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Old 09-30-2008, 06:11 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Just curious and this is a general question.

Why is his mother down as Caucasian and his father African?

Aren't there all types of people born in Africa (ie: white, black...etc)?

Africa is a continent, not a race.
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:20 PM
 
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Just curious and this is a general question.

Why is his mother down as Caucasian and his father African?

Aren't there all types of people born in Africa (ie: white, black...etc)?

Africa is a continent, not a race.
(shrug) Maybe to differentiate his area of origin, IOW African v. African-American?

Maybe because it's a U.S. birth certificate and and non-U.S. born parents are categorized a different way?

If you're really interested, you could always research how U.S. birth certificates are written up when a parent isn't a U.S. citizen.
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:30 PM
 
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Rather than just sitting and crying that you wanna see his birth certificate, why dont you try to get to the bottom of this? It's been going on for half a year now. Why not find out what's been done so far and get busy helping the cause.

Because November 5...will be... too late.
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:37 PM
 
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Rather than just sitting and crying that you wanna see his birth certificate, why dont you try to get to the bottom of this? It's been going on for half a year now. Why not find out what's been done so far and get busy helping the cause.

Because November 5...will be... too late.
Well, his parents would have to have acted FAST on deciding this child's future and beginning this conspiracy on his behalf when he was just an infant...see here:

In fact, the conspiracy would need to be even deeper than our colleagues realized. In late July, a researcher looking to dig up dirt on Obama instead found a birth announcement that had been published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:

As for the "African" part:

They couldn't tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama's father's race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father's race and mother's race are supplied by the parents, and that "we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be." We consider it reasonable to believe that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as "African."


Anyone please feel free to contact the State of Hawaii to find out whether this was a common practice at the time and what else his race would have been called in 1961 (he may have objected to "negro", was that still it? I'm pretty sure it wasn't African-American yet but regardless, Obama's father isn't American so that's neither here nor there).

Here's the source.
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:47 PM
 
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>crickets<
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Fort Myers, FL
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it's already been proven. This is a bogus thread.

FactCheck.org: Born in the U.S.A.
they want to see a real copy of the original not a scan.
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:56 PM
 
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Hmmm, I clicked on this thread, and a whiff of moth balls floated from my computer.....
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Old 09-30-2008, 01:57 PM
 
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they want to see a real copy of the original not a scan.
They want to see something that looks like the document they were issued. It doesn't seem to occur to some that different states have different requirements for birth records/certificates, and that they won't all look identical. They won't all have the same information. Hawaii, in particular, hadn't even been a state for very long when Obama was born, so their requirements for recording births was altogether different than say the requirements for people born in Connecticut. He was born in Hawaii. He has a record to show that. It's not like the State Department issued him a passport years ago without verifying that the documentation was adequate.
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Old 09-30-2008, 02:07 PM
 
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I don't want Obama as president of the USA, but that beside...if he gets to be chosen and his birth certificate proofs not make him eligible than he has to step down which is probable more humiliating.
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Old 09-30-2008, 02:11 PM
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hmmm, i clicked on this thread, and a whiff of moth balls floated from my computer.....
rotflmao
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