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View Poll Results: Do you care if Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President?
Yes - And if he is not eligible he should remove himself 133 75.57%
Yes - I care but think he should still be able to be President 6 3.41%
No - I don't care, and would still vote for him if not eligible 33 18.75%
No - I don't care - and will not be voting for him 4 2.27%
Voters: 176. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-27-2008, 02:23 PM
 
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It would breach Hawaiian Law if the Place of Birth is spurious.

So by that section he could get a certificate claiming Hawaiian birth even if he was physically born outside the US but the Place of Birth would need to be correctly recorded.

Understand, the Hawaiian Authorities may be able to Issue a Hawaiian Birth Certificate under these circumstances but they cannot make you a U.S. Citizen. A child born in Kenya to an underage U.S. mother and a UK and Colonies Citizen in 1961 was not born a U.S. Citizen under any US Federal Law, under British Law, or International Law. The only way such an Individual could be a U.S. Citizen in terms of the XIVth Amendment, or any Statute, or Code of U.S. Federal Law is by Naturalization.
Right.

So, let's try again:

1) There is no reason to believe the document was forged.

2) In order for you to be correct, the lie (or error) would have had to have been committed in 1961. This is because the hard copy certificates that have been seen - and there are more than one of them - all contain the same data.

3) #2 becomes unlikely because of the Birth Announcements - one in the Sunday Advertiser and one in the Star Bulletin. As the information for these was provided by the Bureau for Vital Statistics, which received a bundle of birth certificates from the hospital each Friday, the Senator's mother would have gotten somebody at the hospital to fudge things, rather than merely getting the "certificate of late birth."

4) There is no actual evidence that Obama's mother went to Kenya at that time that I am aware of. "There are reports that... is not evidence. It doesn't even make it to the status of hearsay. It's rumor. While Atty. Berg promised days ago to make an audio tape available from Obama's paternal grandmother, no such tape is available.

5) There is no actual evidence of a Kenyan birth certificate found by a Republican dirty tricks squad, merely a 'news' story that alleges that they did. But, that same story also notes that it was a common practice to create such birth certificates for children born far from their African families. (And no evidence that this is true, either!)
*******

So, what are we left with?

You want to see the long form version of the Certificate of Live Birth, though there is no credible reason to believe he was born elsewhere nor to distrust the version on his website or Factcheck'org's site or the word of the folks at PolitiFact.com.

In the immortal words of the Man in Black, to Inigo Montoya:

Learn to live with disappointment.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:30 PM
 
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The certified copy of the Hawaiian birth certificate indicates the place of birth as Hawaii. If Hawaii had an "original" certificate that said he was born in Kenya, would this not be indicated on the certified copy as well? What else does "certified" mean if not that it reflects the same information as the original?
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:34 PM
 
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Right.

So, let's try again:

1) There is no reason to believe the document was forged.

2) In order for you to be correct, the lie (or error) would have had to have been committed in 1961. This is because the hard copy certificates that have been seen - and there are more than one of them - all contain the same data.

3) #2 becomes unlikely because of the Birth Announcements - one in the Sunday Advertiser and one in the Star Bulletin. As the information for these was provided by the Bureau for Vital Statistics, which received a bundle of birth certificates from the hospital each Friday, the Senator's mother would have gotten somebody at the hospital to fudge things, rather than merely getting the "certificate of late birth."

4) There is no actual evidence that Obama's mother went to Kenya at that time that I am aware of. "There are reports that... is not evidence. It doesn't even make it to the status of hearsay. It's rumor. While Atty. Berg promised days ago to make an audio tape available from Obama's paternal grandmother, no such tape is available.

5) There is no actual evidence of a Kenyan birth certificate found by a Republican dirty tricks squad, merely a 'news' story that alleges that they did. But, that same story also notes that it was a common practice to create such birth certificates for children born far from their African families. (And no evidence that this is true, either!)
*******

So, what are we left with?

You want to see the long form version of the Certificate of Live Birth, though there is no credible reason to believe he was born elsewhere nor to distrust the version on his website or Factcheck'org's site or the word of the folks at PolitiFact.com.

In the immortal words of the Man in Black, to Inigo Montoya:

Learn to live with disappointment.
False information could have been given to the Hawaii Dept of Health at the time Obama requested the Hawaiian birth certificate - it did not have to be done in 1961.

Anyone can place birth announcements in newspapers.

Obama's grandmother's admission that she witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya is said to be on tape.

Kenya prevented and held people that were in Kenya to investigate, and later let them go to London.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:36 PM
 
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False information could have been given to the Hawaii Dept of Health at the time Obama requested the Hawaiian birth certificate - it did not have to be done in 1961.

Anyone can place birth announcements in newspapers.

Obama's grandmother's admission that she witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya is said to be on tape.

Kenya prevented and held people that were in Kenya to investigate, and later let them go to London.
If that's the case, then Obama providing a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate settles nothing. This leaves the burden of proof on the plaintiff. Good luck with that between now and election day.

His grandmother's "admission" is hearsay and not admissable, and uncorroborated.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:39 PM
 
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False information could have been given to the Hawaii Dept of Health at the time Obama requested the Hawaiian birth certificate - it did not have to be done in 1961.

Anyone can place birth announcements in newspapers.

Obama's grandmother's admission that she witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya is said to be on tape.

Kenya prevented and held people that were in Kenya to investigate, and later let them go to London.
If you are going to prevail on this argument, you need to produce proof of all of this. The burden is on you, not Obama.

Good luck with that.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:41 PM
 
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False information could have been given to the Hawaii Dept of Health at the time Obama requested the Hawaiian birth certificate - it did not have to be done in 1961.

Anyone can place birth announcements in newspapers.

Obama's grandmother's admission that she witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya is said to be on tape.

Kenya prevented and held people that were in Kenya to investigate, and later let them go to London.
But you can't go back in time to place birth announcements. The newspaper doesn't retroactively add birth announcements to published papers.

And if Obama falsified records post-1961, he had to have done it before starting school in Indonesia, where the records clearly show his birthplace as Honolulu.

So what's your version of what happened?
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:41 PM
 
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Much has been said about whether Barrack Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President.

Poll Question: Do you care if Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President?
Why is this rumor still going around and around and around?

It won't die! lol...unbelievable.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:45 PM
 
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If that's the case, then Obama providing a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate settles nothing. This leaves the burden of proof on the plaintiff. Good luck with that between now and election day.
True! And the courts thus far won't help...and neither will the media give it much attention. Personally I do not care when the truth is learned, as long as the truth comes out before Obama takes office. I think Obama will win in a small landslide, which is fine because it will be the people's choice. I just want to know that our President meets the requirements of the Constitution...and if he does - great. But, if not then Obama has taken millions of people for a huge ride and taken almost a billion dollars when he knew he was not eligible "if" he's really not eligible. It's so easy for Obama to clear this matter up but he refuses to do so. Why?

Obama has a lot of issues surrounding himself that no other candidate for POTUS has ever had. He seems to get a pass on everything, including this. I just hope the people are not going to have a President that we really don't know well enough...and never should have ben a candidate in the first place. Time will tell because I'm convinced the truth about all these things surrounding Obama will come out sooner or later.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:50 PM
 
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Time will tell because I'm convinced the truth about all these things surrounding Obama will come out sooner or later.

The obvious answer is that maybe the truth has already come out. You have basically stated that you won't believe a Hawaiian birth certificate that says he was born in Hawaii, so you really aren't looking for the truth, you are looking for validation of your opinion.
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Old 10-27-2008, 02:54 PM
 
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Lightbulb Do you care if Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President?

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Much has been said about whether Barrack Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President.

Poll Question: Do you care if Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President?

I don't care about paranoid delusions by hardcore crackpots insisting that they "know" something that has been disproven to them numerous times.
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