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July 30, 2009
Obama's birth certificate and the real issuesThomas Lifson
I doff my cap and bow low to Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online, who
has produced essential reading for anyone wondering what to think about the
birther controversy rocking the right, and now breaking into the mainstream
media, which sees an opportunity to mock and discredit the right.
He and I agree: the entire Kenyan birth theory is a distraction, and a
useful tool in the hands of Alinskyites on the ridicule and destroy mission.
But before moving on to other significant issues, McCarthy acknowledges that
NRO's editorial yesterday accidentally mischaracterized the nature of the
documentation that is available from Hawaii. He writes:
The information in the certification may be identical as far as it goes to
what's in the complete state records, but there are evidently many more
details in the state records than are set forth in the certification.
Contrary to the editors' description, those who want to see the full state
record - the certificate or the so-called "vault copy" - are not on a
wild-goose chase for a "secondary document cloaked in darkness." That
confuses their motives (which vary) with what they've actually requested
(which is entirely reasonable). Regardless of why people may want to see the
vault copy, what's been requested is a primary document that is materially
more detailed than what Obama has thus far provided.
McCarthy then lays out the real issue: Obama's extraordinary secrecy,
amounting to a scrubbing of his paper trail, combined with his demonstrated
record of lying about his past. Obama is a phony, through and through. A
former assistant US Attorney, McCarthy economically but methodically
assembles the evidence, including sources, that Obama has presented a false
story of his life. He lists a startling number of lies about his life story,
with documentation.
The major media have done their best to obscure the existence of oddities in
Obama's life story that never made it to the two autobiographical works
purportedly authored by him. It has been left to the blogosphere to point
out his many lies about his past. Yet the general public remains blissfully
unaware of these lies, though it does know everything about Sarah Palin's
family thanks to inquiring minds of the media.
Even worse, the mainstream media twice dug up intimate details of the lives
of two men who stood in his way in acquiring his seat in the United States
Senate. Richard Baehr explained this on AT in 2006:
In 2004, then-State Senator Obama trailed badly in third place just weeks
before the Democratic primary for the open Illinois US Senate seat being
vacated by Peter Fitzgerald. The leader was investment banker Blair Hull,
who had spent about $40 million on an ad campaign that got him name
recognition and a big lead in the polls.
Then the Chicago Tribune peeked into his bedroom, and revealed that he was
an alleged wife beater. Hull's campaign collapsed and most of his support
swung to Obama, who was a poorly funded candidate going nowhere until the
Tribune story destroyed Hull's candidacy.
Next, the Tribune released supposedly sealed divorce documents concerning
Republican nominee Jack Ryan, revealing he was a bit too kinky in his sexual
tastes for his former wife. Ryan pulled out of the race, and the Illinois
Republican Party, true to its decade long death wish, nominated Alan Keyes
to oppose Obama. Suddenly, the unknown State Senator was now US Senator
Obama with a smashing 71% share of the vote.
Obama is, in other words, a manufactured candidate. His way was paved by the
media, he has lied about who he is, and he continues to lie in ways big and
small. This realization is slowly dawning on people beyond the readership of
the conservative internet-based media.. Growing numbers of Americans are
coming to realize that they have bought into a false picture of Barack
Obama. They thought he was post-racial, a healer who loves white people and
can bring closure to the trauma of the legacy of slavery. His gut-level
response to the Gates arrest revealed a man still angry about race, who has
little regard for the men and women on the thin blue line. Also, somebody
who doesn't know how to admit he was wrong.
Once a mind is open to the concept that it has been deceived, it becomes far
more curious about deceptions. This is the momentum which could well be the
undoing of Obama.
Citizenship - Indonesia, not Kenya
Forget Nairobi, focus on Jakarta. McCarthy writes:
Shortly after divorcing Barack Obama Sr., Obama's mother, Stanley Ann
Dunham, married an Indonesian Muslim, Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo, whom she met
- just as she had met Barack Sr. - when both were students at the University
of Hawaii. At some point, Soetoro almost certainly adopted the youngster,
who became known as "Barry Soetoro." Obama's lengthy, deeply introspective
autobiographies do not address whether he was adopted by the stepfather
whose surname he shared for many years, but in all likelihood that did
happen in Hawaii, before the family moved to Jakarta.
Under Indonesian law, adoption before the age of six by an Indonesian male
qualified a child for citizenship. According to Dreams from My Father, Obama
was four when he met Lolo Soetoro; his mother married Soetoro shortly
thereafter; and Obama was already registered for school when he and his
mother relocated to Jakarta, where Soetoro was an oil-company executive and
liaison to the Suharto government. That was in 1966, when Obama was five.
Obama attended Indonesian elementary schools, which, in Suharto's police
state, were generally reserved for citizens (and students were required to
carry identity cards that matched student registration information). The
records of the Catholic school Obama/Soetoro attended for three years
identify him as a citizen of Indonesia. Thus Obama probably obtained
Indonesian citizenship through his adoption by Soetoro in Hawaii. That
inference is bolstered by the 1980 divorce submission of Ann Dunham and Lolo
Soetoro, filed
in Hawaii state court. It said "the parties" (Ann and Lolo) had a child
(name not given) who was no longer a minor (Obama was 19 at the time). If
Soetoro had not adopted Obama, there would have been no basis for the couple
to refer to Obama as their child - he'd have been only Ann Dunham's child.
There are many other points made in this long, thorough, and clear article.
There are many things the American people legitimately deserve to know about
the past of the President who leads them. And reasons to look into the
legally murky question of whether he is a natural born citizen.
As McCarthy asks in a section heading: "When did information suddenly become
a bad thing?" The born overseas scenario is a distraction, but the refusal
to release the far more informative vault copy is a symbol of the cover-up
of his true life story.If the media had not abandoned its watchdog role for
Obama, while aggressively pushing it on two strategically situated
opponents, he would never have become president.
Hat tip: Clarice Feldman
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