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Was Barak Obama Born in Canada?
This opinion article was written by me, Mike SylwesterBarak Obama was born to an 18-year-old girl, Stanley Ann Dunham on August 4, 1961, supposedly in Hawaii. According to one of Stanley Ann's high school friends, Stanley Ann came with her baby to Mercer Island, Washington, during the month of August. If Stanley Ann arrived from Hawaii to Mercer Island on the very last day of August, then Barak was only 26 days old. If Stanley Ann arrived from Hawaii to Mercer Island in the middle of August, such as August 15, then Barak was only about 11 days old. Stanley Ann had left Mercer Island against her will during the first months of 1960. She had wanted to graduate with her high-school class and then attend the University of Washington with some of her high-school friends. Her father, however, had forced her to leave Mercer Island and move to Hawaii, where he insisted that she attend the University of Hawaii. These events are described in The Seattle Times as follows: Stanley Ann went to elementary school in Kansas before her father, a smooth-talking salesman, moved his family to Seattle in pursuit of work. The family rented an apartment in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood in 1955 .... The Dunhams moved to Mercer Island in 1956 to get their daughter into the newly opened high school there. ....Dunham's father worked at the downtown Seattle furniture store Standard-Grunbaum and his wife commuted to Bellevue to work as an escrow officer .... Stanley Ann must have become pregnant at about the beginning of November 1960. Where was she and what was she doing at that time? Was she in Hawaii and attending the University of Hawaii, as her father had insisted she do? Is there a record that she had enrolled at the University of Hawaii? Is there a record that the baby's father Barak Obama, Sr., had enrolled at the University of Hawaii? According to a high-school friend, Stanley Ann and her baby passed through Mercer Island, Washington, on on their way to see Barack Sr. at Harvard in Boston ... Barack Sr. was not present at his sons birth. But if Barak Sr. was a student at the University of Hawaii, then why was he not present at his son's birth in Hawaii, and why was he instead at Harvard University in Boston? Was Barak Sr. a Harvard student who visited Hawaii during the summer of 1960? Did he meet Stanley Ann in Hawaii, and did she run away from home and follow Barak Sr. to Boston, where she became pregnant in November 1960? Did he tell her to get an abortion, and she refused? Did he then tell her to leave and go away? Did she then return to the state of Washington? When the baby was due, did she decide to give birth to her illegitimate, mixed-race baby in progressive Canada, where there was not so much racial discrimination as there was in the USA in 1961? Did she perceive that her baby would live a better life if her baby always could claim Canadian citizenship later in life? Canada is not far from Mercer Island. For example, Saanich, Canada, is only about 75 miles away. Vancouver, Canada is only about 100 miles away. A few days after the birth, she could easily and quickly travel from Barak's birthplace in nearby Canada to Mercer Island to show her new baby off to her amazed high-school friends. ================= According to a four-part series of articles on a website called IsraelInsider: .... Article Two, Section One of the Constitution ... requires that the President be a "natural born citizen" and not simply a naturalized citizen. The issue is whether there is proof that Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, the legal status of his mother at the time, and what exactly is written on the original birth certificate -- if it in fact such a certificate exists. ..... If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen -- because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least [f]ive of which had to be after the age of 16.' ... Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16." According to FindLaw.com ... the requirements that were in force from Dec. 24, 1952 to Nov. 13, 1986, encompassing the time of Obama's birth, state, "If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least 10 years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16." .... In response to mounting media questions about the failure of the Barack Obama presidential campaign to produce the presumptive Democratic nominee's birth certificate, an official spokesman of the campaign has endorsed as genuine the image of a document purporting to be his "birth certificate." But some who have examined that image in high resolution claim inconsistencies and irregularities which suggest that the purported document is a forgery. Its high profile use by the campaign, they claim, suggests an attempt to conceal the truth of Obama's birth circumstances and citizenship qualifications from the American people. The campaign has posted only a low-resolution image of that document, which it claims is his "birth certificate," on its "Fight the Smears" website .... On its face, this document does not even presume to be a copy of the original birth certificate -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign -- but rather a secondary Certification of Live Birth, which may be used when the original birth certificate can't be located, and can be produced after the fact with just the affadavits of a family member, or even the child himself. ... The "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign is not certified as authentic and appears to be a photoshopped fake. The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document -- features that Obama's purported "birth certificate" clearly lack. ..... .... Daily Kos obtained the image from Photobucket, not the State of Hawaii, the Obama family, or the Obama campaign. Photobucket is not generally known as a credible supplier of official vital records for any of the fifty states, and the liberties that other Photoshoppers took with the certificates confirms this. ..... An authentic Hawaiian birth certificate for another Hawaiian individual has since surfaced which, using the same official form as the presumptive Obama certificate, includes an embossed official seal and an authoritative signature, coming through from the back. Obama's alleged certificate lacks those features, and the certificate number referencing the birth year has been blacked out, making it untraceable. Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider: "At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically." And, she added, "In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of certificates of live birth have the embossed seal and registrar signature on the back of the document." ..... So if he were registered as being born in Hawaii, Barack Obama -- because only he or another member of his immediate family could by law request a "Certification of Live Birth" [COLB] -- must have a certified paper copy, with embossed stamp and seal, or he could request one. But what his campaign has put forward as genuine, according to the senior spokesman in the relevant department of the State of Hawaii, is not in fact a certified copy. It is not valid. ..... A senior official in the State of Hawaii's Department of Health, Director of Communications Janice Okubo, confirms that the image published and circulated by the Obama campaign as his "birth certificate" lacks the necessary embossed seal and signature. Backing away from a quote attributed to her that the image on the campaign site was "valid," she told the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times in an article published yesterday: "I don't know that it's possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents." ..... Jay McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called opendna.com and uses the opendna screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter. opendna posted on his Photobucket album two versions of a "Certification of Live Birth" document image ... Both have a common visual signature (a dot that appears on all four images) with the images posted on the Daily Kos site image that the Obama campaign has endorsed as genuine on its "Fight the Smears" website ..... One image created and posted by opendna is what he describes as a "blank template" of a State of Hawaii Certification of Live Birth. Only two data fields are filled in: the ISLAND OF BIRTH ("Oahu") and the HOUR OF BIRTH (7:24 PM). ..... However, the ISLAND OF BIRTH and the HOUR OF BIRTH is identical on the "Haye I.B Ahphorgerie" and blank certificates as well as the purported "Obama birth certificate," which also claims 7:24 pm as the HOUR OF BIRTH and Oahu as the ISLAND OF BIRTH. The odds of an identical time occurring by chance in two certificates is 1440 to 1. .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2008-07-05 |
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