Posted by George Miller, April 23, 2010
It is an understatement to say that there has been much speculation about the natural born citizenship, or lack thereof, of the current occupant of the White House. The Arizona State legislature has grown weary of this and passed a law requiring certification, to help eliminate the uncertainty.
The video below is a CNN piece by Anderson, the original “Teabagger,” who looks nearly frantic while trying to discredit this act, claiming it is crazy, unnecessary, partisan, racist and maybe even unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1 specifies that the President must be a natural born citizen, not merely a citizen, but does not say how this should be done. AZ has taken the initiative to structure that process, since no other government organization will do so, leaving us with aConstitutional crisis. Each state and multiple government organizations have that responsibility, but all have failed to do it in the past and even now.
Cooper asserts that a “birth certificate” exists on a “non-partisan” web site, factcheck.org, which is actually a rather partisan web site, owned by the Annenburg Group, one of Obama’s former employers. It is not a birth cerificate, but actually only an unvetted digital image, purporting to be a “certification of live birth,” a standard of proof that falls considerably short of a hospital “Certificate of Live Birth,” which would have been created if Obama was actually born in a hospital in Hawaii. Cooper dissembles, by claiming all records went to digital form years ago. But the paper records still exist and would have the hospital information on them, including attending doctor and name and location of the hospital, plus other information, which could then be corroborated with hospital records, birth record archives, etc. Lawsuits have demanded other information, such as passport/travel records, school records, work records, political records, scholarship applications, publications, parents’ marriage and divorce records, Selective Service Records (his are highly irregular), Social Security records (investigators have linked at least 16 numbers to him, including the one he uses to get paid, which was issued to someone born in the 1890′s in Connecticut).
Why would Obama and his supporters NOT want to reveal this information and eliminate the divisive controversy, to increase his perceived legitimacy? But , even if he was born in the White House Lincoln Bedroom, his father was a foreigner, which was not discussed in the interview and would likely fall short of natural born citizenship, based on multiple legal precedents and the source documents for the Constitutional requirement.
He also asserts that Obama has not spent a million dollars to fight release of information about his background. Actually, evidence is that he spent close to $2MM, retaining counsel Robert Bauer, who was recently given a job in the White House. Federal District Court Judge Carter, one of the judges in an Obama eligibility suit, hired one of Bauer’s lawyers as his clerk, a jaw-dropping conflict of interest, which was ignored by the MSM. The suit was mysteriously dismissed a few weeks later, on flimsy jurisdictional and “standing” excuses, without ever being heard on its merits.
AZ legislator Cecil Ash is interviewed by Cooper, who attempts to hector and discredit him, while Ash stays cool and collected, making Cooper look flustered and near panicked. Ash’s position is that it can’t cause any harm and will only help to eliminate much doubt.
The net effect of Arizona’s move would be to focus enormous attention on the eligibility issue and possibly effectively block any chances of Obama’s re-election. This is huge.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/v/c_8VQVhRmAc
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In the meantime, the Kerchner, Lakin and Orly Taitz “Quo Warranto” cases all continue to make their way through the courts.
More background:
http://constitutionalreset.com/index.php/2010/01/28/obama-eligibility/
The Arizona Senate chose not to act on the bill and the legislative session ran out.