The right-wing conspiracy theorists just won't give up. Rather than accept Barack Obama's election to the presidency and start to regroup for 2012, some of them are still trying to claim that Obama is ineligible for the presidency because, they say, he was born in Kenya.
Others say he is does not qualify as a natural-born citizen because his mother was too young.
I'm still receiving e-mail messages pointing to a petition to "uphold the Constitution" by requiring Obama to prove his citizenship. (Now all of a sudden the Republicans care about the Constitution.)
They repeat the same old debunked claim that Obama refuses to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate.
If you are at all tempted to entertain these conspiracy theories, please take a look at these facts:
• The State of Hawaii has once again issued verification of Obama's birth in Hawaii, making him a U.S. citizen.
• FactCheck.org also believes that the Hawaiian birth certificate released by the Obama campaign is authentic.
• In October, a U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Obama's eligibility for the presidency because he was either born in Kenya or is a citizen of Indonesia. (Yeah, it just keeps getting better.) By the way, the attorney who filed the suit is Philip Berg, who professes "that most mentally ill people are in fact not mentally ill, but are in fact possessed by evil spirits.... I believe that between 70 and 80 percent of all who live display 'abnormal behavior' at one time or another and that in most of those cases an invading spirit of evil is the cause."
• Meantime, Snopes debunks the theory about his mother's age.
This is no different from the Dems who tried to challenge McCain's citizenship because he was born in Panama (although maybe the Repubs are a bit wackier in their approach). No matter which party is doing it, it's a stretch -- and a desperate one at that. Would either candidate have gotten this far if his citizenship credentials hadn't already been vetted?
Mary, you don't have all the facts on this case. Here is a good website that gives you ALL the info. on this
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By the way, this was originally brought up by Hillary which, last time I checked, was and is a Democrat.
The Hawaiin BC was verified as BEING THERE, NOT what is says on it because in 1961, you could be born elsewhere and still get a Hawaiin BC. The 'vault' copy has more of the needed info.
Lawsuits were dismissed from 'standing' NOT because the judges were saying there wasn't some viable evidence.
And, I find it ironic, that you want to call all of this a 'conspiracy theory' because the BC has been proven online. So....you believe THOSE websites but not the thousands of others that have more factual evidence AND those have been proven over and over to be forged copies of BO's BC!!
Another shocking moment was when McCain was asked about his eligibility to run being born Panama on a military base with 2 US parents, what did McCain do? Well, I'll be.....HE SHOWED HIS ORIGINAL BC!!!! SHOCKING!!
WHY, YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, WON'T OBAMA? WHY IS HE TAKING MORE EFFORT TO HIDE IT THAN SHOW IT?
SEEING IS BELIEVING AND SHOWING IS KNOWING AND I REFUSE TO TRUST THIS MAN (ALONG WITH HIS MANY OTHER LIES AND ASSOCIATIONS) UNTIL HE PROVES IT TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC!
If this is such a dead issue, then why, pray tell, are there going to be 9 Supreme Court Judges reviewing this case next week?
He who has nothing to hide, hides nothing and BO is basically hiding EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS PAST!!!
The Supreme Court CANNOT DUCK Obama's Birth Certificate Constitutional Crisis (albeit the media blackout on the issue). The messiah will NOT become President! This 90-minute blogradio program explains why:
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