On the surface it would seem easy to dismiss the claims surrounding Barack Obama’s place of birth as just sour grapes by the opposition, but why doesn’t the President-elect end all of the speculation and lawsuits beginning to build across the nation and release his valid birth certificate? Instead, we continue to be pointed to the Certificate of Live Birth on his web site as proof, but that document does not contain basic items on all birth certificates such as the doctor overseeing the birth and the name of the hospital where Obama was born.Alan Keyes Files California Lawsuit On Obama’s Legitimacy To Become President
On the surface it would seem easy to dismiss the claims surrounding Barack Obama’s place of birth as just sour grapes by the opposition, but why doesn’t the President-elect end all of the speculation and lawsuits beginning to build across the nation and release his valid birth certificate? Instead, we continue to be pointed to the Certificate of Live Birth on his web site as proof, but that document does not contain basic items on all birth certificates such as the doctor overseeing the birth and the name of the hospital where Obama was born.
Former Presidential candidate, Dr. Alan Keyes, has now submitted a lawsuit in the state of California attempting to force the Secretary of State from submitting California’s 55 Electoral Votes until such time that Obama provide proof of his US citizenship. Here is more on that story from WND:
The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists, simply hasn’t ordered it made available to settle the rumors?
The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state’s 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others.
The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama’s status as a “natural-born citizen,” a requirement set by the U.S. Constitution.
The governor’s office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?
Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born, while a video posted on YouTube features Obama’s Kenyan grandmother Sarah claiming to have witnessed Obama’s birth in Kenya.
The California action was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation on behalf of Alan Keyes, the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, along with Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.
“Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal,” the action challenges.
The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State Debra Bowen “from both certifying to the governor the names of the California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obama is a ‘natural born’ citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship
of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain.”It continues with a request for a writ barring California’s electors from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof is produced.
Gateway Pundit has more on the story including a portion of the actual lawsuit:
Legal Basis
62. Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, states, in pertinent part, as follows:“No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;”
63. Senator Barack H. Obama is a candidate for the Office of the President of the United States. However, to assume such office, Senator Obama must meet the qualifications specified for the Office of the President of the United States, which includes that he must be a “natural born” citizen. Senator Obama has failed to demonstrate that he is a “natural born” citizen. There are other legal challenges before various state and federal courts regarding aspects of lost or dual citizenship concerning Senator Obama. Those challenges, in and of themselves, demonstrate Petitioners’ argument that reasonable doubt exists as to the eligibility of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President.
64. SOS is responsible for ensuring the validity of the State election process by, among other things, verifying the qualifications of the voters, approving the ballots and the candidates, supervising the counting of the ballots, and certifying the results. This certification of the vote by SOS, based upon which Electors received the highest number of votes in the state, is the method provided for in California law for ascertaining which Electors are appointed to vote for president (California Elections Code §15505, 3 U.S.C. § 6). On December 1, or as soon as soon as the election results have been received from all counties in the state, SOS shall certify the names of the ascertained Electors to the Governor, and then transmit to each presidential Elector a certificate of election (California Elections Code § 15505). The Governor then issues and seals a Certificate of Ascertainment which is delivered to the Electors by December 15 (3 U.S.C. § 6), who then meet to sign the Certificate of Vote (Federal Election Code § 192.006). The office of SOS is intended to be non-biased and to provide the critical sense of fairness and impartiality necessary for the people to have faith in the fundamental underpinnings of the democratic basis for our elections.
Why doesn’t Obama end all of this and show the world his original birth certificate? Does he have something to hide?
How much are these folks getting paid to do this ?
This Jerk, Ward Connerly,
Armstrong Williams has already been outed !
How do these dudes look at themselves in the mirror when they go against the opinions of 99.99% of folks that look just like them ??
Senator Obama, admitting last June that people were concerned he was Constitutionally ineligible to be POTUS, created his “Fight the Smears” web site, and posted a copy of a document entitled “Certification of Live Birth.” Lying that the document was actually his “Birth Certificate,” he proclaimed this document established he was born in HI and insisted posting this on the internet had put an end to speculation he was not a natural born citizen. But it did no such thing.
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate
Yes; Annenberg Political FactCheck.org - that’s the actual name of the group better known as “FactCheck” - quoted on Obama’s site, ‘confirms’ it’s a real “Birth Certificate.” But Annenberg Political FactCheck is funded by the Annenberg Foundation, who employed Obama as the Chair of their Chicago Annenberg Challenge (“CAC”), selected by Bill Ayers for that position, in which capacity he doled out to community organizations in Chicago the millions of dollars donated by the Foundation in a failed campaign to increase the test scores of Chicago public school students. Further, according to the government web site of the State of HI, officials there will accept a “Certificate of Live Birth” as primary evidence of, say, Hawaiian birth; but they will not accept a “Certification of Live Birth” without additional documentation.
http://hawaii.gov/dhhl/applicants/appforms/applyhhl
Besides, even if it turns out Obama was born in HI, this does not resolve his natural born citizen status. What if he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian national who married his mother; would that have made him a citizen of Indonesia? And, if he was a citizen of Indonesia, would this have terminated his status as a U.S. citizen? (Circumstantial evidence indicates at some point, Obama was a citizen of Indonesia. The AP printed a copy of his Indonesian grade school registration form, which listed his name as Barry Soetoro and his nationality as Indonesian. (His religion was listed as Islam).
http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D
At that time, only Indonesian citizens could enroll in school. According to U.S. law, when it comes to dual citizenship, deference is given to the law of the foreign sovereign. This means that, if Indonesia did not recognize dual Indonesian/American citizenship at that time then, neither did the U.S. And Indonesia did not recognize dual citizenship. Also, regardless of the type of document his mother was able to obtain in HI to verify that, in fact, sometime within the past year, somewhere, this baby was born, alive; that original document would have been sealed when he was adopted by Mr. Soetoro, and a new document issued naming Lolo Soetoro as the birth father.)
Obama’s personal narrative includes the story that his mother left Indonesia and brought him back to HI at age 10 to live with her parents. Assuming at that time he passed through U.S. Immigration and Nationalization, he then became a naturalized citizen. Of course, naturalized citizens do not qualify for the job of POTUS. If he never passed through Customs, he could be an undocumented alien. (His personal narrative also includes the story that he traveled to Pakistan for 3 weeks while in college. Seeing the passport he used to re-enter the country might clear up the mystery of his citizenship once and for all.)
Of course, if he was born in Kenya – a paternal grandmother in Kenya claims to have been present at his birth there – then at no time would he have been a natural born citizen, since his mother had not satisfied the U.S. residency requirements after attaining the age of majority, to automatically pass on her citizenship status to her son.
Then there is this entry from FactCheck.org on Obama’s web site, “Fight the Smears.”
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.”
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate
Several researchers have concluded that regardless of any other considerations, the clear language and intention of the founders/drafters of the Constitution means, this ‘dual sovereign allegiance at birth’ kills any eligibility for POTUS under Article II.
In sum, despite knowing the electorate is concerned as to where he was born inasmuch as this would impact on his eligibility to be POTUS, Obama has refused to produce any documentation evidencing where he was born - most of the approximately 17 lawsuits involve trying to get the court to order him to produce this documentation before the Electoral College votes on December 15 - that could help establish his eligibility. Indeed, he has fought every suit on the grounds he did not have to prove he was eligible for POTUS because Plaintiff(s) lacked standing. However, the mere fact he was a dual citizen at birth subject to British sovereignty could establish his ineligibility.
All of the people I know who support the efforts of Dr. Keyes and all of the other Petitioners to establish Obama’s eligibility for POTUS completely accept that their fellow citizens voted for a man they consider unqualified to be the President of the United States. Dedicated patriots all, they just refuse to accept the imposition of a man they conclude is Constitutionally ineligible for the job.
The Supreme Court will never hear any case involving his citizenship.
If he is found not to be a natural born and denied the presidency than massive riots will occur in our cities.The court will always find a legal excuse not to hear any such case.
The real problem is the Supreme Court.
I propose the following scenario.
Someone from vital statistics leaks information
that Obama has no birth certificate on record and is either charged with a felony or fired.Cae then goes to the Supreme Court.The court then denies the case because the firing was based on policy and
not on the actual document.
The sad part would be that the case would deny someone from defending the constitution.