
Why Obama wants to hide birth certificate
Posted: June 16, 2009 BY JOSEPH FARAH OF "WND"
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
Since I began my quixotic campaign to uncover Barack Obama's birth
certificate, many have asked me about the president's possible motives
for hiding it with such tenacity and diligence.
I think there are many plausible motives:
- Perhaps something in that birth certificate, if it indeed
exists, would contradict assertions Obama has made about his life's
story. These might even involve his true parental heritage. Without a
real birth certificate, no one really knows who his parents
were. So it is ridiculous even to speculate about whether citizenship
could be conferred upon him by his mother, when we don't know for sure
who his mother is.
- Perhaps it reveals a foreign birth, as Hawaii allowed for in 1961 while still issuing the "certification of live birth" we have seen posted on his website.
- Or perhaps it will show just what Obama has claimed
all along – a birth in Hawaii to two officially non-citizen parents,
for the purpose of establishing "natural born citizenship" under the
Constitution.
What do I mean by that last possibility?
Well, as you know, in 2008, the Senate of the United States
held hearings to determine if one of the presidential candidates
fulfilled the requirement of being a "natural born citizen." It wasn't
Barack Obama. It was John McCain, who was born on a U.S. military base
overseas to two U.S. citizens.
Start
your own elibibility billboard campaign in your neighborhood with WND's
new yard signs, asking: "Where's the Birth Certificate?"
On April 10 of last year, two senators, both Democrats, Patrick
Leahy of Vermont and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, introduced a
resolution into upper house expressing a sense of the Senate that
McCain was indeed a "natural born citizen."
It's interesting what Leahy had to say on the subject: "Because he was born to American citizens
(emphasis added), there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a
natural born citizen. I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution
of the U.S. Senate."
And, indeed it was. It was also, interestingly, the only such
hearing held by the Congress on the subject of "natural born
citizenship" and its application to the 2008 presidential race. Why was
that interesting? Because everyone involved in this process knew – or
should have known – that the life story told by Barack Obama would
raise far more doubts about his eligibility than McCain's.
Notice Leahy did not say one parent citizen would qualify a
child for "natural born citizenship." He indicted it would take two to
tango.
He did so again at a Judiciary Committee hearing April 3, when he asked then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal judge, if he had any doubts about McCain's eligibility to serve as president.
"My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of
American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,"
Chertoff responded – again underlining the fact that both parents would
need to be citizens.
And what did Leahy say to that? "That is mine, too."
By the way, Obama voted for this resolution, so he obviously
agrees with the definition of what constitutes a "natural born citizen"
– the offspring of two U.S. citizens.
Now, I don't know who Barack Obama's parents are, because I
have never seen his birth certificate. All I've seen is a facsimile of
a "certification of live birth" on the Internet.
That document, even if genuine, proves nothing about Obama's birth in
Hawaii or who his parents were. Hawaii had a very slipshod practice in
1961 of issuing these documents to babies born outside the country and listing parents who may not have been the parents at all.
But I do know who Barack Obama claims his parents were.
According to him, neither one of them was an American citizen able to
confer natural born citizenship on a child. One, Barack Obama Sr., was
a foreign national from Kenya, and the other, Stanley Ann Dunham, was
too young to have qualified under the law for bestowing that privilege
on her son, even if the father had been a citizen and even in the
unlikely event Obama was actually born in Hawaii!
So, if we are to take Obama at his word, he is not a natural born citizen and not eligible to serve as president.