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Obama Birth Certificate Requests Increase In Hawaii

Obama Birth Certificate Requests Increase

First Posted: 12/27/10 10:15 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

The Honolulu Star Advertiser:

People who do not believe President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961 have stepped up their requests for proof of his birth this month, in the hopes that the new gubernatorial administration will offer more information.

Read the whole story: The Honolulu Star Advertiser

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reveal5 02:18 PM on 12/28/2010
Constituti­on says:   
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.     Read More...
09:40 AM on 01/04/2011
Ann Dunham married Barack Obama in Maui, Hawaii on Feb 1961 and six months later, Barack Obama II was born (Aug 4, 1961.)

The Senior Obama and Dunham divorced in 1964, he returned to Kenya in 1995 and Ann went to Indonesia to join her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1997 where the young Barack went to school for 2 1/2 years. If Dunham never left the country until 1997, Barack was indeed born on American soil to an American woman. She is reported to have graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1967. If birthers don't want to believe a birth certificate then University records would show her in the country during those dates but then........they would claim those were also forgeries, I suspect.
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bynddrvn5
My micro-bio is unwritten.
08:01 PM on 12/30/2010
Seriously, each Birther needs to have an individual copy of Obama's birth certificat­e?

Maybe President Obama can have copies made and autograph the birth certificat­e for each of the Birthers for a $10k re-electio­n donation. Make this a win-win situation ;)
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senatortruth
Fox keeps me "INFROMED"!
10:53 AM on 12/29/2010
lbc-clb

But, like Obama, one of McCain's parents was an American citizen. That makes McCain and Obama, American citizens, no matter where they were actually born.
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YOKEL13

Not quite true.... see my earlier posts.
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Exactly.

If you are not born IN the USA, even if your parents are American citizens, you CANNOT

be President.

Plain and simple, even for the Buhs TRAITTOR simpletens...
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iconoclast6
This is my BOOM stick!
06:38 PM on 12/29/2010
Considering the history of the constitutional qualifications provision, the common use and meaning of the phrase "natural-born subject" in England and in the Colonies in the 1700s, the clause's apparent intent, the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the naturalization act of 1790 (expressly defining the term "natural born citizen" to include a person born abroad to parents who are United States citizens), as well as subsequent Supreme Court dicta, it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase "natural born Citizen" would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth.
--Congressional Research Office, April 3, 2009 (italics mine)

That slooshing sound you hear, is the entire birther argument being flushed down the schitter of history.

Buhbye, birthers.

Buhbye...
09:55 PM on 12/30/2010
LOL! Your lack of knowledge is surpassed only by your lack of reliable sources.
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BlackJeremiah
May cooler heads always prevail.
11:00 PM on 12/30/2010
False. It depends on the citizenship of the parents, which parent, and the reason for being out of the US.

For example, an American soldier stationed overseas in Germany with his wife, who has a child in a hospital off the military base, would still be able to call the child a natural-born citizen.

Try taking an Immigration Law class--or simply read anything written by Professor David Martin. Not sure if he still teaches, but he could set you straight.
09:36 AM on 12/29/2010
This whole birther movement is being pushed by a group of Sasquatch who want some quiet time from people who would otherwise be trekking around in the North Woods.
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12:15 AM on 12/29/2010
i hav it on gud athoritee that barack HUSSEIN obama was born on a spaiseship controled by the reptileans who try to controle are branes with purple cosmic beems, and sew they planted him in hawaye with fake newspaipre birth anuncemints.
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01:29 AM on 12/29/2010
Heres my pruf:

http://i51.tinypic.com/30jpwlu.png
10:00 PM on 12/28/2010
I thought everyone told me on HUFFPOSt that is already been released? How come this governor is sayingt release it?
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Jeff1958
What a long strange trip it's been
10:48 PM on 12/28/2010
It has been released.
09:41 PM on 12/29/2010
then why is the governor saying release---(see headline)
09:58 PM on 12/30/2010
It has never been released and Obama's lawyers have sued to prevent it ever being released.
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BlackJeremiah
May cooler heads always prevail.
10:55 PM on 12/30/2010
False, false, false. The COLB, which is prima facie evidence of natural-born citizenship, has been released over and over again.
08:03 PM on 12/31/2010
That was my fear-----there us deceptive for one reason--frightening--WHO is HE--
Manchurin Candidate? Soros funded representative---makes me question my support
05:18 PM on 12/28/2010
I'd rather prefer to believe that Obama was born in Kenya; the birth being a world-shat­tering event, and announced by three predatory stars, led to a visit to the newly born son by three wise women from Down Below (whatever that is!) who prophesied that the newly-born son of a Luo man and an American woman would one day be the president of good-ole USA; whereupon, the three wise women contrived to have Obama's birth recorded somewhere in the USA; thereafter­, the three wise women journeyed to the USA by boat from Mombasa to record aforementi­oned birth in the USA to make Obama 'a natural born' son of the USA and thereby be eligible to be president as ordained!; with the boat returning the wise women breaking down and washing up onto Waikiki Beach; boat-wreck­ed terrified ladies ended up registerin­g the birth at a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii; and recorded same informatio­n in Honolulu newspapers­!----to complete the divine order!

Obama is therefore the second come!!!!
10:01 PM on 12/28/2010
Who else could write an order to close GITMO in one YEAR and (oops) wait never mind
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Mike from NYC
2001 was the far future, now it's a decade ago.
02:25 PM on 12/28/2010
This might be a stupid question. Once Obama was sworn in as president and he is the President. Wouldn't impeachment be the only way he can lose the presidency? I don't know if a presidency can just be "anulled" because someone found some detail that would make a person ineligible to President after he is already made President.
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iconoclast6
This is my BOOM stick!
09:36 PM on 12/28/2010
If these phoolz had their way, there would be a constitutional crisis, because there's no provision in either the Constitution or in Federal law for such a thing happening. The people pulling their strings want to rewrite the Constitution in their own Christian capitalist image.

But of course, ask one of these |3ozos what he thinks would happen, and he'd tell you McPalin would become POTUS, because they're just that ree-tarred-ed.
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reveal5
02:18 PM on 12/28/2010
Constituti­on says:   
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.    RobD407 added.....­.Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in the gaps left by the Constituti­­on. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:""
   "Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)"
   "Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-bo­­rn, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-bo­­rn,."....­..........­....So there it is. It doesn't matter where the President was born, his mother was a citizen of the US and so he is a citizen of the US. Period!  All tied up in a neat little bow, for the folks out in far right field.............. to ignor­e
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behavingbadly
reality doesn't care what you believe
04:47 PM on 12/28/2010
and just as sure as cute little bunnies beget more cute little bunnies, ignore it they will ...
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Pleneras
05:48 PM on 12/28/2010
"Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-bo­­­rn, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President.

Wrong is considered Citizen "at the time of the bill" and natural born. either, or.
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BlackJeremiah
May cooler heads always prevail.
11:04 PM on 12/30/2010
The first is a Constitutional provision, the second is part of the immigration code, 8 U.S.C. 1401. The "at the time of adoption" provision cannot be carried over into the subsequent statute unless that carry-over is explicitly designated.

Nice attempt at poor parsing, though.
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clearthinker16
reads, investigates and thinks before making stupi
02:12 PM on 12/28/2010
I think they should make the fee one million dollars in certified funds per request with the additional stipulation that when they are shown the original document on file in the State of Hawaii they must hold a press conference attesting to the fact. If not, no deal.
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CateManhattan
Common sense is way too uncommon.
09:31 PM on 12/28/2010
Under oath, with a stipulation of forfeiture of $1 million bond per false statement per person for a term of five years.

That'd work.
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Mike from NYC
2001 was the far future, now it's a decade ago.
02:00 PM on 12/28/2010
Couldn't the state of Hawaii charge a "special" fee for the requests and make some money off this foolishness?
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iconoclast6
This is my BOOM stick!
09:38 PM on 12/28/2010
Sorry to be the one to tell you this, Mike. But...there is no Sanity Clause.

http://www.instantrimshot.com
04:07 PM on 12/29/2010
They should. That would no doubt reduce the number of requests significantly.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
12:38 PM on 12/28/2010
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/SocialSecurity.htm

In Massachusetts -- where Obama attended Harvard Law School -- we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office. This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.

This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him. Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/31235646/Susan-Daniels-Affidavit-Regarding-Obama-s-Social-Security-Number-s
Susan Daniels, a second investigator filed an affidavit, with true and correct copies below, in the Barnett v. Obama case. Susan Daniels is a private investigator, licensed by the State of Ohio.

In her affidavit, Daniels states that she has located Barack Obama's Social Security Number. She states it was issued between 1977 and 1979 in the State of Connecticut. She states that it is the only Social Security Number Barack Obama ever used.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
12:41 PM on 12/28/2010
cont...The number assigned to Barack Obama "appears to be associated with someone born in the year 1890."
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Angel1999
Microbiologist & Historian
12:45 PM on 12/28/2010
Social security numbers are reused after someone dies.
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dimplesmile7
01:17 PM on 12/28/2010
There no such thing as social security in 1890. This person is a bigLIAR! Making stuff up against a minority make you a RACIST.
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SteveSFM
politically incorrect left-winger
12:43 PM on 12/28/2010
She also states that she intensely dislikes black people.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
12:59 PM on 12/28/2010
where does she state that?
12:29 PM on 12/28/2010
Perhaps they should have an IQ check and those who score under 85 shouldn't be allowed to post. That should easily eliminate the tea bagged Trolls......
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SOD
As kind as possible and as unkind as necessary.
12:59 PM on 12/28/2010
It wouldn't eliminate me. Not by a long shot.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
01:02 PM on 12/28/2010
well, that excludes me. sorry
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
12:25 PM on 12/28/2010
I really don't care about the birth cert. My issues is with the fact that we hav no access to any of his records. we know what Bush and Kerry's GPA was but we have no idea how Obama fared. also, this 'birther' issue is a red herring. let's look at the following:

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/why-does-obama-need-so-many-social-security-numbers/blog-281443/

Why does Obama need so many Social Security numbers?
Posted 03/19/10
Neil Sankey, a former British policeman who’s now a licensed private investigator in Los Angeles, initiated a preliminary background investigation of Barack Obama and uncovered 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers.

At the Illinois addresses listed for Obama, two Social Security numbers appear with frequency. One begins with the number 042... the other begins with the number 364.

The Social Security number beginning with 042 was issued in Connecticut... even though Obama apparently never lived or worked in Connecticut.

One can only ask why? Is the President of the United States a victim of ID fraud? Or, is something else entirely going on?
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In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.
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BlackJeremiah
May cooler heads always prevail.
01:37 PM on 12/28/2010
As for his GPA, his presence on Harvard Law Review should clue you in to that. That means he either had a very high GPA or was an excellent legal writer, or both. His admittance to Harvard Law should also clue you into his GPA in undergrad. Unlike GWB, Obama didn't have a rich and powerful daddy to grease the wheels for him.
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03:35 PM on 12/28/2010
Logic and reason are lost on them.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
09:50 PM on 12/28/2010
then show them. if he is so smart one would want to take pride in it. everyone says how smart he is but he sure isn't living up to it. show me the proof that he didn't get in with a little help from uncle Frank.
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Billyguitar
Disgusted by politics since John Anderson lost. In
02:03 PM on 12/28/2010
Once again, just why are you trying to hold President Obama to a higher burden of proof than any other citizen? Answer that, please.
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ColoradoTaxpayer
1st generation American...auf gehts
09:55 PM on 12/28/2010
All president have shown their papers when asked. and by your logic then why do people on this site believe it is their business to know Bristol Palins SAT scores? your inquisitiveness only goes in one direction?
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MikeDu
Both salubrious and lugubrious concurrently.
12:19 PM on 12/28/2010
John McCain for sure wasn't born in America. Funny how the birther crazies never mention that.
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bynddrvn5
My micro-bio is unwritten.
08:47 PM on 12/30/2010
Good point!