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Readers Respond: Is Obama a U.S. Citizen?

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GET OVER IT

Supplying the original BC won't help, because his enemies will claim it was forged.
—Guest Kenny

Why He Doesn't Show the Long-Form Cert.

When your enemies are wasting their time and money, let 'em do it.
—Guest Janet

Who delivered Barry/Barack?

Doctors deliver babies in hospitals. Doctors like to get paid for delivering babies. What is the name of the Doctor that delivered baby Barry/Barack? My children have Hospital Certificates and Birth Certificates. The posted document looks like their Hospital Certificate. (I tried to get the Little League to accept the Hospital Certificate/"Certificate of Live Birth" to authenticate my child's age but it wasn't an "official birth certificate" and they refused.) A Doctor or a public official has to sign the actual Birth Certificate and to make it official someone has to authenticate the signature. I can't imagine a politician would try to pull a fast one on the American public but there is always a first time. Perhaps the "Certificate of Live Birth" is the only document Hawaii maintains but it's hard for me to believe they don't have a way to track the birth of a child back to the physician that delivered the child in one of their hospitals.
—Guest Walker

Why the secrecy?

I have no idea whether Obama is a citizen or not. But I am puzzled as to why all the secrecy regarding his college grades, the claims about his passport and birth status. It does seem strange that a virtual unknown wrote a book about his life and got it published. Then he goes to Columbia (where members of his purported class years never knew of him and then matriculates to Harvard with his tuition being paid purportedly by a wealthy radical Muslim in Texas. At Harvard, despite never writing any articles, he becomes President or Head of the Law Review. Graduating, he doesn't take any high-paying law firm offers, but goes to Chicago where he gets around 14,000.00 for being a mentor for Acorn. Miraculously, a favored Democrat is bumped by the party, making it possible for him to run for Senator. Then this unknown is selected to be Keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention, conveniently creating the exposure for him to run two years later for President of the USA.
—Guest Rabbi

Check The Facts

While the constitution defines a natural born citizen, it is a status that comes into play when no other test for citizenship, which takes precedence over natural born citizen, applies. There is precedence that applies to Obama that totally removes the Natural Born Citizen test from the equation. Obama was born in 1961 to a woman who was a US citizen that had resided in the United States the required length of time. Obama is automatically a US citizen because of this. The Natural Born Citizen test does not even come into play. Aim your efforts at sidetracking his agenda by restoring the checks and balances with the coming 2010 elections.
—Guest Patriot-101

Is Obama a U.S. citizen?

If I were Obama and the question about his citizenship is indeed a hoax, I would pull out my citizenship record, call a press conference, present his citizenship papers, end of hoax. So why hasn't he done that?
—Guest Jess

Yes or No

I believe Obama to be a US citizen but not a very good one. He is selling this country and the citizenry in it down the drain and for what? Is he aiming for an unattainable socialistic utopia? Does he want a dictatorial state? Or is he an out and out educated idiot that thinks he is doing the right thing? God help the US and us.
—Guest Patriot-101

Is Obama a U.S. Citizen?

Some of these responders are probably reproducing as we talk. I bet they believe in the Easter Bunny too. Jeez!
—Guest Don Wood

president Obama's citinzenship

The only group to claim this country will be native Americans. Everybody else came to this country in one form or another.Please stop acting like bastards, and please respect the presidency.
—Guest joe

ILLEGAL OBAMA

IF HE WERE LEGAL HE WOULD PRODUCE DOCUMENTS LIKE ANYONE ELSE.
—Guest ALLEN

Nobama

Absolutely not a citizen-More like Black Mafia Dictator with his commie czars in the black house- while he dumped two of them (Dunn and Jones) there are 30 left in there-He needs to be IMPEACHED
—Guest Jim Beattie

Some know

No he never was vetted! Never!!!! Some of our Congress and Senators know it. A few have tried to bring it out in the open and they quit before they gave us any results..wonder why?? Ha ha. Go look at it in Wikipedia. Liberals, and Obama supporters would it matter to you at all to find he was not legally qualified to hold the office? Only if you believe in our Constitution and want to keep it as our rule of law. Outside of a Robert Ludlum novel Obama's history is most entertaining!
—Guest monkey12

obama citizenship

We need to enforce our laws and the constitution of the USA that is why we have them. This matter needs to be settled by the supreme court, since Obama is closed mouth about his citizenship I wonder why?? what is he hiding?? all these questions needs answers.
—Guest nm usa

Are you kidding?

How hard is it to show the real B.C. I had to get one to apply for my job. Can you remember the amount of energy that was spent on Bushs' AWOL? Seems like a cost the career of an news anchor who went over the top without research. How about an Army colonel who is giving up 18 years of service to ask for the proof? There is more to this story than crazy thinking. Why has Obama spent millions in legal costs to seal his college transcripts? The man is a fraud.
—Guest Look hard

If I Only Had a Brain

Do all of you birthers sing the song "If I only had a brain." This non-issue has been gone over ad naseum. He was born in Hawaii and last I heard it was a state in 1961. People, give it up. You may not like Obama but he is the duly elected president. Just as all nominees are vetted, be sure that his background was vetted also. Does anyone really believe that a political party would not check that their candidate was a citizen? Get real and get a brain. Put down that glass of Kool-Aid and think for yourselves.
—Guest guest

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