It looks like, as we predicted a couple weeks ago, the Obama birth certificate story just isn’t going to go away. Clearly, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs wishes it would but after CNN’s Lou Dobbs reported, without sources, that the original long-form document was destroyed, Gibbs’ hopes have been dashed.
Gibbs was actually forced to comment on the matter during a press conference Monday, where he called the birth certificate rumors as “made up, fictional, nonsense.” He went on to claim that there is literally nothing that would ever change the minds of those who believe that Obama has not produced sufficient evidence of his citizenship.
The problem is, as usual, that Gibbs has ignored the facts of the question in order to produce his patented jovial, buffoonish answer. If you read what the “Birthers” have written, the VAST majority of them WILL be convinced by the release of the Hawaiian Long-Form birth certificate that the administration claims is on file in the state’s archives.
That’s it. One piece of paper will end the discussion. Dobbs now claims it was destroyed. Obama claims it’s on file. Soldiers are using it’s absence as a reason not to go to war.
All the president has to do is ask Hawaii to produce it.
At The Robalution, we’ve never been 100% convinced that the “Birthers” arguments anything more than conspiracy theory, but the story is interesting, and continues to gain traction. Since the answer is so simple, wouldn’t it be easier to just put the documents out there and end the rumors?
-Robert Laurie
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Here’s Obama’s dilemma in a nutshell (READ VERY CAREFULLY AND DIGEST):
If BHO shows his original long form birth certificate, indeed showing he was born in Hawaii, it will also show his father was American citizen, Frank Marshall Davis, not the Kenyan/British citizen, Barack Obama Sr. While that would allow Barack Jr. to be POTUS eligible as BOTH a “citizen”/“native born citizen” AND an Article 2 “natural born citizen” — that is, born to two American citizens on American soil — it would simultaneously show he is a fraud hiding his real father — a unacceptable political debacle.
If, on the other hand, BHO keeps hiding his original long form birth certificate — while simply repeating, without showing, he was born in Hawaii — he can still CLAIM BOTH he was born in Hawaii AND his father was the Kenyan/British Barack Obama Sr. This would enable Barack Jr. to claim he’s a “citizen”/“native born citizen” but it would mean (if a federal court would ever get around to declaring and thus far no one has standing to bring the suit) that he’s NOT an Article 2 “natural born citizen” and thus not eligible to be POTUS — a legal/constitutional debacle since all acts under an illegal POTUS are void.
So it seems, BHO has elected option one until forced to go option two because for now it looks like no federal court will ever find a plaintiff with standing. (Of course, there’s the additional issue of BHO losing American citizen status if/when he became an Indonesian citizen — that is, IF he returned and was naturalized he would be a legal citizen, but would lose both native and natural born status, and, IF he returned and was not naturalized, he would be an illegal immigrant unlawfully in this country — but we’ll leave that for another day.)
Perfect analysis. Given he won’t release his elementary school records that would have recquired a BC, visa or passport. His college, law school records that would require the same, explain how he traveled to Pakistan in 1981 when it was on the US no visit list and couldn’t be visited by US citizens it only adds fuel to the honest questions of decent curious “NON CONSPIRACY” theorist citizens who just want to know the truth about their president.
Perfect analysis. Given he won’t release his elementary school records that would have recquired a BC, visa or passport. His college, law school records that would require the same, explain how he traveled to Pakistan in 1981 when it was on the US no visit list and couldn’t be visited by US citizens it only adds fuel to the honest questions of decent curious “NON CONSPIRACY” theorist citizens who just want to know the truth about their president.