originally published Dec. 7, 2010

  originally published Dec. 7, 2010

TEN OBAMA-FACTS 'BORNERS' CAN'T IGNORE:

1.    An AP (Associated Press) article from June 25, 2004, as reprinted on June 27, 2004 in the Kenyan online version of the Sunday Standard, referred to Obama as “Kenyan-Born”. The full title was “Kenyan-Born Obama Set for US Senate.” http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm  Would a Kenyan newspaper not know better than a US paper?

2.    The online self-proclaimed myth-debunking site “Snopes.com” once reported that “Obama is not a legitimate U.S. citizen” and that he was born in Kenya. This happened in 2008 when Hillary was still running and Snopes apparently supported her over Obama.  http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2010/07/2008-snopes-article-reports-barack.html.    The page that carried this report was later scrubbed from the site: The site now maintains the opposite is true.

    3.    In September of 2008, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of Health for the State of Hawai’i, issued an official statement that she has “personally seen and verified that the State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record ...” At that time, she did not make a statement regarding his birth status.

4.    In 2009, Dr. Fukino issued a new statement changing her original statement to “I ... have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health.” “Vital records” is a much broader and less precise term than “original birth certificate. She also stated that these records “verify that “Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen.” Why the discrepancies?

5.    On June 5, 2010, former Senior Elections Clerk with the Hawaii Secretary of State’s office stated on the radio talk show “Political Cesspool” with James Edwards that “everyone in the government knows” that there is no original birth certificate showing Obama was born in Hawaii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fdsz1iqEE Who is lying? No one has come forward to “debunk” Tim Adams.

6.    Congress vetted the credentials of the GOP presidential candidate, Republican Sen. John McCain, but not those of Democratic candidate Barack Obama. McCain made his school and health records available. Obama did not.

7.    In a phone interview, Obama’s grandmother first appears to say he was born iin Kenya, then says he was born in Hawaii. In the same interview, she also said that she was present at his birth and then reverses herself saying that she wasn't. If she is confused, why can't we be confused as well. Do Obama supporters call her a racist? No.

8.    There are two documents from Kenya that indicate Obama was born there in a Mombasa hospital. The first was supposedly “debunked”, but it was a copy his mother obtained in 1963, after Kenya became an independent nation. The second, a certified copy of his original birth certificate, shows it was issued during the time Kenya was a British Protectorate. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_127002647357696&notif_t=group_activity#!/photo.php?fbid=112489622123945&set=a.100541676652073.262.100000887223076

9.     Michelle Obama referred to Kenya as her husband’s “home country”.

10.    To date, no United States state or federal court has allowed any of the more than 40 lawsuits filed regarding this issue to go to the discovery stage, which would have made it possible to settle this issue once and for all. Obama - the man who has most to gain from doing so - continues to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to avoid releasing any of his records.

If all of this, taken together, does not constitute enough proof in your mind that (a) there are legitimate, important, yet unanswered questions, and (b) that nothing would be easier than to settle all of this once and for all by answering them, then you either have an agenda to protect, or you are incapable of anything resembling independent, logical, and critical thought.

Alex Wallenwein
December 7, 2010