Its been bubbling around out there since last summer, and now Hot Air notes that some MSM outfits are picking up on it, if only to knock it down. For those who either (a) live under a rock or (b) manage to filter out every single conspiracy theory out there, the issue goes thusly:
Obama has yet to provide a very verified copy of his birth certificate (the one provided just isn’t good enough); there are some rumors out there of Kenyans who witnessed Obama’s birth in Kenya and/or saw him and his mother there shortly after the birth; If Obama is born in Kenya, he’s disqualified to be President under the Constitutional provision requiring native birth to be President; unless we force this issue to the forefront and get Obama out of office, our entire constitutional structure will be ruined.
Here’s my view on the matter:
1. President Obama is my fellow citizen of the United States, without a doubt born to a natural-born American citizen.
2. If there was any funny business as regards Obama’s birth place, it was his mother’s doing, not his and I’m not about to visit the sins of the mother upon the son.
3. The constitution was wrecked in 1913. Its only been obeyed partially since the 1960’s. If we can survive Roe, we can survive a Kenyan birth. If the only thing wrong with obedience to the constitution was a President born in Kenya, that would be the best thing, ever. We’ve got larger constitutional fish to fry, ya dig?
4. Obama and his Democrats are setting themselves up for an epic failure in the 2010-12 time frame and if we GOPers will ride the near-revolutionary populist wave, we’ll secure a majority strong enough to repair all the damage done in the past century. If we concentrate on Obama’s birth certificate, we’ll be wasting time and resources and might waste our last chance to restore America.
So, I’m not having any of this – I bring it up because I want to be on record about it. Its a non-issue for me except in as much as it distracts from the real issue, so I’ll henceforward never mention the issue save, as necessary, to slam hard on anyone trying to make it an issue.
UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: Here’s my view on the matter…
I was initially dismissive about the birth certificate issue… nevertheless, there are enough things, be they circumstantial or anecdotal, or whatever, that give me plenty of reason to be justifiably suspicious.
For one thing, Obama has done a lousy job putting the issue to rest. He refuses to provide the original birth certificate, only offering a meaningless computer-generated certificate of live birth. Obama has reportedly spent a huge chunk of money getting the original birth certificate sealed from the public. It naturally leads to the question “If there is nothing wrong with the certificate, and it states he was born in America, then why not produce it?” Obama risks having this issue becoming increasingly more mainstream. If the proof is not ever produced, this will always hang over his presidency, far more than liberal whiners complaining about Florida 2000 did for Bush’s presidency.
Second, I notice liberal bloggers and pundits, when addressing this issue, have absolutely no good rebuttals to counter the claims of so-called “birthers.” There is no good answer to “Why doesn’t he just produce the birth certificate if he has nothing to hide.” The simplest explanation is that Obama doesn’t want to incriminate himself. It’s Occam’s Razor. There is no simpler explanation. Instead of addressing the facts, they attack those who bring it up and write them off as “wingnut fringe.”
Perhaps the most damning evidence that suggests Obama has something to hide is the revoking of deployment orders for a soldier who challenged Obama’s authority as commander-in-chief with regards to the birth certificate issue.
Sorry, but you can’t blame people for shouting “Fire!” when you are the one hiding the fire extinguisher.
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