Obama Birth Certificate: WND, Kenya and African Press Internatl
Obama Birth Certificate, Citizenship:
Was Obama born in Kenya?
Is Obama a “natural-born” citizen, as per the U.S. Constitution?
Is Something “Big” About to Break in this Story?
UPDATES at the end of the story to follow.
UPDATE #1 – 1445 EST
UPDATE #2 – 1605 EST
Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Eligibility
Of Barack Obama Heats Up
Is something big about to break in the Obama birth certificate story?
The questions surrounding the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as U.S. president continue. After abating a bit immediately prior and after the election two weeks ago, more information has surfaced which has returned the issue to the blogosphere.
The Mainstream Media not only blacked out the issue after June 2008, they actually contributed to the Obama’s campaign effort to cast anyone with questions about Obama and the many missing pieces of his past as “smear merchants” and “rumor-mongers”.
Three items, in particular, have caught our attention:
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* Obama Records: Obama Campaign Still Refuses to Release Medical, Other Records
* Obama Birth Certificate: Ruling in Berg v. Obama Expected In Next Two Days- UPDATED
* Obama Birth Certificate Lawsuit: Obama, DNC Fail to Respond-UPDATED
* Washington Man Files Lawsuit over Obama Citizenship Questions
* Obama College, Medical, Birth Records: Who is Barack Obama?
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: Video Released On YouTube
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: Updates, News and Reactions
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: The Curious Behavior of the Obama Campaign
* Obama, Bill Ayers, and FactCheck.Org: All Have Ties To Annenberg Foundation
- World Net Daily has really ramped up their coverage of the Obama birth certificate issue today. WND’s front page contains almost nothing else but stories on the matter. Such as:
* Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery
* Proofin’ the prez: Who’s in charge? Constitutional lawyer says electors have duty to investigate citizenship
* Obama’s birthplace heats up Liddy show
* Is he or isn’t he? The debate over Obama’s eligibilityWorld Net Daily is the home to Dr. Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation, and a visitor to Kenya who was ejected from the country quickly upon arriving weeks ago.
Does World Net Daily have something that it is about to break on this story?
We don’t know. But we notice things.
- The Kenyan Ambassador.
Earlier today we provided a link to a video of the Kenyan ambassador stating that Barack Obama’s birthplace in Kenya is already getting plenty of visitors since he became president. [MORNING INTELL: Kenya, Iran, Israel, PC Nazis, Natalie Holloway]
This slip–or not–of the tongue, combined with Justice Clarence Thomas’ conference scheduled for December 5 on Denofrio v. Wells, has added fuel to the Obama citizenship fire. [Obama Birth Certificate, Citizenship: SCOTUS Conference Scheduled for Dec 5]
Today, WND published another article claiming to debunk the Certificate of Live Birth which the Obama campaign featured on its fightthesmears.com site. [Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery] From the WND piece by Janet Porter:
It’s Rathergate all over again with more amiss than a 1970s Selectric typewriter. But before I tell you what the experts found, let me ask you a few questions:
1. If you were a natural born American citizen and had it within your means to quiet all the lawsuits and questions with proof, would you do it?
2. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you spend thousands of dollars to fight the legal cases against you, or would you simply answer the legitimate question of whether you meet the constitutional requirements for office?
3. If you were a natural born American citizen, would you forge a document called a “Certification of Live Birth” and tell the public it was a real “birth certificate”?
If someone were to violate the law by manufacturing a forgery in order trick the public, would that be enough evidence for members of Congress to conduct hearings and for a court to issue an order for the critical records, including the original long-form birth certificate (signed by the doctor) to ensure that the U.S. constitutional requirements for office were not violated? After all, Congress is sworn to uphold and defend that Constitution, and the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are “guardians” of the Constitution. That’s their job, isn’t it?
These are much the same questions that others, as well as DBKP, have been asking. In fact, in Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: The Curious Behavior of the Obama Campaign, we observed:
Quiz time for DBKP readers.
Let’s say you’re a Democrat and let’s say you’re running for president of the United States.
You’re a likable guy and are doing well–the New York Times and AP think you’re peachy–but there have been whispers of whether or not you are constitutionally qualified.
A prominent Democrat files suit in Federal court asking you to provide proof, to settle the matter once and for all.
What do you do?
- A. Provide the court with the three documents in question and go back to shaking hands, making promises and smiling for the cameras.
- B. Provide images of one of the documents to a friendly website to post, but not to the court.
- C. Ignore the request, then make a motion to dismiss the case, in lieu of providing the proof.
- D. In the meantime, quietly, post a notice at your website, FighttheSmears.com that you had dual citizenship with Kenya.
- E. Hire the top gun attorney from the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to fight the case.
- F. File a Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the Motion to Dismiss (which was) filed on 09/24/08, thereby putting the matter off until–hopefully–after the election.
Time’s up. What do you do?
Most readers sensibly chose A.
But, if you’re Barack Obama, you chose answers B, C, D, E and F.
A curious response for a campaign interested in “fighting the smears”.
Suffice it to say: not everyone bought into the Certificate of Live Birth explanation by the campaign. But more proof was needed because Obama wasn’t allowing anyone to see his original “vault” copy of his birth certificate for some unknown reason.
- African Press International is preparing for, what they claim will be the airing of the Michelle Obama phone conversation that they claimed they had with her on October 15.
API claims that Ms. Obama raises citizenship issues with the African Press International correspondent on the phone call. The release and airing of the audio tape of that phone call is reported to be imminent.
We could write much about the API situation, but will hold off a while longer.
But perhaps, not too much longer.
We’ve given our reasons for holding out the belief that African Press International’s version of the Michelle Obama phone call was true. The reasons are outlined in several of the links below.
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African Press International and Michelle Obama* African Press International, Michelle Obama Tapes: Fox News Denies Story
* African Press International, Michelle Obama: API Says Discussions with Fox News Are Happening
* African Press International, Michelle Obama Phone Call: Tapes Released Later Today
* Michelle Obama Calls African News Organization Over Obama Birth Certificate Reporting – UPDATED
* African Press International, Michelle Obama: Editor Says He Has Audio Tape of Conversation
* African Press International: Open Letter to Michelle Obama from API Chief Editor
So what’s the scoop? Why all of the attention all of a sudden on the Obama birth certificate–especially from World Net Daily, which has had the resources to pursue the story.
WND also has had something going for it in this story that the MSM didn’t: the desire to to uncover the truth.
Is something big going to break in this story in the next 24-48 hours?
We do not know for sure. But we do notice things.
We have continued–even after African Press International didn’t air their tapes previously–to follow and monitor the story. We still have many nagging doubts over an issue that could be settled quite quickly and easily: the release of the original Obama birth certificate.
But it hasn’t been.
Like World Net Daily, we’ve remained suspicious and quietly pursued whatever leads we had. Many were dead ends. Some remain promising.
We try to verify everything we report. When something is a rumor, we report it. When we have access to information that we can’t publish, but feel we’re on the right trail, we’ll report it to the best of our ability.
If we report something and the source turns out to be a false one, we’ll report that also.
We respect our readers’ ability to make judgments for themselves. Some will agree, some will disagree.
That’s called a discussion and it’s healthy.
It’s also something not often found in the MSM.
Is something big going to break in the Obama birth certificate story in the next 24-48 hours?
We do not know for sure.
But we do notice things.
UPDATE #1 – 1445 EST
We have additional reasons for thinking that something “big” is about to happen. But, while we’re always interested in reporting news in a timely way, we’re not interested in “stealing anyone’s thunder”, so to speak.
We’ll just leave it at that for now.
Obama Selective Service Registration: Another Obama Record, Another Question: More questions about an Obama record are raised–but not answered.
Other questions have been raised as to why Barack Obama did not release other documents and records.
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The Missing Records of Barack Obama
* Obama Selective Service Registration: Another Obama Record, Another Question
* Unreleased Obama Records: Did Obama Attend Columbia?
* Obama Records: Obama Medical, College, University, Other Records Still Hidden
* Obama College, Medical, Birth Records: Who is Barack Obama?
* Obama Medical Records: MSM’s Don’t Ask, Obama’s Don’t Tell Policy
* Obama Records: Obama Campaign Still Refuses to Release Medical, Other Records
UPDATE #2 – 1605 EST
World Net Daily has several Obama birth certificate stories that are interesting on its front page.
Two in particular caught our eye.
Obama’s birthplace heats up Liddy show notes that WND founder, James Farrah, is guest-hosting the G. Gordon Liddy radio show for three days this week.ARLINGTON, Va. – The issue of President-elect Barack Obama’s birthplace, and thus eligibility for the presidency, was the hot topic today when WND founder Joseph Farah filled in for nationally syndicated radio talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy.
Farah also is filling in for Liddy Tuesday and Wednesday, coming across the air live from the Radio America studios here from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Eastern Time on your local stations, XM and free streaming/podcasting at RadioAmerica.org.
We’ll observe that the Liddy show would make a fine platform for revealing new information about the Obama citizenship story. What that might be, we won’t speculate. Farrah did cover the story at length in the second hour of yesterday’s show.
The second story was the aforementioned Janet Porter article, Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery.
WND provides reasons why it thinks–as we did–that all is not right with the Obama Certificate of Live Birth which was featured on his website, as well as at the DailyKOS and FactCheck.org.
WND also brought in a document expert to explain why he felt the COLB is a forgery and another guest to explain what the ramifications of what a constitutionally-ineligible Barack Obama might mean.
Will we be discussing this in the coming days? Is there more to the story? Will more be uncovered in the coming hours? Others besides WND have been pursuing this story, although without the resources that WND has devoted to this important story.
As always with controversial stories that the Internet investigates while the MSM maintains its silence: Time will tell.
by Mondo Frazier
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Looks like the Kenyan branch of AXJ-Kenya, part of the international civil and political rights organization known as AXJ is going to surprise the world. Wonder how the US voters will handle it? http://www.axjus.com
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Looks like the Kenyan branch of AXJ-Kenya, part of the international civil and political rights organization known as AXJ is going to surprise the world. Wonder how US voters will handle it? http://www.axjus.com
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Handle it like we handle all groups who attent to subvert american laws. Muslims overseas know they can exploit white racism and will never be uncovered. They filter out this crap and you believe it. Over there in the middle-east, its not about race but religion. Only in america is it so rampantly about race. The family has friends in hawaii and people knew about their pregnancy and the baby’s birth. Did you ever try and find them? I know the story is a crock because my relatives were missionaries in kenya and said no white women had a baby there otherwise all westerners would have known in the country. That tape? Sounds like to me she was talking about his father with the same name! I am republican but the party has become a mob with no direction. I’ll be going Independent soon.
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November 26th, 2008 at 18:27
Truth Seeker,
Independent is a fine choice: I’ve been one my entire adult life. I tend to favor some Republicans, though a few Democrats also are headed in the right direction. I am a conservative/libertarian.
Only in america is it so rampantly about race.
Mostly in the movies and on TV and those who seek to exploit any difference.
I’ve can remember few times race was ever a factor in anything in my life–regardless of who I was dealing with.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, read and comment.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: PLEASE RELEASE YOUR BIRTH RECORDS
I know you are busy setting up your new administration as the President elect of the greatest country in the world, but there are a couple of things about your background and qualifications for the office that concern me and many of my fellow Americans. Never before has a Presidential candidate failed to fully disclose routine information about their background.It seems that many records concerning your background have either been sealed or are temporarily unavailable for review. I know that any honest person like yourself, who is about to assume the highest office in the land, would never overtly want to keep such information from public review.
Here’s a partial list:
1. College records from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard — Not available and secured by college administrators.
2. Columbia Thesis paper — not available, secured by college administrators
3. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – Not released (sealed?)
4. Certified Copy of Certification of Live Birth — Not released (sealed?)
I believe items #3 and 4 are the most critical and they concern two issues that are very important to the American people:
1. Are Are you a Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.? and
2. Are you legally qualified to hold the Office of President?
There have been several lawsuits filed, or currently being filed, in 7 or 8 states with various state Boards of Elections, claiming you are ineligible to be on their ballots because you have not produced proof that you are a natural born citizen of the United States.As you may recall, there was a Cetificate of Live Birth (COLB) for you posted on your campaign website in the past that was reported as an original, but which was later found to be only an abstract of a computer record having no connection to the original 1961 COLB document. The abstract copy was later taken down.
In an election of a President, where being a “Natural Born Citizen” is a requirement for the position, I believe that the American people have a right to know if you are a natural born citizen.What does the actual original document say about the birth? What hospital were you born in? Who was the attending physician? What was the date and time? What names are listed on the COLB? I think the question of your birth is a very important constitutional issue and the issue should be publicly put to rest one way or the other.
Mr Obama, it seems that you are creating needless confusion when you could easily avoid all of this doubt simply by asking for release of your original 1961 document and let it be examined. Why haven’t you done this? and why have you fought against every attempt to produce the document?Mr. Obama, if you are truly and honorable man and a “Natural Born Citizen of the United States” you can clear up this issue very quickly. Just sign a release to have the full document examined and made available for public scrutiny.
Your continued avoidance of the issue and your subsequent failure to provide proof that you are a “Natural Born Citizen of the United States” is very suspicious and raises a very important constitutional issue that must be addressed before you take office. I am asking you to stop using legal technicalities, record sealing and courtroom maneuvers to avoid the issue. The American people have every constitutional right to know whether or not you are a “Natural Born Citizen” and they will eventually find out.
Let’s put this issue to rest once and for all so you can get on with the nation’s business.
John Wallace
http://www.NYCampaignforLiberty.com
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