They sre doing more than playing dumb! They (DNC)
are fighting against the lawsuit requiring he produce his birth certificate. Why?
Was Obama born in Kenya?
(Note: further down in this entry is the full story of the federal suit filed by Philip Berg, a Democrat and a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, seeking an injunction to prevent the Democratic Party from nominating Obama for the presidency, on the basis that he is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.)
(Also see, below, further information and reflections on Barack's mother Stanley Ann Dunham, the hippie avant la lettre.)
Posted at Free Republic is the first plausible case I've seen that Barack Obama may not be a natural-born U.S. citizen, which under the Constitution would make him ineligible for the presidency. The charge consists of two elements: (1) He was not born in Hawaii, as he has claimed, but in Kenya. His mother and father were visiting Kenya, and she was unable to fly back to Hawaii for his birth because she was in an advanced stage of pregnancy. (2) U.S. law at the time said that a child born overseas to a U.S. citizen parent and a non-citizen parent was a natural born U.S. citizen only if the citizen parent was at least 19 years of age. Ann Dunham Obama was 18 when her son was born. The article also says that Obama's Kenyan relatives, his paternal grandmother, half-brother and half-sister, have claimed that he was born in Kenya.
If Barack was born in Kenya, that would explain the mystery of why his campaign has not published his birth certificate That's why I find this story plausible. (Or, rather, the birth certificate that has been presented as his has been said to be fraudulent--I have not followed the birth certificate story before today, except for hearing that there was a problem with his birth certificate that had not been satisfactorily resolved.).
Unfortunately, the article lacks an original and an author. There is an address given, www.usafricaonline.com/news.html, but I do not find the story on the main page of that site. The FR article refers to a Philip Berg who is suing in federal court, but doesn't say what he is suing about.
I hope the story of the Kenyan birth turns out to be true, and that the Democratic party accordingly withdraws the nomination from Obama and gives it to Hillary Clinton. I think Hillary would have a better chance than Obama of beating McCain and removing the Bush-McCain Republicans and neocons from positions of national power and influence, thus giving genuine conservatives a chance to regain control of the Republican party; and I also think she would be less harmful to the country than Obama.
But, as I've said before, since all my hopes during this presidential year have been systematically dashed, the fact that I'm hoping for this outcome is a strong indication that it will not happen. |
