The Oldtimer has finally sorted through as much stuff as he can stomach about the O-man's Birth Certificate and his resulting citizenship... or lack thereof.
After a bunch of research, and trying to get my head around the Constitutional issues of "Natural Born", I've come to some conclusions, and they are not necessarily what everybody else has come up with, as you would expect from The Oldtimer.
The Internet has a lot of info available on a lot of different subjects. Some of it is factual, some of it is not, but you can generally tell which is and which isn't by the sources, citations, and attributions. I've tried to use the good stuff, and provided sources where appropriate, but as always, do your own research.
Obama's grandfather said during the campaign that Obama was born in Kenya and that he was there when it happened. Michelle on many occasions has referred to Kenya as Obama's "home country". Yet Obama claims to be a "natural born US citizen" as required to be president.
To meet the Constitutional definition of natural born citizen, the parents both have to be citizens and Obama has to be able to prove he was born in this country . No one has disputed Obama's father was a foreign national. Under British law, Obama is a natural born subject of Great Britain through his father, but he is NOT a natural born citizen of the United States.
The big issue now is if Obama has committed fraud through the presentation of a doctored or completely fabricated certification of live birth. The failure of the state of Hawaii to legally corroborate the alleged document suggests that fraud has been committed. The issue of him having multiple Social Security Cards, and the considerations of his Foreign Student Aid also suggest fraud.
However, seeing the Obama Birth Certificate is and has always been entirely irrelevant. Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen by at least 3 other requirements than US birth.
In his own books Obama explains the heritage and citizenship of his parents, which, assuming he told the truth, means he does not qualify to be President regardless of his being a citizen at birth. His father was not a US citizen, but a foreign national. His mother, while possibly a US citizen, did not meet the US residency requirements for Obama to be a US citizen at the time he was born. These are much the same reason anchor babies can’t become President.
There are three essential components to being eligible to be President, according to the Constitution:
1. The candidate has to have been born in the US as an American citizen. Up until 1983, under the Federal Naturalization and Citizenship Act, you were deemed to be the citizen of the country of your father’s Passport and nationality. (Obama says his father was Kenyan with a British Passport. So Obama was born in the US, but under Kenyan/British citizenship).
2. The candidate has to be born to parents who were both American Citizens at the time of his birth (The same issue haunted VP then President Chester A. Arthur, and Congress had to do some fast corrections to allow him to remain President.)
3. The mother had to be a resident in the US for at least the previous consecutive 5 years (versus the 15 years requirement at the time of Chester A Arthur, which is where his problem lay).
4. There are also numerous requirements of residency for citizens and for the President, if living abroad at the time of his 18th birthday, i.e., an official notification of country selection of citizenship, Selective Service registration, Social Security number, etc., which in Obama’s case are unavailable or very irregular.
In the case of Obama, his father was a Kenyan with a British Passport (i.e., NOT an American) and his mother had only been residing in the country for 4 years. So, regardless of what’s in his birth certificate, he is not and cannot be a natural born citizen.
As per Presidential requirements, he is disqualified on all 3 counts, and is not a Constitutionally elected President. In short, he is not really the President, because he never qualified as a Natural Born Citizen, regardless of the circumstances of where he was born. It might be the reason he is on record for saying the Constitution is outdated for these times of globalization.
A note of historical precedence: This situation occurred with President Chester A. Arthur as well, where his father (born in the UK) was claimed to have still been a British Citizen at the time of Arthur's birth. Arthur ran as Vice president in 1880 under Garfield, who won and became President in 1881. Garfield was later assassinated by a fanatical Arthur supporter, rendering Arthur President.
However, when queries were made of Arthur as to his father’s citizenship at the time of his birth, Arthur claimed conveniently that his father's records were lost in a fire, just prior to his candidacy. Arthur’s father became a naturalized citizen in 1843; Arthur was born in 1829.
However at the time, the law was that to be natural born, besides both parents having to be American Citizens at the time of birth, the Mother had to reside for at least the previous consecutive 15 years in the US as an American Citizen. However Garfield's mother was only in the country for 9 years at the time of Arthur's birth, which disqualified Arthur as a Natural Born Citizen to be eligible as president.
To prevent Arthur 's entire Presidency and signing of Executive Orders and Legislation into Law from becoming void, Congress changed the requirement of the Mother to be residing in the US as an American from 15 years back to 5 years, retroactive to a date prior to the Arthur presidency. It is that 5 year requirement, still in effect, that gives Obama problems.
Some say that Obama was really born to the person who became his mentor from 1971-1979, Frank Marshall Davis, which, if true, would mean that he did have a US born father, but in that case he still doesn't qualify, because his mother was not a resident for at least the previous consecutive 5 years.
(The left's response to this is that Congress, as it did with Chester A. Arthur can retroactively change the regulation for a Natural Born Citizen back to 4 years residency from 5 years, which would then retroactively re-qualify Obama to be President. However, anything executed prior to that being done by Congress would need to also be exempted by Congress, creating a Constitutional crisis, as it would be basically a Constitutional amendment, something Congress cannot (yet) do by fiat.)
But unless and until a different father is proved and Congress retroactively changes the residency requirement of Obama’s mother from 5 years to 4 years, as was done regarding the residency of Chester A. Arthur’s mother (15 years to 5 years retroactively), Obama does not qualify to be President under the Constitution, meaning that everything he’s signed into law would be void, and have to be re-enacted by Congress and signed into law by the President named to replace Obama, namely Joe Biden or someone else that may become President, after 2012.
Obama's mother Anna supposedly was in Hawaii when he was born. However, documents from the University of Hawaii has her starting class in Sept 26, 1960. She then enrolled at the University of Washington in the autumn of 1961, just after Obama was born. Obama Sr. was still at the University of Hawaii, and graduated in 1962 while Ann was at University of Washington.
Following is a copy of an email from the University of Washington confirming Ann's dates of enrollment. (From the Internet, verified by Snopes)
From: pubrec@u.washington.edu [mailto:pubrec@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Subject: Re: Stanley “Anna” Dunham 1960 to 1970 class registration
Ms. Stanley Anna Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962
The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University’s response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.
Madolyne Lawson
Office of Public Records
206-543-9180
(http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html )
Here's a link to Anna's University of Washington transcripts that confirm the dates in which she was enrolled. (these are public record):
http://theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaObamaUnivofWashingtonTranscript.jpg
See also: http://theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaUWashington.jpg
Here's a link to a letter from the University of Hawaii confirming the dates that Anna was enrolled at the University. She was initially a student, for single semester, in the fall of 1960. She returned to the University of Hawaii for the spring semester of 1963.
http://theobamafile.com/_images/DunhamUnivHawaii.jpg
See also: http://theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaUnivHawaiiRecord.gif
What Obama has decided to spend millions in legal fees to conceal is far more than just the real birth certificate.
Beyond the long form birth certificate, there is the passport he reportedly traveled on while a teen (reportedly not a US passport), his non-citizen scholarship aid paperwork from Occidental College, his academic records from Columbia and Harvard (including reported foreign student aid), his medical records, and the paperwork for his social security number(s) from Connecticut, Washington, and Hawaii (how does he have three Social Security numbers?), just like the media has required from every other presidential candidate.
Remember the media spending day and night for a year trying to "expose" Bush's National Guard record? Remember the media furor over whether John McCain was really eligible after being born in Panama?
As Donald Trump has been saying of late, this may be one of the greatest con jobs in history.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn
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