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Boehner Dismisses Birthers: Hawaii‘s Word is ’Good Enough for Me’
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“The state of Hawaii has said President Obama was born there,” Speaker John Boehner told NBC News’ Brian Williams Thursday in the first interview since accepting the House gavel. “That’s good enough for me.”
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Comments (175)
Eagle in NYC
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:38amBoehner has it completely backwards. It isn‘t up to the PEOPLE to guess why he’s hiding his birth certificate. It’s up to HIM to release it. Why is he hiding it?
Report Post »quarter horseman
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:23amthanks ***** thats the first dumb statment from the new leader, lets just trust everyone’s words worked out great with Obama too.
Report Post »ilikai
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:16amBoehner just went down in my book, dodging this. WHY HAS OBAMANATION SPENT OVER 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO FIGHT SHOWING HIS LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE? That just says to me that he is hiding something.
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:23amIf the governor wanted to get to the bottom of this issue just to demonstrate we’re just a bunch of kooks, he can pick up the red phone and place a call to the Hawaii Department of Records and release a copy of Obama-lama-ding-dong’s Hawaii birth certificate. Abercrombie saw him lying in the manger afterall.
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:12amI don’t know what his story is, but the fact that it‘s muddying his political waters in this way is merely one more reason why he won’t get a second term, and we can all rest easy on that fact.
Report Post »daddy warbucks
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:09am“WE NEED TO VOTE FOR THE BILL TO FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT”
Same stupidity as not getting proof of Obama-bin lyin’s birth information
Boehner doesn’t seem to understand the seriousness of this issue (I just turned on the toaster)
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:02am@WhiteTeaParty
“Question with boldness”: Glenn Beck
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:10amEnough already!!! The President is a US citizen. Two years are gone. Two years to go. Then, hopefully, it won’t matter anymore.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:54pmIt does matter. Our country will not be free anymore. In fact the 111th congress already destroyed our constitution. I just received a letter in the mail informing me that for the sake of the environment EVERY single home MUST be entered and physically examined and inspected to ensure it complies with EPA standards. This is illegal entry, and search without just cause. The letter also states that if you don’t comply you are guilty and are obligated to prove you are innocent thru inspection.
So… illegal search and seizure, inspection without just cause and guilty and need to prove you are innoncent. This is no longer the land of the free. The question remains on whether it is the home of the Brave.
Report Post »Carolyn
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:29am@ANTIFA – I was under the impression that the rumor came out of the Hillary campaign, which should be enough to make the topic suspect to begin with, but I think most everyone on here would have to admit none of us has much more than “who you gonna believe” to go on. This answer makes sense to me.
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:23amObama is a progressive—-GET IT????
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:22amBoehner is a progressive—GET IT?
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:21amI had to have birth certificate, so did all of my ancestors. This guy has to say that because he, like all of them, have to! It’s all a joke. There is so much more that these people wont even talk about.
Report Post »And the stuff they wont talk about, is what you really have to worry about. See it for yourself.
You tube FEMA camps and guillotines. This is a big time distraction. Watch the other hand!
Look for yourselves people.
For the Love of God, for the love of your country, and for your own life.
WISEPENNY
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:18amIt’s quite apparent, now, we may be pronouncing Boehner’s name incorrectly. It’s obvious that there will not be another Presidential election, Birth certificate my ass! Someone better get a DNA sample. That could reveal more than we can handle, though.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:03amNo matter what was stated in the interview, if someone files a formal complaint for impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee has to deal w it….and the Speaker of the House gets involved by having take a vote on it.
TWO UNDISPUTABLE OFFENSES FOR IMPEACHMENT:
1) no sitting US President can be involved w any governing authority that would affect the sovereignty of the USA = crime against the US Constitution for obama/soetoro to be on the Security Council of the United Nations;
2) US taxpayer money cannot be used to form another government = usurper obama/soetoro gave $29 million of US taxpayer money to finance the new Constitution for Kenya.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:21amLast paragraph of section 9 of the constitution: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize money from a socialist country (it is awarded by the government NOT the prize committee) not for something he did, but as an incentive for what he was yet to do…. even he admitted that. He accepted money from a “foreign State”. Even if he donated it… you can not tell me that it was not without political motive…. native americans, latino, african americans. The big question is…. Did Congress actually officially APPROVE him taking the money through a vote of Congress. If not, he is in violation of Section 9 of the Constitution. Section 9 specifically gives the Legislative Branch of Government that authority.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:40amSTAYTHECOURSE and FINA BISCOTTI, the both of you make excellent points, and Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro has broken so many laws that an impeachment trial seems inevitable unless the House is too afraid to touch the issue as Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and his minions will turn it around to be a race war with the race card thrown at the Republican candidates demanding the impeachment. Barry has done this before when he went after Hillary during the Primaries, so there’s no doubt that he would play it it again, as he will anyways when the 2012 election campaign comes into play, no matter who the Republican candidate happens to be.
Report Post »He’s the least worthy President that has ever been elected, not only that by appointing JP Morgan’s William Daley, he has shown that he hasn’t got the goods, and that the real President of the United States of America right now are JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, the BofA and the FED, the Banksters.
Obama will now do no more than hit the golf course and the basketball courts as he travels from stage to stage with TelePrompTers in tow, making slick smooth talk like the smooth operator long legged Mack Daddy Pimp that he is, and he will sell his con game to the country like a rapper on the hustle for a contract just to get elected again in 2012. He and this farce must be stopped.
staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:17amWhile there are a large number of issues on which mr. obama can be impeached… the most important one is the one on a question of eligibility as defined by the Constitution. If from, as they say, “day one” he was not eligible to be president, then EVERY SINGLE ACT he did is null and void. That means none of the judges that he placed in power can hear his case. If he is brought up on other charges and not the eligibilty issue, then those very same judges are able to hear his case and decide on it. That is why it is absolutely critical that the issue be one of eligibility for office not on where he was born but on the fact that his father was not a citizen.
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:26pm@FINA BISCOTTI,
1) Obama isn’t the first President involved with the UN. I think you may have a hard time making that stick.
2) Bush may have had a thing or two to do with the creation of the Iraqi and Afghani constitutions and governments. Any objections there?
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:56amBy saying that “Hawaii‘s word is ’Good Enough For Me’, Speaker John Boehner is laying the Obama lie or non disclosure of proof of birth, at the feet of the State of Hawaii, and not where it should be left where it truly belongs which is at the doorstep and feet of Barack Hussein Obama himself.
Report Post »By redirecting the responsibility for proving Obama’s place of birth and questionable position with regards to the Presidency without any factual proof thereof, to base his claims to entitlement as an American worthy of being the President, Speaker John Boehner has taken the cowards way out of really having to address and face this question head on. By doing so, he shifts the responsibility from himself to the State of Hawaii, a shifty move, making Boehner a shifty guy and as untrustworthy as Obama himself. How sad that this Republican Party is afraid to call the President out on this issue and give him a pass. You would’ve thought that by now, they would be passing laws to make sure that in the next election and all elections after that, anyone running for the position of the President of the United States would therefore have to publicly declare that they are able as an American to be elected to office as the President and they are able to produce and verify publicly their birth certificate by showing it to Congress and the media to prove and verify it’s validity beyond a shadow of doubt. Speaker John Boehner has just thrown that opportunity away as his first foolish act as Speaker of the House. He hurts all Americans who still have deeply embedded concerns for their country and who’s running it. Speaker John Boehner should learn how to think before he makes wise.
staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:11amThe question put to Boehner was very carefully crafted. It did not raise the question that was raised by the “heckler”. The question put to him was a question of whether Boehner thought Obama was a “citizen”. While there might be some grey area that is difficult to prove one way or another with respect to being a citizen…. there is absolutely no doubt to the question of whether or not he is a “natural born” citizen. Boehner was tricked by the question…. and he fell into their trap. Be forewarned … that is what they will be doing. That IS why the governor of Hawaii recently made issue of the birth certificate. They want to confuse the issue away from the eligibility clause requiring both parents to be American citizens. They are making any and all questions of eligibility “birther” questions. Americans need to demand impeachment of Obama based on the fact that his father was not an American citizen…. pure and simple. Then… all laws he signed into law… all appointments (judges and others)… all czars and ALL regulations would be null and void. Even Hillary would no longer be a valid Secretary of State. They planned it all but they missed that one clause in the constitution with respect to Obama…. and they are very afraid of that clause. Obama is not a legal president.
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:24pm@StayTheCourse. I‘m glad that we’ve been able to correct you on your belief that ‘Natural Born Citizen’ requires the father to be American too. You can now focus your attention onto other issues now.
You can thank us later.
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:33pm@staythecourse
You are right on target, I encourage you to… well, stay the course!
@ImHungry
It‘s a bit condescending to presume you’ve corrected anyone with your continued spurious misinformation, isn’t it? Clearly you would like it a great deal if others would focus their attention onto other issues now. What the democratic progressive socialists fail to realize is that the Constitution matters, whether they like it or not.
We the people vote! Despite the mass firings in the House, it appears, based on Boehner’s pitiful failure to honor his oath to the Constitution, including Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 requiring the President to be a “natural born citizen” meaning born on U.S. soil of TWO citizen parents, that Boehner and the House have not gotten the message that they will be voted out unless they conform to the Constitution!
So once again if you’re really hungry for the truth and not posting as a subversive obamabot, try enlightening yourself with an introduction to the facts, please.
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
Report Post »By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
grannyjojo
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:54amPersonally, I think there has been so many questions raised that there SHOULD be an inquiry to settle the matter once and for all. From what I’ve heard there is enough doubt that this should be put to rest IMMEDIATELY. WE, the PEOPLE deserve a straight answer. We’re not children and we do NOT take people at their word in matters such as this. PROVE it President Obama. WE, the PEOPLE DEMAND to be SHOWN the proof.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:46amBorn in Hawaii is insufficient. His mother and his father would both have had to be American citizens at the time of his birth for him to be qualified to be President. His father was a Kenyan Brit. Obama is not qualified and should be removed from office and all his acts as President annulled.
Impeach.
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:13amYou should really read up further.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:20amShows how little you know about “natural born citizen”. Doesn’t matter where his parents were born.
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:59pm@DCWU
You are exactly correct.
@BigSky
Despite your obvious intention to misinform, you may find it surprising that your statement could possibly be construed to be correct, if and only if, it is factually clarified. To be a natural born citizen, it doesn’t matter where one parents were born, provided that they each legally become a naturalized U.S. citizen before the birth of their child on U.S. soil.
@iamhungry
Again, unless you are posting here to purposefully disseminate subversive misinformation, you are the one who should read up further.
As a starting point, try this very informative and credible summary of the facts.
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
Report Post »By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
patriotmcgee
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:34amYep. even if he was born in Hawaii, it doesn‘t mean he’s eligible. Nobody in government wants to touch this issue, though.
Sadly, I think we’re going to get a lot of lip service to following the constitution out of this congress.
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:26am@RICKDEES Which parts did they skip over? The Slave Clause and the Abortion Clause?
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:23amIt was/is not a question of whether or not Obama is a citizen. It is a matter of fact that Obama is not eligible to be President because one of his parents was not a US citizen. He may have been born in Hawaii, but he is not a “natural born” citizen! There is a big and critical difference! The left will try to identify the two as one and the same issues. They are not!
Report Post »Non_Probate_Asset
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:30am“He may have been born in Hawaii, but he is not a “natural born” citizen!”
Ok, I know the argument you are citing here. But do me a favor and read the above sentence two or three times, and you might just realize how absolutely insane you sound when you say it.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:37amNon Probate Ass….. do some investigations and look up what a natural born citizen means. There is a definite definition regarding the meaning of “natural born citizen”. It DOES NOT MEAN being born in this country. Your statement shows your ignorance!
(and since we don’t know the details of his birth… maybe it wasn’t a “natural birth”…. perhaps it was a c-section….)
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:13amYou should really read up further. The Supreme Court has mentioned this several times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:34pm@iamhungry
Wikipedia has no authoritative academic oversight, allows anyone to post whatever they wish and is just as politically biased as snopes or factcheck. Those who value their credibility should refrain form using such sites as a reference, if they wish to be taken seriously.
Apparently you are not just hungry but starving for facts. Indeed, unless you are posting here to purposefully disseminate subversive misinformation, you are the one who should read up further.
As a starting point, try this very informative and credible summary of the facts.
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
Report Post »By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
FreeIndeed
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:23amyup he’s a doubt like the rest of us. I think we are all ready for this issue to be resolved and put to rest!!!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:20amIt was not about whether he was an American citizen. It was that he was/is not a natural born citizen. THAT IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. Obama may be born in Hawaii, but he does not satisfy the requirement because he only has one parent who was a citizen of this country. T
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:40amThen why does his grandma swear up and down she was right there in the hut when his white momma pushed him out in Kenya? The whole business is stupid. He’s ineligible all over the place. If grandma is lying – prove it! Where’s the happy mommy and baby hospital picture? The cute little footprint card? Birth certificate? How hard would it be – IF he were telling the truth?
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:43amSo why is it important to the birthers to see his birth certificate, a mute point. We all know his father was not a U.S. citizen, so how did Obama become president if he is not a natural born citizen if that is truly the requirement? Obviously being natural born is not a requirement. You can’t tell me that constitutional scholars and powerful attorneys would have missed the obvious. Do you really think the Clinton machine would have missed it?
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:51amTruthlover… you are so right! And this is the administration that promised “transparency”. It would indeed be nice if his school records were also opened… and it would be nice to see who paid for his Harvard education… and what that paper was that got him selected and then elected by popular vote into the position of President of the Harvard Law Review. And by the way…. is that Viet Dinh sitting almost next to Obama in this picture from the New York Times… You know, Viet Dinh, the architect of the Patriot Act. The same Viet Dinh who also was on the Harvard Law Review at about the same time that Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review.
So many questions… so much secrecy!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:53amopps… forgot to put the web site of Obama as president of the harvard law review…
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:18amAmerican law is based on English Common Law, not Swiss Law. The Supreme Court has ruled on this several time including United States v. Wong Kim Ark and Perkins v. Elg.
In short, you are wrong.
Report Post »justawhoaman
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:26amThere are three forms of citizenship: natural born citizen, citizen, and naturalized citizen. Kim Wong Ark was about citizenship… not natural born citizenship. While the “idiom” natural born citizen has been fairly well understood for 223 years, we are faced with a lack of definition, one that progressives can not weasel their little doublespeak around. There is currently a challenge to the courts to finally put that definition to rest: USDC Western OK CIV-10-1345 (SL Craig). Once that has been answered, we can get down to “brass tacks”. The truth is that neither Obama nor McLame were eligible in the last election (Senate amendment or not)… we have been taken on a wild ride to ruin, my friends. It is up to those who believe in the Constitution to see this through and take the country back.
Report Post »justawhoaman
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:35amOh, yes; I forgot to add one thing. Dual citizen is not a form of citizenship recognized in this country… Since Mr. Soetoro’s mother was under age (by merely weeks), she could not confer citizenship. This is why it is so critical that Mr. Soetoro was born in Hawaii; ie to confer citizenship. Because his father was a British subject (as Kenya was a colony at the time), Mr. Soetoro was then, based upon English Common Law, the citizen of his father’s country: Kenya.
Not too difficult to understand… unless that isn’t the answer you want to hear.
Of course, his entire history could be a complete fabrication… he could be the child of completely different parents… but who is to know. All we know is that there is a complete cover up.
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:14amSince the Constitution does not specify what the requirements are to be a “citizen” or a “natural born citizen”, the majority in United States v. Wong Kim Ark adopted the common law of England:
The court ruled:
“It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.”
As you can see, the court did, in fact, define what ‘natural born citizen’ means.
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:06pm@iamhungry
My, but you do get around don’t you? Please stop spreading misinformation. Begone, foul Obot. Your very name screams treason and ignorance.
Either you don‘t want to or you can’t handle the truth!
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
Report Post »By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
Govtnitwit
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:10amThis proves the reading of the Constitution was a joke because Boehner has no clue what the term “natural born citizen” means.
Vattel’s book on the Law of Nations states:
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
Since his father was not a citizen of the U.S., Obama is not a natural born citizen. Thus, he is ineligible to be the President of these United States.
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:18amWell Said!
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:17amYou failed to include this part of de Vattel’s text:
“…there are states, as, for instance, England, where the single circumstance of being born in the country naturalises the children of a foreigner.”
American law is based on English Common Law, not Swiss Law. The Supreme Court has ruled on this several time including United States v. Wong Kim Ark and Perkins v. Elg.
In short, you are wrong.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:24amThat’s not what the Supreme Court decided the only time they ruled on the issue.
It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.
United Staes v Wong Kim Ark 1898
The losing side quoted the same passage as you in their dissent, but they lost. That was a Supreme Court decision and unless and until it is reversed by another Supreme Court decision the law of the land is that you don’t even have to have one citizen parent to be a natural born citizen.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:02pmTrue, Obama‘s father wasn’t a US citizen, but his mother indisputably was.
Vattel wrote in the 18th century, and so naturally used the term “fathers,“ but surely today you would want to include ”mothers” as well?
Just askin’
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:55pm@Imhungry
Barack Hussein Obama II
De Facto Forty-Fourth President, 2009 – present
Not Natural Born, Not Eligible, Usurper
Birth Disputed: Mombassa, Kenya or Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961
Father: Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., Birth: Kanyadhiang village, Rachuonyo District, Kenya, 1936
Mother: Ann Dunham Soetoro, Birth: Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, November 29, 1942
Like Chester Arthur, he has only one U.S. citizen parent. Therefore Barack Hussein Obama II is not a natural born citizen.
Additional eligibility disqualification due to British citizenship pursuant to British Nationality Act of 1948.
Refuses to release birth certificate, medical, adoption, school or passport records.
Possibly also holds Indonesian Citizenship.
As to the meaning of a natural born citizen. Historical evidence and a careful logical interpretation of the Constitution, compel many to conclude that a natural born citizen is proven to mean “born in the country of citizen parents.” As the historical record reveals, Chester Arthur’s fraud remained hidden until only recently, therefore the issue of a usurper in the While House has never before arisen in a timely manner. Until Obama, the courts have never had a reason to take up the matter of presidential eligibility as a natural born citizen, and have so far declined to honor their duty to do so now.
One can ignore the eligibility issue as you would have them do, and in so doing ignore the Constitution, or one could enlighten themselves with a look at a very informative and credible summary of the facts. Your choice.
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
Now that they are seated, is Congress satisfied to unwisely patronize the very citizens who elected them for their patriotic campaign promises to honor the Constitution, or will they do their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution?
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:48amWould someone please tell Speaker Boehner that *native* born and *natural* born are NOT the same thing? NO ONE with DUAL CITIZENSHIP is a natural-born citizen!
The LEAST the House can do is investigate the court martial of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin!!! For God’s sake! Lakin sacrificed his career, pension, rank, was dishonorably discharged, and is spending six months in solitary confinement at Leavenworth Prison. DO SOMETHING, BOEHNER!!!
Report Post »VoteLibertarian
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:03amAgreed. Maybe one of the twelve members mentioned will have the gravitas to look into the Terry Lakin situation. He is a hero to me. It seems to me that he had cause to request documentation from President Obama to make sure that his orders were lawful. If the President has nothing to hide, then he is letting a good man rot in prison for no reason.
Report Post »rickdees
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:16amAgreed. He probably should have stuck around for the reading of the Constitution.
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:22am@ rickdees
That whole thing was a joke. They skipped over parts. Didn’t even read the whole thing.
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:35amBoehner is who we’re stuck with huh? Does he think all his crying makes him seem more conservative? Because it doesn’t. He‘s a RINO through and through and he can’t fool me. God help us – Republicans can’t seem to get anything right. Our luck they’ll pick McCain again in 2012.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:17am@VoteLibertarian
“If the President has nothing to hide, then he is letting a good man rot in prison for no reason.”
And don‘t try to convince me that the pudative president didn’t know about it, either! Some pudative Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces he is, to punish a surgeon who simply asked Obama to prove he was genuine, which, of course, everybody knows he’s not. That military judge is just as guilty of perpetrating a fraud on the American people.
IU’m wondering if a civil court can take a similar case for him, now that he has suffered material harm by the military judge. He certainly has “standing” now!
Report Post »tbudde
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:58amI used to think Boehner cried because he had passion. Starting to think now that maybe it’s because he is missing a couple of his man parts.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:51amMost clearly agree I wish the speaker would have corrected the leftist talking head and pointed out the term used in the Constitution is “natural born citizen” the complaint ha snothing to do with OBama possibly being an American -his actions and utterances these first two years and more suggest he is Not an American. Not native born -nor as the Constitution demands Natural born Citizen. It does not Matter if he was born in Hawaii -and there seems credible evidence he was not – but the Constitutional question is is he a natural born citizen and the lamestream media ignores that Constitutional question.
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:48amJohn Boehner is lying. He is seen rubbing his thumbs in the beginning which can be a self comforting gesture. Then before he says “that good enough for me” he shakes his head no before nodding yes, the body language suggests that his statement is false. Just my two cents.
Report Post »tbudde
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:54amI agree. Anyone who isn‘t insisting on solid proof is either afraid of being labeled as a birther wacko or they are a right wing liberal who doesn’t have any respect for the constitution. Even Glenn, who is typically not afraid of anything is afraid of being labeled a birther wacko.
Report Post »Reagan/DeMint.disciple
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:42am@WALKOFFAPIER1966, ANYONE that sides with this president, under ANY circumstances, is a pure racist..That’s right, I said it..Read it, print it and repeat it.. You are a racist against the people of this nation.. Something strikes me funny with Boehner , I’m not so sure about this guy.. maybe he has another plan. Remains to be seen..
Report Post »phealy
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:43amJohn Boehner is part of the establishment – he is afraid to rock the boat. This BOGUS POTUS is the one who needs to put this ridiculous issue to rest by releasing his (non-existent) birth certificate. I hope that Ron Paul, now encouraged by the new house Republicans will bring the issue to the fore again.
Report Post »Hollow
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:25amJohn Boehner might be afraid of being called a racist.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:29am“The state of Hawaii has said President Obama was born there,” Speaker John Boehner told NBC News’ Brian Williams Thursday in the first interview since accepting the House gavel. “That’s good enough for me.”
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but it wasn’t good enough for John McCain, right ?
Report Post »He had to actually show his documents although everything about his last 3 generations is a matter of public record ?
walkwithme1966
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:33amOk, you Tea Partiers are so wrong on this one. Hawaii has released the only document that they give to any citizen requesting it. It is all over the internet. Obama was born in Hawaii and that makes him a citizen. Do you really think that if this were not true, that Hilliary Clinton’s detectives would not have found proof when they were in the primary season. No – so if its good enough for Hilliary, it is good enough for me and you Birthers need to find another conspiracy theory to worry about. http://wp.me/pYLB7-uT
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:41am…….that Hilliary Clinton’s detectives would not have found proof …….
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Hahahahahahaahhhaaaa
Report Post »Hillary Clinton has detectives ?
really ?
Did they know that Bill was getting BJs in WH and AR hotels BEFORE he actually confessed on National TV ?
CatB
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:45amWrong .. I have seen a Hawaiian birth certificate from the same year BO was born and it is not the same. My friend’s is the real thing. How about Barry Soetoro … passport? name change? numerous Social Security numbers … the one he is using is from a state he never lived in … who is this man?
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:30amJohn Boehner, McConnell and the other half of Bushs Progressive Socialist RINOs will hit door next.
VIVA LA TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:38amI have had to provide my birth certificate to prove I was born in the U.S. Why is the POTUS exempt from doing so? How did he prove who he was when getting a drivers license?
Report Post »Non_Probate_Asset
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:17amWow. The fact that you have not realized that you answered your own question is truly astounding. Isn‘t the fact that the President has a driver’s license just further proof that birthers are plain nuts?
Report Post »Hollow
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:21amObama may be politically connected so he didn’t have to show his birth certificate to get his drivers license.
Report Post »Non_Probate_Asset
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:24am@ Hollow
You’re probably right. I forgot that President Obama has known since the day he was born that he would be president. God knows I knew since the day I was born what I would be doing at the age of 49.
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:33am@non_probate whatever – How ignorant. Obama could show any type of birth certificate to get a driver’s license, that’s not the point.
What is the status of his citizenship? That is the point. Natural born, or naturalized? There IS a difference and it DOES matter.
I don‘t see why it’s such a big deal – just show the document and put all this crap to rest. But no. He refuses and goes to ridiculous lengths to do so. And WE’RE the crazy ones? He who has nothing to hide, hides nothing.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:35amHow did he prove who he was when getting a drivers license?
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Remember Meg Whitman’s maid ?
Report Post »She too has a driver’s license .
Even Obama’s auntie has some form of ID, which she has used to mooch off US taxpayers .
WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:40amKeep it up Birthers, I love you.
Birthers are associated with the Tea Party and the Tea party is associated with Racist.
The whole country see’s you all as bunch of whack jobs.
Keep it up.
RobertCA
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:53am@ NON_PROBATE_ASSET
Anyone can get a drivers license , born in the US or not
Report Post »ANTIFA
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:47amYou know, if Obama really wasn’t an eligible citizen, don’t you think Hillary Clinton would have been all over that?
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:49amObama/soetoro possibly acquired a drivers license…….the same way……any illegal alien acquires one…….through the help of organizations such as ACORN and other far left loons…..or corrupt government officials accepting payoffs…..manipulating documents or selling documents.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:31amdidn’t I read somewhere that the “state” of Hawaii has the original document and that the one we’ve seen on the internet…etc…is a copy?…someone help me out here..I know with myself and my children, the hospital gave me a certificate but then I had to send for the “real” one…the one from the hospital is not valid…so is this where all the confusion lies…
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:20amHe is just one of those left over Progressive Socialist RINO Bush boys. We put in some new this time and next time McConnell and et al must go to purge the genepool of fools
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:24am@Non_Probate_Asset Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:17am
Report Post »You idiot! Any illegal can get a false DL or any other document. Just twist away we have the correct answers drop by anytime idiot…
NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:27am@WhiteTeaParty Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:40am
are you mad? hahahahah
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:42amBlaze, please stop with the Birth Cirtificate stories, you just stir up the whack jobs on the LEFT with it…well along with the tin foil hat Jesse Ventura loving crowd…
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:03amOne can ignore the eligibility issue and in so doing ignore the Constitution, or one could take a look at a very informative and credible summary of the facts. Your choice.
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
Is Congress patronizing the patriotism of citizens who elected them or will they enforce the Constitution?
Report Post »tbudde
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:48amThere are a lot of facts that shed doubt on him being born in the U.S. Too many not to require absolute proof, in my opinion. Even Glenn, who is typically not afraid of anything is afraid to show the slightest doubt because he fears the labeling of a “wacko birther”. With everything I’ve seen regarding his citizenship and his fight to keep his records hidden, I’d say I am 60 – 70 % sure he is not an American. One thing I am 100% clear on is that he hates America!
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:17amWe got bigger things to worry about and this ain’t one of them.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:21amThe longer Barack Obama hires his team of tax-paid lawyers to prevent him from having to show his long-form birth certificate, the more suspicious it becomes… Obama could have cleared this issue up years ago.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:42amVery diplomatic! Old saying, “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.“ I am not a ”truther” but the truth will eventually come out, grades and all. There will be money to be made by someone after Obama leaves office in 2012.
Report Post »panther440
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:13amEveryone knows Blue “sanctuary” states routinely issue illegals drivers licenses so as to get them in the door of the polling stations on election day.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:16amIf he has a drivers license in Illinois, we all know that if you are politically connected with the scum in Chicago you own the drivers license bureau and would not even have to personally appear to get a license. If you are policically connected in Chicago everyone is your underling!
Report Post »Jamestownrd
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:39amThis is boehners decision to make !..its the law…perhaps boehner shows us his respect for the law….we need to see rinos for who they are.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:52amDon’t expect anything from the *****, he is in charge for a
Report Post »reason.
Left Right Paradigm, that means both sides work for the same power
The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups[16]
I can even use CIA wikipedia links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
goodnessme
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:59amFor me, it isn‘t only that O’bama hasn’t shown us his birth certificate, rather his ‘certificate of live birth’, but it is that he is hiding anything. Our opaque president is anything but transparent.
Report Post »goodnessme
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:16amI think the Boehner is choosing his battles. This one may not be the best one to choose first. I do think, however, that as a people, we ought to demand full disclosure. I am 65 and had to produce a birth certificate to renew my driver’s license this past year. When they saw that my name was spelled slightly differently on that document, I had to change my ‘certificate of live birth’ with the state health department or change the way I spell my name. Why so sticky with the populace, and so loose with the chief executive of our country? Shouldn’t we know all there is to know about him?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:22am@Non_Probate_Asset,
Just thought you would like to know, Illinois is one of a few states who will give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants with birth certificates from foreign nations. You do not need to be an American citizen to obtain a drivers license from Illinois. Makes you wonder more doesn’t it?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:06amanything can be faked
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/06/18/57461/us-says-134bn-treasury-bonds-seized-in-italy-are-fake-or-are-they/
just ask your wives
Report Post »Reagan/DeMint.disciple
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:27am@TRUTHLOVER, Exactly,, especially BEFORE 9/11 happened, things we far more lax…
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:30amWho saw his driver’s license?
Report Post »Dale
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:44amA driver’s license in Chicago, are you kidding?
Report Post »Sevens
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:32amBirthers are nuts? omg who do you think you are? The only ones that are nuts are those who refuse to look at the facts or those who are in denial of the truth!!!! For petes sake the man has ‘REFUSED“ to present his true ”LONG FORM BIRTH CERT” which is the true attest to where he was born and by what witness’s were present etc. You ignorant slobs who are by your ignorance are allowing a person to be president without regard for the Constitution. HERES ANOTHER QUESTION FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER IGNORE THE TRUTH. ” WHY DOES OBAMA HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FROM CONN. AND NOT FROM HIS ACTUAL PLACE OF BIRTH”? OBAMA WAS NEVER LIVING IN CONN. IN FACT HE USED THAT NUMBER IN HAWAII WHERE HE WORKED AT BASKIN ROBBINS.
Report Post »Mr. Speaker I have lost respect for you today. This is a matter of National Security and you have abrogatted your duty as speaker right off the bat.
We all know why no one wants to touch this its becase of “POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS DUE TO RACE”. One top official that I know told me so. They are afraid of the uprising etc. Their hope is to elect him out and that is that.
Birthers are not stupid/nuts because someother idiots say so. Grow the heck up and grow a set and realize that Obama is a Usurper and should not be allowed to continue the fraud that he and some in his circle are commiting. In my opinion and until “OBAMA” releases “HIS” records I consider him a traitor not worthy of the American peoples “TRUST” !!!!!!!!
PubliusPencilman
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:39amLet just face facts here. If Obama was a white guy no one would be calling for his birth certificate. It’s racist bullcrap, plain and simple.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:01pmDoes Obama have a driver’s license? In which state? Obama said in his book that his birth certificate was among his papers (in his possession). Let him show it, and shut everyone up. Let’s see his college records, and find out if he was a dummy or got good grades. Is he ashamed of them?
Report Post »What’s with all the sealed records? What doesn’t he want us to see?
Dandylyon
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:45pmWhat else was this sad sack drunk going to say?????????
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:24pmI wouldn’t consider myself a birther, but I think it’s silly to suggest that his race has anything to do with people asking for his birth certificate. I seem to recall people asking for McCain’s when he ran. But then I also remember him actually presenting it. But I could be wrong, this isn‘t something I’ve looked into in any depth.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 5:30pmSevens,
Thank you for your comment. I find your question very logical and they deserve real answers.
Report Post »Kookaburra
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 2:12pmDitto. How many states have a point system of identification to prove themselves even if they’ve already been driving for decades? But, Nobama is exempt from everything. He assured himself of that when he enacted an Executive Order as his first order of business the very first day after he was illegally inaugurated–which E.O. sealed ALL his personal, medical, driving, educational, voting, birth, records, etc. Boehner is a sellout. I used to respect him. This is just more proof positive you cannot trust any incumbent or any Rep or Dem. Thus the reason they keep the 2-party system, just to make Americans believe they have a choice in the election process, like one is the good guy and the other is the bad guy. They are all freemasons! Period. Secret Societans stick together no matter what. Let’s see Boehner and his cronies prove themselves to the contrary. So far John-Boy, you are a traitor!
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