As a citizen I must know my President is legitimate. Millions of people believe that Mr Obama has usurped the Presidency by taking the oath of office without being eligible to be President. These people believe that Mr Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen as required by Article II of the Constitution.
Mr. Obama claims to have provided a summary copy of his Certificate of Live Birth by posting it on the internet. This document is inadequate to prove natural born citizenship. If Mr. Obama is a Natural Born Citizen this should be trivially easy to prove. Simply provide additional documents such as the long form hospital birth certificate and put all these concerns to rest.
Americans have a right to know their President is legitimate. If Mr. Obama is unable or unwilling to provide proof of his eligibility to be President he must immediately resign and allow a successor to take over.
Why Is This Idea Important?
The United States is a nation governed by a Constitution. Nobody is above the law. Mr. Obama must prove he is legitimate or resign.
Comments (11)
It's pretty clear those who demand the original, long form, "vault" birth certificate have made their point, and object to having posts deleted from this site. So why not go over to www.worldnetdaily.com and click on "forums", then choose the one that asks your opinion- "Is he eligible". You can share info there and your posts will not be deleted.
Flagged.
Here's the scoop on the long form BC in Hawaii:
http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html
Enjoy!!
Regardless of what form of birth certificate Hawaii issues today, those officials stated that they have his original certificate in their records. Further, in his book he said he found it long ago in his grandparents' papers, so he has a copy. Rather than spending a million dollars to keep it hidden, why not release his copy or by legal action require Hawaii to release theirs?
Citar,
The COLB he posted on his website is good enough for every legal transaction requiring a birth certificate. It's accepted by every federal agency and is perfectly legal.
What incentive does the president have to provide more than that, especially insofar as you probably ain't going to vote for him in 2012 anyway?
You birfers really have an inflated sense of your own power and importance. Really, the man has a 66% approval rating and won the election in a landslide. You need to be getting ready for the 2016 elections, are far as I can tell.
http://polarik.blogtownhall.com/2008/11/22/obamas_born_conspiracy_obamas_bogus_birth_certificate_exposed!.thtml
The birth certificate posted on FactCheck and other various sites are forgeries. It takes a while to down load the site because of all the pictures.It is very extensive research on Barack Hussein Obama II fake birth certificate
To Blackmonrikker:
Actually, you are wrong. The COLB he posted on his website is not good enough for any legal transactions because he has not shown the original copy of his COLB and because the COLB is not accepted for many purposes because it was so easy in the 1960's to fraudulently obtain a COLB. Nobody accepts an internet copy of a scanned and uncertified COLB for any purpose whatever and that is the document Obama has posted on the internet.
Your comment regarding Obama's incentive is particularly indicative of your lack of concern regarding the rule of law. As President, Obama is sworn to protect and defend the constitution. Having tens of millions of American citizens believe he is a criminal usurper places the security of the United States at risk. If he is legitimate, proving his legitimacy would cost Obama at most $12. Obama is violating his oath of office by placing the nation at risk in order to hide the facts of his birth. This is intolerable. Disclosing his true birth status has nothing to do with Obama convincing people to vote for him. It has everything to do with respect for the rule of law and the constitution; something you clearly care little about.
I agree that Obama won the election although hardly by a landslide. Likewise, he certainly does have a high approval rating, although this is largely the result of his having so successfully hidden the truth about himself. If Obama is proven to be a fraud and ineligible to be President he will be removed from office. If this happens I will be very sad for all Americans who were defrauded and disenfranchised by a criminal who placed his own ambitions over the good of the nation.
Nevertheless, the Constitution clearly trumps the Presidents approval rating. Stating that we should ignore Obamas criminal acts and allow him to remain President despite being ineligible is like saying that we should allow a murderer to remain free because his victim "needed killing". If OBama is a fraud he must be removed and his supporters given an opportunity to elect a replacement in a follow on election.
There is no chance that Obama will run in 2012. Numerous states have already or will soon enact legislation to require that all candidates for President or Vice President provide satisfactory proof of citizenship in order to get on their state Presidential election ballots. There is no chance that Obama will provide proof of his citizenship in 2011 after having spent millions of dollars and trashed the constitution in order to avoid disclosing his BC between 2008 and 2011. In the unlikely event that Obama avoids being removed from office during his first term he will refuse to run for a second term out of fear that his ineligibility will be proven.
"Actually, you are wrong. The COLB he posted on his website is not good enough for any legal transactions because he has not shown the original copy of his COLB and because the COLB is not accepted for many purposes because it was so easy in the 1960's to fraudulently obtain a COLB."
Actually, rocketman, YOU are wrong.
Number one, the BC posted on his website wasn't used for any special purposed other than to try to soothe birfer questions. It failed.
The original copy was showed to Obama's campaign opponents who had standing to challenge him: McCain and Clinton. Both candidates examined it and agreed it was valid. The web copy is a digital image which holds no legal weight.
As far as obtaining fraudulent COLB's in the sixties, Obama received his COLB in 2007. Its a digital version. Hawaii went totally digital in 2001.
"Having tens of millions of American citizens believe he is a criminal usurper places the security of the United States at risk."
You exaggerate. Tens of millions? Try tens of thousands. And even if it was tens of millions, the number of people who support the president is much greater. Majority rule IS the rule of law.
" the Constitution clearly trumps the Presidents approval rating."
That's the most correct thing you've said. However, you haven't produced a single piece of evidence that suggests the president is acting in opposition to the Constitution. All of the evidence presented so far is legal dreck. Which is why birfer lawyers are getting laughed out of court. There isn't any wide ranging conspiracy against them. They are incompetent. The evidence they are seeking doesn't exist.
"There is no chance that Obama will run in 2012."
You mean, there is no chance that Obama will LOSE in 2012.
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The citizens of this country have the right to know if Barack Obama is, indeed, eligible to serve as President! And we here at the United States Justice Foundation are going to take our lawsuit all the way up to the United States Supreme Court, if that is what is necessary, to find out the answer to this critical question.
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Barack Obama wants you to ignore what he is doing, he wants you to ignore the U.S. Constitution, he wants you to think that the parts of the Constitution that he does not agree with (like the requirements to serve as President) are unimportant.
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And Barack Obama's attorneys have now taken another big step to destroy the Constitution of the United States -- this time in a California State Court. Those attorneys, working with liberal California State Attorney General Jerry Brown, convinced the Judge in our case to rule that only Members of Congress can challenge the qualifications of Mr. Obama, or any candidate, to serve as President.
And, the Judge further ruled that such a challenge could only be made on the 6th day of January following the meeting of the Presidential electors, at the session of Congress where the vote of the Electoral College is counted and the results announced. To use the Judge's words, this is "the exclusive means for challenges to the qualifications of President..."
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Do you believe that the Constitution is a meaningless document? Do you believe that a majority of the Members of Congress have the right to ignore it? To render it of no force and effect?
The Trial Court Judge in our case did! But we are not going to accept his decision. We are not going to accept the legal arguments made by Barack Hussein Obama's attorneys, and those by attorneys from liberal California Attorney General Jerry Brown. We are going to keep fighting this monumentally important legal battle all the way up to the United States Supreme Court, if that is what is necessary.
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We MUST learn the truth about whether Barack Obama is a "natural born citizen!
But to blunt our efforts to learn the truth, the Trial Court also blocked our subpoena for the college records of Mr. Obama! These vital records could have proven whether Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to serve as President of the United States, or whether he is a USURPER, a FRAUD, sitting in the oval office without any legal authority to do so!
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We do know that Barack Obama's maternal step-grandmother has proclaimed that she was present at his birth in Mombasa, in what is now Kenya, in Africa!
We do know that a fake birth certificate was put up on Obama's website!
We do know that Mr. Obama's legal team is doing everything that it can, in every case filed over this issue; to make sure that no one has access to his birth certificate.
We do know that Mr. Obama's legal team is doing everything that it can, in our California case; to make sure that no one has access to his college records.
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The voters of the United States of America have the right to know whether Barack Obama is a "natural born citizen," as REQUIRED by the U. S. Constitution!
It's a question that MUST be answered!
Why? Because, if an unqualified person was elected to the Office of President of the United States, our entire form of government could be compromised!
Why?
Because, if Barack Hussein Obama is not eligible to serve as President of the United States, each and every act that he takes as President will be null and void! That's right, each bill that he signs into law, every Executive Order that he issues, and each and every one of his nominations to his Cabinet and to the federal courts will have no legal effect!
I don't make that statement lightly. It's not an exaggeration.
Article 2, Section 1, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution provides, in pertinent part, as follows: "No Person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President..."
That means that neither Osama Bin Laden, nor California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, nor Obama billionaire money man George Soros can serve as President of the United States. That also means that if Barack Obama was born outside of the United States, he is not eligible to serve as President of our great country!
So where was Mr. Obama born?
He claims to have a copy of his birth certificate. That means that either he knows where he was born, or he's lying about having that document.
And only Barack Hussein Obama's ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE can answer that question of where he was born. But he has teams of attorneys, all across the country, spending, and doing, whatever it takes to make sure that no one, and I mean NO ONE, will be allowed to see the one document that can clear up this controversy
Mr. Obama has claimed that his Presidential administration will be the most transparent in history. Yet, he will not make public the one document that could end all of the questions about the legitimacy of his election as President.
And you have to ask yourself, WHY?
Is it because this is some unimportant "technicality"? No, a requirement of the U. S. Constitution is not a mere "technicality"!
Is it because "President" Obama (if he is the President of the United States) has more important issues to deal with, and can't spare the time to deal with such a trivial issue? No, what is more important than the integrity of the Office of the President?
Or, is there something more involved?
Another question that the Obamaphiles don't want to answer is why, in 2005, was a law firm with ties to Mr. Obama researching the question as to how to evade the requirements of Article II of the United States Constitution, regarding the requirements to serve as President. 2005? Three years before the Presidential campaign?
If that doesn't raise questions in your mind, then nothing will!
And then there's the statements made by representatives of the State of Hawaii!
According to Dr. Chiyome Fukino, of the State of Hawaii's Department of Health,
"Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
Exactly what does that mean? If she can access it, why can't we? It is that very record that USJF financed lawsuits in Mississippi and in Hawaii were seeking to force into the public arena! But Obama's attorneys, and his allies in state government, stopped those efforts cold!
So, the time of decision is now!
Do we give up?
Do we just ignore this threat to our Constitution? To our very form of government?
We here at USJF say NO!
Now is not the time to give up this fight!
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To Blackmonrikker:
I feel like I'm wasting my time trying to inform you on this issue since your mind is clearly closed. But I'll respond one more time in the hope some of this will sink in.
You dispute my estimate of the number of people who are concerned about Obama's eligibility and say it is "tens of thousands". Well, you are just plain wrong. The on line pettition posted at "www.wnd.com" has something like half a million signitures on it already and that is just one petition. Clearly, the number of citizens who are concerned that Obama is ineligible is in the millions.
You state: "you haven't produced a single piece of evidence that suggests the president is acting in opposition to the Constitution. All of the evidence presented so far is legal dreck. Which is why birfer lawyers are getting laughed out of court. There isn't any wide ranging conspiracy against them. They are incompetent. The evidence they are seeking doesn't exist." Actually, you are wrong. The lawyers filing lawsuits in opposition to Obama are not getting "laughed out of court". In fact, none of the lawsuits so far has made it into court in the sence that Obama has had each lawsuit thrown out of court based on lack of standing to file the suit. Sadly, the US has drifted so far from it's original constitutional intent that the courts claim that private citizens no longer have the right to challenge the actions of their government in court. Obama's response to each citizen lawsuit has not been to provide the proof demanded to to say "Nay, Nay, you can't make me tell you the truth, Nay, Nay". If Obama was legitimate he would have produced proof of his eligibility long ago. He has not.
You state: "The original copy (of Obama's BC) was showed to Obama's campaign opponents who had standing to challenge him: McCain and Clinton. Both candidates examined it and agreed it was valid. The web copy is a digital image which holds no legal weight." If this is true please show me some proof. Surely, there must be some newspaper article, internet reference, etc that discusses how McCain and Clinton have examined Obama's origninal BC and have agreed it is legitimate. Sadly, as with most of what you have claimed, you are 100% wrong here. Obama has not showed his original BC to McCain, Clinton, or anyone else who is not a partisan pro Obama Hack. In fact, Alan Keyes, who ran for President in 2008 on the "American Independent Party" ticket and was a legitimate candidate with a right to view Obama's birth certificate has filed lawsuits in State and Federal court demanding that Obama produce just such a birth certificate and claiming that Obama has committed election fraud by running for President despite knowing he was ineligible to run. If Obama had already produced his BC there would be no reason for Keyes to file suit.
You state that Obama has shown his BC to Hillary Clinton. This is untrue. In fact, the first lawsuit filed against Obama was filed by Phil Berg, a senior member of Clintons campaign staff who filed suit shortly after the DNC picked Obama over Clinton for the Democratic nomination. The "Obama prove you are elibible" concerns did not start with the Republicans but with dissident Pro Hillary elements within the Democratic party who were concerned that the Democratic presidential nomination was being hijacked by an ineligible contestent. I think it goes without saying that if you were correct that Obama had shown his BC to Hillary she would not have unleashed her attack dogs to try to dig up the truth about Obama's lack of eligibility.
YOu state "there is no chance that Obama will lose in 2012". It's hard to say who would win if Obama actually ran for President. However, he will not run since changes to election law enacted as a result of his lying about his eligibility in 2008 will require that he actually submit proof of his eligibility if he wants to get ont he ballot in 2012. Obama has spent millions of dollars to keep from providing proof of his eligibility. The only logical explanation for his actions is that he is ineligible. If he can't provide proof now he won't be able to provide it in 2012. Hence, he will not run in 2012 out of fear that his ineligibility will be exposed.
Obama's 'birth certificate' not acceptable in Hawaii?
Even state requires long-form document for some eligibility, identification issues
Posted: June 07, 2009
4:10 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
From the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands website
WASHINGTON – The Hawaiian certification of live birth Barack Obama posted on his campaign website and distributed to select news organizations as proof he was a "natural born citizen" would not be accepted as a "birth certificate" even for some Hawaiian state government eligibility issues, WND has learned.
The investigation follows a Honolulu Star Bulletin column Saturday, which quotes a state Department of Health spokeswoman as saying the state's current certification of live birth is recognized "as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements."
The website of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, however, states clearly the certification of live birth touted by the Obama campaign, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and a host of other Obama defenders is not acceptable as a form of identification to qualify under this program.
As WND has reported, certifications of live birth were widely issued to Hawaiians born in foreign countries in 1961, the year Obama was born.
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The Star Bulletin column goes on to report: "The issue of what constitutes an official Hawaii birth certificate received national attention during last year's presidential campaign. Those who doubted Barack Obama's American citizenship called the copy of the Hawaii birth document posted on his campaign website a fake."
However, Obama's "citizenship" was never the question raised during the campaign or after the election. The issue raised by WND has consistently been that Obama failed to prove he was actually born in Hawaii and thus constitutionally qualified to become president as a "natural born citizen" – which requires that the birth took place in the United States.
The qualifications for the Hawaiian Home Lands program require a certified copy of a standard birth certificate – also known as the "long-form certificate" filled out in the hospital and including details such as the name of the hospital and the attending physician.
"In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green," the qualifications state. "This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
According to Hawaii's Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo, the state only issues "certifications" of live births since 2001 when the health department went paperless. It is only available in electronic form, she said.
"At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she is quoted as telling the Star Bulletin. "The electronic record of the birth is what (the Health Department) now keeps on file in order to provide same-day certified copies at our help window for most requests," Okubo said.
She did not explain how those needing a standard long-form birth certificate to qualify for programs such as those offered by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or to establish proof of eligibility to be president could be fulfilled. She said the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the state's current certification of live birth "as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements." She did not, however, cite any specific rulings, and the Supreme Court has not taken up the issue of whether the certification of live birth would qualify a presidential candidate as eligible under the "natural born citizen" clause
Many of members of the public commenting on the Star Bulletin column raised similar questions:
"I'm fifty years old and I need to apply for a passport," wrote one. "So I scan some representation of COLB onto my Facebook page. If I take my laptop to the DMV, can I just open my laptop to show my web page to the clerk who will then verify my citizenship and issue me a legal passport? I'm sorry but some documents need a paper trail."
"To be president you need to be a 'natural born citizen,'" said another. "That means you are born in this country of 'parents that are citizens.' Note that both 'parent' and 'citizen' are plural. His father was a British subject and, yes, under the laws of both the United States and the UK at the time [when] he was born, Obama's citizenship was passed by descent of the father. These are the facts. We have laws and no one is above them."
"There seems to be a great deal of secrecy surrounding this whole situation," said another. "I've read that he has three legal teams keeping his info private. He has also had all his college records sealed. So this is transparency and change? Why all the mystery?"
Additional controversy over where Obama was born came when the woman the president says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
Joseph Farah, WND editor and chief executive officer, launched a national billboard campaign last month in an effort to keep the issue before the American people. The billboards, being leased around the country, ask the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" Farah is asking the public to support his campaign with donations. So far, more than $75,000 has been collected.
Last week, CBS, the largest provider of outdoor advertising in the country, announced it would refuse requests for space for the campaign. But Farah says CBS' refusal to lease space for the campaign will not hinder it.
"There are plenty of other billboard companies willing and eager to take our money," said Farah. "The only obstacle to this campaign is raising the money necessary to make it truly a national phenomenon."
The billboard campaign followed one launched months earlier to collect the names on an electronic petition demanding accountability and transparency on the issue. So far, that petition has gathered nearly 400,000 names.
The campaign got a boost last week when WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asked Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president wouldn't release his birth certificate. Gibbs' response was covered live on C-SPAN and by Fox News Channel and others – excluding CBS.
It was the first time any member of the press corps has publicly asked a member of the administration a question directly related to Obama's constitutional eligibility for office as a "natural born citizen."
Congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," but no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Both the petition and the billboard campaign are part of what Farah calls an independent "truth and transparency campaign."
The first sign to be posted under the campaign, a digital, electronic one, is up and online on Highway 165 in Ball, La. – the result of a donation by the owner. In addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first days of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing three more standard billboards – one in Los Angeles, another in Orange County, Calif. and a third in Pennsylvania.