With all the discussion that has occurred since Donald Trump said he did not believe President Obama was a eligible to be President, one person has been totally quiet on the issue. That person is President Obama. No comment, no statement, nothing has been said. This has rekindled the "birther" controversy.
We have heard about this issue during his run to be the Democratic candidate, during the campaign, to his election and even before he was inaugurated. There has not been much done to clear up the issue. Of course, there was the "certificate of live birth" which the Obama campaign placed on its website as "proof" that the President had indeed been born in Hawaii and there is the article in the local Honolulu paper which indicates the birth of a son to the Obama's. However, there are three points the birthers point to support their contention.
Point one is that a "certificate of live birth" is not a full birth certificate and can be obtained by anyone and does not give details of the birth such as doctors, hospitals etc. Point two is the newspaper article could be faked.
However, the biggest point that most people feel is important. Why has the Obama Campaign and now the White House spent so time and effort to keep this secret? There can only be one reason. There is something that is not quite right. Otherwise, why would they not want to put the whole bloody thing behind them by revealing the documents and moving on. Allow the press and all other interested parties to see the Hawaii State documents which will either confirm or deny the "birther" argument.
Also fueling the concern that President Obama is not eligible to be President, is that he has prohibited the publication of his college records from undergraduate to law school. Why would anyone do that unless there was a reason. Could he have applied for college admission by indicating that he was a citizen of Indonesia or some other country? Could he indicate on those records that he was born somewhere else but Hawaii? Could he state that he had never lived in the United States? Could he have faked college degrees? One can only wonder why these records are sealed which only makes skeptical minds to wander to the nefarious.
I believe it is time for President Obama to put these distractions behind by allowing Hawaii and his colleges to disclose ALL the information they have in their possession. Without doing this, the birther idea will always be there.
What do you think?
We have heard about this issue during his run to be the Democratic candidate, during the campaign, to his election and even before he was inaugurated. There has not been much done to clear up the issue. Of course, there was the "certificate of live birth" which the Obama campaign placed on its website as "proof" that the President had indeed been born in Hawaii and there is the article in the local Honolulu paper which indicates the birth of a son to the Obama's. However, there are three points the birthers point to support their contention.
Point one is that a "certificate of live birth" is not a full birth certificate and can be obtained by anyone and does not give details of the birth such as doctors, hospitals etc. Point two is the newspaper article could be faked.
However, the biggest point that most people feel is important. Why has the Obama Campaign and now the White House spent so time and effort to keep this secret? There can only be one reason. There is something that is not quite right. Otherwise, why would they not want to put the whole bloody thing behind them by revealing the documents and moving on. Allow the press and all other interested parties to see the Hawaii State documents which will either confirm or deny the "birther" argument.
Also fueling the concern that President Obama is not eligible to be President, is that he has prohibited the publication of his college records from undergraduate to law school. Why would anyone do that unless there was a reason. Could he have applied for college admission by indicating that he was a citizen of Indonesia or some other country? Could he indicate on those records that he was born somewhere else but Hawaii? Could he state that he had never lived in the United States? Could he have faked college degrees? One can only wonder why these records are sealed which only makes skeptical minds to wander to the nefarious.
I believe it is time for President Obama to put these distractions behind by allowing Hawaii and his colleges to disclose ALL the information they have in their possession. Without doing this, the birther idea will always be there.
What do you think?
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