Disputing Obama’s citizenship is a losing battle, no matter how you look at it. Anyone who does it will be seen as a conspiracy theorist and a lunatic. Apparently the We the People Foundation feels they’re up to the task, since they have also repeatedly taken on the (alleged) conspiracy theorist/lunatic mantle with their previous tax protests. They took out a full-page ad in today’s Chicago Tribune demanding a response from Obama’s Chicago presidential transition office.
I agree with the We the People Foundation on a few different, very important, points– for instance, the federal government should be directly accountable to the people through the redress of grievance system as mentioned in the Constitution. The group believes in abiding by the text of the Constitution, and they’re certainly right that our current government has gone far astray from that.
However, they undermine these valid points by focusing on tax protests (which have gotten them banned from certain activities through the courts and forced to give up a list of some of their supporters, increasing those supporters’ chances of an audit) and now this.
How does it make any sense at all that Obama was born in Kenya? Imagine you’re a 19-year-old American college student who married a Kenyan and is going to have a baby. Are you going to have the baby in an American hospital or are you going to go to Kenya to give birth in a hut? Imagine you’re that girl’s concerned parents. They were probably already upset enough about the situation already. Would they really have let their daughter fly to Kenya to have their grandchild?
I honestly don’t think so. Occam’s Razor applies here. It just wouldn’t have made sense for Obama’s mother to go to Kenya at that point.
And let’s say that Obama had been born in Kenya. You really don’t think that in that (to put it mildly) seriously cash-strapped country that a single Kenyan hospital employee– or villager– wouldn’t have run to the nearest press outlet willing to pony up and told all about how little Barack Obama was born at their hospital, or down the street? The country is so proud of him that it seems they’d be very willing to brag about how he was born there.
Finally, despite his birth certificate, does it matter if Obama was born in Kenya? His mother is an American, and I see no reason why he shouldn’t be an American citizen even if she was visiting another country. This is a different situation than Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria to Austrian parents.
The State of Hawaii Health Dept. has refused to verify Obama’s birth certificate. That’s enough for me right there.
Louisiana Girl
December 1st, 2008
The state health director has verified it.
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20081101_officials_verify_birth_certificate_of_obama.html
libertariangirl
December 1st, 2008
“Dirty Pool” at the Supreme Court apparently on behalf of Obama currently usurping YOUR Constitution: Leo Donofrio’s companion case, brought by Cort Wrotnowski, with fuller/better briefing showing Obama is not an Article II “natural born citizen” reportedly has been sidetracked to the anthrax lab to deprive the full Court from seeing those filings in connection with Donofrio’s case this Friday, Dec 5, 2008. DO SOMETHING AMERICA!!!
Ted
December 2nd, 2008
Was hoping this issue surrounding President-elect Obama could be put to rest so the country may move forward together.
Al
December 20th, 2008
Hasn’t it already been put to rest?
Let’s say that Obama was born in Kenya, to a Kenyan father and an American mother. Is he not American still? To me it’s kind of silly to parse this, as if there’s any possibility that Obama is more loyal to Kenya or more of a Kenyan than American.
If you don’t like Obama’s policies, that’s great, join the crowd. But, to try to imply that this is a major problem for America when almost all evidence points to him being born here is madness and distracts from actual issues.
libertariangirl
December 22nd, 2008
Yeah, personally, I think there is plenty of stuff to criticize him on (just look at his website! He isn’t trying to cover anything up!) without stooping to the sort of intellectual dishonesty that contributed to the shift towards Obama in the first place.
Grant
December 31st, 2008