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The Obama birth certificate rears its ugly head yet again
by Joseph Ernest January 26, 2011
Newscast Media PHOENIX, Arizona -- As we get closer to the presidential primaries, Barack Obama is still plagued with the birth certificate issue that refuses to go away. Just as Mormonism plagued Mitt Romney in the 2008 election until he dealt with it, Obama will have to confront questions about his birth place and his eligibility to run for president in 2012 because the issue has resurfaced.
It all started when a journalist by the name of Wayne Madsen published an article on June 9, 2008, in which he stated that a research team went to Mombasa, Kenya, and located a Certificate registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Kenya Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen.
On October 23, 2008, Obama's fellow Democrat and former deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania Phil Berg, went on the Michael Savage radio show and declared that the document Obama had presented as a birth certificate was a forgery, and claimed he (Berg) had a recording of Obama's grandmother acknowledging that Obama was born in Kenya.
"This has been a real sham he's pulled off for the last 20 months. I'll release it [the tape] in a day or two, affidavits from her talking to a certain person. I heard the tape. She was speaking here in the United States," Berg told the Savage Nation.
Berg claims that Obama's grandmother admitted she was in the delivery room in Kenya when he was born.
In order for one to be president in America, the U.S. constitution stipulates that a candidate must be over 35, must have been in the country for 14 years, and must be a natural-born citizen. Berg filed a lawsuit against Obama in August 2008, asking the court to declare Obama ineligible for the presidency, by virtue of Obama's failure to prove his citizenship. See copy of lawsuit (pop-up).
Obama responded by launching a Web page titled "Fight The Smears," to debunk the claims that were made against him. Despite all the roadblocks he faced during his campaign, Obama was able to win the 2008 election, and hoped the nightmare had ended. However, it hadn't. Disenfranchised Americans who opposed Obama formed a movement which the media dubbed the "Birther Movement." They held rallies and filed lawsuits, but Obama seemed immune to all the impediments he encountered.
Just as the issue of the birth certificate had seemingly been forgotten, newly-elected Hawaiian governor Neil Abercrombie, told the New York Times, in regard to furnishing the "Birthers" with the certificate, that he was "going to take care of that" to prove Obama was born in Hawaii. He also told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the birth certificate actually existed in the archives.
What Abercrombie didn't realize, was that he had opened a Pandora's box. Pressure mounted for him to deliver as he had promised. In an interview published on January 18, 2011, Abercrombie said that he couldn't find the birth certificate, but it existed.
Arizona is now introducing a bill (HB 2544) that would require Obama and any other candidate vying for the presidency, to produce a birth certificate in order to run in 2012. Should this bill pass, Obama will have no choice, but produce his actual birth certificate for his name to appear on the Arizona ballot. If other red states follow suit, the problem will compound itself, because if Obama cannot produce the birth certificate, his critics could possibly conclude that he was never eligible to begin with, therefore any bill that was passed or executive order signed by Obama during his presidency becomes null and void.
However, I suspect that U.S. constitutional scholars are hoping come 2012, Obama will produce his birth certificate to prevent a constitutional crisis from happening, and also to prove to the critics once and for all that he is a natural born citizen of the U.S. Add Comments>>
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