President-elect Barack Hussein Obama has until today to verify that he is in fact a natural-born citizen, according to www.obamacrimes.com, a Web site owned by Philip J. Berg.
It is clearly stated in Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. constitution that “no person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States.”
Berg has a substantial amount of evidence for his claim that Obama was not born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but rather that he was born in Momboso, Kenya. Berg’s site paid for a full-page ad in the Washington Times on Nov. 17 to lay out the accusation and the grounds for it.
First, Berg claims to have a tape of Obama’s paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, saying “I was in the delivery room in Kenya when he was born Aug. 4, 1961.”
The article goes on to say experts have called the scanned copy of Obama’s birth certificate that he presented forged. Berg was quoted as saying, “It’s clearly been altered,” which would invalidate the document. Also, at the time he was born, Hawaiian law allowed for people to register for the non-hospital short form certificate up to one year after the date of birth.
Thirdly, if Barack Obama did indeed attend school in Indonesia under the name of Barry Soetoro, he would have been required to be a citizen of Indonesia. During this time his citizenship was listed as Indonesian, his religion was listed as Islam, and his father was supposedly Lolo Soetoro. At this time no dual citizenship was available, and if he had been adopted by his stepfather he would have forfeited his American citizenship.
Ultimately the issue at hand is the U.S. Constitution, that single document that truly makes this country great. Without it, we as a nation are nothing, but when it is upheld as it should be and as our framers intended it to be, our country is truly great. There are very few requirements for becoming the president of these United States.
Supreme Court docket No. 08-570, viewable at origin.www.supremecourtus.gov, shows that a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed was filed Oct. 30, and the response is due today.
It is beyond comprehension why Obama has continued to fight these allegations, rather than simply producing the document for the whole world to see. Something must be fishy, as just getting it out in the open would have completely done away with the issue months ago.
If in fact Obama is found to not be a natural-born citizen, the Supreme Court will be forced to invalidate the election and another election will be held.
Mark Erbacher is a senior in political science. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.
Obama's citizenship question can easily be solved
Published: Monday, December 1, 2008
Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008
44 comments
Johnny T For KSU
Mark Erbacher, please tell me that KState isn't graduating people this stupid these days. Did you do ANY research on this or did you just want draft up something where you can throw in his middle name. Berg is a crackpot and the only thing he's proved is that anyone can sue anyone at any time in our great legal system. There is no way this piece should have been printed. It's the ignorant blathering of a fool at best. With such deep lines of thinking that the author showed in this piece he'll have no trouble at all putting together our orders at McDonald's.
KSU Alum
Too bad we are arguing over the citizenship of such an intelligent man. I wish we could have yanked the citizenship of the home-grown idiot we have had in office for the past 8 years.
please
The point is that you have no evidence. Nobody owes you any proof that Hawaiian officials weren't bribed just because you have imagined a scenario where it could have happened. It is a fallacious and meaningless argument. The problem is in your mind: you have convinced yourself for no good reason that Obama was not born in the US, and you now require unreasonable and extraordinary evidence to change your mind. Fortunately, that's not how the legal system works in this country.
Your name
to rick, I could BRIBE anyone with a few thousand and they would say WHATEVER i told them to say. The fact is, Obama really messed with the American people during this election. What about far-right wing reps that found out one day that they had suddenly made a $3 grand contribution to the Obama cause? It happened, and not just to a dozen or two. They suddenly found out one day that $3,000 dollars got donated tot he Obama Campaign and whats worse, is that the Obama campaign did not even try to deny it! they replied in the affirmative and thanked the people and, when asked if they could have the money back, blatantly refused. If you dont believe me, check it out.This article approaches a very vital point. If Obama can't even produce enough evidence to convince a left-wing life-long Dem that he is a natural-born citizen, He should be removed from office NOW and another election take place. Contrary to belief, the constitution does not say that only one election can take place every four years, only that Congress "may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States." Taken directly from a2s1 of the US Constitution
At least care enough to look
The legal aspect was completely misrepresented by this article. It is implied that Obama was required to respond to the accusations in Philip Berg's appeal to the Supreme Court last week and that he was somehow actively fighting that requirement. In reality, case 08-570 is Berg's last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court after he lost in both US District Court and the US Court of Appeals. A petition for writ of certiorari is a plea to the Supreme Court to hear a case that lower courts already decided. The writ of certiorari would have been the (overwhelmingly conservative) Supreme Court's response had it decided to hear the case, which it apparently did not (and thank goodness).
