Nathan Deal Birther Letter Sent To Obama, White House Confirms

The White House last week confirmed that U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) made good on a promise he made in November to formally raise questions of President Obama's birthplace.

According to the White House, the letter arrived on December 10, but neither the staff of the president nor the Georgia congressman seemed excited to discuss its content.

"[Deal] just did what he said he was going to do," Todd Smith, Deal's chief of staff said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "It's not news."

A White House spokeswoman Gannet Tseggai acknowledged receipt of Deal's letter, but would not release a copy or discuss its content, saying that the issue has been addressed repeatedly.

Barack Obama's camp released a digitally scanned copy of the presidential candidate's birth certificate in the summer of 2008, a document that shows he was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaiian government officials, as well as independent news organizations, have both concluded that the document is authentic.

In November, however, Rep. Deal decided that it wasn't good enough. "I have looked at the documentation that is publicly available and it leaves many things to be desired," the lawmaker told the AJC.

In the summer of 2009, Republican lawmakers attempted to draw up a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their birth certificates. The bill eventually failed. Nevertheless, it appears that the birther movement won't die.

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[Patriotallday]

07:07 PM on 02/15/2010

^*^*^*Obama's father was a British subject at the time of his birth. That is set in concrete. Absolute fact.

Rep. John A. Bingham commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))

Thomas Jefferson
“Therefore, we can say with confidence that a natural-born citizen of the United States means those persons born whose father the United States already has an established jurisdiction over, i.e., born to father’s who are themselves citizens of the United States.” A person who had been born under a double allegiance cannot be said to be a natural-born citizen of the United States because such status is not recognized.

Article II section I of the constitution:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

[TheGripester]

01:21 AM on 01/18/2010

There's a misstatement in this article. "Hawaiian government officials, as well as independent news organizations, have both concluded that the document is authentic." The news sources may have "concluded" that "the document is authentic," but the government officials have confirmed, not "concluded," the authenticity of the certificate. To say that the officials "concluded" that it was authentic suggests that they "came to a conclusion" rather than making a public statement based on verification. Which they did.

[mmonarch]

09:30 PM on 01/15/2010

Tell ya what, next GOP or Independent or Green Party or Socialist Party runs for office, you just all ask to see their B.C. LOL I would laugh my head off if you all started asking for the long form and it was refused.

[LeftRight]

09:40 AM on 01/20/2010

And it WOULD be refused, because the only people allowed to see such a long form are the ones who work in the county clerk's office.

[senatortruth]

06:20 PM on 01/15/2010

Deal is a TREEZIN-bagger!!

LOVE the TREEZIN of Buhs and Cheeney

H8 America and Americans

[poobah]

04:50 PM on 01/15/2010

If it weren't for Palin, he would be a front runner for dum bass of the year award.

[HazerX]

04:19 PM on 01/15/2010

I laugh in the face of this knuckle dragger. lol

[efffox]

02:47 PM on 01/15/2010

If President Obama still needs to produce his birth certificate, after all this time and after proven his citizenship over and over again, I think this idi*t should have to take an IQ test because he's obviously not all there! Or more likely, just being a teabig*t!

[annie0107]

02:25 PM on 01/15/2010

pea-brain

[shivadas]

01:36 PM on 01/15/2010

I want to see this clown's birth certificate first.

[KevinFitzz]

01:10 PM on 01/15/2010

Just look at him... He's got the face of a sot!

[Iluvdarin]

12:34 PM on 01/15/2010

I said it before and I will say it again - it's not documentation, its pigmentation. These a-holes just can't accept that a black man is our legally elected President. The wackos ran with the BC issue because Obama's immediate family is not here to defend him. There is nothing that can be shown to prove his birth in Hawaii that they will accept. They want him OUT. I read that Orly Taitz has said that Limbaugh was hit with some sort of electromagnetic ray by Obama and that caused his chest pains. This will never stop. They have absolutely no proof that he was born in Kenya. Two phony BC's and still they spread their lies.

[RoseL]

02:22 PM on 01/15/2010

Absolutely agree. I have said this so many times, my head hurts. They just can't get it through their stupid heads that our President is Black! "Run, grab the children, cover their eyes, Mama....we got a colored preznit!"
They hate it, but....so what?

[maumeeone]

02:26 PM on 01/15/2010

...And as for me, I think Orly Taitz was bludgeoned with an ugly stick. By the way, dear old Orly has been uncharacteristically quiet lately. That in itself is a scary thought! I'd rather have her out in the open where we can all see what she's up to...

[WHTrout]

03:37 PM on 01/15/2010

"...uncharacteristically quiet lately..."
That's what happens when a judge slaps ya with a fine for filing frivolous lawsuits!
Lesson here: The ONLY way to shut up these people is to hit them where it hurts them most -- their wallets!

[Nominal]

12:14 PM on 01/15/2010

I agree - and while we're at it, let's see W's honorable discharge from the Air National Guard!

[maumeeone]

02:27 PM on 01/15/2010

Yeah...Good luck with that!

[higherstrategy]

02:31 PM on 01/15/2010

Ever try and talk to an insane person who keeps wanting to change the subject because they just can't handle talking about the Truth!

I want to see Bush's National Guard papers!
I want to see the missing Bush Administrations missing 22 million emails that were on PRIVATE SERVERS instead of using the Governments Systems!
I want to see the Minutes from the FED MEETING with all the banking heads and FED heads, except for Lehman and Bear, just before those two were 'torpedoed' by conterfit stocks!

AND

we all should be shown this Presidents original birth certificate.
Anyone who has their finger on the Nuke button and transfers Trillions of AMerican Taxpayer wealth out of the Country in the first year, all based on a document you couldn't get a drivers license with?

just too, too much

[NETarrant]

11:58 AM on 01/15/2010

So where IS the birth certificate?
Oh that's right....I forgot....it's on some staffers computer file.

[shivadas]

01:34 PM on 01/15/2010

It doesn't matter if you are illiterate or just a liar. Either way, you are a fo ol.

[redhead61]

02:34 PM on 01/15/2010

cosign

[Knowitall]

01:59 PM on 01/15/2010

It's in Hawaii. Go and get it.

[me again]

11:49 AM on 01/15/2010

Congressman Herpes with the inane issue that keeps popping up.

[siafu]

11:25 AM on 01/15/2010

An impressive turnaround, consider that the Hon. Mr. Deal has not made good on his promise not to funnel taxpayer money into his own pockets: http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/agreement-with-state-benefits-121572.html