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This really should be the personal choice of the President, if he were truly interested in transparency as he campaigned and is trying to read in his speeches since election.

It is common practice to have to provide school transcripts when applying for a job, so that the employers can check the facts for themselves. The employers of the President of the United States are the citizens of the United States of America, and so any of us has a reasonable necessity, and daresay I responsibility to check on the preparation and past achievements of one of its "top (and certainly most representative) employees".

Let's focus on the important stuff, huh?

do that for the next president. it's too late now.

and where would you put THAT law? as a litmus test before the primaries, or a checkmark on the ballot?

that's "transparency"????

OK as soon as you call for Bush's college transcripts, or Sarah Palin's, or McCain's. Until then you're just a smear monkey doing your inevitable blatently hypocritical, unfair hatchet job on a good man, just like you did to Clinton.

@luvwith I think that in calling for transparency in government, there should be no obstacle to providing, freely and voluntarily, your school transcripts to your employers. That would apply to anyone who campaigns for and gains access to a topo elected role on the government.

It would definitely be a major factor in a campaign, so other candidates I would hope would do it voluntarily.

The point is that if someone campaigns on transparency and openness, it should start within his own home. I don't believe it should be a requirement, but it would definitely be a clear sign of a change in government bureaucracy and a respect for the constituents of the President of the United States and a sign of his respect towards them.

We are not trying to find out if he made good grades. We need access to the information he put on his applications re: his and his parents' citizenship and other issues pertaining to his Constitutional eligibility to be POTUS.

Obviously, the looming constitutional crisis is (also) over the heads of those who only "think" about "winning" elections between two sides of the same coin.

What 0bama needs to do to prove he is eligible:

1) Release the long form, vault copy of his birth certificate.

2) Release all college records to the public.

3) Show he has never been a citizen of Indonesia - as school records there show.

4) Tell us what passport he used to travel to Pakistan in the early 80's - when travel to Pakistan (or Pokeestan according to Zero) was restricted for US citizens.

Until then I will believe he is an usurper who needs to be removed from office and tried for his crimes against the country.

This is a very strange turn of events.

A few questions to the Obama Birther Movement:

Q1: “What news agency or personality is advocating the idea that Obama is not a native son?”

Q2: “Is the Supreme Court at fault for not defending the Constitution of the United States in regards to presidential status requirements?”

Q3: “Is the Obama Birther Movement going to sponsor a type of “Tea Party” on or near July 4th?”

Q4: “What is the official name to the organization that wishes to see Obama’s birth certificate?” Note: “Obama Birther Movement” is a named I just coined from reading a few of your arguments.

Now we know that the other 46% of republicans have been up to. I am appalled that it takes a right wing conspiracy theory to begin the question that the constitution is not being followed. We all have suffered eight long years of constitutional decay under the Bush Jr. administration, and the only time constitutionality is even mentioned is now with this birther movement.

Releasing college records = $100

Defending concealment of college records = $688,000 +

Becoming US President without proper vetting = PRICELESS !

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This post is popular but not nearly as popular as the posts asking for Obama to make his birth certificate, college record, health records and the like available.

Count Birth Certificate comments here and you will get over 7,000 But, this site has been rigged so that the posts asking for Obama to support transparency by providing his own birth certificate, health records and college records are not properly counted, even when they do not get deleted. All of the multiple posts would not need to exist if the honest reporting of this site showed the number one request here is for Obama to release his records.

I have done a personal count of more than 1,000 requests for his birth certificate. My analysis suggests there have been at least 7,000 request for Obama to produce his real birth certificate, college records, health records and other financial records.

It is possible to review this site to find the most requested ideas by scanning "Top Rated" posts, but the requests for Obama's records do not show up as being top rated. Those runnig this site are cooking the results. If the results were honest people would be able to continue to vote on a single post asking for transparency of Obama's records.

According to the liars running this website the most requested item has NOT been Obama's birth certificate.

(My email is ricardomigrant@aol.com - inlcude your email address if you want me to reply to you)

Why? And how is this relevant to the federal government?

@kevin.... my sediments, exactly... birth certificate "deniers" fall in the same category for me as most conspiracy theorists... no data will ever be "enough data" because "any data can be faked," so it's a never-ending pseudo-argument, and stupid.

if they think there's enough evidence, start impeachment hearings and see how far THAT gets... ;)))

amen.

@kevin @plusaf...

remember you've hit bottom if you start feeling the sediment.

The problem is that their hasn't been enough evidence yet to support the claim of constitutional eligibility.

So far on the birth certificate issue there has been one copy of a short form abstract "certification of live birth" released by the State of Hawaii in 2007, published by two very left-sympathetic debunking sites.

That's it. And a lot a lot a lot of efforts to avoid showing any other piece of paper, including his original birth certificate which the President himself cites in his autobiographical book. It has also been proved that with the legal statutes in Hawaii at the time of Obama's birth, other people, born outside Hawaii but to Hawaiian residents, were issued identical certifications.

So the deal is just that transparency seems to mean one thing when you're campaigning, but a whole other if anyone wants to know what you, an employee of the US Citizenry as a whole, did in the first 40+ years of your life.

if you think the certification is enough to prove constitutional eligibility, try getting a job at Burger King with the documentation that's been published so far, and see how far THAT gets... ;)))

Obama doesn't want his college records released because it would possibly show that he received foreign aid for tuition. I also suspect, that an examination of his college work would reveal he was actually a mediocre student who was given passes based on his minority status.

He is not very intelligent, nor is he a great speaker!

He is a dishonest crook who thinks he can con everyone with his spin.

i believe every politican is very akin to pinochio all getting a sniff of pluto.....