Obama’s Birth Certificate; Is He a “Natural Born Citizen?”

In recent days it has come to my attention that the campaign of Democratic Presidential HOPEful Barack Hussein Obama refuses to release his birth certificate for judicial or public scrutiny.  This comes after John McCain was targeted for disqualification from candidacy for POTUS over his place of birth.

 

Republican Presidential nominee John McCain was born to an active duty military family on an American Military base in the Panama Canal Zone.  Countless blogs can be found across the internet seeking to disqualify McCain as not being a “naturally born citizen” of the United States as the Constitution requires.  This charge against McCain suggests a level of hostility the anti McCain crowd might have toward the United States Military, but nevertheless it was not too unreasonable of a question.

 

In order to lay this question to rest John McCain soldiered up and had his birth certificate submitted for review by the Senate who declared him a natural born citizen in April 2008.  The “natural born citizen” Presidency requirement only applies to people who were not born American Citizens, not to naturally born citizens who happened to be born to servicemen in foreign territory.

 

Now there are calls for Obama to do the same and release his birth certificate for a similar review, but the Obama campaign has refused to comply.  This Is not an unreasonable request in light of the knowledge that at least one of Barack Obama’s parents was known to be a citizen of a foreign country.  Obama was also known to have been at least partially raised in Indonesia, and USAfricaOnline proudly asserts that Barrack was born in Kenya.

 

John McCain was required to undergo such scrutiny, why shouldn’t Obama?  What could possibly be on Obama’s birth certificate that he does not want the courts or the public to know?

 

As far as I know there are only a few things listed on a birth certificate anyway.  Wikipedia lists them as; 

Birth name

Date and time of birth

Sex of the child

Place and/or location of birth

Names of the parents of the child

Occupations of parents of the child

Birth weight and length

Name of informant registering the birth

Date of registration of birth

A birth registration number or file number

 

Most of this is irrelevant to Obama’s presidential eligibility.  The only information on a birth certificate that would really affect a persons presidential candidacy or support thereof regards his Birth name, Date of birth, Parents and Place of birth.  

 

I doubt it has much to do with his name.  He has a Muslim name, we know that.  He used to be called Barry.  Big whoop.  Who cares?  That fact has not seemed to negatively impact his campaign.  A lot of Americans with foreign sounding names opt to go for an Anglocized version so as to better fit in with their peers.  I knew a Mohammed who preferred to be called Mike and he was just running a café. 

 

Likewise there are many people who were called by a shorter nickname in their youth or around their family but opt to use the full name or maybe even their other legal name instead.  That’s just part of maturing and finding your own identity.  My cousin was always called Cindy, but as she became an adult she now prefers to be called by the full Cynthia.  I have another cousin whom the family calls by his middle name and his friends call him by his first name.  It’s pretty meaningless in the realm of global politics.

 

Obama’s date of birth shouldn’t matter if he was born in any of the 57 or 60 states right?  If Obama was born in Hawaii as we are led to believe he would have to have been born there before April 30, 1900 for that to even be an issue.  I think it is pretty safe to say that Barack Obama is not actually 109 years old.

 

So as far as I can tell, that leaves us with only one more avenue to really speculate about, that being whether or not Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii.  This is a question that can only be answered by a judicial review of his birth certificate.

 

There is nothing wrong with requiring a candidate to prove his constitutional eligibility for the highest position of authority in our country and possibly the world.  That is why there are requirements to begin with; to keep those who do not fit the parameters set from unlawfully obtaining power.  Quite frankly I’m surprised that there is no policy in either party to require candidates to prove their constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency before they are even allowed to seek their party’s nomination.

 

What reason could Barack Obama want to keep the information on his birth certificate a secret?  We may never know.  But if he is afraid for the American people to know the truth about his origins, that is a major red flag.  If there is never a judicial review of Obama’s birth certificate, just as there has been for John McCain’s and this basic legal requirement is allowed to be undermined—for whatever reason—then the United States Constitution is truly dead. 

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For an update on this subject check here.