Only a natural-born U.S. citizen can be the president of the United States. A close examination of Obama’s “birth certificate” would suggest that he’s not, or that there’s something else he’s hiding from the American People.
In response to mounting media questions about the failure of the Barack Obama presidential campaign to produce his birth certificate, an official spokesman of the campaign has endorsed as genuine the image of a document purporting to be his "birth certificate." However, experts who have examined that image in high resolution have pointed out inconsistencies and irregularities which suggest that the document is a forgery. If the document is indeed a forgery, its high profile use by the campaign, suggests an attempt to conceal the truth of Obama's birth circumstances and citizenship qualifications from the American people.
The campaign has posted only a low-resolution image of that document, which it claims is his "birth certificate," on its "Fight the Smears" website, along with purported proof of why the claim that Obama may not qualify as a "natural born citizen" is false:
Lie:
Obama Is Not a Natural Born Citizen
Truth:
Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21st, 1959. Obama became a citizen at birth under the first section of the 14th Amendment
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside...."
In true Democrat side-stepping fashion, the campaign has failed to acknowledge that when Hawaii became a state and the wording of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, are not the real issues.
The fact of the matter is Article Two, Section One of the Constitution requires that the President be a "natural born citizen" and not simply a naturalized citizen. The issue is whether there is proof that Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, the legal status of his mother at the time, and what exactly is written on the original birth certificate, that is if said certificate actually exists.
Some bloggers have claimed that the purported official State of Hawaii document, originally published by the radical left Daily Kos blog, is a fake, and a poorly executed one at that.
Examination of the higher resolution images does show significant irregularities with Hawiian birth certificates at the time and signs that the image has been modified in Photoshop or some other image editing software.  The evidence includes: 1. Use of a second generation reproduction of the seal of the State of Hawaii at the top
2. Blacking out of the Certificate number in an attempt to prevent it from being traced
3. Absence of any official signature or seal which typically appear on such documents
4. Crudely arranged borders inconsistent with a professionally produced official document
5. Crude overlay of the textual items on top of the patterned background, indicating that the background was produced first and then the textual images laid on top of it by a graphical program rather than being scanned from the original.
6. Failure to use the double-S symbol before the listing the relevant statute (HRS 338-13b) as appears in official uses of the State of Hawaii.
7. The appearance of the backward facing text "Jun 6, 2007" that appears to come from a stamp in the lower right hand portion of the document.
8. The description of his father's race as African, when the term Negro was reportedly used at the time of birth.
9. The use of an identical typeface for all text items on the page.
Furthermore, this document does not even presume to be a copy of the original birth certificate but instead is a secondary Certification of Live Birth, which may be used when the original birth certificate can't be located. It can even be produced after the fact with just the affadavits of a family member, or even the child himself.
The Obama campaign, however, has not even produced a paper version of this document, in spite of the media's persistent requests to produce the original Birth Certificate.
Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot blog of the National Review and one of the original writers on the controversy, stated that "If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen -- because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.'"
He then points out that Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."
Ironically, a similar controversy surrounded John McCain for a period of time because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. McCain was born to two American parents, one of whom was serving in a US military hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. However, the First Congress, on March 26, 1790, approved an act that declared, “The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States.” That would, of course, include McCain, whose parents were both citizens and whose father was a Navy officer stationed at the U.S. naval base in Panama at the time of John's birth in 1936.
But the irony doesn’t stop there, because a non-binding resolution was introduced and passed affirming that McCain qualifies as a "natural born Citizen," as specified in the Constitution and is therefore eligible for the highest office in the land and the resolution was co-sponsored by none other than Barack Obama.
The difference between the two presidential hopefuls, however, is that McCain has always been completely open about the circumstances of his birth. The Obama campaign, on the other hand, is refusing to submit to any kind of public scrutiny and expects that, rather than producing the only scrap of evidence that could prove his eligibility to be the next president of the United States, the American people just take his word for it. And herin lies the problem; to refuse to produce something as minor as a birth certificate strongly suggests that one has something to hide. What is Barack Obama hiding?
| Published in : The News, Top Stories |
| Keywords : News, Top Stories, Is Barack Obama a Natural-Born U.S. Citizen?, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Barack Obama Birth Certificate, Obama Citizenship, Barack Obama Citizenship, Barack Obama Birth, 14th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, 2008 election, McCain, John McCain, McCain Birth, John McCain Birth, McCain Citizenship, John McCain Citizenship, Christian Web News |
|
|
Users' Comments (15) 
|
|
|
