Glenn Beck versus the Birthers

Newspaper reporter: Number 184 and falling

Tonight in Copley Square: WGBH and its discontents

1 Comments

• forseti said:

  Maybe Brown will look into Obama's natural born citizen status.  After all, the United States Supreme Court on the first paragraph of their own website makes the following promise to the American People - “As the final arbiter of the law, the Court is charged with ensuring the American people the promise of equal justice under law and, thereby, also functions as guardian and interpreter of the Constitution.”  To date, the United States Supreme Court has failed to do anything in furtherance of the search for the truth about Obama's natural born citizen status.

  Why does this matter?  Mr. Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. As his only evidence that he meets the Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a President be a natural born citizen, he produced a document called a "Certification of Live Birth," which he posted on his website under the title: "Barack Obama's Official Birth Certificate."  

  At first blush, it is case closed. A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that Mr. Obama failed to point out on his website that his posted "Official Birth Certificate," as he called it, is actually a 2007 computer-generated, laser-printed summary document of his 1961 vital record(s) on file with the Hawaii State Department of Health. What we do not know, however, is what 1961 vital record the Certification of Live Birth is summarizing.

  In 1961 there were at least six different procedures available to obtain a vital record (birth certificate) that the Certification of Live Birth could be summarizing.  Each one had a different degree of reliability and trustworthiness, ranging from credible to ones fraught with the potential for fraud.  Until we examine which document is being summarized, Obama's Certification of Live Birth  is not worth the paper it is printed on.

  Now here is why it is important for the President to be a natural born citizen:

  The President of the United States is one of the three branches of government.  He is the Executive branch. The nation speaks to all people through one voice, the President's.  The President can make treaties, grant pardons, sign and veto legislation, appoint a Cabinet, as well as Supreme Court Justices.  In addition to these duties, the President knows the nation's most important and secure secrets, and as the Commander in Chief of the military, has the military's nuclear launch codes at the ready, and who can arguably, either take steps to weaken the nation, or even destroy it.  In the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, "The president of the United States now for 50 years is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States.  He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen.  He doesn't have to check with anybody.  He doesn't have to call the Congress.  He doesn't have to check with the courts.  He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in."  Copied with permission from //birther.com .

  January 20, 2010 1:13 PM

Leave a Comment