The Obama Citizenship Scandal Continues

by Jeff Davis

Apparently the White House is still nervous over the Obama birth certificate scandal. The Republicans may soon take control of Congress, given the abysmal approval rating of Congress and the ongoing Depression. This could be the biggest landslide against an incumbent party ever, and the Democrats are more than a little bit nervous about it. Fearing a Republican takeover, some Democrats are desperately trying to convince people that Obama really is a citizen, but without that pesky birth certificate, their arguments ring hollow.

The ultra-liberal Politico.com blog reports: “Here’s something new for the birthers to chew over: President Barack Obama’s passport. Says he was born in Hawaii! But the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, so the mystery continues. Now, it’s his official passport, which means it’s new, so the true believers will not be persuaded. Not that they ever would.”

First of all, Obama did NOT have a US Passport until he became a US Senator. Apparently, Senators are issued passports by some steamlined process, which assumes that they have US citizenship. For some reason (such as not having a US birth certificate), Obama never obtained a US passport, the way an American citizen would. Obama traveled to Kenya, Indonesia and Pakistan in the early 1980s presumably on an Indonesian passport, which he had renewed every five years since his mother took him to live in Indonesia with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. Soetoro reportly adopted Barack, which would have made him an Indonesian citizen. Anyone possessing an Indonesian passport, by the way, must be an Indonesian citizen and the Indonesians do not have “dual citizenship” with other countries, which means Obama would have had to renounce his original citizenship, which was likely Kenyan.

A passport is a document issued by the State Department, totally at its own discretion. It is true that usually some form of verification of citizenship is required, but in Obama’s case we don’t know what kind of documentation -if any- was provided.

So a US Senator’s passport curiously proves nothing. The issue is with Obama’s birth certificate, which would conclusively prove which nation he was born in and whether he is indeed a natural-born citizen of the United States as stipulated in the Constitution, and therefore legally eligible to hold the office of President of the United States.

There’s a document called a Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) that the state of Hawaii issues. The COLB however only proves that at least one parent lived in Hawaii in the year prior to the birth of the child. The child can be born in the US or a foreign country. This is the same document that the Democrats have flashed around trying to prove Obama is a US citizen

I am almost coming over to the conclusion that the Republicans are holding the birth certificate issue in reserve until after the November 2010 elections when they will hopefully have a majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives, which would give them some chance of a successful impeachment proceeding. They probably won’t have the guts if they behave like Republicans usually do, but maybe the Tea Party candidates like Sharon Angle and Rand Paul will introduce some much-needed backbone to the Republican Congress so that it will go after the Democrats when they’re clearly vulnerable.