Two days ago, Matt Drudge linked to a new book by Jerome Corsi, unflinchingly titled Where’s the Birth Certificate? The book immediately leapt to number one on Amazon.com, where it has remained ever since. The media has shown its usual incredulity at the indisputable stupidity of the American people. How could so many people question President Obama’s birthplace? How could they wonder about his origins? Are they all simply racist?
The answer, of course, is that Americans are desperately seeking an answer to a simple question: why does President Obama appear to be so un-American? The term un-American here is not synonymous with anti-American (though Obama has been that on occasion); instead, it merely signifies that President Obama is unconcerned with typical American principles and traditions. He sees capitalism as selfish and evil, religion as dangerous and oppressive; he sees the Constitution as antiquated and entrepreneurialism as exploitative. He is the representative of the Fareed Zakaria ideology at work, celebrating the post-American world.
When America elects a president like this, many Americans begin wondering how it happened. There are always two answers to such difficult questions: the first is optimistically externally-oriented, while the second is realistically reflexive. It is far easier to believe that the problem of un-Americanism lies outside our borders, that within we are unified. Hence the oddly persistent belief that politics stops at the water’s edge, that our politicians unify around foreign policy. But that belief has been obsolete since the 1960s; hence the persistent outrage when certain politicians (see Pelosi, Nancy) travel abroad and then criticize their fellow American officeholders (see Bush, George W.). We like to think that if we hang together, we will not hang separately.
Thus the stubborn belief that President Obama is born outside the United States. If he was, the unspoken logic goes, we can understand where he picked up his un-American philosophy. He is not one of us – he is rather a member of the same global community that despises America and tolerates Islamism, that slams American consumerism and praises Chinese communism, that rips evangelical Christianity while ignoring Muslim-imposed clitorectomy. We need not worry about our domestic institutions, goes the line of thought – instead, we must focus on protecting ourselves from foreign infiltration.
More realistically, however, President Obama is the culmination of a century of foreign infiltration already in place. The turning of America’s institutions of higher education took place decades ago; it is too little too late to focus on such infiltration now. Beginning in the early 20th century, America’s colleges and universities were infiltrated by German thought, then thought to be the most sophisticated in the world. That school of thought, a merger of Hegelian utopianism and Marxist classism, quickly infected America’s halls of power. Theodore Roosevelt, always trendy, bought into the new “progressivism” with alacrity, jettisoning the Constitution and capitalism in the process. Bringing this perverse ideology to American shores, Teddy announced, “We of to-day who stand for the Progressive movement here in the United States are not wedded to any particular kind of machinery, save solely as means to the end desired.” This was the philosophy of incipient dictatorship. It was brought to its near-term apex under a college professor, Woodrow Wilson, who thought that the Constitution itself needed to be stripped away.
If reporters were serious, they would investigate. Go to Passport records and see where Obama's mother was on the date of Obama's birth. Is her passport stamped "Indonesia?" It is easy to forge or lose documents here in the good ole USA. Also investigate how if he came to the US to study on a "foreign student" visa. I am tired of people saying "case closed." It is closed because they say so? No, it is not closed until we see an actual bona fide Birth Certificate, not a Certificate of Birth issued from a hospital. Journalists (are there any real ones left) are a disgrace today.
A lot of stupid people R birthers. So what R the rest of U called? He's still if office & U doing nothing & u call us stupid?He has committed acts of Tyranny many times,has defied our Constitution many times And has skipped Congress many times for his Rule? He's Not Qualified to hold office just for his Tyranny alone! The Constitution is the Law of the land,you communists,marxist muslims Islamists will have to get over it!
Nice try Mr.Shapiro. "How could so many people question President Obama’s birthplace?" Now, we're told his birthplace is not what we're questioning, but rather his "un-Americanism." Mr. Shapiro then tells us that stems from our political and intellectual classes having been infiltrated long ago by Hegelian utopianist and Marxist classist ideologies that evolved into the classical progressive movement that metastasized in the 60's into progressive liberalism and, volia, "…we got Obama as a result.". While I agree fully with Mr. Shapiro's analysis of the roots and symptoms of "un-Americanism" in American society, concluding our unease with his un-Americanism explains why so many Americans question Obama's birthplace is intellectually dishonest.
The reasons why are much more simple. Let's not obscure them with complex answers.
First, unlike most presidential candidates who typically have long records of public service in their home states, Mr. Obama did not. His rise from total obscurity to an incomplete term in the Senate, then the presidency is a historical anomaly. Americans actually do understand their history and they know that Obama's path to the White House and the time it took are flukes. Given that it is perfectly reasonable for many Americans right, left and center to ask, "where did he come from?"
That leads to the second question about his life and family. The simple fact is that his family history is unclear, complicated by the simple fact he has two names and lived extensively abroad as did his parents. Intellectuals on all sides of this question miss the simple point that most Americans can explain very clearly and in great detail their family backgrounds through several generations. Most politicians and especially those competing on the national stage wrap that narrative around themselves to connect with voters and the facts underlying the narrative are probed by the media and political opponents. The combination of the question, "where did he come from" and the natural probing of Mr. Obama's background led to another set of anomalies. His birth record has not and apparently cannot be made public and the media and public have been barred from access to documentation of his educational history and working history in the state of Illinois and elsewhere. Obama/Soetro's failure to release these records is the second simple fact that has led Americans to question not just his birthplace, but the whole host of secondary questions concerning his authenticity and loyalty. Again, Americans are smart enough to know that something is being intentionally hidden from them and, whatever the reason, it's not how politicians and public figures typically behave.
So, when Americans ask the question, "where did he come from" and find that they cannot get the answer because Obama/Soetro is intentionally withholding his records, they first turned to that most natural of institutions, the press, to get the answers. However, the mainstream press did not want to ask. Many seemed to be too busy cheerleading for Obama/Soetro to even contemplate asking. Many busied themselves with explanations of why the question was unreasonable. Mr. Shapiro goes a step further and tries to convince us that there really isn't any question at all. He says we "…have and ideological problem in our midst…" and that "Obama-esque un-Americanism is now endemic to American culture herself."
While that all may in fact be true, denying that there's a question will only serve to prolong the debate and create more doubt and confusion. We don't have a problem with "Obama-esque un-Americanism" anymore than we do with un-Americanism of the Pelosi-esque, Nixon-esque or any other-esque variety. We go to the ballot box to resolve those issues. In the case of Obama, when we go into that ballot box in 2012 we want to know whether or not he is actually eligible. We just want to know where the man was born, what he's hiding about himself and why. If there is nothing to hide, then why are the records being hidden? If he is eligible, release the records and immediately silence the critics. So be it. If he is not eligible, whether knowingly or otherwise, then a man sits in the White House who should be removed from office. This is not about politics, policy, ideology or race. It's about our system of government and preserving its integrity.
One side of this argument would have us believe that doesn't matter. Another side understands that it does, but doesn't trust the American public enough to believe such a mistake could be overcome without damaging the people's trust in our institutions of government. Yet another is seeking to convince the public the Constitutional eligibility rule is outdated in the global community we now all live in; a transparent effort on their part to chip away at the Constitution itself.
Most Americans see this as something much simpler Mr. Shapiro. We salute Mr. Corsi for his efforts to investigate and answer the simple question we all have about Obama, "…where did he come from?"
Excellent analysis.
This is a simple, direct, uncomplicated controversy about the facts of Mr. Obama's life, beginning with his birth. Has he been telling the truth about himself? His inexplicable secrecy about his entire life and his refusal to provide ordinary documents pertaining to his life strongly suggest that he has not been telling the truth and that he is hiding something from Americans, who want to see the records and judge for themselves. Nothing could be simpler. A child could easily comprehend this.
It is simple – but one would never know it from the responses of our intelligentsia, whose tortuous analyses and explanations and deductive proofs put the Scholastics to shame. How many millions of words have been written trying to make sense out of something that nothing but more facts can resolve!
Mr. Shapiro puts himself and his readers through exquisitely detailed and sophisticated intellectual dance moves to dance around the perfectly obvious and glaring central problem: Americans do not trust Mr. Obama because they are not sure who he is or whether he has been telling the truth about his life. They want to see the records to be sure about him. Were his political leanings less radical, the pressure to find out more about him would not be as great – but the problem of documentation and veracity would be precisely the same.
The media rushed Mr. Obama to the head of the line and carried him in triumph to the presidency in order for America to boast its First Black President. His background was not adequately investigated and reported. Inconvenient facts and loose ends were ignored or actively suppressed. Criticism and skepticism was shouted down by slanderous cries of racism. Much of the electorate was whipped into a low grade hysteria and caught the frenzy to elect the First Black President.
Normal Americans with good sense have all along been skeptical of Barack Obama. Anyone can see that he lacks the experience, demonstrated ability, and documented accomplishments to be president. He has never really done anything of consequence in his entire life. Objectively regarded, he is a perfect mediocrity with a fantastically, indeed almost an insane overvaluation of his own worth. Naive and idealistic Americans elected him because he gave good speeches and they thought it would be swell and prove something to have America's First Black President. The press covered for him and cleared his path in every way possible.
Now here we are. It is just like the story of the drunk who picked up someone in a bar late last night and wakes up the next morning with a stranger in bed. Who is this person? What have I done?
Normal Americans want the facts about Mr. Obama he should have been obliged to supply long before now – and that the media and the political establishment refused to demand that he provide. He was given a free pass because people wanted to have The First Black President. He is the reductio ad absurdum of affirmative action, an unqualified, unaccomplished, unknown, un-American, possibly disloyal, even possibly illegal man about whom very little that is documented is actually known, and who has been entrusted with the most important job in the world.
Americans need more facts about Barack Obama. They do not need insults, abuse, ridicule, slander, or sneering. Nor do they need theories, lectures, explanations, chastisements, or exhortations to be quiet and stop asking questions and demanding more facts.
As Sergeant Joe Friday always said, just the facts, ma'm.
It is time for Mr. Obama to come clean. It is time for him to release ALL of his records. If he has been telling Americans the truth about himself, there is no reason whatsoever not to do this.
The Obama records which have not been released include:
Passport records, Obama kindergarten records, Punahou School records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records/schedules(said to be lost), Medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license, Adoption records and of course the long-form Certificate of Live Birth.
M/M Benter, this is one of the best posts I've read on this issue and I wish it could be seen by more people. Can you please take some extra time to post it on any of the many other discussion and comment boards?
I've been studying the issue(s) for more than a year and I have gone back and forth in my mind of this until I have become physically ill. I cry over how we got to this place and feel helpless. I did not cast my vote for this man but that does not seem to be enough anymore. At 55, I don't know our country, the one my father charged bravely over the sands of Normandy Beach for. We know better. We are better and I will march in peace to or go down swinging because I love that flag of ours that much.
President Obama? I'm done with this pea under the cup you’re playing here. Why the games? Why are you toying with us on such a matter only to defer us as crazy insane to even be questioning this? No, I wasn't concerned about this when I cast my vote for you but this is no longer the case. A very wide swath of fellow sane democrats that did vote for you in 2008 will need this matter cleared up before they even think of voting for you again. This is nothing short of a huge socio-political game being played by Obama perpetrated by NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX against the American people and I’m past sick of it. President Obama, you work for us or didn’t you get the memo and we now demand your complete biography and CV. Now, the American people basically retain the MSM to vet our leaders which never happened with you.
Now, if you produce your certified live birth document and all is in order, excellent and let’s move forward. If not and something comes up that should have been vetted by MSM will destroy what’s left of the MSM which is precisely why the MSM doesn’t want this document produced and is why they continue to call a substantial portion of the electorate right wing whackos. Well, guess what MSM, I’m not the only Democrat now demanding this. You are trying to defer the inevitable. If there is no substance to this brouhaha, the American people, the customer will feel if not already being made a sick and twisted mark. Either way there is no good outcome. In the alternative MSM, IMO the hunt for Obama’s bona fides will be found and will summate in some very interesting results. Especially on material as easy as to vet as this document but the information will be found and once found there will be none declared a winner.
When Obama's heroes appear to be Socialist/Marxist figures and refuses to show the public his actual birth certificate, of course people will be suspicious. I voted for the man , thinking he would be a good president. I never imagined that he would allow gas prices, food to rise. I hope and pray that he does not get re-elected. I will vote for ANYONE who will make America prosper the next time around. Obama has done nothing to help the economy. He just lets his buddies at GE as well as foreign banks suck up American tax dollars. World leaders do not respect this rank amateur.
Hey Doug , you bought an urban legend , the Obama for America -Campaign Fund spent 2 million in legal fees to lawyers , McCains Campaign fund spent 1.3 million on legal fees to lawyers . You dont know , nor do I what those fees entailed and in what proportions ,in addition there is not a shred of evidence that you or anyone else has, that Obama spent 2 million to conceal or hide ANYTHING .
Did you vote for Obama?
Happy Easter, FC.
To know what the legal fees went for we would need to see the records. Perhaps you and others who believe Mr. Obama is telling the truth might prevail upon him to make these and other records available to the public so the many doubts about him can be put to rest.
The Obama records which have not been released include;
Passport records, Obama kindergarten records, Punahou School records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records/schedules(said to be lost), Medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license, Adoption records and of course the long-form Certificate of Live Birth.
(To which can be added: detailed breakdown of campaign legal expenses)
A U.S. PASSPORT SUPPORTS OBUMA;S BIRTH PLACE? GIVE ME A BREAK..PLEASE.
ILLEGALS, GET U.S. PASSPORTS, SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS AND IF NECESSARY BIRTH CERIFICATES…..DOES ONE NEED A BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO GET A U.S. PASSPORT…DON'T THINKS SO.IF YOU BELIEVE YOU DO NEED ONE, PLEASE STAY OUT THERE IN SPACE… PLEAASE!
Obuma's birth cerificatee topic, reminds me of, "where's the beef?"… old Wendy's commecial and how about the latest from Taco Bell? Since we have Tinker Bell in the White House, appears the left is in fantasy land….. Who said Americans are "stoopid?"
Hey, all of you dumb ass Obama voters on here…….
HOW ARE YOU LIKING THOSE HIGH GAS PRICES!? Is "change" all you have left in your pocket even after you fill up your wussy electric cars? I think so!
New LifeLock Radio Commecial:
"My name is Barack Obama and my Social Security Number is… 042-68-4425. It is a number reserved for CONNECTICUT applicants only, but I NEVER lived in CT. I'm just here to say, that you too can become President of the USA using a fraudulent SSN, as long as the media love you. Just Say… YES WE CAN!!"
PASS IT ON…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlaIS5o9Vs
I found this video on You Tube too that I believe the public needs to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZa9zbbILY
“My name is Barack Obama and my Social Security Number is… 042-68-4425. It is a number reserved for CONNECTICUT applicants only, but I NEVER lived in CT. and th Soocial Security has NO RECORD of that number ever being in exsistance! It is a made up number by a man that has something to hide!
Bravo, Sir. One hell of well written article.
Of course he was born in Hawaii. The real question is what is so damning about the original birth certificate that he won't disclose it.
There just fine , and I hope they go to $ 10 a gallon ….then maybe someone will hold the oil companies accountable . We go through this every Administration , so what else is new , and why is it Obama's fault ? The gas you're paying $4 a gallon for , was already been purchased at lower prices , so talk to your Wall Street boys and Oil CEO's .Then go talk to "our freinds " at OPEC , several of whom we give military and food aid to . I didn't vote for Obama , but from what I see of you nimrods , I certainly WILL vote for him in 2012 .
Your space key isn't working properly.
This isn't complicated. President Obama appears un-American because that's what he is. He is a blended product of third-world anti-colonial early upbringing with elite university liberalism finishing. He is exactly what we should expect when we let the Ivy League profs loose with influence in the real world. No one should have expected different – and no one would have if the elite media had reported on him instead of covering up and actively campaigning for his election.
On the other hand, we should expect nothing different from the media, either – it's populated by the same breed, and they are convinced they are the smart ones who should be running things their way.
Besides , I dont hear ANY of the newly elected Repo-Con-teabaggers jumping up and down screaming about the price of gas , DO YOU ? Maybe their already in the back pockets of the oil companies .
If you don't hear them, you're not listening.
Obama could announce, today, that he is going to approve ten new refineries in the US, and the price of gas would drop a dollar per gallon, overnight, simply on the weight of the announcement. There is a glut of oil on the world markets, but a severe deficit in refinery capacity in this country (much of it caused by the EPA).
You clearly don't understand how the markets work, as is typical of America's NEOCOMs …
Yea , and if Obama told the iol companies to build more refineries , you'd be scr eaming about socialism . You're all wet Brady . Besdides that you're wrong , it's NOT up to the President to approve refineries , but to the people of those states where they are to be built …..go talk to those Governors ….I think they're Repo-Cons .
THE MEDIA CHOOSES NOT TO COVER THEM!!
It seems to me the American people are more concerned with receiving the truth than they have ever been, hence the intense interest in the President's birth certificate and proof that his election adhered to Constitutional requirements. Not that his predecessor's Supreme Court appointment was any more constitutional… In a constitutional republic praised for its democratic principles which have been self-lauded hypocritically worldwide, it's a painful irony to its people that the country has been living a lie. The truth will set you free; the process of cutting away a cancer is never easy or pleasant and good things oftentimes go with it, but if the prospect of having a free nation is at all possible, then America (the people) should do what it can within the established Constitutional framework to preserve its freedoms and institutions and remove the despots from power as it does around the world. It's doubly ironic that Administrations have no problem removing foreign dictators who do not ally with its objectives, and yet hinder their own democracy when it fails to serve their personal and political interests. It's politics as usual in Washington — do as we say, not as we do. The American people calling for truth should be praised for no longer turning a blind eye, not labeled as racists or radicals. Is it radical to demand leaders be held accountable to their constituents? Then Benjamin Franklin advocated radicalism.
THe only two possible reasons Oboma is not willing to produce the long form birth certificate are 1) it does not esist. or…2) there is some information such as date, actual father or mother, attending physician, actual place of birth something that is embarrassing to him. He really needs to produce it. I am not a birther and believe that he was propably born in Hawaii but something else is wrong, What is it????
One theory I’ve heard is not that Obama’s certificate shows a foreign birth, buth rather that it has the word ‘Caucasian’ on it, identifying his race through his mother.
Because he himself — let alone his wingnut and white-guilt followers — has invested so much emotional stock in his being ‘black’ (and in fact has built his whole political career around it, with the helpf of the aforementioned dupes), it’s simply too much for him to even see such a thing, so officially tied to his existence.
Just one theory.
It's not that Obama's presidency is unconstitutional that bothers me so much, it's the morons in America that don't care that it's unconstitutional, just as long as he has the right agenda. That is what really concerns me.
Dummy liberals would vote for a rotten log if it ran as a Democrat
The Republic is gone. The simple fact that Obama is occupying the White House is all the proof you need. It really doesn’t matter WHERE he was born. His father was a foreigner and his mother a minor. Therefor, incapable of conveying “natural born” citizen status. Read the constitution. He’s ineligible and the Democrat party is a criminal organization guilty of fraud (among other things). Everyone should be asking the military to take Washington. What exactly are you waiting for? Another meaningless election where the Republicans promise deficit reduction and then cave to the illegitimate usurper?
When you admit to yourself it’s over. Everything becomes far more clear. Start emailing your favorite General.
How do Americans elect a guy like this?…..Because Democracy is the game of fools…….the man who spends the most on advertising wins………no different than selling beer or soap….
WOW, I SURE DON'T REMEMBER ANY ANALYSIS LIKE THIS ON BUSH,
he took the maniac murdering terrorist fight TO THEIR HOMELAND AFTER 9.11 and no one even reported the FACTS, LET ALONE DID ANY PERSONAL ANALYSIS ON BUSH
nope the liberals JUST CARRIED KILL BUSH SIGNS……………
hey media, IN THE 3rd year no analysis is necessary, IT ISN'T WHETHER BARRY IS UN AMERICAN
IT IS 'WHY THE HECK IS HE DESTROYING AMERICA'
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT OVER, someone who HATES America was elected by having VATS AND VATS of hate Bush kool-aid poured on them for 5 years……….THAT GOT BARRY IN, now he is destroying us from the inside out…….
forget analysis, BARRY IS ONE AND DONE, NOTHING ELSE WILL MATTER EXCEPT REMOVING THIS FREAK FROM THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY in 18 MONTHS
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-orlando/cat…
The distortions of selective, out-of-context quotations. Teddy Roosevelt continued, "Our aim is to secure the real … rule of the people. … we propose to do away with whatever in our government tends to secure to privilege, and to the great sinister special interest … [which] frustrate the will of the people."
So, the implication in Benjamin Shapiro's commentary would be that a Teddy Roosevelt's aspirations for a 'real rule of the people" is is really a "perverse ideology" (in Shapiro's words) and that what we should really prefer is being governed by "sinister special interests" and "privilege" — two things which Roosevelt opposed.
No criticism can be leveled at Barry lest one be labeled a racist. This has prevented many Americans from publicly commenting on the rapid decay of our country over the last two years. Oddly, it is the low income and black Americans who will suffer the most as the result of BO's tenure. Upon their realization of this, we will once again hear "it's George Bush's fault".
The truth will be revealed and Obama will be shown to be the fraud he has always been. There is no truth in him. He is an enemy of us all although the leftist, progressives are too blind to see it. I cannot wait to see him go, if he will in 2012. I am not so sure the left will allow us to vote in a new president. Everytime the Democrats lose they find a way to cheat their way into office.
I've suffered through nearly seven years of post-high school education listening to several eastern establishment, leftist professors in Boston. I saw the indoctrination of young fools to adopt this drivel, the liberal dogma. And I've always seen, borrowing from Dr. Samuel Johnson, that the last refuge of a liberal elitist is condescension. Reading the Associated Press article today about how "some" of Obama's birth records have been readily available for years, I was struck by the condescension based upon a conclusion of utter sophistry asserting that there is ample proof of Obama having been born in Hawaii. Once again, the media is "circling the wagons" to protect Obama, even in the face of objectively reasonable doubt.
The fact remains that Obama's grandparents could have simply submitted the information in the US, a birth announcement and registering the birth. Relatives in Kenya assert he was born there. There is no dispute he had globe-trotting parents and that he did in fact live abroad much of his life. His citizenship must have changed on multiple occasions. Without making the entire case, which Jerome Corsi has, it is reasonable to take a skeptical position. The presumption is based upon the inconsistencies, the ease of which to defraud, and the press phalanx or cordon around any doubting this president. Ostensibly "intelligent" people buy this line of dung. I am not stupid; I want the truth.
This author's premise is also correct in so far as Obama is the most non-American acting president in history. His world view was correctly cited. Simply put, Obama is much closer in ideology to Castro than Reagan. He is a Marxist. There are many, many – too many – Marxists in academia. But at the very least, having two Muslim fathers (biological father and later Indonesian step-father), and living in the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, had to influence and affect his internationalist world view.
Obama is non-American in outlook. He has spent over two million dollars trying to suppress information about his birth origin and past. He has demonstrated an indifference to the Constitution and a clear level of unacceptable incompetence. It takes more than being a black Democrat who can speak in whole sentences and read well off of teleprompters to be president. If he was not born here, he should be removed from office post haste and prosecuted. John McCain should be installed as president and all Obama presidential appointments and orders need to be legally treated de novo by President McCain. Far-fetched? Not if the law is followed and the logical conclusion is made.
Birther sounds so much like "flat-earther," a snappy, jingle-like convenience to critics of Obama skeptics. I do not take what Obama says as the indisputable truth. But then, I don't like to be wrong, especially about the Constitution.
Wow can everyone who would vote for Palin or trump just state that up front so I don't have to read your post?
Republicans are probably on their way to another Barry Goldwater year unfortunately…
vote for Mitch Daniels, John Huntsman, or Mitt Romney in the primary so we actually have a chance this year. We seem determined to be the party of old angry white people.
What’s with the reference to being ‘white?’
If you, sir/madam, are actually a Repub (unlike me), then you’ve apparently bought the blatantly RACIST talk of the hypocrite left wing hook, line, and sinker. You’re thinking on THEIR terms, and letting THEM write the rules and set the debate.
Why?
I don’t.
Has everyone lost their ability of common sense reasoning?
Fact 1 – A short form birth certificate was not acceptable enough to even get me in public elementary school even in 1956.
Fact 2 – He could solve this with a simple letter and about $10 bucks but instead does not.
Fact 3- He has spent a small fortune to keep this and most of his records secret.
Even those who do not want it released, if they are honest, have to at least wonder, WHY?
Look, an indesputably stupid journalist calling we the people indesputably stupid.
the constitution says you must be born to a father that does not owe allegiance to a foreign country. obama's father apparently owed allegiance to kenya since he never gave up citizenship and moved back a couple years after he was born.
the people who are ignorant or stupid or racist are the people who voted for obama.
Agreed — since they voted for Obama simply BECAUSE he (or, his dad, really) was black.
That is naked, blatant racism.
One matter this piece needs to discuss is just how many foreigners have come to America reminding us of the basic principles of the country. Ayn Rand, Leo Strauss, Tibor Machan, Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, et al. At least mention this to make the analysis more credible instead of seemingly paranoid.
No doubt that Obama has been influenced by the current thinking and teaching in our Universities.
However, the author totally ignores these facts.
1. Obama's mother was a communist
2. Obama supposed father and his step-father were both devout Muslms
3. Frank Marshall Davis his tutor in Hawaii during Obama's teenage years was an admitted Communist, Black Liberatonist, Pedofile and bisexual.
most of your college PHD types are gay, marijuana users, social/communists, and so forth. i believe the reason the libs are more educated is actually that they are more brainwashed. my learning is common since.
Obama this, Obama that… more important is the combine around him (or perhaps we should say, OVER) and their strings attached to the most powerful (well, once anyway) man in the world.
Besides his own obvious shortcomings and inabilities he is not his own man and anyone who thinks he is will never comprehend the election process. More than any recent President this one is a puppet and his strings are manipulated by "real" America haters and most of them are proud to say they are "not American born."
An 'uneducated' electorate where "all of the people can be fooled all of the time" is a catastrophe for America and her future. Your kids and grandchildren will pay in tithes of slavery both fiscally and morally for the blindness evident in the 2008 election. I am of the opinion we will not have a 2012 election so his citizenship might not even be an issue. Buy silver? Buy gold? Hmmm, better buy lead me thinks!
I was working in the hospital at that time…We have no record of Obama's birth there…The newspaper announcements are fraudulent…
My take is simple, he's not a natural born citizen. He's hiding something until he no longer hides the long form birth certificate. Could be complicated by HI policy, or maybe Obama was getting aid as a college student, or other far fetched ideas/paranoia. What bothers me is the arrogance, the lack of leadership, the smooth-talking con man that is the president of the US. There have been others, and until Americans stop being ignorant of issues and deal with problems intelligently, there will be a long line of con men that vie for the table of dollars left before complete valuation collapse. Its a money grab folks, and this guy is just another player.
I think there is more to it than something embarrassing on the birth certificate. You wouldn't spend $2 million for something you had no control over like – listing your religion as Muslim or your skin color as white. These could easily be smoozed to the American people by a slick talker like Obama.
I would bet there is no long form birth certificate at all in the state of Hawaii. And that so contradicts the first book that he supposedly wrote (he didn't Bill Ayers did – see Jack Cashill's "Deconstructing Obama") that there is no way he can talk his way out of it without revealing he is a complete fraud. He launched his career into the national spotlight based on the content of that fraudulent story. So he has to keep it going.
It would be like George Washington basing his whole career on the cherry tree story…
then revealing it was all a lie. He would be done.
I would bet she got pregnant by someone other than Obama Sr…making that story a lie – the lie that would contradict Dreams of My Father. That she went elsewhere to have the kid…but not Kenya.Who would go there? Perhaps Canada. She tells her parents what's she's done – they concoct the story of Obama Sr. and get him to say he is the father…and they take care of the rest. I would hope Corsi or someone has checked the finances of Obama Sr…see if he made a large payoff in 1961.
Anyone with an open mind and cynical of the US sycophant media KNEW what
obaMA, Barak hUSsein was, all the evidence was there, yet many eyes were blinded, their ears were closed, because barracks time was at hand. We have been painted into a corner in the US, be prepared.
If lunatics could fly, this collection of opinions would be the world's busiest airport.
Glad to see there are some Americans out there that still have a spine. There is nothing wrong with calling it like it is unless your a lawyer,union member or work of the government. Go real people!
I want some media to determine either by direct question or research…
Has Obama spent any amount of $$$ on this issue? That will answer the BC question.
If he has spent over a $10 phone call on this issue…any thinking human knows this means its a very serious thing in or connected strongly to the BC that is being protected and we the people should know that that is…we keeping hearing he has spent tens of thousands or even more…this rumor must be addressed to get to the truth.
Why all the secrecy over his birth certificate AND college transcripts. The government tells me its ok to hear everything I say on telephone calls, follows computer usage, bank transactions, traffic cameras everywhere tied into fusion centers, reads all E-mail sent and received, reviews library records for book usage, and the list goes on.
What is he hiding?
The fact is that this should have been dealt with BEFORE he became President. I, like most responding to this article, believe that where he was born is an important issue, but not soo important that it should be dredged up now with so much vigor. It should have been dredged up before he was elected with vigor, but the press was and is on his side and most voters unfortunately only cared about the fact that he was not-Bush, perhaps not White and was a good looking, good talker who said what they wanted to hear. The important issue now is his un-Americanism. Whether he was born in the U.S. or not, I find that moot at this point. There are, after all, many born outside the U.S. that are much more pro-America than those born here (Obama, for instance – birth certificate results pending). But it is something the citizenry has a right to have verified beforehand – no doubt.
kindergarten records? Really?
Really.
No kidding. Kindergarten records.
Hand 'em over. Cough 'em up. Let's take a look at them.
Of course, the list of undisclosed documents comprises much more than the kindergarten records. But the kindergarten records are indeed on the list.
Some people think it risible that anyone would wish to review, of all things, Mr. Obama's secret kindergarten records. It strikes them as funny. They think it is ridiculous – and they also think that anyone asking to see such documents must also be ridiculous. Of all things!! Now they want to see his KINDERGARTEN records! How silly!
Perhaps they have not paused to reflect long enough to consider what sort of information is usually contained in kindergarten records. Had they done so, they would not find the matter as funny as they do. They might understand why such documents could be extremely relevant to unanswered questions about Mr. Obama's birth and life.
In any case, Mr. Obama seems to think they could be important, for they are among the many other documents and records he is keeping secret from the American people.
The Obama records which have not been released include;
Passport records, Obama kindergarten records(YUK YUK YUK!), Punahou School records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records/schedules(said to be lost), Medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license, Adoption records and of course the long-form Certificate of Live Birth.
Please, at what time and place have you ever, in these past tewo years, heard Barrack Obama tell the truth ? And if the truth was there a hedge that it could be so close to a lie that it was a lie by proclaimation. (know what I mean)
If Obama claims this is the Relased Birth Certificate He has has a really good copy made.
This is a Red Herring. An item to shut us up on the real Issues, his schoo; Record, His college records, how he got two Social Security Numnbers from places he has never lilived. and why he is not in jail for this crime.
Likwe I suspected…. Red Herring……. or …….. what we see is the resuly=t of 2 long years of making it.
No, I'm not so easily pleased by this guy. Now it's a matter of Truth agaoinst Red Herring.
fabUlous , great commentary. few TIMES ever MORE impression w/ an opinion THAT validates MY view OF the issue THX & kudos
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Mr. Shapiro is a Jew, very likely a Zionist Marxist who is in favor of destroying America as we have known it, and replacing it with a totalitarian police state rule by Zionist dictators.
Actually, it's far more simple. We just want to see his Long Form Birth Certificate. Yes, he is as un-American as they come, but that's actually not the point. The point is, where is the certificate? A Certificate of Live Birth doesn't count. Hawaii was still issuing Long Forms when he was born. So……. Where is his?
The big question…why didn't Hillary take care of this three years ago? You can't say she made a deal, because, if so, why such a poor one and in obama's favor?
"…why didn't Hillary take care of this three years ago?"
a) Because she never thought he'd get elected and b) because she didn't want to open a can of worms that would embarrass the Dem Party.
Now the whole political establishment D's & R's and the MSM enablers have their dirty fingerprints all over this scam. The whole systm stinks to high heaven its so corrupt and they're all running scared over this issue. The public's waking up.