Row grows over Obama's birth certificate

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The right-wing 'birthers', convinced the President was not born in the US and is therefore ineligible to govern, are gaining strength
Forget about "Change we can believe in", "Yes, America can" and other heart-warming slogans of your average presidential election. The catchphrase being shouted loudest in the early skirmishes of the 2012 race consists of four angry words: "Where's the birth certificate?"
The single most debated issue among Republicans seeking to select their next candidate is not the economy, healthcare or the three wars that the nation is currently fighting. Instead, they are noisily debating the question of whether Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii. This even though the President's name appears on government birth records for that state.
"Birthers", or people who believe the President was not born in the US, making him constitutionally ineligible to govern, nonetheless have in a few short years emerged from the fringes of far-right politics into the limelight of the mainstream. Today, they represent roughly 50 per cent of registered Republican supporters, according to several recent polls, and about a quarter of the entire US population. The suspicion for many is that Obama may have been born in Kenya, his father's country, or Indonesia, where he spent some childhood years.
There you are, over two years as a American president the Americans do not have a clue if Obama came from Mars!

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Maybe republicans are looking for an excuse for this........

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[C64]

Great clip racin-snake.

He went to a Catholic school and was taught the teachings of Islam?

I went to a Catholic school and part of our education was religious studies, where we learned about all faiths, including Islam, is this what he means, or is he saying that he was solely educated in Islam?

If so then that's ones one fcuked up Catholic School.



Anyway, who cares at the end of the day, it's just racism and political mud slinging at the end of the day.

[racin-snake]

and as if by magic the president produced his long forn birth certificate
after a challenge by donald trump

long time after but his excuse was it was irelevant and not worth answering the question?
so as it becomes mainstream he comes up with the goods ?

again far more to politics than really meets the public eyes

[nara]

Should this thread not be in the Conspiracy Theories section?

[racin-snake]

and why would that be ?
its happening in the media just now ...that qualify's it more as news than conspiracy ?

[tshirtman]

And who the hell listens to Donald Trump, he just trying to do what he does best, self publicity,
I thought obama's retort was quite amusing at a correspondents dinner in the white house, with Donald Trump as one of the guests, he said,

"Donald Trump is here tonight. And I know that he's taken some flack lately. But no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than 'The Donald'.
"And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?".

don't you think the U.S civil servants would have done all these checks before he was inaugurated in to the white house.

[nara]

don't you think the U.S civil servants would have done all these checks before he was inaugurated in to the white house?

Which is why I posed the question in the first place.

As a news item, this ranks alongside:

[racin-snake]

funnilly enough hes the first president to be asked for his birth certificate

and i think the paper you cite is a bit of a deception
al jazira and cnn both covered this
you need a good look at the facts before commenting

BBC News - Q&A: Obama's birth certificate

the bbc too ...

[nara]

funnilly enough hes the first president to be asked for his birth certificate

Funnily enough, he's the first black President with Middle Eastern blood.

...and who was asking? The FBI, the CIA, Homeland Security?

[racin-snake]

read a decent article do a bit of research save you asking me dumb questions
and maybe you might come across as "informed " for once nara

could have been the arian brotherhood for all we know eh

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Mr Obama's birth certificate shows he was born in Hawaii.

This meant he was not a "natural-born" US citizen, as the US constitution requires, it alleged.

The lawsuit claimed he should be disqualified because, it claimed, he acquired the same British citizenship that his father had when he was born.

It conceded that Mr Obama was born in Hawaii - but contended that he still held foreign citizenship at birth.

East Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya was part of British Empire.
Kenya was part of British East Africa until it received its independence in 1963.

It read: "Since Barack Obama's father was a citizen of Kenya, and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of Senator Obama's birth, then Senator Obama was a British citizen 'at birth', just like the framers of the Constitution, and therefore, even if he were to produce an original birth certificate proving he were born on US soil, he still wouldn't be eligible to be president."

I can not make head or tail out of it (Confused) Poor American public.

[nara]

If you are born on American soil (which Hawaii is) then you are an American citizen.

Where your parents are born is irrelevant.

The only confusion is caused by Right-Wing American racists who are trying to derail his presidency. First of all they were trying to claim that he was not born there, then they came up with the parentage bullshit.

As it is, Trump has made a complete tit of himself over the issue and played right into Obama's hands.

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I would like to dig a bit more were was his mother born and citizenship at the time of birth!