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Is Obama a U.S. Citizen or Not?

By , About.com GuideJune 25, 2008

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An anonymous email circulating for the past few weeks purports to prove that by virtue of the circumstances of his birth, Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and is therefore ineligible to hold the office of president. When you strip away all the obfuscations, however, the simple fact remains that Obama was born on American soil, which by virtue of the 14th Amendment makes him a natural-born U.S. citizen. See the details...

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June 26, 2008 at 2:27 pm
(1) WB says:

By the twisted logic of those spreading this, my husband also isn’t a US citizen. He was born in Hawaii before it achieved statehood. His parents were mainlanders who were in Honolulu during the Pearl Harbor attack and stayed throughout WWII. You only have to have 1 parent who is a US citizen to be a US citizen, or be born on US soil (which doesn’t have to be a state, it can even be an embassy compound).

Do test tube babies delivered by C-section count as natural born?

July 22, 2011 at 5:53 pm
(2) Chuck says:

Wrong, WB. The law is the law.
Kind of a nuisance, but the law is what it was for 1952 through 1986 for those born during those years.
It can’t be tossed out by libby philosophers, who couldn’t make it as Hollywood writers, simply by saing …”..when you strip away all the obfuscations … ” stripping away the LAWS of OUR NATION ??? Sounds a bit much like COMMIEISM to me. Dismantle our ethics, our laws, our patriotism, and what do you have ?? … just another banana republic…. You would have to read the law in order to determine if your husband needs to be issued a green card, so he can naturalize his self, back into Hawaii, and then OUT AGAIN !

June 26, 2008 at 5:32 pm
(3) Joey says:

It’s not as simple as “Case Closed” as this amendment has been tested many times. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted US citizenship to all people born in the US. The purpose of section 1 was to provide that former slaves born in the US would be citizens.

Since 1898 the phrase and subject to the jurisdiction thereof has been interpreted to mean that there are some exceptions to the universal rule that birth in United States automatically grants citizenship. The only exceptions to this rule concern diplomats, enemy forces in hostile occupation of the United States, and members of Native American tribes. The distinction between “legal” and “illegal” immigrants was not clear at the time of conception. It was years later in 1924 that Indian Citizens was excluded and rightfully so.

Are we not currently in a hostile take over of our Boards, Language and Culture for which there is no one protecting?

Can you specifically show or direct me to the law that states that anyone born in the USA is a US citizen when both parents are illegal aliens? This is a statement that is continuously being made and quoted but I can not find the actual law that this is indeed fact, and in any subsequent case has the Supreme Court explicitly ruled on whether children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are entitled to birthright citizenship via the Amendment.

It is NOW time we as Americans make a stand and clear this up before it’s too late and we lose our country to the take over by “illegal’s”, regardless of race, color or country without a shot fired.

July 2, 2008 at 2:59 pm
(4) Orlando says:

hmm,
The 14th amedment is not subject to perceptual idealism. Unless a direct proposal of war is drafted, ratified and set into motion on the floor of congress to the position of “border” infringments by neighboring countries as an outright attack on american soil, the position of illegal children being born in the US cannot hold.
The issue is that you cant keep people from migrating illegally to the united states.
But I would argue one point.

Since illegal aliens are simply, “Tourists” if tourists have a child in america is that child an american citizen?
Now that is a question I would like an answer too. because an tourist is anyone who visited for an amount of time without the intention of staying. An immigrant is someone that has submitted an application for naturilization right?
an illegal immigrant should inherit the same right as we provide visitors to our country that come as a tourist. The children of tourist I dont think are considered naturalized citizens of the host country, I beleive that fall under the “diplomat” rule am I correct in that assumption?

July 3, 2008 at 2:59 am
(5) Mike says:

The case isn’t so handily closed. The birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is an obvious Photoshop forgery and has the certificate number redacted. It could very well be that he was born in Hawaii as he claims, which would then settle the issue. However, it is disturbing that the best he can come up with is a falsified certificate that can’t be verified for lack of a certificate number.

July 3, 2008 at 12:24 pm
(6) ladiva says:

so what is up with mccain’s birth certificate? i heard there was no record of his birth in the books at the library of congress

July 6, 2008 at 1:24 am
(7) mr fulton says:

I was in the army for 13 years and my Lil girl was born on an Army base in Europe and she is an American. So if Obama was not black and his name was Bob we would not even be talking about this, but McCain is whits and his name is John so its no question about his place of birth. Wow the land of the Free?

September 15, 2010 at 4:30 pm
(8) Chantal says:

..except that barry Soetoro, Soebarkah aka Barack Hussein Obama was NOT born in Hawaii. Aside from that, the Constitution says that BOTH parents must be American, does NOT matter where he was born..

May 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm
(9) LD says:

So because this person is black we can’t ask any questions without throwing the Racist card. I wish I had thought about that when I voted for him. Actually I didn’t vote for him I voted against McCain/Palin.

I have every right to ask questions of any color red, white, purple and yes black.

Get over it, would you? THE PROBLEM IS EVERYTHING THIS MAN HAS TOLD US HAS BEEN A LIE. We don’t even know who his is. Do you get it yet?????

July 11, 2008 at 11:51 pm
(10) loadmat says:

Mr. Fulton,

You sound like a reverse-raciast. Good Luck.

August 8, 2008 at 12:09 pm
(11) linzeemp says:

I think you have made the mistake of stripping away the wrong obfuscations. You claim the “simple fact” that Obama was born on U.S. soil. What is the basis of this assertion? As another poster has already noted, there is significant evidence that birth certificate image that the Obama campaign claims to be genuine, is, in fact, a rather clumsy forgery. Just type Obama birth certificate forgery into your favorite search engine and read all about it. Don’t be fooled by the link to the Stop the Smears website – it contains the image of the birth certificate whose authenticity is in question. If Obama wants to put the controversy to rest he need only produce the original birth certificate for the public’s examination. Or, if he claims to have misplaced it, give written authorization to the Hawaiian authorities to open his birth certificate file to the public. His failure to take such a “simple” step is proof of obfuscation.

August 24, 2008 at 7:25 pm
(12) Paul says:

Obama is as phoney as his birth certificate. Get a clue America. The clueless hope of change you are looking for will destroy you and this country. Take off the rose colored glasses and see the man for what he really is.

October 7, 2011 at 9:22 pm
(13) kenny says:

.. exsactly!!! … thank you Paul …. about time I see one person who can see … obummer the man whos wants to bring down this once good land ,

August 25, 2008 at 7:46 am
(14) Chris Telesca says:

Does Obama have a US passport? If so, he had to prove to the State Department that he was a citizen at the time he applied for the passport.

But, depending on the circumstances of their birth, some people do not have a birth certificate. My mother was born at home and so did not have a birth certificate. When she applied for a passport, she had to find some people who knew the circumstances of her birth to write a statement for her to include with her passport form. Luckily, her older brothers and sisters were at home when she was born, and were able to provide these statements.

Besides, if this story was true, I am sure that Hillary Clinton would have been all over it from the get-go. That both she and Bill Clinton and others have ignored it demonstrates to me that this story doesn’t have legs.

August 26, 2008 at 7:29 am
(15) Lou says:

“Get a clue America. The clueless hope of change you are looking for will destroy you and this country.”

———-

Too late for that, as Bush has already done it.

April 10, 2011 at 7:06 am
(16) charley says:

i agree that bush did mess this country up pretty bad but can you tell me how and when obama has or will make it better….

August 26, 2008 at 7:37 pm
(17) Bill Clinton says:

If you dig into the records you will come to realize that Obama was born before Hawaii became a state and is there not a citizen eligible to be president. In fact the republicans are well aware of this and will “release” evidence just prior to the election that will make McCain a landslide winner in the election; that is unless we wise up and nominate Hillary.

August 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm
(18) Bill Clinton says:

Get a clue!
The birth certificate is a fake. As president I had access to all that stuff and it became obvious to me at the time that it was a fake. In fact I had Sandy Berger verify it with the folks in the FBI, but at the time I had no reason to call him on it. Now that the future of this great country is at stake, and Hillary is being denied her rightful place in the White House, I am compelled to bring this travesty to light before the republicans do.

August 27, 2008 at 2:37 am
(19) Craig says:

I guess this is “Case Closed” on the constitution as well, like we should not believe in the document.

August 27, 2008 at 7:10 am
(20) mojo says:

Craig….. I couldn’t have said it better….and david ? keep coming up with those lame answers ..how did you get this job anyways ,,,too many awake for your bs. posts

August 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm
(21) edeldoug says:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72656

World Net Daily has uncovered some REAL EVIDENCE.

August 29, 2008 at 5:24 am
(22) Roberto Markham says:

Clinton halfwit halfwhite, Obama halfwit halfblack – does it matter? Americans always instal a total moron in the White House so colour or creed have no bearing. Born in the US or not neither Clinton nor Obama are going to do the country any good! Mark my words. Since I guess Obama calls himself an African American [whatever that may be] I guess that he is an African first so ineligible for election! Hooray!

September 1, 2008 at 8:13 pm
(23) B says:

Bill Clinton states: “If you dig into the records you will come to realize that Obama was born before Hawaii became a state”

Obama was born in 1959 – the same year that Hawaii became a state.

Funny how ya’ll think he could have got this far on a “fake” birth certificate.

September 6, 2008 at 4:03 pm
(24) Voice of reason says:

The lawsuit filed on August 28th by Philip J. Berg, Esquire (a Democratic and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania), seeks a Declaratory Judgment and Injunction based on the fact that Barack Obama does not meet the qualifications to become President of the United States.

Philip J. Berg, Esquire stated in his lawsuit that Senator Obama:
1. Is not a naturalized citizen; and/or
2. Lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia; and/or
3. Has dual loyalties because of his citizenship with Kenya and Indonesia.

There have been numerous questions raised about Obama’s background with no satisfactory answers. The questions that I have addressed include, but are not limited to:

1. Where was Obama born? Hawaii; an island off of Hawaii; Kenya; Canada; or ?
2. Was he a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia and/or Canada?
3. What was the early childhood of Obama in Hawaii; in Kenya; in Indonesia when he was adopted; and later, back to Hawaii?
4. An explanation as to the various names utilized by Obama that include: Barack Hussein Obama; Barry Soetoro; Barry Obama; Barack Dunham; and Barry Dunham.
5. Illinois Bar Application – Obama fails to acknowledge use of names other than Barack Hussein Obama, a blatant lie.
If Obama can prove U.S. citizenship, we still have the issue of muti-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and allegiance to other countries.

So urbanlegends.about.com may have jumped the gun in their ‘case closed’ answer. This issue has NOT yet been resolved!

September 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm
(25) O says:

McCain was born on US Sovereign soil to two US Citizens.

Obama was born from ONE US Citizen and ONE Kenyan Citizen. From my understanding, he was also born in a different country. This does not make him a US Citizen.

October 12, 2008 at 10:34 am
(26) Troy says:

“Too late for that, as Bush has already done it.”

The last time I checked every single letter of every law pass has to get by the Senate and House before the President signs it.

The root of the economic problems lies with the Congress, Democratically controlled for Bush’s entire term.

Do a search on “Barney Frank Fannie Mae Freddie Mac” and educate yourself on how the Democrats forced the housing collapse. Home ownership is not an entitlement. The thought that it is created this mess.

During the Presidential debate McCain claimed health care is a social responsibility that should be provided to all citizens. Obama claimed that health care is a RIGHT. I don’t recall seeing health care in the Bill of Rights and, quite frankly, I hope I never do.

We are at the scariest fork in the road of our countries short history. Everyone has their hand out, expecting to tax the rich to pay for it all. Whatcha gonna do when the rich get fed up and leave? $20-$30K income tax increase on the middle class is what, all because the Democrats believe you can simply take from the successful so support the lazy.

If they’re going to make health care a RIGHT, they better make high school and college a requirement so they can tax us enough to pay for it. Who do you think is going to pay for that?

The root cause of every woe this country faces is a morally bankrupt population. Nobody takes any responsibility for anything that result from their action (or inaction). Parents don’t know what discipline is any more. Parents don’t force their children to do well in school. That takes college out of play. We end up with an uneducated population claiming its not their fault, the government didn’t do enough. Everything can be traced back to the lack of parenting in this country. Every d@mn bit of it.

Neither of these truth twisting deceptive candidates can change that. The arrogance that either claims they can is astounding. And the vast majority of Americans won’t accept that the lack of parenting is the problem, because to accept it is to take responsibility for our actions. We don’t have the conscience to do that anymore.

In the end, we’ll get what we deserve and our great great grandchildren will shake their heads at the selfishness that we showed when we passed a health care plan that will make the Social Security Program look like a money maker.

God help us all for what we are about to force on our children and theirs.

Lastly, YES, I did say GOD. Deal with it.

October 15, 2008 at 2:59 pm
(27) jake says:

AMEN to that! WE(parents) have got to actually teach our children again…and not how to pass a test but how to live as God fearing adults!

October 15, 2008 at 3:14 pm
(28) swissmiss says:

O – I am a US citizen. My husband is a Swiss citizens. Both of my sons were born on Swiss soil and yet they are both US citizens at birth. We have certifications from the Embassy so declaring. They have Soc. Sec. numbers and US passports. Even if Obama were born in a foreign country to ONE US citizen parent (and my understanding is he was born in Hawaii anyway) he could still be a US citizen AT BIRTH as my two sons are.

October 15, 2008 at 4:22 pm
(29) Vincent Anderson says:

I reviewed the so-called evidence on Obama’s birth certificate on FactCheck.com and personally found it to be unconvincing…
The photo of the document shows no sign that there ever was an kind of impression from a notary seal, and supposedly a stam on the reverse side proves authenticity…

Notary’s DO NOT stam the reverse side of certified copies – they certify the information on the same side as they are confirming…

Like many others, I truly believe the document Obama provided is a FAKE!

October 15, 2008 at 8:12 pm
(30) Gail says:

OMG!!! All I can say is I’m glad I’m in my “50′s” and on the way OUT….I feel soooooooooooooo sorry for the youth of today, how can they ever trust anyone? Ever? Politics are nothing but LIES and CRAP!
You have to have a few screws lose to even want to be President, and then to waste millions of dollors TRASHING each other just makes it PERFECT!
Why not put that money into all they are talking about instead of making “ASS’S” out of them selfs??
Hilary and Obama went at it for months!!! Now she’s his new best friend???
MAKES ME SICK!!!
and the rest of the world is watching this and laughing their “butts” off as to how STUPID our politics have become.
The WONDERFUL NATION of AMERICA is becoming the laughing stock of the world…and it sadens me!
If everyone stayed home and DID NOT vote…maybe then we could get REAL people in..
that will never happen, but this crap about the “lesser of 2 evil’s” is really getting old!
How bout we find the best of the best???
WOW… what a thought hu?
till then….same old, same old….
and ya know what I’m gonna sya right??
same old CHIT!!!
I am ashamed….I am sorry…I am tired…
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

October 16, 2008 at 12:35 pm
(31) Devil's advocate says:

Bill Clinton (not the real Bill. he wouldn’t be this stupid) said: “If you dig into the records you will come to realize that Obama was born before Hawaii became a state and is there not a citizen eligible to be president”.

Just for the record, I am NOT an Obama supporter. But I hate it when people who are allowed to VOTE fall into the hoaxes of these absurd speculations!

Well genius, if you actually never slept and had other’s do your homework in history class you would know that Hawaii became a state in the union in 1959. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.

And who says it’s a fake birth certificate a website? Any idiot can get a website and make all the claims they want.

I agree with that last post from Gail. We are in a huge economic crisis in America and instead of caring about the REAL welfare of Americans our politicians are spending all kinds of money to trash each other. If a candidate realy wanted to win at this point they would show the American people some tact and nobility and donate the rest of their “campaign funds” to help this crisis in America. After all, our politicians are always encouraging us to be good philanthropists… volunteer our time and donate money to good causes. They should set the example.

Vote if you want to. At this point and time does anyone really want to be President. Everything sure is a HUGE mess and clean up is going to be at least an 8-16 (or more) year battle. It took that long for it to fall apart from bad legislative decisions that created a trickle effect in our financial infrastructure from greed and corruption, due to kick backs to our politicians and big businessmen.

So, believe what you want to. But in the end you should remember that we all lost our retirement funds and savings and what are politicians doing, spending millions of dollars to bad mouth each other. You think about that in the next 20-50 years when you are 85 and still working three jobs because you have nothing to live on and retire with.

October 16, 2008 at 5:15 pm
(32) Randy says:

I know this is old, but thank you Gail and Devil’s Advocate for restoring my faith in Americans. It’s good to know that at least a couple people in this country haven’t went completely insane. I have been shocked by the cr@p people will believe and say these days. It’s like hype is more important than truth.

October 16, 2008 at 5:36 pm
(33) Stephanie says:

McCain is a U.S citizen becasue he was born on U.S soil. Therefore he in native-born of the soil!!!! now as Obama i hate how the freaking media isn’t even saying anything bad about him, there is a huge ass question mark next to his U.S citizenship. 1 Obama wasn’t born here in the U.S the law stated that if you are 19 years old in another country giving birth then your baby can be a U.S citizen if you are, Obama’s mother was 18 not 19 making him not a leagal of the soil U.S citizen. Now 2 lets say Obama was born in hawaii, when he was 6 he moved to indonesha with his mom and was adopted by her new husband
he is not a us citezen

October 17, 2008 at 9:07 am
(34) vic says:

There is no evidence to date that Obams was born on US soil including hawaii. No body can place him there at the time of his death. Hospitals in Hawaii have no record of his birth. Even his grandmother says he was born in Egypt.

October 17, 2008 at 4:49 pm
(35) Nibs Cuttleworth says:

McCain and the American Republican Taliban Party are desperate as they are loosing in the polls. Obama in all likelihood will become our next president and if he does he will go down in history as one of the greatest president who ever lived. He will be a black Kennedy who will save our nation and pull us out of the slump we are in. Anyone that wants to believes the lies about him should mover to an all white society in another country as America is a mixture of many races and cultures.

October 18, 2008 at 12:03 am
(36) Mom of a Marine says:

Okay, now I’m laughing! The person who claims he is “Bill Clinton” is a fraud. No man having been the President of the United States of America, not even Bill Clinton would use such poor grammar nor would he forget to Capitalize proper nouns. In addition, and perhaps first and formost is that the real Bill Clinton has far better things to do than read such drivel. Watch out America, if you believe everything you hear and read rather than look at the facts regarding the issues at hand we are in serious trouble.

October 18, 2008 at 12:22 am
(37) Mom of a Marine says:

The person here claiming he is Bill Clinton is a fake. Any man who has the educational backround of Bill Clinton would not use such poor grammar and would certainly use proper punctuation and Capitalization of proper nouns. In addition, the REAL Bill Clinton would get his facts straigth and therefore would know that Hawaii became a State on August 21, 1959 and Mr. Obama wasn’t born until August 4, 1961. Case Closed, he is a U.S. Citizen. If we believe everything negative we hear or see about either Candidate and vote based solely on such drivel and not on the issues and problems at hand, our country is facing we are all in serious trouble.

October 18, 2008 at 4:26 pm
(38) Oscar says:

If he is a citizen why is he refusing to provide prof of that you democrat idiot.

October 18, 2008 at 8:03 pm
(39) Save Amercia says:

Nibs Cuttleworth and those who just politicize this issue – When you say ” American Republican Taliban Party” and “desperation” of republicans.”, you show you do not have understanding. It is about “upholding” our U.S. Constitution. This question needs to be put to rest – period. Then all this will stop. If he is a “Lawful” citizen then when proved, it is settled. If he is not, you and all of us need to be very alarmed. If he is not, then how can he take the oath clause 8 of the constitution, to uphold and protect our constitution and laws? Please skip the ignorant partisan babble. Just because there was a certificate of Live Birth shown on the Net isn’t the same as a Certified Birth Certificate that all of us are required to present. I would note that according to the Berg case it appears the Obama and the DNC are certainly earnestly resisting putting this to rest.

October 19, 2008 at 1:43 am
(40) Dave says:

Every post I read, just confirms the fact that rebuplicans are very ignorant people. I just read a post, that stated,” Obama was an alien,not from this planet.”

October 21, 2008 at 10:04 am
(41) Thomas Jefferson says:

Obama also has ties to the Weatherman.

It’s true, research it yourself.

October 21, 2008 at 5:50 pm
(42) Redd says:

Give it a year or two at the most and then tell me how wonderful Obama is. He will take this great nation down along with the Democratic congress that has already started the downward trend of the United States. America needs to wake up and smell the coffee, this guy is a farce and he just screams change and everyone falls in line behind him. That’s what scares me, what changes is he planning and what path does he intend to take us down. I’ve seen nothing promising so far. No experience, no background, just charisma, hoopla and a lot of and-uh’s. I believe some people are so tired of a Republican president that they’d vote for ANYONE running on the Democratic side and that’s what they are planning. That is dangerous for us all. People, use your heads. McCain is probably not much better but at least we know a little about his past and background and he does love America.

October 22, 2008 at 1:39 am
(43) Pepperjack says:

I read that the real question about Obama’s citizenship is this: does his step-father’s adopting him and taking him to Indonesia to live, make him ineligible?

The answer said it made his US citizenship “null and void” at the time.

Anyone know anything about this?

October 22, 2008 at 12:12 pm
(44) John M., American says:

Obama was not born on US soil. That’s what the flap is about. The submitted certificate of live birth is not adequate anyway and to add insult, it has proved to be a fraud. I don’t think the taxpayers are asking too much to have a valid copy of the BC submitted to the Election Commission.

October 22, 2008 at 12:15 pm
(45) Ali says:

I cannot BELIEVE that this is actually a “debate”. If Obama isn’t a US citizen, but yet still allowed to run for PRESIDENT of the United States, then the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Immigration are massive failures.

Gimmee a break people. This is just stupid.Find a complaint that actually warrants merit please.

October 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm
(46) Ron M says:

If Obama was really born in Hawaii, why will he not provide documentation ssuch as a copy of his birth certificate to a Federal Court?
Or was he born in Kenya?
Or was he a Muslim Indonesian citizen?

October 22, 2008 at 5:06 pm
(47) Griff says:

First & foremost, I am NOT a McCain or Obama supporter. Secondly, why does the mainstream media REFUSE to cover Phil Berg v Barack Obama & the DNC? This lawsuit was filed August 21, 2008, two months ago!! Mr. Obama and the DNC refuse to produce an original birth certificate. This is headline material yet it’s gone virtually unnoticed. If there’s nothing to cover up just show hand over the birth certificate, withrdraw the motion to supress (filed by Obama & the Democratic National Convention) an move on. If he’s innocent he would’ve handed over the birth certificate already!

http://www. obamacrimes. com/

October 22, 2008 at 5:22 pm
(48) Jamal says:

This story is not in the Main Stream Media because of the fear of someone screaming “RACIST!” Bull crap if you ask be. I am a black man, and a democrat, but if the guy is not a US citizen, then he should not be president!

October 22, 2008 at 9:07 pm
(49) Susan says:

Don’t be naive and think that this matter couldn’t be overlooked by our flawless government officials. If he is a US citizen, why doesn’t he provide the original documentation to prove it, and put this all to rest. His trip to Hawaii is conveniently timed…

October 23, 2008 at 9:01 am
(50) Jaden says:

Check out this youtube and let me know what you think is actually true out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs&feature=related

October 23, 2008 at 10:14 am
(51) Liz says:

IF HE’S A CITIZEN, WHY IS HE TRYING TO DELAY THE CASE NOW THAT HE HAS TO SHOW HIS BIRTH RECORDS!?!? TAKING AN EMERGENCY TRIP TO HAWAII TO SEE HIS AILING GRANDMOTHER? UM, YA RIGHT. WHAT IS THIS GUY HIDING???? I’M SICK AND TIRED OF HIS SONG AND DANCE – VOTE MCCAIN ’08!!!!!!!!!!!

October 23, 2008 at 10:10 pm
(52) jerry F'N loyd says:

im kinda curious where all this talk about obama not being a natural born citizen came from. i personally believe that he is a socialist and the worst thing for this country. im curious to what you think

October 23, 2008 at 10:56 pm
(53) Joe a US Citizen says:

You state thate this is an urban legend. However, there is a lawsuit in PA regarding this matter. The Obama machine did not answer the suit. They could have provided a valid birth certificate (if they had one). What is the messiah doing in Hawaii tonight? I suspect, he is trying to find a birth certificate. He probably should go to Kenya to find his. The truth always prevails. If it comes out that he was not born in the US, it will forever destroy the liberal media and the Democratic party. The DNC should dump Obama at once and put Hillary on the ticket before it is too late.

October 24, 2008 at 3:21 am
(54) anthemra says:

http://www.obamacrimes.com

this is not crack pot right wingers…

this lawsuit is being brought by long time Democrat
and former Deputy Attorney general of Pennsylvania

October 24, 2008 at 11:58 am
(55) OBAMA 08' 12' and 16 says:

I believe that you all are ignorant to even think this way.
I have nothing else to say except go get your GED instead of Playing Video GAME. LIKE OBAMA said….

October 24, 2008 at 3:04 pm
(56) Jen says:

He was NOT born in Hawaii people. His birth certificate is NOT a birth certificate from Hawaii. STOP over looking this man … he’s insane! He was born in Kenya!

A DEMOCRATIC US ATTORNEY GENERAL is taking him to court! HELLO PEOPLE!!!!! WAKE UP!

http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256

October 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm
(57) anonymous says:

You all want to know the facts about candidates, right? Then when a fact gets let out of the bag that you don’t like THEN we all need to go get our GED’s? LOL! People have been looking up “facts” about these two guys the whole time and now this one comes out and people are, yet again, turning their head. This is the biggest disgrace against US Citizens, whether Democrats or Republicans! What is wrong with you people? The guy is a liar and this country will NEVER be the same if he is elected into office!

October 24, 2008 at 6:29 pm
(58) Nik says:

the person using “Bill Clinton” as a name is a FAKE but are you realy a mother of a Marine? the truth is you may never know for sure, but its just like a Democrat to focus on minor things as a name or spelling and miss the point of the message!

October 24, 2008 at 7:19 pm
(59) Captain James says:

Mr. Fulton,

Loadmat is so wrong and you should be offended. You are not a reverse racist; how dare he acuse you of such.

You are actually simply a racist! Wow, didn’t think a black person could be racist? Wright is a racist, Obama is a racist for following him for so many years and you are a racist.

Oh, well, I have called three African Americans racists now! I surely am a racist just for having the audacity. What a bunch of crap! Also, what’s this crap about African American? Have you been to Africa? Do you claim it because you want to move there? I am simply an American. Hey, call me American American if that makes you feel better.

October 24, 2008 at 11:21 pm
(60) B5 says:

Look at Obama’s associations with Odinga (Orange Democratic Party) in Kenya. Why is he in Hawaii? Is it really because his grandmother is gravely ill? If so, I sincerely want to send my sympathies to the man. It’s just that I have this suspicious feeling in my gut. Quite a coincidence don’t you think?

October 24, 2008 at 11:35 pm
(61) Gerard says:

Obama may be a UNITED STATES citizen, but might NOT be a Citizen of the United States Of America.

ONLY Citizens of the United States of America may become President.

The UNITED STATES and the United States of America are NOT THE SAME.

The UNITED STATES is Washington DC, and any owned portion of one of the 50 Republics that is under Federal Jurisdiction, or any Foreign land under the jurisdiction of the UNITED STATES.

Read below

The United States Constitution prohibits ANYONE not born in the United States of America from becoming president. Granted the DNC claims that Obama is a UNITED STATES citizen, however a UNITED STATES citizen, is NOT a Citizen of the United States of America, and can NEVER be one.

If it is proven that Obama was NATURALIZED once his mother took him back into the United States of America, and he is elected President, he MUST be removed from office. If through malice and intent, he deceived the American People, he may be facing criminal charges that include Federal Jail Time and Fines.

One provable point on this is the wording used on his alleged birth certificate. The description of his ethnic roots is shown as “Black”, yet in 1961 that term was never used, the word “Negro” was the term used. Also RULE 36 of the Rules of Civil Procedures clearly states that a non response to a filed and certified document is an indication of guilt, and become non refuted evidence in any matter. Obama and the DNC has failed to answer certified legal documents, and failed to provide a certified birth certificate.

October 26, 2008 at 11:31 am
(62) Keene says:

This is interesting since not an hour ago, I looked at Urban Legands as to whether or not O’Bama is a native born citizen of the U.S.A. It came back there was no info available on this. So, you might question this person’s reply stating he’s connected with Urban Legands site. I’m not buying it!

October 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm
(63) Jon says:

Thats OK, if Barak, or Barry can be president this opens the way for Scwartzenegger in 2012 and yes i know i prolly spelled his name wrong.

October 26, 2008 at 3:45 pm
(64) Jon M. H. says:

Here’s the real truth. Bush senior has already said Arnold could someday be president.

So Barak gets elected. Kenya unseals his birth record which is now allegedly sealed. Democratic congress amends the constitution allowing Barak to stay, calling this the “will of the people”.
He turns out to be just a dull do nothing president just like his senate term.
Then in 2012 Arnold the governator runs for president under Baraks new rules and wins by huge landslides in a fun campaign with all kinds of catcy phrases and tag lines.

I would put money on this.
Arnold in 2012

October 29, 2008 at 12:37 am
(65) Bogy says:

factcheck.org, not factcheck.com as someone above stated, has seen, held, and photographed Obama’s birth certificate. You can see the photographs at http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
You can also see a birth announcement from the Honolulu Advertiser from 1961. The format of documents like Birth Certificates and Marriage Licenses varies from state to state, and even county to county. The state Registrar could very well have signed the back of the document, whether it was the original in 1961, or a duplicate in 2007 or 2008. Depending on how the document is folded the signatures are not necessarily on the front. They are often “signed” on the “back”, which is the side that shows when it is folded. I’m a pastor, with children having been born in two different states, and three different counties. None of the original birth certificates is the same, with signatures in different location. Face it folks, he was born in the United States of America, when he was born he held dual citizenship in the United States of America & Kenya, but his Kenyan citizenship lapsed when he turned 21, when he did not reject his United States of America citizenship and did not affirm his Kenyan citizenship.

October 29, 2008 at 1:56 pm
(66) GeorgiaPeach says:

Some of you people really need to get a clue. If Obama was full all of these lies and deceit he would have been dropped in the Primary. This man graduated from Columbia, Harvard and passed the Illinois State Bar. If there was any single thing that was fraudulent about him he would not have made it through any of that especially with the Illinois State Bar. He also taught Law for many years, don’t u think they do background checks to teach at a University ? He doesn’t have to show his birth certificate to a crazed attorney with a history of filing Government lawsuits including one charging Bush with being inside responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Get a grip, he is a US citizen, eligible to be President and you people need to take a few doses of Paxil before the space aliens take you away. Here is a website that checked and checked and checked, even verifying with the Hawaii Dept of Health and other documents about Obama which debunks all this madness. Find something better to do with your time other than waste it on meaningless smears.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/

October 29, 2008 at 1:58 pm
(67) GeorgiaPeach says:

Obama’s birth certificate: Final chapter

By Amy Hollyfield
Published on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 05:21 p.m.

SUMMARY: Since we published Obama’s birth certificate, questions about its authenticity have been frequent and fierce. After reviewing the evidence, we’re confident in our rulings.

It started as a whisper, a trickle of nagging doubt.

“As a concerned citizen, I’m wondering if there isn’t something fishy going on with the Obama certificate.”

“I have serious doubts about the purported ‘birth certificate’ you were sent.”

“Something doesn’t smell right.”

Soon, e-mails and blog posts were flying. As the pace quickened, the tone sharpened.

“You should be apologizing … for your misinformation regarding BO bogus birth certificate, that you claimed was genuine!”

At full throttle, the accusations are explosive and unrelenting, the writers emboldened by the anonymity and reach of the Internet.

And you can’t help but ask: How do you prove something to people who come to the facts believing, out of fear or hatred or maybe just partisanship, that they’re being tricked?

• • •

Sen. Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a document PolitiFact.com had sought for months. Countless chain e-mails, seeking to paint him as a secret Muslim, speculated that his full name included Muhammed (or Mohammed). Some said he is not an American citizen.

Birth Certificate

As a fact-checking news Web site, we went to extensive lengths to sort out the truth. We got a copy of his 1992 marriage certificate from the Cook County (Ill.) Bureau of Vital Statistics. His driver’s license record from the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. His registration and disciplinary record with the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Not to mention all of his property records.

Not one of these documents shows a Muhammed (or Mohammed) in Obama’s name. They all read “Barack H. Obama” or “Barack Hussein Obama.”

The ultimate document we sought was Obama’s birth certificate. Unlike the other documents, Hawaii birth certificates aren’t public record. Only family members can request copies, so when the campaign declined to give us one, we were stalled.

On June 13, 2008, Obama’s campaign finally released a copy, while launching a fact-check Web site of its own, Fightthesmears.com. The site is a direct response to allegations about Obama that won’t go away: He’s Muslim. He took the oath of office on a Koran. He refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance. PolitiFact has researched all of these accusations and none of them are true.

When the birth certificate arrived from the Obama campaign it confirmed his name as the other documents already showed it. Still, we took an extra step: We e-mailed it to the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records, to ask if it was real.

“It’s a valid Hawaii state birth certificate,” spokesman Janice Okubo told us.

Then the firestorm started.

• Where is the embossed seal and the registrar’s signature?

• Comparing it to other Hawaii birth certificates, the color shade is different.

• Isn’t the date stamp bleeding through the back of the document “June 2007?” (Odd since it was supposedly released in June 2008.)

• There’s no crease from being folded and mailed.

• It’s clearly Photoshopped and a wholesale fraud.

• • •

At PolitiFact.com, we’re all about original sources. We don’t take anyone at their word or take the reporting of other media organizations as proof. We go to the heart of the story, the source of the truth — original, corroborating documents.

When the official documents were questioned, we went looking for more answers. We circled back to the Department of Health, had a newsroom colleague bring in her own Hawaii birth certificate to see if it looks the same (it’s identical). But every answer triggered more questions.

And soon enough, after going to every length possible to confirm the birth certificate’s authenticity, you start asking, what is reasonable here?

Because if this document is forged, then they all are.

If this document is forged, a U.S. senator and his presidential campaign have perpetrated a vast, long-term fraud. They have done it with conspiring officials at the Hawaii Department of Health, the Cook County (Ill.) Bureau of Vital Statistics, the Illinois Secretary of State’s office, the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois and many other government agencies.

Sounds like a Vince Flynn novel.

• • •

Peter Goelz knows a little something about conspiracy theorists.

He was managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board in 1996 when TWA Flight 800 crashed off Long Island, killing 230 people. While the NTSB’s investigation found no evidence of sabotage or terrorism, the Internet was stocked with insistent accusations.

“We were right at the beginning of this Internet lunacy,” Goelz said in an interview with PolitiFact. “And there were a variety of crackpot Web sites and Web commentators that generated all sorts of rumors. The principle one was that TWA in fact was shot down by an errant Navy missile in … a live-fire exercise off the Hamptons.”

Nine miles off Long Island, in the middle of summer. And then a full-scale coverup by the Navy and all the sailors involved.

“I am sure that we spent another $10-million, perhaps $20-million, out of a $50-million investigation, to just knock down and put to bed these kinds of rumors, these insidious rumors,” Goelz said. “We felt like we had to answer every question because it was such a public and dreadful and confounding event.”

Goelz, who is now a communications consultant in Washington, D.C., says the Internet has given a platform to anyone to say anything. And a way to find others who want to hear it.

“Online, they can be almost anything,” he said. “They can be the crusading investigators that they always wanted to be.”

• • •

The Hawaii Department of Health receives about a dozen e-mail inquiries a day about Obama’s birth certificate, spokesman Okubo said.

“I guess the big issue that’s being raised is the lack of an embossed seal and a signature,” Okubo said, pointing out that in Hawaii, both those things are on the back of the document. “Because they scanned the front … you wouldn’t see those things.”

Okubo says she got a copy of her own birth certificate last year and it is identical to the Obama one we received.

And about the copy we e-mailed her for verification? “When we looked at that image you guys sent us, our registrar, he thought he could see pieces of the embossed image through it.”

Still, she acknowledges: “I don’t know that it’s possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents.”

• • •

And there’s the rub. It is possible that Obama conspired his way to the precipice of the world’s biggest job, involving a vast network of people and government agencies over decades of lies. Anything’s possible.

But step back and look at the overwhelming evidence to the contrary and your sense of what’s reasonable has to take over.

There is not one shred of evidence to disprove PolitiFact’s conclusion that the candidate’s name is Barack Hussein Obama, or to support allegations that the birth certificate he released isn’t authentic.

And that’s true no matter how many people cling to some hint of doubt and use the Internet to fuel their innate sense of distrust.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/

October 29, 2008 at 6:19 pm
(68) ron says:

someones got to stop this bull a muslim running for pres.

November 3, 2008 at 9:47 am
(69) John says:

Let me make one thing perfectly clear (LOL)

If Obama is indeed a US cit. then he will have a valid registered birth certificate somewhere. Is it too much to ask (for a man who is seeking the highest office in the land) to produce that document. I mean honestly we have to produce it to get a job at the 7-11 – soo Im just saying …

November 3, 2008 at 4:36 pm
(70) steven says:

Obama Has lied about everything he can.
From going to hawaii to visit his grand mother
when he was actually working on his “forged” birth certificate Kenya. When his sister was interviewed she said he was born at one hawaiin hospital Obama when interviewed said he was bor at another major hospital. Even if he was not lieing and he was born in Hawaii he gave his “natural born citizen birth certificate right” away when he moved away to Indonesia to live with his stepfather there at that time they mandate that to attend school you must give up your citizenship from whatever country you are from in order to attend school which he did for four years. Thus, per the U.S. constitution he is no longer a natural born citizen of the U.S. he is only a naturalized citizen thus ineligable to run for presidency. The DNC will be in alot of hot water when all this come’s out in the open after the elections. Maybe Hillary has a copy of Obama’s, a.k.a. (Barry’s) Real birth certificate from Kenya. I understand why Arnold Swartsnegar is throwing mud at Barry since he wanted to run but could’nt do to not being a “naturalized citizen”. We will see

November 3, 2008 at 11:40 pm
(71) Come on says:

First of all, the name alone is enough for me to not vote for this fool. I mean come on, we just killed off Hussein, we still haven’t found Osama. If I remember correctly, he is still out making major threats against the US, they know they can’t beat us physically(nor have they been making any attempt). You think that fool has just been sitting around doing nothing?? What better way to take out your enemy than putting one of your own in the White House. With a name like Barack Hussein Obama, you’d damn well better be able to prove you citizenship as an American. Not only has he been tied to terrorist, been recently seen speaking with terrorist, he has very close ties with people who hate America. Have you noticed how much money is being donated to him from outside of this country. Last time I checked, the majority of other countries don’t really like us, if not hate us. With all the money gained during his campaign, where is it all going? Why do you never hear the media running all the bad stories heard about Obama. We all know what money can buy in America. We all know how corrupt people in this country can be. You know as well as I that the media cares about making money for themselves, not finding out the truth for the better of us all. I guess there isn’t any proof that he’s paying people off, but with all things considered, I would not doubt it. Not only has he been citizens of other countries, he lived in one the most crime-related and low morality places in America. I see nothing but more corruption coming from Obama. Even the majority of people supporting Obama are low moral people, those who want to sit on their ass and get paid for it, those who want to have unsafe sex and have no responsibility for taking care of the children that they created. The morality of America is going down the drain, and its obvious by the amount of people supporting this fool. McCain may not become the best president ever, he may not solve all our problems, but there is NO DOUBT that he is a TRUE AMERICAN. McCain suffered as a POW for America and survived and continued to serve America. So with McCain, atleast America will still be America. Those of you supporting Obama will soon realize that “change” doesn’t necessarily mean GOOD change, and we will all suffer because of it!

November 4, 2008 at 12:30 am
(72) Dumbfounded... says:

This is in regards to GeorgiaPeach (61):

“If there was any single thing that was fraudulent about him he would not have made it through any of that especially with the Illinois State Bar. He also taught Law for many years, don’t u think they do background checks to teach at a University ?”— Oh really. How is it that William Ayers became a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago? He’s an in-house terrorist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers). Then you have Rashid Khalidi, who has ties with the PLO and he teaches at Columbia. Don’t know about you, but I sure don’t want my new born daughter to be taught by people like this. Someone says they are sorry for crimes of that nature and everything is okay? Why don’t we let Terry Nichols become a professor in 20-30 years, even tho he participated in the OK City bombing?
The one thing I will give Obama is that he is a good orator, but so was Hitler and Manson who in turn manipulated the minds of the weak and those who can’t think and stand for themselves.
I served in the Marine Corps reserves and love this country, unfortunately where it is going makes me want to pack up an denounce the US. If that day ever comes, it will be a very hard, sad day. I pray that day never comes.

November 4, 2008 at 2:34 pm
(73) Dave says:

Well, the comments here lead to only one conclusion: Obama must be a Space Alien.

Call him whatever you like, but tomorrow you’ll have to call him Mr. President.

November 4, 2008 at 3:18 pm
(74) Maegan says:

How in the world can we vote someone who doesnt ever say GOD BLESS AMERICAN! Obama has no right coming to our coutry and ruling and for those that are voting for obama you have no idea what you are doing!!!

November 4, 2008 at 3:32 pm
(75) Dave says:

And to the dumb founded guy above: first, thank you for your service to our country.

Second, you refer to a wiki entry on Ayers, but not the one on Khalidi. It documents an association between McCain and Khalidi. Was that an oversight? Here’s an excerpt:

Relationships with 2008 Presidential candidates

John McCain

John McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) during the 1990s which provided grants worth $500,000 to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies for the purpose of polling the views of the Palestinian people. The Center was co-founded by Khalidi.[18][19][20] A copy of the IRS filing for the IRI was published online showing the grant and IRI members.[21]

Barack Obama

During the 2008 election race, some opponents of Barack Obama said a reported relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy if elected.[22] Martin Peretz, editor of The New Republic and an advisor to the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, disagreed. “I assume that my Zionist credentials are not in dispute. And I have written more appreciative words about Khalidi than Obama ever uttered…the Israelis are trying to live cooperatively and in peace with Palestinians whose unrelenting positions make Khalidi almost appear like a Zionist.”[23]

In an appearance at the B’nai Tora synagogue in Florida in May 2008, Obama said Khalidi “is not one of my foreign policy people” and called him “a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy.” Obama said his own commitment to Israel is “unshakeable.”[24]

In April 2008, The Los Angeles Times reported on Obama’s attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi at the University of Chicago—while both were professors at the university—citing a video from the party. [25]

And the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Khalidi

November 4, 2008 at 3:42 pm
(76) Dave says:

Don’t forget: research can be fun!

Here are the closing lines of Obama’s “Closing Arguments” speech: “God bless you. God bless the United States of America. Let’s get to work.” Full transcript is here: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/obama_closing_argument_speech_1.html

Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3eE18dfmE

November 4, 2008 at 3:48 pm
(77) Dave says:

Don’t forget, Maegan, research can be fun! You betcha!

Here are the closing lines of Obama’s “Closing Arguments” speech: “God bless you. God bless the United States of America. Let’s get to work.” The full text is easily available online.

November 4, 2008 at 5:18 pm
(78) Dumbfounded... says:

Thank you Dave for pointing that out.
I can honestly say I don’t want either candidate as President, but this is what we have to choose from. If Obama becomes the next President I hope I am wrong. Only the next 4 yrs will determine that. I just want Americans to be voting on policies and not just because they can tell their grandchildren they were part of history.

November 5, 2008 at 9:40 pm
(79) black berry says:

I knew there would be problems with this election!!! Did it dawn on anybody that he was already holding a government office when he decided to run for president? If someone can sneek in underneath the radar that well we all might want to get a new security system other than our government!! Hey! maybe his identity was really stolen and he is actually a Chinese imigrant!

November 7, 2008 at 11:00 pm
(80) GoBruins says:

Because Obama is the son of a US Citizen, he is a US Citizen. You guys are looking to demonize Obama because of his race and truly, it is very un-american. Land of the FREE! You believe that , I hope. Obama is a great man and he will bring back respect for America and americains.

November 8, 2008 at 5:15 pm
(81) Duh says:

Some Sheeples REFUSE to actually listen to what he says and see the truth in his statements and actions. Don’t forget he FACTUALLY used your tax dollars, on a “so-called” diplomatic mission of one, to support and pay for a murdering terrorists bid for the presidency of Kenya. Don’t forget the name Odinga.

Reality – Some people CHOOSE to learn for themselves. Some people CHOOSE to let other people GIVE them the answer (and they CHOOSE to believe and rely on that answer unquestioningly).

The problem here is, those that CHOOSE to be given the answers will NEVER know the TRUTH.

The people that CHOOSE to learn for themselves will ALWAYS find the TRUTH.

and the video tape PROOF of the slaughter in Kenya with Odinga cheering his followers is all thats needed.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE !!

November 10, 2008 at 5:30 am
(82) Dan says:

We were all ill-informed as to Obama’s citizen status…
It appears that he is not even a U.S. citizen… Hard to believe right? He is refusing to produce his birth certificate…
Since he is not a U.S. citizen he therefore cannot even take the oath of office.

Law suit filed to force him to produce his birth certificate.

Press Release 11-07-08: US Supreme Court awaits response to Berg Writ of Certiorari from Obama, DNC and co-defendants
Saturday, 08 November 2008 04:23 administrator Main – News For Immediate Release: – 11/07/08

U. S. SUPREME COURT AWAITS RESPONSE TO
BERG’S WRIT OF CERTIORARI
FROM OBAMA, DNC and Co-DEFENDANTS
(Contact information and PDF at end)

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 11/07/08) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States filed a Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court on October 30, 2008, requesting review of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Surrick’s Dismissal of Philip J. Berg’s lawsuit against Barack H. Obama, Jr., the DNC and the other co-Defendants. Accordingly, the U. S. Supreme Court has set dates in which Barack Obama, the DNC and all co-Defendants are to respond to the Writ, which is on or before December 1, 2008.

Mr. Berg remarked today, “I look forward to receiving Defendant Obama’s response to the Writ and am hopeful the U. S. Supreme Court will review Berg v. Obama. I believe Mr. Obama is not a constitutionally-qualified natural-born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of President of the United States.”

Mr. Berg’s case, Berg vs. Obama was dismissed from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Docket # 08-cv-4083 for lack of standing. Mr. Berg filed a Writ of Certiorari for review of the case and an injunction to stay the election pending review. Justice Souter denied the injunction. It is expected that the Court will decide whether or not to review Berg v. Obama after the Defendants file their response, and Mr. Berg has replied to the Defendant’s response.

The Defendants’ response is due by December 1st and Mr. Berg’s reply will be submitted thereafter.

# # #

Philip J. Berg, Esquire
555 Andorra Glen Court, Suite 12
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2531
Cell (610) 662-3005
(610) 825-3134
(800) 993-PHIL [7445]
Fax (610) 834-7659
philjberg@obamacrimes.com philjberg@obamacrimes.com

November 10, 2008 at 10:52 am
(83) Dave says:

Good luck with that lawsuit. The Supreme Court won’t grand a review. Mr. Berg is an unethical lawyer (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1122023117263) looking for publicity by pursuing an unwinnable case.

I had begun to dispute some of the factual inaccuracies in previous posts, but opinions like these haven’t been developed by reason, and aren’t malleable. The tails of the distribution are occupied by people who are susceptible to manipulation by others with hidden agendas and conspiracy theorists who blame space aliens, commies, terrorists or whatever is handy when circumstances don’t suit their agendas.

Fortunately, reason does overcome fear. American optimism overcomes pessimism.

Say what you wish, think what you like, call him what you will: on January 20, you’ll have to call him Mr. President. Until then, Mr. President-elect will do.

God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

November 10, 2008 at 5:52 pm
(84) gw says:

Funny how FactCheck.org claims to be non-partisan but the Chicago chapter of the Annenberg was founded by none other than Bill Ayers! Suck on that for a while. Coicidence? I think not.

November 12, 2008 at 7:22 pm
(85) ODanneyboy says:

In protecting them who question and claimed to be conspiracy theorist. Human intellect questions unless faithfully following ideology that rewards emotional fervor. Some are logically based in reaction some are emotionally based in reaction this works for political will of those who wish to obtain power politically and easily excepted by emotional basis. This explains the use of class warfare for example. Taking from someone with more most never elevates those who have least but rewards the emotion of envy. Lack of information of those who follow logic more so then emotion creates skepticism then explained scenarios. Logic rules when simplicity can be applicable but complexity is applied to avoid answer, often the answer is of detriment to the questioned. Judicial rules allow for complexity and avoidance but then through periods of time in most case truth prevails. Correct me if I am wrong but this indeed is happening. Simple action if true the document posted then simply submit then question is answered. This was not done.

November 18, 2008 at 8:34 pm
(86) ranger says:

Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) Justice David Souter has agreed that
a review of the federal lawsuit filed by attorney Phil Berg against Barack
Hussein Obama II, et al., which was subsequently dismissed for lack of standing
is warranted. SCOTUS Docket No. 08-570 contains the details.

A review of that docket and the Rule 10 of the Supreme Court makes abundantly
clear that Justice Souter’s granting of a review on the Writ of Certiorari is
not a right entitled to citizen Phil Berg, but rather is a matter of judcial
discretion based upon a compelling reason. That compelling reason is the
Constitutional requirement that “No person except a natural born citizen …
shall be eligible to the office of President…”

What this means is that on or before 1 DECEMBER 2008 Barack Hussein Obama II
must respond to the writ of certiorari, and since the Berg v Obama case hinged
primarily on the question of Obama’s place of birth, it is almost inconceivable
that Barack Obama will thumb his nose at the Justices of the Supreme Court and
he is absolutely compelled to provide a vault copy his original birth
certificate.
Even if Obama produced authenticated proof of his birth in Hawaii, however, the
suit claims that the U.S. Nationality Act of 1940 provided that minors lose
their American citizenship when their parents expatriate. Since Obama’s mother
married an Indonesian citizen and moved to Indonesia, the suit claims, she
forfeited both her and Barack’s American citizenship

November 21, 2008 at 2:24 am
(87) emcraith says:

If Obama was a US born citizen he would have turned over his original birth certificate immediately. He would not have 8 lawsuits pending against him. I believe he was born in Kenya. His paternal grandmother has said so on tape. Supposedly he stated in an dabate with Alan Keyes that he was not a natural born citizen.

November 22, 2008 at 12:17 pm
(88) JAB says:

It is NOT case closed!!

Obama has to deliver valid proof by December 1st
as there is a case pending (see http://www.obamacrimes.com/) The challenge here has nothing to do with being born in Hawii rathe,r he was born in Indonesia!!

November 24, 2008 at 10:24 am
(89) Rob says:

According to his Maternal Grandmother Sarah Obama, who says she witness his birth in “Mombasa, Kenya” on August 4th 1961. If this is true then Barack Obama is not a U.S. Citizen, but a British Citizen for Kenya was a British colony at that time. That would make him ineligible for President of the United States under Article II Section 1. She is willing to testify against her own grandson with her interpreter, if need be through Bishop Ron McRae via Phillip J. Berg.

November 25, 2008 at 12:09 pm
(90) TRS says:

Facts: (1) Obama was likely born in Kenya, but out-of-wedlock. (2) Under Hawaiian family law statute(s) and Hawaiian case law, the purported Hawaiian marriage of Obama’s pregnant mother was “void ab initio” and not merely voidable due to the fact Obama’s father at the time was already married. (3) Accordingly, an entirely different set of citizenship laws apply because of the out-of-wedlock birth. (4) Since Obama’s United States’ citizen mother had been physically present in the United States for a continuous period of one year prior to Obama’s birth, Obama is deemed a “natural born” United States’ citizen at birth. (6) The country of his birth and his “original birth certificate” are effectively moot issues. Should the first marriage be proven President-elect Obama becomes President Obama come January. (A Retired Lawyer)

November 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm
(91) Mike says:

Can anyone say for sure where they were born, or did someone TELL THEM. His own grandmother stated he popped out in Kenya. Last I checked Kenya isn’t part of these United States

November 25, 2008 at 3:53 pm
(92) Dave says:

Ranger, you’ve misunderstood the process, or you’re listening to people who don’t understand it. Cert has not been granted; Obama does not need to respond. There is a “Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed. (Response due December 1, 2008)” on the docket (here’s the docket: http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08-570.htm )

The entity responding here is the Supreme Court, which will respond to Mr. Berg’s petition either by granting cert or rejecting it. No response is required by Mr. Obama, because the Court has not yet agreed to hear the case.

November 29, 2008 at 9:12 pm
(93) mtngoat61 says:

Latest Barack Obama case as to his qualifications as a “natural born citizen” per the U.S. Constitution is at the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). It is Donofrio vs. Wells of NJ. It has been referred and bumped up to the entire court after initial review by Justice Thomas. Here is the docket link at SCOTUS:

http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08a407.htm

Mountain Publius Goat
http://www.obamacitizenshipfacts.org

November 29, 2008 at 10:08 pm
(94) Mr. Ed says:

Obama’s Grandmother (who lives in Kenya) said she was present during Obama’s birth in Kenya.

All Supreme Court appointments, Treaty’s, and laws, etc. that are signed by Obamma will be null and void!

December 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm
(95) mike fuller says:

CASE CLOSED ! NOT !!! How can you say that. Why is the rule of law not being applied here ? WHY ? If you are running for president you must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you meet the qualifications to be president. Obama has not done that. What about our constitution ? The rule of law is at stake here. If we ignore this part of the constitution, which one is next !!!

December 2, 2008 at 11:11 pm
(96) Kevin says:

Obama’s grandmother (Sarah Obama) says she was present when “he” was born, but in context the last male person discussed prior to the use of the word “he” was “her son” not “her grandson”. (Sarah is the stepmother of the president elect’s father.) I don’t know where that stuff about Mombasa and hospital delivery rooms comes from…probably just a tale that grows in the telling. The audio tape is on YouTube but you will have to rely on the transcript as most of it is inaudible.

Another video on YouTube shows Sarah talking about feeling the love from Barack when she met him (he visited as an adult), the same love she received from his father (her stepson).

December 3, 2008 at 1:35 am
(97) Dave says:

You folks are down right scary and have too much time on your hands. Why don’t you go back down to your basement and check to make sure you have enough bottled water and ammunication to hold out during the upheaval soon to come after Obama is sworn in as President. Get over it. The people want Obama to be President and no amount of crazy lawsuits is going to stop it especially when it is based on false information. Look it up…the 14th amendment. He is a citizen. Let’s move onto the important matters of the nation like saving it before it crumbles under the current government.

December 3, 2008 at 9:36 am
(98) Barry says:

I am extremely insulted by all of this questioning of Obama’s birth country and his US citizenship. We, in the know, realize that the Messiah was conceived by Immaculate Deception and elected by the electoral colleges of ABC, CBS and NBC. Geez!

December 5, 2008 at 11:56 pm
(99) Big Jon says:

First, I agree that Ranger has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. A request for a Writ of Certiorari is nothing more than a request that the Supreme Court use its discretion and choose to hear a case that it is not required to hear (it has that right under the Constitution). An Appellee may choose to respond, or not, as he or she chooses. He may choose not to respond because he feels that the suit will fail of its own defects, and is not worth the time and expense of his response.

However, Ranger sounds like a college professor next to Gerard (56). He regurgitates long-discredited tax-protestor semantical garbage about a purported difference between being a UNITED STATES citizen and a citizen of the United States of America, and about how the UNITED STATES consists only of Washington, DC and federal enclaves. That brand of idiocy has NEVER prevailed in ANY US court, and often brings sanctions for frivolous pleadings against the fools who submit them.

But, that’s not all. He then claims that the word “Black” on Obama’s purported birth certificate proves that it’s a forgery; otherwise it would have listed him as “Negro”. Well, I’ve looked at US censuses from 1830 through 1920 while researching my ancestry. I’ve looked at every listing I could find where the surname matches my own; and I’ve excluded many listings from possible places on my (Caucasian) family tree because the card bears a “B” or the word “Black”.

And then, he caps things off by citing Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to assert that nonresponse to certain claims after 30 days serves as an admission of the truth of those claims. If Gerard is such an expert on the FRCP, he ought to look at Rule 12b6. That rule allows a suit to be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. In other words, Obama can simply look at the lawsuits and say “these are going to be dismissed before they even reach trial, or even the discovery phase of the pre-trial process. They’re not worth a minute of my time or a dollar of my money.”

Someone once said “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. He then follows this with an explanation that you should “drink deeply” from the fountain of knowledge, if you are goign to drink at all; otherwise, your imperfect and incomplete knowledge will lead you to disaster. Ranger and Gerard are but two examples. This forum has many more.

December 6, 2008 at 10:36 pm
(100) Jp says:

Okay, well Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959. Obama was born on August 4, 1961. I guess people are so stupid that they are just saying what other people say. But I read some people say above he was born before Hawaii was a state. WRONG!!! I think you could take a IQ test or a citizen test before you are allowed to vote! But bottom line is, George Washington should be void as our first president, Same for John Adams!, Thomas Jefferson had no parents born here in the US, she he should be void, same as Andrew Jackson! Go figure! lets void all the presidents we had as our youth of America! And hell lets give you a history lesson while we are at it. One time in History on March 4th 1849, we didnt have a president anywhere! Even though our laws says we should always have one, and some believe David Rice Atchison was suppose to be, he was never sworn in. Bet all you people that are saying about how you all know the constitution, bet you didnt know it was voided out already on a sunday in 1849. But why would you be educated enough to know this!

December 9, 2008 at 12:47 pm
(101) Dave says:

Well, as predicted, the Supreme Court has decided not to hear this silliness. We could say, “case closed,” but that would imply that there was a case to begin with.

December 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm
(102) rachel says:

Philip Berg is a nut case and he has caused us to waste a ton of tax payers money on his lawsuits. He also wanted to have Bush and Cheney put in jail for 9/11.

http://www.yestodemocracy.com/yes_to_democracy_no_to_pu/2008/08/wingnuts-away-.html

December 16, 2008 at 8:31 am
(103) maria says:

MY son is born in a german hospital ..to me a german mother..and an us soldier father …we where married before his birth..after a couple of days ..after his birth my gusband went to frankfurt american cosulate to register his son ..certificate of birth abroad..my sons birth certificate reads …natural born ..not naturalized..therefore eligible to be president..not that that will happen..but just saying…you are natural born even if only 1 parent is a natural born citizen…natural born ..even if born beyond see or on foreighn soil…you are naturalized if both parents are foreign..and you later imigrate to the usa…when you read the constitution read the whole thing not only the 1st two lines..nut bags read whats making them compfortable not whats actually the truth..because what you are saying is that all militray children born in foreighn hospitals on foreighn soil are not elligable ..therefore mccain would not be elligable either..

December 16, 2008 at 5:56 pm
(104) hypereye says:

OBAMA! DISHONESTY MAXIMUS!!! No one legally gets this far that fast. Prestedigitation?

December 19, 2008 at 12:00 am
(105) ?? says:

My reaction towards this “debate” is that why didn’t they check obamma records before he ran for president????????

January 5, 2009 at 3:13 am
(106) Perry Como says:

President Obama knows the gig is up… not being a natural born citizen was ok being a senetor…but you cant be president. This has been his big skeleton his whole life. That and the fact that muslim terrorist groups paid for his home and all his schooling. What oboma is doing now is just stalling… he wants this to go to court AFTER he is president… then his Vice President can take over and pardon him. If it goes to court before his is sworn in… there is a good chance he will go to jail or be deported because he is an illegal alian. Absolutly the truth.

January 7, 2009 at 8:24 pm
(107) John Brooks says:

NOT CASE CLOSED!! Rather, CASE OPEN!!

Obama was not born in Hawaii “proof positive.” In fact Instead of spending over $500,000 to hide behind legalities and avoid a constitutional crisis, $10 would get a certified copy (and put an end this story) of his birth certificate if this were the case. This situation has nothing to do with Obama – and everything to do with the Constitution
We are either a nation of laws – or of lawlwss men.
For a reality check go directly to Phil Berg’s website: http://www.obamacrimes.com.
PS The two dates selected by the Supreme Court for this case (01/09/09 & 01/16/09) – are quite significant – note that the 9th is the day after the electoral votes have been counted (this is significant as he is NOT PRes. ELECT Obama until this takes place – and the 16th predates the 20th whereby a Pres. Elect takes the oath of office… that is, if he is qualified!

January 12, 2009 at 11:19 am
(108) MICHAEL says:

BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS ACTUALLY BORN IN KENYA NOT HAWAII. HIS MOTHER WAS IN THE LAST TERM OF PREGNANCY, AND COULD NOT BOARD A PLANE TO FLY BACK TO HAWAII. SHE WAS NOT THE LEGAL AGE OF 19, AS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION STATES FOR BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TO BE A LEGALIZED BORN U.S. CITIZEN. SHE WAS ONLY 18 AT THE THE TIME OF BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S BIRTH, AND WAS NOT LEGALLY MARRIED TO HIS FATHER. BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S MOTHER LATER SEPARATED FROM HIS FATHER THEN MOVED AND BECAME A CITIZEN OF INDONESIA ALONG WITH BARRACK HUSSEIN BECOMING A CITIZEN OF INDONESIA. THEREFORE, HE CAN NOT TAKE THE PRESIDENCY BY LAW, DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE HAS DUEL CITIZENSHIP IN KENYA AND INDONESIA. IF HE DOES THEN ARNOLD THE ‘GOVERNATOR” SHOULD BE ABLE TO RUN ALSO, AND HE WILL PROBABLY WIN THE ELECTION IN 4 YEARS WHEN BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TRIES TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION.

January 12, 2009 at 11:35 am
(109) MICHAEL says:

JOHN MCCAIN WAS BORN IN A U.S. TERRITORY, OF PANAMA CANAL AND HAS FULL RECORDS OF BIRTH AND HIS PARENTS WERE BOTH U.S. BORN, U.S. CITIZENS, AND IN THE U.S. MILITARY BASED IN PANAMA CANAL ZONE WHEN HE WAS BORN. WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ASKED FOR HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE, HE PRODUCED IT RIGHT AWAY. BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA STILL HAS NOT SHOWN HIS LEGALIZED BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH A SEAL FROM THE STATE OF HAWAII AS HE CLAIMS HE WAS BORN. KEEP IN MIND EVEN BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S OWN GRANDMOTHER AND HALF SIBLINGS STATE VERBALLY THAT THEY WERE WITH HIM IN A KENYA HOSPITAL WHEN HE WAS BORN, AND THE GOVERNMENT LEADERS OF KENYA HAVE CLEAR EVIDENCE HE WAS ACTUALLY BORN IN A KENYA HOSPITAL NOT EVER IN HAWAII. HE IS MORE OF A FRAUD THEN ANYBODY, TRYING TO PROOVE A POINT THAT YES YOU CAN EVEN BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN. THEREFORE, IF HE TAKES THE PRESIDENCY, THEN HE SHOULD TAKE DOWN TH WALLS OF THE BORDER OF MEXICO, AND WHY ISN’T THERE A WALL BETWEEN CANADA? HOW MANY CANADIANS, ARE ON ROOFTOPS AT 100 DEGREES OR IN YOUR FIELDS AT THE SAME TEMPERATURES, AND BUILDING YOUR HOMES AND WORKPLACES, AND DOING ALL THE DIRTY JOBS FOR LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE, BECAUSE THE CANADIANS AND THE AMERICANS ARE TOO LAZY TO PICK UP A BROOOM FOR THEIR BOSSES AND THEY WOULD RATHER QUIT AND BE A BUM ON THE STREET CORNER, WHILE A MEXICAN IS MORE THEN HAPPY TO CLEAN UP THE SHIT THAT THAT BUM JUST LAID ON THE SIDEWALK OR PISSED ON THE WALL OF YOUR WORKPLACE JUST BECAUSE THAT WHITE MAN IS TOO LAZY TO FIND JOB AT TACO BELL OR MCDONALD’S. PEOPLE BLAME GEORGE BUSH FOR THE ECONOMY, WRONG IT’S YOUR LAZY ASSES THAT WILL NOT PICK UP AFTER THEIR LAZY ASS WHITE MAN BOSSES THAT KILLED THE ECONOMY. YOUR NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE THE BLAME, AND YOU LEAVE IT FOR THE MEXICAN TO CLEAN IT UP. SO, TEAR DOWN THOSE WHITE MAN WALLS LIKE REAGAN SAID AND LET THE BORDER BE FREE IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN RUN THIS COUNTRY. BY THE WAY HAVE YOU EVER PUT A BEARD ON BARRACK OBAMA, WOW WITH A LITTLE PLASTIC SURGERY HE COULD GO BACK LIVING AS OSAMA BIN LADIN! FUNNY HOW WE ARE ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST LOOKING FOR MAN THAT IS NOW ABOUT TO RUN OUR COUNTRY. HIS MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSEIN, WOW SEEMS ALOT LIKE SADDAM TO ME, HOW ABOUT YOU?

January 15, 2009 at 8:56 pm
(110) fedup-n-america says:

Illegal aliens broke federal law to enter this country. Their plight is understandable but of no consequence. Here’s why. They violate fedral law to improve their quality of life. Once here, they demand that we give them all sorts of benefits not even available to legal, law-abiding US citizens.

How about me? What if I were to violate a federal law, let’s say the one about not robbing banks? But wait! I only want to improve my quality of life. Based on the precedent set by our new fellow (illegal) citizens, I really don’t see how my robbing a bank should be treated any differently than Northbound Mexicans. Just a thought.

January 22, 2009 at 12:23 am
(111) shintoc says:

Whether you hate Obama or like him he is our Pres. so as AMERICANS we need to support him weather we like it or not. (I do not like him and thank he should not be Pres. but he is). So as my Pres. I support him. Weather I like it or not.

February 5, 2009 at 4:32 pm
(112) Joe C. says:
February 25, 2009 at 3:31 pm
(113) scott1607 says:

Good Lord, I’ve got to stop reading boards like this because they leave me convinced more than ever that we are truly becoming an “Idiocracy”. The biggest danger to the U.S. isn’t whether or not Obama is a citizen, it’s the fact that most people are clearly borderline morons who can’t spell, can’t write in a coherent and understandable manner, and don’t understand the concept of a good argument. I live in a nation of imbeciles and these posts only prove it.

April 7, 2009 at 11:32 pm
(114) Jon Carlson says:

Obama Birth Announcement Forged
http://home.att.net/~south.tower/ForgedObama1.htm

May 6, 2009 at 7:52 am
(115) The Questioner says:

Couple of things:

I don’t care if he is white, black, brown, or purple with pink polka dots — one of the job requirements to be president is to be a natural born citizen of the United States. Just like every other person who has to provide proof and documentation of meeting the requirements of a job position (ie. if you job requires you have a college degree, you have to submit an official transcript or if you must have a good driving record, you have to submit a copy of it to your employer PRIOR to being hired!) It’s not a racial issue — this proof should be required before you are allowed to even officially join the race. Besides, this is PUBLIC RECORD when you step into politics!

Sooooooo……….that being said, why then did the DNC and the Obama campaign and now the administration spend an outrageous amount of money to fight each and every open records request seeking this information???? If there is nothing to hide, why spend money you don’t have to spend?

There is an easy solution. It’s a consitutional requirement to be president. If he is a natural born citizen, the simple way to end all the questions and speculation is to ALLOW THE OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS TO BE FILLED BY THE AGENCY WHICH HOLDS THE DOCUMENT.

The agency certifies it’s authenticity, it isn’t handled through Obama staff to remove information which would prove the documents veracity, and thus it’s credibility is much less marred.

The longer he plays this secret game, the more it lends people to believe he has something to hide.

From this point forward, it should be a requirement that documents should be submitted to the Secret Service and jointly with the FBI they should be required to investigate the veracity of all documentation proving natural born citizenship. This should happen prior to anyone being able to announce they are joining a race seeking to be elected president.

The person who is elected, prior to taking office, should have their information reviewed by the Supreme Court along with the investigation done by Secret Service/FBI or CIA or whomever. Once it is deemed valid in the Supreme Court, then, and ONLY then can that person take the oath of office and be sworn in as the President.

So, the LOGICAL thing is to simply allow the open records act to work as it was designed and alleviate questions concerning your eligibility to hold the office!

So, Mr. President — if you have nothing to hide regarding your citizenship status, then do what you KNOW is the right thing and exonerate yourself in the process. I have had to prove my eligibility to work at every job I’ve ever done. Why can’t you????

May 16, 2009 at 7:49 pm
(116) Tonnie Lopez says:

Hi Sir:

I read your article on Mr. Obamas birth certificate, but I do have to correct you. The sorce you referred to is not an organzation that has any valid credentials (at all). Factcheck is , a web site, not a government organazation, they are simply an on-line provider. Let me clear up a few facts for you. Mr. Obamas own grandmother who resides in Kenia came foward with her own statement that in Fact Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and shortly after at 4 months of age traveled back to the United States. State Attorney Philip Berg has filed a lawsuite against Mr. Obama who I might add is a democrat. The DNC Mr. Obamas group og hired lawyers are trying to dismiss the lawsuite, make it go away. The fact as you state it is that if you go on line and look at the copy of Mr. Obamas birth certificate has a color coed stamp from the state of Hawaii, when in fact that color was not used in that year. Now you may ask how I personally know this, the truth is that my mother worked for the state of Hawaii government statehood department, which means she was part of the goverment agency that helped Hawii through its statehood with the US.

He was not born in Hawaii, period

July 28, 2009 at 7:00 am
(117) KDG says:

People do not make sense. To the person who said that we need to produce our birth certificate to get a job at 7-11. Yeah that may be true or we may only have to show a social security card. One question: when showing your birth certificate to future employers do you show every single employee of the company? We have the right to privacy and do not have to show the whole world our personal information. Obviously, Obama convinced someone that he was a U.S. citizen because if not he would not have even gotten into the primaries. Another question to you non believers: If in fact Barack Obama was born in another country where is the documentation to when he came to the United States to become a U.S. citizen? There would be documentation showing when he became a U.S. citizens. You fricking retards. Also, why would being Muslim disqualify anyone from becoming president? It is just a religion not a nationality. DUH!!!! There are many Americans white, black, and brown who believe in the Islamic faith that were born in the United States of “America”. People who do not think that Obama was born in the United States are just people who do not want to see a black man have the highest power in the U.S. People like that are racist and need to create a new country where they will not allow anyone that is different from them. Some people are always looking for excuses to why they are better than the next human being. Everyone is the same, some are either female or male, white or black, christian or Muslim, ugly or beautiful. When will people realize this that everyone is basically the same when you look past color. No one has the same personality so why should they have the same outer characteristics? Again, Obama was born in America, stop being so ignorant people and move on with your own life and stop worrying about something that you will never be able to change!

August 3, 2009 at 2:02 pm
(118) floridagator says:

This entire issue shows that we are far away from overcoming rasicm. And it shows that may people here refuse to think. If there would be anything worth talking about in this case don’t you think this wouldn’t have been coming up during the 2 years before the election?
It looks like some people here just can’t lose and try everything, even the most ridiculous argument as an excuse.
I am deeply concerned about the future of this country. Not because of our president, because of the people that still don’t understand that skin color does not matter and that we don’t live in the 19th century anymore.

August 5, 2009 at 3:29 pm
(119) stnkpkl says:

Mr. loadmat may be illiterate and was probably in line at the soup kitchen where our current first lady posed for a cell phone photo, while serving free soup to an obviously impoverished destitute constituent like himself.

August 27, 2009 at 6:13 am
(120) Laura says:

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; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. or is used, Obama makes the cut, just deal with it, and by saying reverse racism makes you a racist because racism is racism regardless of who it directed at…

September 12, 2009 at 11:11 am
(121) Eddie says:

If Obama is half A.A. and half caucasian then why is he always referred as an A.A. Why do most of the A.A. see a A.A. president and not caucasian president. As long as people see it that way you can’t get mad at them for being racist. Is it illeagle to be racist… NO, so what’s the problem. I don’t have to like someone or something for any reason. I don’t like A.A. people does that mean i’m uneducated. I don’t like cigarettsdoes that make me uneducated. Everywhere i turn everyone has something negetive to say about Obama. If no one likes him than who the hell voted for him…

December 10, 2009 at 3:59 pm
(122) Indy says:

Bogy, That is not the long form certificate. The birth announcement could have been placed by his grandmother. Anyone can do that.

December 10, 2009 at 4:04 pm
(123) Indy says:

(116) Eddie says:If no one likes him than who the hell voted for him…

Millions who now regret it.

January 12, 2010 at 9:43 am
(124) Christina says:

Honest I don’t give a damn whether or not Obama is a citizen. The “man child” needs to be impeached. What good has come from him being in office?. I bet most colored people would say he has done alot of good for them. But I’m a full blood white female american. and I hella know when other people are being treated equally. I quote a song from the movie West Side Story; “Everything’s free in America”, is a song sung by latinos. But what about us? we sit here and work hard for our money. You all need to do the same. Except the government says “nope! pay your taxes” and why do the tax prices keep rising? because anyone can come into our country now, use our hospitals and don’t pay their bills, guess who gets to pay…us the people who work hard have to give our money to people who don’t even try to get a job. They just don’t understand. and yes, there are colored people that i enjoy being around. But honestly, i have never met an unselfish mexican. have you?. My mother was at the movie theatre last week, she has been waiting in line a long time, then a mexican woman walks right in front of her, my mother explains to her that she was waiting in line and was there first. The woman just turned around stuck up her nose and stayed in that spot. why? because they are selfish, this country “American” isn’t owned but “Americans: anymore. our country has been devoured but mexicans who take everything and give nothing back. Some of them have children to get welfare. They are over populating our country. Have you ever been to a drive through resturant and the person taking your order hardly knows english?. All i want is a damn diet coke. but what do i get? pepsi? dr. pepper?. It’s ridiculous if they went back to there country and worked together, they would have a better life. If they keep coming at the rate they are now, soon mexico will be empty. AT that point i will go live there instead. This is all happening because obama, keeps letting them come. not only this but many other problems he is causing. he needs to be impeached. he is making life miserable. I call him Modern Day hitler. he is gonna try to rule the world. instead of jews in concentration camp. it will be us white americans.

February 15, 2010 at 11:27 am
(125) Zack says:

this is a conspiracy theory. and that’s all it ever was. i cant believe so many of you even questioned this. just look at the comment before this…? are you serious? when did racism, bigotry, ignorance, and crossed arms with a smirk on your face become acceptable for adults. you guy’s are truly insane.

March 28, 2010 at 11:33 am
(126) Anonymous says:

Nothing I have read, or the many hours researching Obama’s bith leads me to believe that he was born on American soil, what I found was that his was born in Kenya, nothing else proves differend. Obama is not an American Citizen

March 28, 2010 at 12:03 pm
(127) (^_^) Unkonow Patriot says:

Hi,

Why is it when someone questions Obama’s American Citizenship, all the crazy’s come out, and defend him, meaning Obama, they don’t care if he is an American Citizen, or not because most of them, themselves are not legal Citizens here either. The research of many people has been done already, and has proven that Obama is a farce, an never held legal American citizenship papers. Turth is Turth – Obama was born in Kenya !

April 9, 2010 at 5:52 pm
(128) E says:

Not sure if this is mentioned yet, but what people are failing to grasp isn’t really if he’s a citizen or not.

Let’s ignore the fact that he says he was born in one Hawaiin hospital and his sister in another, while a Kenyan relative says she was there at his birth in Kenya.

Let’s ignore that he went to public school in another country where to attend you had to be a citizen there.

What it comes down to is is he eligible to run/be president? He isn’t. Why? His mother was a US citizen, but his father was not. One requirement ro be president is that BOTH your parents must be US citizens.

May 8, 2010 at 2:02 am
(129) shawna says:

OMG!!
This is so ridiculous. He was born to an american family. His mother and her family were both citizens of the US and whether he was born here or any other part of the world does not matter because HE WAS BORN TO AN AMERICAN!

This happens even today when military are stationed all over the world and have children outside the US. if you are born from an american family YOU ARE AN AMERICAN!!! DUH!!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!

May 14, 2010 at 4:27 pm
(130) Choppy says:

New Hawaii law shuns Obama birth document requests

HONOLULU (AP) — It’s now law in Hawaii that the state government can ignore repetitive requests for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed into law Wednesday a bill allowing state government agencies not to respond to follow-up requests for information if they determine that the subsequent request is duplicative or substantially similar to a previous request.

The law is aimed at so-called “birthers,” who claim Obama is ineligible to be president. They contend the Democratic president was born outside the United States, and therefore doesn’t meet a constitutional requirement for being president.

Lingle didn’t elaborate on her reasons for signing the bill, but state Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino previously issued statements saying that she’s seen vital records that prove Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen.

Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.

Health Department officials supported the law because the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama’s birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii.

A few of those requesters file repeated inquiries seeking the same information, even after they’re told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.

Advocates for openness in government oppose the law because they fear it could be used to ignore legitimate requests for information.

The bill is SB2937.

Online:
Hawaii Legislature: http://capitol.hawaii.gov/

July 7, 2010 at 8:32 pm
(131) Evan says:

When has he shown his Birth Certificate. He hasn’t! His grandma Own grandmother said she wathed the birth IN KENYA. I’m a US soldier that has to do with counterterrisom and other this such as espionage. I feel that if I’m fighting for this country I should be able to have proof that my commander and chief should show his birth certificate. Not that hard… I had to to just join. Now he’s trying to take state rights from AZ that are totally constitutionally ok and now he’s fighting that. why?

August 25, 2010 at 12:42 pm
(132) joannsheehan says:

Does anyone wonder why the White House Easter egg roll in 2010 was held on Mon. April 5th not Easter Sunday?

January 21, 2011 at 11:17 pm
(133) Carol says:

According to our constitution both parents must be natural born citizens in order for Obama to be a natural born American. He is not eligible no matter how many fake birth certificates he produces. We have a person in the oval office that does not have the legal right to be there.

The people of America look like idiots to the entire world !!!!
Look at our country, this man is destroying us. He doesn’t have a clue what he is doing.

A true American President would not squander the people’s money on constant vacations. If he isn’t on vacation then he’s on the golf course.

February 8, 2011 at 2:39 pm
(134) EDA says:

WELL THEN WHY IS IT THAT IF A WOMAN FROM MEXICO SNEAKS UP HERE HAS A CHILD 18 YRS LATER THAT CHILD IS DEPORTED BACK TO MEXICO ??? JUST BECAUSE WE GO TO RUSSIA AND WE HAVE A CHILD DOES NOT MAKE MY CHILD RUSSIAN NOW DOES IT

February 19, 2011 at 10:19 am
(135) theresa jones says:

I am agreeing with the conservatives. I do not trust Barack Hussien Obama. The name along scares me. He saids one thing and does another. Where is the change he promised? I am also tired of hearing about ( It’s Bush’s fault!) We have a new president, so let’s stick to the facts!!!

March 29, 2011 at 1:33 pm
(136) mary ann wilhoit says:

This is Fox news fault that the president isn’t an american citizen!!! So stupid. This station should be cut off the air.

April 27, 2011 at 11:38 pm
(137) malia says:

The irony of this all is that Hawaii isn’t even a legal state of the union. Hawaii has been illegally occupied by America…and admittedly so. Do your homework and read the authentic history. Hawaii had its own monarchy when foreigners came and forced the overthrow of our queen by illegal military force. The annexation of Hawaii was a bunch of B.S. So…no, unfortunately Obama is Not a legal U.S. citizen.

May 18, 2011 at 5:48 pm
(138) linda says:

This man is nothing but a lier. He claimed to be a christian when he ran, still claims to be christian sometimes. This picture tells the truth. Since when is a Christian allowed to go into a mosque?

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-blue-mosque-photos/slides/obama-removing-shoes-ccc-whitehouse

I’ve never seen a picture of him going to church, observing any of the christian holidays, traditions or anything.

Where is this mans loyalty?

My hope is that we can rid ourselves of this imposter, nutcase in 2012. I fear however that by 2012 he would have burned our constitution. That he will turn our beloved country into a socialistic oligarchy.

GOD HELP US ALL.

February 21, 2012 at 12:06 pm
(139) Lloyd says:

Can you validate the authcenticity of the attached for a Utube video. The following email is circulating:
Why is this man holding the office of the Presidency, one lie after the other!
OBAMA FROM HIS OWN MOUTH, ADMITS NOT BEING
BORN IN HAWAII

He made this statement before he learned that he had to be a natural born
citizen in this country to be a candidate for the presidency. We are not as
crazy as the press would want us to be.

Circulate this before it is pulled from theinternet.
If you just watch the first 30 seconds your mouth will drop open. THE AMAZING PART OF THIS TRAVESTY IS AMERICANS
CONTINUE ALLOWING THEMSELVES TO BE RULED BY AN
ILLEGAL ALIEN.. Watch it before its pulled!

March 22, 2012 at 1:16 pm
(140) Todd says:

Apparently, Mr. Obama WAS NOT BORN IN THE UNITED STATES AT ALL. HE IS NOT A US CITIZEN, at all. He is a foreigner, a fake, a usurper, an illegal alien. He was the ultimate Manchurian candidate! He has produced NO original documentation to establish where he was born: NONE, ZERO, ZIP, NADA! The birth certificate presented by the White House is an obvious forgery. To get past the forgery evidence we MUST see the ORIGINAL birth certificate!! It must be examined by forensics experts . . . until then the burden of proof rests on Obama and the democrat party. There is a long trail of obvious cover-ups . . . no academic records available for examination, stolen social security number(s), a forged selective service registration form, missing records in Kenya, missing records in the National Archives (regarding foreigners arriving on airlines in the early sixties). We have sworn testimony that no original birth certificate exists in Hawaii, and the governor of Hawaii failed to confirm its existence, we have sworn testimony that Obama was introduced as a foreign student, we have seen the video on YouTube with Obama admitting that he was born in Kenya, and the freak-like, radical, militant, liberal media is part of the cover-up!! . . . so let’s drop the assinine “birther” pejorative . . . WE WANT TO SEE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION!!!! What is so difficult about that? Got it . . . ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION!!! ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION!!!!!! Can you undersand English? When will you radical, militant, liberal kooks wake up?

April 10, 2012 at 7:30 am
(141) internet radio player says:

R u kidding me? Is Obama NOT a US citizen? It seems to be a very bad joke or someone’s provocation or I don’t know what…I even don’t know what to say actually. Anyway, Obama is the current president of the US and I just don’t want to believe this post is true!

July 14, 2012 at 2:11 pm
(142) steve says:

they can fake all the papers they want to you dont spend the kind of money obummer did to hide something and it be on the up and up.
he is 100% kenyan and all of america knows it and they know their money is going right in that direction he just sent millions of american money to build their country up for schooling and all .he has no one as americans fooled we all know it he isnt no legal president and the things he had done no longer than 30 years ago he would have been tried and convicted of treasing america has shot different ones that has done alot less treasing on our country but this kenyan has for some unknown reason has had a free hand at attacking our grate country he is spit in the eye of every man and woman that has served our country and gave their all for it and a disgrace to our leaders that have let him by with it

July 16, 2012 at 11:10 pm
(143) sdatwell says:

The US Supreme court ruled to clarify the natural citizen in Dec. 2011. Which means obama does not qualify so why is he running again? He abides by no laws of this land. His loyality is not with this country. He gave up his citizanship, if he ever had it, to become a citizen to attend muslium school. That country does not allow duel citizenship. HE IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT IN SO MANY WAYS! There is so much up in the air with this guy and still no one does anything. Care to ask yourselves why? We have a fox in the hen house.

July 22, 2012 at 4:22 am
(144) Joseph says:

Let me say I did trust and voted for obama. My mind has changed due to his muslem back ground. Terrorist are no dummies. They have proven their intelligence more than once. If by all means that the president of the United States has ties with the middle eastern parts of the world. Us Americans should know about. What proof does Obama have to prove that he is who he says he is? Documents get proven to be proven false daily. Could this be a master mind terrorist? This should be investigated. Its better to be safe then sorry.

September 23, 2012 at 11:31 am
(145) jim says:

What crap it is proven Obama was born in Kenya. Two news paper articles in Kenya state this. He is not my president.

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