Donald Trump is talking about Obama's birth certificate again today. I keep trying to figure out exactly what people mean by the phrase, "produce his birth certificate." Are they wanting our president to hold it up like a banner in a press conference, or something? Do they want a FOX News camera crew to follow him into his quarters and show him pulling out a document, while a federal agent watches him and then inspects it and declares it real? Do they want him to gather a select group of conservatives and have them accompany him back to Hawaii in a time machine to collect data?
I honestly don't get it. It's been online for over three years; it's in the government offices of Honolulu; it's been authenticated in writing, for public scrutiny, by the official there; the city's newspaper archives show a son being born to people with his parents' names on his birth date; other documents purported to show his birth was in Africa were proven to be forgeries. There's even a nurse, now elderly, who was in the hospital at the time he was born, and attests to being struck by his unusual name, talking about it at dinner that evening, and writing about it in a letter to her father, who wrote back saying it was both interesting and "lyrical" sounding.
The speculation that Obama hasn't "produced" the document because he'd be embarrassed that it lists him as either white or muslim is bizarre, because only parents' race is shown on birth certificates, and religion isn't listed at all. And the document on record looks just like all the other Honolulu birth certificates during that period, nothing weird or funky about it. The only thing that would be embarrassing to Obama would be the indignity of having to do any of the "producing" sort that, in the end, STILL wouldn't satisfy the cravings of individuals who are clearly being disingenuous in the first place.
IMO, it's so cowardly and pathetic to continually raise false issues just because you have nothing positive to put forward on your own behalf. They might as well be saying Obama hasn't sufficiently proven, to those whose lives depends on it, that he is not a cyborg posing as a humanoid for the purpose of infiltrating and destroying our country. I'm really surprised and disappointed that someone like Donald Trump would feel he has to jump on that broken down bandwagon. And his provision to the media of his own birth certificate obtained from the hospital where he was born, proudly (tauntingly) asserting that it only took him a couple of hours, is just silly. Anyone can get their unofficial 'mother's copy' of what was signed before they left the hospital; yet, there's not a word in the news about conservatives rejecting it, for any reason.
NOTE: A responder below (Morgan) brought up the matter of Obama having citizenship in three countries, which they believed should have made him ineligible to run for the office of president in the first place. My reply to that assertion appears below, for those who prefer to remain dissatisfied as long as possible.
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I'm afraid you've been misinformed. And since this matter was cleared up quite some time ago, I can only assume you're among the disingenuous sort I referred to, because you don't care if what you put forth is true or not. Following are the facts:
The Rocky Mountain News did in fact run an online article asserting that Barack Obama holds both American and Kenyan citizenship. The article was incorrect, and the paper removed the item from the article and ran a correction. The paper's editor, John Temple, formally apologized for the error in an Aug. 15, 2007, column. Neither the correction nor the apology has prevented the column from circulating across the Internet as part of the latest set of baseless rumors that Obama is ineligible to run for president.
There was a grain of truth to what the Rocky Mountain News reported, though understanding why requires a brief history lesson.
When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom's dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.'s children:
British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth.
In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC.
Obama's British citizenship was short-lived. On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya formally gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Chapter VI, Section 87 of the Kenyan Constitution specifies that:
1. Every person who, having been born in Kenya, is on 11th December, 1963 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963...
2. Every person who, having been born outside Kenya, is on 11th December, 1963 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall, if his father becomes, or would but for his death have become, a citizen of Kenya by virtue of subsection (1), become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963.
As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama's father automatically received Kenyan citizenship via subsection (1). So given that Obama qualified for citizen of the UKC status at birth and given that Obama's father became a Kenyan citizen via subsection (1), it follows that Obama did in fact have Kenyan citizenship after 1963. So The Rocky Mountain News was at least partially correct.
But the paper failed to note that the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya's Constitution specifies that at age 21, Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country will automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya within the ensuing two years' time. Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4, 1984.
THAT is the truth. Now, what will you do with it at this point? Will you pass on your newly acquired knowledge, or will you sit on it?