Obama's Eligibility to be President - Best Response to the "BIRTHER" Ridicule and Name Calling ~

Obama's Eligibility to be President

Use of the term "birthers" to describe those who doubt and challenge Obama's eligibility mimics a common childhood tactic: calling your opponent names to win an argument in the absence of facts. The facts: 1) Obama's true long form birth certificate has not been provided for examination; 2) the DNC during the election campaign posted on its website an image of a computer-generated Hawaii certificate of live birth - which proves nothing even if it were authentic, and it has been exposed by experts as fraudulent; 3) transcripts and official records from his college days (which could shed light on whether he was registered as a U.S citizen) have never been released; 4) several lawsuits have been filed to obtain his records; some cases have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court; others have been dismissed for plaintiff "lack of standing".

Framers of the U.S. Constitution, to insure loyalty, required Presidents to be natural born citizens. Laws in effect at Obama's birth in 1961 specified that if a child was not born in the U.S. or its territories, at least one parent had to be an American citizen for five years after turning 14; Obama's mother was 18 at his birth, too young to confer his citizenship. Obama in his book states that he was born in Hawaii (a U.S. Territory in 1961), yet there is ample evidence that he was not - evidence that he was born in Kenya.

Critics of "birthers" ridicule the movement as conspiracy theories. One should ask, instead, about whether there is a conspiracy among Obama's administration, his adoring media, and politically correct politicians and judges, to stonewall the public by sitting on the story and reporting nothing about it. Until very recently the silence has been deafening!

Why won't Obama just release his true long form birth certificate and his college records for examination - so we can all see that this has just been a silly misunderstanding? Isn't that what a legitimate candidate and U.S. President would do?

The problem with not releasing these documents is that Obama is seen by growing numbers of Americans as hiding evidence that he is not Constitutionally eligible to be President. This feeling progresses to doubts that anything Obama says is true. Doubts are increasing about his loyalty to the U.S., based on his statements to, and treatment of our adversaries versus our traditional allies, and his apparent trashing of our Constitution and turning our system away from market-driven to socialism.

Enough talk about "birthers"! Let's see Obama's true long form birth certificate (if it exists) and his college transcripts. Obama, pick up your phone and make that happen.

I give credit to Walter Brinker TX for a comment on
this story http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/07/27/the-obama-...