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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (115085)	8/14/2008 1:59:05 PM
From: Horgad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

I think you are trying to make a conspiracy out of nothing. Obama's childhood is no secret. Heck it is out on Wikepedia. No digging required. "Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., a Black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student.[4] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[5] Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw him only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.[6] After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979.[7] Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia for her fieldwork. " 1. Obama was born in the US. So he is US citizen. 2. Obama could also claim citizenship in Kenya since his father was Kenyan. 3. He lived in Indonesian with his mother and Muslim stepfather from AGE 6 to AGE 10 (so for only 4 years when was a young kid!). This does not make him a citizen. His parents would have had to apply for his citizenship in Indonesian and go through all the related hoops. If they did, so what, now he is a citizen of three countries instead of two. 4. He has been in the US from age 1 to 6 and from age 10 to present. As such he probably rightly feels that he is a US citizen first and foremost. If you stepfather enrolls you in school and puts down that you are muslim when you are 6 years old, does that make you a muslim? If your parents make you go to church for 18 years does that make you anything that you don't want to be? Also, Indonesia is well known for being one of the moderate and tolerant muslim countries in the world. I would consider spending time in a foreign country and learning a different world point of view to be a good thing for a leader. Better that then somebody that is afraid to leave their home state or even their home town and is scared of everybody that doesn't look, talk, and act exactly like you. So what are your world experiences? (g) There are lots of good reasons to not vote for Obama, but this is not one of them. Just say he doesn't have the experience or he is not ready to tackle the economic problems and be done with it. It is much harder to argue with that...