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As President Barack Obama's detractors continue to look for reasons to declare he's unqualified for the job (most recently I saw signs that said, "Impeach Obama, We Don't Have Jobs," with a picture of him with a Hitler mustache), it's clear that many are grasping at straws.Though there are always significant reasons to criticize any standing president, including Obama, many of his detractors aren't critiquing his policies, but rather, they are attacking his person.
In an effort to quell some of the personal criticism about his citizenship in the United States, Hawaii lawmakers are moving closer to passing a measure allowing the state to ignore repeated requests for President Obama's birth certificate.
A conference committee unanimously voted Tuesday to advance the bill to final votes in the House and Senate.
The proposal allows state government agencies not to respond to follow-up requests for information if they determine that the subsequent request is duplicative or substantially similar to a previous request.
The bill is aimed at so-called "birthers," who claim Obama is ineligible to be president. They say he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn't meet a constitutional requirement for being president.
According to factcheck.org:
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. 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. 4,1982."
So it seems, the "birthers" need to find another cause.
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By: catrice on 4/22/2010 1:14PM
Why is the focus on his Kenyan father? Wasn't Obama's mother a U.S. citizen? If she was a U.S. citizen wouldn't her children born to her in a foreigm country be U.S. citizens as well?
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By: girlking on 4/22/2010 1:24PM
Yes and even if she wasn't an American citizen, the fact that he was born in the U.S. says he's a citizen. That's why some illegal immigrants have their children on American soil so the children are considered Americans with all the rights and privileges.
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By: Dana on 4/22/2010 9:26PM
Personally, I don't care about his birthplace. He has been elected and he's stated that he was born in Hawaii. No one is going to go to the white house to remove the brother so what's the point?
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By: blackbear72 on 4/22/2010 10:48PM
girlking, they have all the rights and privileges, except the right to run for the President of the US. How can a group of people, BV posters, be so wrong on soooo many things? Simple things! I would really like to know.
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By: hwill2000 on 4/23/2010 11:47PM
@blackbear
you are wrong again. yet you constantly feel the need to denigrate.
check yourself..."birther"
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By: blackbear72 on 4/22/2010 9:48PM
The article states "That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.'s children. 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. 4,1982."c If that statement is true it just proves he is not a natural born citizen, if he ever had Kenyan citizenship he is ineligible to be Pres, the fact that it expired is irrelevant.
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By: Duane on 4/22/2010 10:08PM
.. this is another attempt by the tea party movement reaching for straws to discredit the obvious..
..and the fact is this.. president Obama doesn't have to show his birth certificate to anyone who is not authorized to viewed it.. as in the vetted qualification process to be president..so these birthers are NOT intellectuals as they proclaim, just bigots, race baiter and haters..
..and if any president wasn't qualified to be president? Certainly, it was bush 43rd, who went to the supreme court to be selected as president because bush-43rd certainly didn't have the popular vote-Gore did..
..and furthemore to add insult to the american people's vote duly noted(the voters were right)..Bush-43rd left this nation in a economic holocaust as a result- NOT being qualified to legislate this nation on all fronts.. from the members of his administration- to the theives on wall street who were his croonies.. who he throw under the bus..I can't wait for those who were victim to bush-43rd cronyism to write their books..which will in history- leave his legacy known to be moreso negative than positive.
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By: sylvan on 4/22/2010 10:22PM
I have one thing to say, some of these people that requesting Mr. Abama birth place, should be check also because most of the early people that come to this country was not, I repeat was not born in the u.s. and they brought children with them, and they are so many people in this country is illegal and not born hear, and have very good jobs, so please leave Mr. Abama alone, all of the tea party people, the right wing, and the other so call people out there need to be check.
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By: Thetruthandthelight on 4/23/2010 1:20PM
Blackbear please read the constitution before you speak out of line.
Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as President of the United States:
“ 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 thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. ”
The grandfather provision of the "natural born Citizen" clause provides an exception to the "natural born" requirement for those persons who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. The term Natural Born Citizen had been used as early as 1777 in a letter from Thomas Jefferson[1], in his role as correspondent for a committee of the Continental Congress, to American ambassadors in Europe.
Additionally, the Twelfth Amendment states that: "[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." The Fourteenth Amendment provides that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
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He was born in Hawaii. Do you think a republican governor of this state would lie for Obama? Get it together!
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By: Jim Asch on 4/23/2010 3:22PM
Impeach Obama. Save America. Remember in November.
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