flown from Kenya Sept. 9, 1959, in a plane chartered by Jackie Robinson in conjunction with the AASF does not contain Barack Obama Sr.'s name. Robinson was assisted by singer Harry Belafonte and actor Sidney Poitier.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125349
In Hawaii before first student airlift
By the time of the Sept. 9, 1959, airlift to New York City, Barack Obama Sr. was already in Honolulu, enrolled in classes as an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii.
WND previously published official affirmation from the University of Hawaii that Barack Obama Sr. was enrolled for the1959 fall term.
The first article documenting Barack Obama Sr.'s presence in Hawaii was by journalist Shurei Hirozawa in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on Sept. 18, 1959, only nine days after the Jackie Robinson airlift.
The article suggested Barack Obama Sr., then fully settled in Hawaii and enrolled at the university, had used personal savings to pay his travel expenses from Kenya to Hawaii and tuition costs at the university.
"But the money [Barack Obama Sr.] saved will only stretch out for two semesters or less because of the high cost of living in Hawaii, he found out," wrote Hirozawa. "He'll work, he says, and possibly apply for a scholarship."
Obama claims JFK responsible
Barack Obama Jr.'s claim that John F. Kennedy brought his father to the U.S. was made in a March 4, 2007, from the pulpit of the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Ala.
Obama declared he owed his very existence to Selma, according to a transcript of the speech ( http://tinyurl.com/3xcp8o ) and a video clip posted on YouTube.com ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYByptC8mY ).
A few minutes into the speech, Obama began discussing the protests in Selma and Birmingham, Ala., that were instrumental to Martin Luther King building the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Obama invented dialogue of Kennedy advisers, musing, "It worried the folks in the White House who said, 'You know, we're battling communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world if right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set forth in our Constitution? We might be accused of being hypocrites."
Obama continued: "This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great-great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves. But she had a good idea there was some craziness going on, because they looked at each other, and they decided that we know that (in) the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child."
Kennedy, however, was not in the White House until Jan. 20, 1961, and he did not participate in the organization of the September 1959 airlift.
The historical record is further established by a background memorandum prepared by Sen. John Kennedy's office in August 1960, while JFK was running for president ( http://tinyurl.com/yk8l9bv ).
The memo documents that JFK met with Mboya – but after the 1959 airlift had already occurred. Mboya met with JFK at Hyannis Port July 26, 1960, while Kennedy was running for president.
Mboya's goal was to convince JFK to fund a second airlift of African students to the U.S.
The memo further documents that the State Department, despite intervention by Vice President Richard Nixon, had already turned down Mboya's request for a second airlift to bring in 200 African students who had received scholarships from U.S. schools.
The Kennedy family, utilizing the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, decided to give Mboya a $100,000 donation to pay for the second airlift, in memory of JFK's brother who was killed in World War II.
Knowing the Kennedy family was going to pay for the second airlift, Nixon prevailed on the State Department to reverse its earlier negative decision.
The African-American Students Foundation, however, decided to accept the Kennedy Foundation's offer, preferring the willing generosity of the privately offered financing to the obvious hostility the State Department had initially expressed to the group's request.
Mboya's decision was a rebuke to Nixon, who had failed to deliver the State Department until after the Kennedy family had stepped forward with funding.
At the time, the State Department was turning down Mboya's request in deference to the government of Jomo Kenyatta, which had argued, contrary to Mboya, that young, talented Kenyans should study closer to home and attend Makerere College in neighboring Uganda, instead of being trained in American universities.
Still, the myth of JFK's role in bringing President Obama's father to the U.S. persisted, reported again Jan. 10, 2009, only 10 days before the inauguration by Washington-based reporter Elana Schor of London's Guardian newspaper ( http://tinyurl.com/34n8je ).
On March 30, 2008, Michael Dobbs published an article in the Washington Post, carefully entitled "Obama Overstates Kennedy's Role in Helping His Father," so as not to characterize candidate Obama's Selma remarks as a lie ( http://tinyurl.com/38vcbu ).
"Obama spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father's arrival in the United States," Dobbs wrote. "[Burton] said the Kennedy involvement in the Kenya student program apparently started 48 years ago, not 49 years ago as Obama has mistakenly suggested in the past."
To correct the "overstatement," Dobbs incorrectly reported that Barack Obama Sr. had come to the United States in the Sept. 9, 1959, initial airlift organized by Jackie Robinson without the financial support of the Kennedy family.
"There was enormous excitement when the Britannia aircraft took off for New York with the future Kenyan elite aboard," Dobbs wrote of the first airlift. "After a few weeks of orientation, the students were dispatched to universities across the United States to study subjects that would help them govern Kenya after the departure of the British. Obama Sr. was interested in economics and was sent to Hawaii, where he met, and later married, a Kansas native named Ann Dunham."
Further corroboration that Barack Obama Sr. was not on the first airlift is provided by Tom Shachtman in his 2009 book, "Airlift to America" ( http://www.airlifttoamerica.org/index.html ).
On page 9 of the book, Shachtman confirms Mboya was unable to transport Barack Obama Sr. to the United States on any of the airlifts organized by Jackie Robinson or the AASF.
Nativity story
WND also has reported that contrary to the president's statements, his father did not abandon the family in Hawaii when he accepted an invitation to study at Harvard in 1962 ( http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=109408 ).
Documents uncovered by WND also have raised questions about whether President Obama's parents ever lived together as husband and wife, despite Obama's repeated assertions his parents lived together in Hawaii during the first two years of his life.
WND has reported the only documentation for Ann Dunham's marriage to Barack Obama Sr. comes from their divorce documents that list the marriage date as Feb. 2, 1961 ( http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=106942 ).
In actuality, it isn't clear Obama's parents were married, since official records have never been produced showing a legal ceremony took place. No wedding certificate or photograph of a ceremony for Dunham and Obama Sr. has ever been found or published.
WND previously reported Michelle Obama stated at a public event that her husband's mother was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president ( http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114259 ).
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Jerome R. Corsi is a senior staff reporter for WND. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including his best-sellers "America For Sale," "The Obama Nation" and "The Late Great USA." Other books include "Showdown with Nuclear Iran," "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran."
BTW, there is a nice looking Obama family tree on Wikipedia - probably manipulated, but it looks good. The article provides names and relationships for Barack and Michelle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama
More details on Barack Senior:
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Sarasota (FL) PI Bill Warner
Friday, October 24, 2008
If Sen John McCain's Father Had Been a Wife Beating Drunk With Multiple Wives & appears to [have] been assassinated by the Government, would you vote for him ?
http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2008/10/if- ... -been.html
A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN'T said about his father...
Additional reporting: Rob Crilly in Nairobi and Gill Pringle in Honolulu.
Last updated at 22:52pm on 27.01.07
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/arti ... -father.do
It is a classic story of the American dream made real: an impoverished Kenyan goatherd rising to become a brilliant Harvard-educated economist.
On the way he fights racial prejudice at home and corruption at work, survives the heartbreak of a broken relationship and, despite it all, leads the fight to rid Africa of its colonial legacy.
This extraordinary story is told by US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama as he recalls the life of the man who inspired him to political success - his father.
Mr Obama's book, Dreams From My Father, is flying off the shelves of US book stores, exciting and astonishing readers in equal measure. It is a bestseller, and no wonder - because the story just gets better and better.
Mr Obama is already Democratic Senator for Illinois. Now he is in the running to be the first black President in the country's history.
"My story is part of the larger American story," he declared in the electrifying speech that won him his Senate seat just two years ago. "In no other country on Earth is my story even possible."
Many believe Mr Obama is a serious threat to Hillary Clinton's hopes of becoming the Democrats' choice for their next Presidential candidate - and his lovingly written account of the debt he owes his father, also called Barack Obama, will do no harm at all to his Presidential hopes.
Indeed, by offering up a conveniently potted account of his personal history in this way, he might even have made a pre-emptive strike on those sure to pose the awkward questions that inevitably face a serious contender for the White House.
Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obama's reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.
We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply flawed individual but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac, whose life was ruined not by racism or corruption but his own weaknesses.
And, devastatingly, the testimony has come from Mr Obama's own relatives and family friends.
Charismatic and with movie-star looks, Barack Obama Jnr has managed to steal some of Hillary Clinton's most influential supporters in the two weeks since he entered the US Presidential race.
The 45-year-old lawyer depicts himself as a fresh voice for voters tired of the divisive rhetoric and self-serving ambition of established politicians on each side of the Democrat-Republican divide.
His campaign to become the first black President is inspired, he says, by his love of the country that allowed his father to triumph against astonishing odds.
Barack Obama Snr started life with the advantage of being able to read and write, but he also felt a profound sense of injustice. His father was a cook for British settlers in Kenya, who demeaningly called him their 'personal boy'.
Grandfather Obama sent his son to a missionary school but after completing his education, the youth could find little work except goatherding in his remote village of Nyangoma Kogela, in the roadless hills of Western Kenya.
At 18, he married a girl called Kezia. But Obama Snr was more interested in politics and economics than his family and his political leanings had been brought to the notice of leaders of the Kenyan Independence movement.
He was put forward for an American-sponsored scholarship in economics, with the idea being that he would eventually use his Western-honed skills in the new Kenya. At the age of 23 he headed for university in Hawaii, leaving behind the pregnant Kezia and their baby son.
Relatives say he was already a slick womaniser and, once in Honolulu, he promptly persuaded a fellow student called Ann - a naive 18-year-old white girl - to marry him. Barack Jnr was born in August, 1961.
Two years later, Obama Snr was on the move again. He was accepted at Harvard, and left his little boy and wife behind when he moved to the exclusive east coast university.
At the time, Ann explained to their son that his father had gone because his meagre stipend would not support the family if they lived together. But finance was the least of her worries.
Mr Obama Jnr claims that racism on both sides of the family destroyed the marriage between his mother and father.
In his book, he says that Ann's mother, who went by the nickname Tut, did not want a black son-in-law, and Obama Snr's father 'didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman'.
In fact Ann divorced her husband after she discovered his bigamous double life. She remarried and moved to Indonesia with young Barack and her new husband, an oil company manager.
Obama Snr was forced to return to Kenya, where he fathered two more children by Kezia. He was eventually hired as a top civil servant in the fledgling government of Jomo Kenyatta - and married yet again.
Now prosperous with a flashy car and good salary, his third wife was an American-born teacher called Ruth, whom he had met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann, and who followed him to Africa.
A relative of Mr Obama says: "We told him[Barack] how his father would still go to Kezia and it was during these visits that she became pregnant with two more children. He also had two children with Ruth."
It is alleged that Ruth finally left him after he repeatedly flew into whisky-fuelled rages, beating her brutally.
Friends say drinking blighted his life - he lost both his legs while driving under the influence and also lost his job.
However, this was no bar to his womanising: he sired a son, his eighth child, by yet another woman and continued to come home drunk.
He was about to marry her when he finally died in yet another drunken crash when Obama was 21.
Mr Obama's 40-year-old cousin Said Hussein Obama told The Mail on Sunday: "Clearly, Barack has been very deeply affected by what he has learned about his father, who was my father's older brother.
"You have to remember that his father was an African and in Africa, polygamy is part of life.
"We have assured Barack that his father was a loving person but at times it must be difficult for him to reconcile this with his father's drinking and simultaneous marriages."
Said adds: "His father was a human being and as such you can't say that he was 100 per cent perfect.
"My cousin found it difficult when he came here to learn of his half-brothers and sisters born to four different mothers.
"But just as Africans find the Western world strange so Americans coming here will find Africa strange."
Far from being an inspiration, the father whom Mr Obama was coming to know seemed like a total stranger.
In his book, he attempts to put the best face on it. His father, he writes, lost his civil service job after campaigning against corrupt African politicians who had 'taken the place of the white colonials'.
One of Obama Snr's former drinking partners, Kenyan writer Philip Ochieng Ochieng says, however, that his friend's downfall was his weak character.
"Although charming, generous and extraordinarily clever, Obama Snr was also imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth," he said.
"He was excessively fond of Scotch. He had fallen into the habit of going home drunk every night. His boasting proved his undoing and left him without a job, plunged him into prolonged poverty and dangerously wounded his ego."
Ochieng recalls how, after sitting up all night drinking Black Label whisky at Nairobi's famous Stanley Hotel, Obama Snr would fly into rages if Ruth asked where he had been.
Ochieng remonstrated with his friend, saying: "You bring a woman from far away and you reduce her to pulp. That is not our way."
But it was to no avail. Ruth sued for divorce after her husband administered brutal beatings.
In fact he was a menace to life, said Ochieng. "He had many extremely serious accidents. Both his legs had to be amputated. They were replaced with crude false limbs made from iron.
"He was just like Mr Toad [from Wind In The Willows], very arrogant on the road, especially when he had whisky inside. I was not surprised when I learned how he died."
Ruth refused to comment on the abuse charges when we tracked her down to the Kenyan school where she now works.
She said: "I was married to Barack's father for seven years so, yes, you could say Barack is my stepson.
"Barack's father was a very difficult man. Although I was married to him the longest of any of his wives he wasn't an easy person to be around."
Mr Obama has acknowledged that his father grappled with a drinking problem. But with a gift for words that makes Mrs Clinton's utterances seem stiff and stale, he has turned it into another component of the myth.
Drink, he says, like drugs, are one of "the traps that seem laid in a black man's soul".
Mr Obama claims that he, too, has been racially abused, even during his campaign for the White House.
His mother, Ann, decided that he should get an American education and sent him back from Indonesia to Hawaii, where he was admitted to a £7,000-a-year prep school, Punahau Academy, and lived with his maternal grandparents.
And while there, says Mr Obama, he was tortured by fellow pupils - who let out monkey hoots - and turned into a disenchanted teenage rebel, experimenting with cocaine and marijuana.
Even his grandparents were troubled by dark skin, he says in his book, recalling how once his grandmother complained about being pestered by a beggar.
"You know why she's so scared?" he recalls his grandfather saying. "She told me the fella was black."
Mr Obama says his soaring 'dream' of a better America grew out of his 'hurt and pain'.
Friends, however, remember his time at school rather differently. He was a spoiled high-achiever, they recall, who seemed as fond of his grandparents as they were of him.
He affectionately signed a school photo of himself to them, using their pet names, Tut and Gramps.
The caption says: "Thanks... for all the good times." He worked on the school's literary magazine and wore a white suit, of the style popular with New York writers at the time.
One of his former classmates, Alan Lum, said: "Hawaii is such a melting pot that it didn't occur to me when we were growing up that he might have problems about being one of the few African-Americans at the school. Us kids didn't see colour. He was easy-going and well-liked."
Lon Wysard, who also attended the academy, said the budding politician was in fact idolised for his keen sportsmanship.
"He was the star basketball player and always had a ball in his hand wherever he was," Wysard recalled.
Mr Obama was later admitted to read politics and international relations at New York's prestigious Columbia University where, his book claims, "no matter how many times the administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched with blunt correspondence (about) ******s."
But one of his classmates, Joe Zwicker, 45, now a lawyer in Boston, said yesterday: "That surprises me. Columbia was a pretty tolerant place. There were African American students in my classes and I never saw any evidence of racism at all."
Family members and acquaintances believe that the real cloud over Mr Obama's life has been the discovery that his father was far from the romantic figure that his mother tried to portray.
A family friend said: "He is haunted by his father's failures. He grew up thinking of his father as a brilliant intellectual and pioneer of African independence only to learn that in Western terms he was basically a drunken lecher."
This ugly truth, say friends, has made Mr Obama ruthlessly determined to use every weapon that he has to succeed, including the glossily edited version of his father's story.
"At the end of the day Barack wants the story to help his political cause, so perhaps he couldn't afford to be too honest," said Ochieng.
Significantly, it was only four years after his father's death that Mr Obama travelled to his father's ancestral Kenyan village. There he learned the full story of his father's life and met some of his relatives.
One of his half-sisters, Auma, is now a council worker in southern England, but some of his other relatives are still living in huts in the village, without plumbing or electricity, farming a few scrawny goats and chicken and growing fruit and maize.
They speak the tribal Luo language and depend on handouts from family members who have emigrated to the UK and the United States for their few luxuries, notably the transistor radios that they use to follow Mr Obama's rocketing political fortunes.
He has positioned himself as a devout Christian (having found God, he says, after years as an atheist) and in a new book The Audacity Of Hope, timed to coincide with his campaign, he concentrates on his manifesto for 'reclaiming the American dream'.
This tome contains one telling paragraph, in a section in which he fumbles to try to justify his abrupt leap into the national political arena: he is, he says, chronically 'restless'.
"Someone once said that every man is trying to either live up to his father's expectations or make up for his father's mistakes, and I suppose that may explain my particular malady."
Additional reporting: Rob Crilly in Nairobi and Gill Pringle in Honolulu.
[b]#eligibility: Dems Focus on “Birthers;â€
Hey guys, Dr. Corsi is on Peter Boyles right now discussing this topic. If you miss the show, you should be able to listen to the podcast later.
http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html
Obama birth lawyer could lose law license
The Orange County Register
February 16th, 2010, 11:17 am · 160 Comments ·
posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/20 ... nse/30257/
Laguna Niguel attorney Orly Taitz, who’s suing Barack Obama on the grounds that he’s ineligible to be president, said today that her California law license is in jeopardy.
Taitz said she is scheduled to appear to before California Bar Association on Feb. 26 to defend herself against the $20,000 sanction levied on her by U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land for misconduct and “frivolousâ€