Since 2008, an ongoing controversy
has raged as to whether President Barack Obama was actually born in
Hawaii as claimed. Barack Obama has rejected all demands for the
public release of his original Hawaiian birth certificate, which would
presumably include the actual hospital that performed the delivery and
the name of the attending physician at the birth.
The
U.S. Constitution requires that no one can be sworn into office as
President of the United States without being a "natural born" citizen.
Article. II. Section 1: "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 Senate approved Senate Resolution 511 on 4/30/2008,
recognizing that Presidential candidate John Sidney McCain, III, is a
natural born citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution.
The Senate was silent with regard to candidate Barack Obama's "natural
born" status.
Since only citizens who are "natural born" Americans are eligible for
election to the presidency, if Barack Obama was born outside of the
United States, he cannot constitutionally hold the office to which he
was elected in 2008. This status is only established at birth, and can
never be won or gained.
The Obama campaign posted an online, computer-generated document, a
Certification of Live Birth (COLB), which it offered as a birth record.
The truth is, this document could have been created recently by
submission of sworn statements, even if no document from 1961 existed.
This COLB is not a standard birth certificate. It lacks common, standard
identifiers such as a hospital name and an attending physician
signature.
Adding to the confusion, the Obama campaign provided two
different hospital names at one time- Queen's and Kapiolani. NO ONE has
ever vouched for the fact that Obama was born in Hawaii in August
1961. No doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, friends, or neighbors. However,
since the beginning of 2009 there seems to have been a change from
Queen's Hospital to Kapiolani as the place of birth. The Washingon Post
and Wikipedia (presumably at the suggestion or with the approval of
people associated with Barack Obama) now claim that he was born in
Kapiolani Hospital, even though Kapiolani Hospital refuses to confirm or
deny the truth of this statement or to provide a copy of a hospital
birth certificate or record.
However, Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, stated that Obama was born in Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit
A Kenyan, an Anabaptist Minister. testified that a civil
registrar affirmed Obama's birth at Coast Province Hospital in Mombosa,
Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit
A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states:
“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961...”
Kenya's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Ogego, affirmed Obama's birth in Kenya in a November 2008 radio interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4GX3Otf14
A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states:
“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4,
1961...”
Update: Now UPI scrubbed the story (without explicit notice of update
via the following screen capture (confirmed via Google’s cache).
Update:
The previous link for the Google cache of the below has similarly been
changed. (copy of screen shot from WorldNetDaily):
The MyBarackObama.com campaign website cites his birthplace as Queen’s Medical Center.
Extract: “Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii...”
