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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
BORN IN THE USA?
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Democrats suddenly interested in Obama birth certificate
Senate campaign director has plan to harm Republicans running for office
Posted: January 27, 2010
9:30 pm Eastern
By Bob
Unruh
During this year's U.S. Senate races, it will be Democrats
raising the issue of President Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval
Office. Politico reported Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chief Robert
Menendez is distributing a memo to U.S. Senate campaign offices stating
Democrats need to demand that their opponents answer a series of
questions, including, "Do you believe that Barack Obama is a U.S.
citizen?" The report said Menendez wants to use the questions to "frame"
opponents and "drive a wedge" between moderates belonging to the GOP and
those who have adopted the tea party standards advocating limited
government, lower taxes, fewer regulations and more freedom for Americans.
The Democrat memo said, "Given the pressure Republican candidates feel
from the extreme right in their party, there is a critical – yet
time-sensitive – opportunity for Democratic candidates. "We have a finite window when Republicans candidates will feel
susceptible to the extremists in their party. Given the urgent nature of
this dynamic, we suggest an aggressive effort to get your opponents on the
record." (Story continues below) The Politico report listed the following questions for Democrat to ask
of Republican opponents: The memo instructs that if a GOP candidate says no, make his or her
"primary opponent or conservative activists know it." Demand the truth by joining the
petition campaign to make President Obama reveal his long-form,
hospital-generated birth certificate! Democrats dominated the Senate agenda in President Obama's first year
in office because of their filibuster-proof 60-40 vote majority. But since
Republican Scott Brown's stunning victory in Massachusetts, winning a U.S.
Senate seat held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for nearly five decades, Menendez
has urged his party's candidates to "run scared," Politico said. The website
for the Democrat committee already has started demonizing Republicans
in the "tea party" movement challenging Washington's tax-and-spend agenda,
massive health care takeover and plans for huge new energy taxes. "Is the angry, irrational mob known as the 'Tea Party' one and the same
as the Republican Party?" the site says. "After a summer of yelling about
'socialism' and 'death panels' at town hall meetings, they have mobilized
behind a number of Republican Senate candidates. We saw how energized they
were in Massachusetts. If more of these candidates are elected in
November, it will become harder and harder to make any progress in
Washington." Wall
Street Journal blogger James Taranto questioned the logic of Democrats
raising the eligibility issue. "Are we given to understand that the Democrats intend to run for office
by raising questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president?" he
asked. "That has got to be the most brilliant campaign strategy since
Michael Dukakis and Max Cleland raised questions about their own
patriotism." One
participant in a forum at New Jersey.com said the Democrats obviously
just don't understand the level of concern Americans have. "Menendez you are so far out of touch you have no idea of what you talk
about. You don't even know what the tea [party] movement stands for. You
somehow think they are all right wing conservatives. How wrong you are.
They are from every walk of life from all parties and none. They represent
everything good in this country and what has made us great. Thats (sic)
something you and yours will never understand. All you know is take take
take and spend spend spend. Thats (sic) what the teabager movement wants
to stop." WND has
reported efforts to raise the question of Obama's eligibility at the
state and national levels. Several state legislatures are working on
proposals that would require presidential candidates to submit proof of
their eligibility. Since Obama's election, numerous lawsuits have been filed alleging he
did not meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a
"natural born citizen." The lawsuits have asserted he either was not born
in Hawaii as he claims or was a dual citizen because of his father's
British citizenship at the time of his birth. The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "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." However, none of the cases filed to date has been successful in
reaching the plateau of legal discovery, so that information about Obama's
birth could be obtained. The
proposals essentially are moving the same direction as a federal measure
proposed by Rep. Bill Posey,
R-Fla. Posey's H.R. 1503 states:
The bill also provides: The sponsors' goal is for the bill to become effective for the 2012
presidential election. The legislation now is pending in a House committee
and has more than a dozen co-sponsors. Key to the arguments over Obama is the fact is original long-form birth
certificate never has been released. A second significant factor is the
multitude of documents that Obama has kept from the public. Besides his actual birth documentation, the
still-concealed documentation includes kindergarten records, Punahou
school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records,
Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles,
scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical
records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his
Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his
adoption records. Thirdly, another significant factor is the estimated $1.7 million Obama
has spent on court cases to prevent any of the documentation of his life
to be revealed to the public.
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"To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to
require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to
the office of President to include with the committee's statement of
organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with
such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the
candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of
President under the Constitution."
"Congress finds that under … the Constitution of the United
States, in order to be eligible to serve as President, an individual
must be a natural born citizen of the United States who has attained the
age of 35 years and has been a resident within the United States for at
least 14 years."
"Where's The Birth
Certificate?" billboard helps light up the night at the Mandalay Bay
resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
The campaign followed a petition that has collected more than 490,000 signatures demanding proof of his eligibility, the availability of yard signs raising the question and the production of permanent, detachable magnetic bumper stickers asking the question.
The "certification of live birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.
Oddly, though congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
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