Obama's Passport Revealed - Birthers Warning

[teko]

Obama's Passport Revealed - Birthers Warning

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By Jim Roberts
Aug 18, 2010  


Yes, President Barack Obama has a passport. Birthers are warned in an "Under the Radar" offering from Politico: "Don't look, birthers: Obama's passport."  USA Today's "The Oval" can't resist and adds a bit more to the debate first noting that "the White House video helpfully provides a picture of Obama's passport.  See the photo below.

Obama's Passport Revealed - Birthers Warning.


Politico points out that the passport lists his birthplace as Hawaii, "no doubt to the consternation of critics who believe he was born outside of the U.S."


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Except..."The issuance and expiration dates are blotched out by the White House."  

The report then muses: "A conspiracy? You be the judge..."







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[teko]

The bottom line is this, if the man were not legititimate, he would not be the president of the united states. People need to get over it.

[Sarajmt]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=192917


WND Exclusive BORN IN THE USA?
How many names does the president have?
White House passport image raises further questions
Posted: August 19, 2010
12:35 am Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Image of President Obama's passport from video featured on White House website
How many different names is President Obama legally authorized to use?

Is his legal name Barack Hussein Obama II, Barack Hussein Obama (without the designation "II" indicating Barack Obama Jr.), Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah?

All of these names appear in various documents produced since 2008 regarding Obama's life story and his passport records.

The White House has refused to release Obama's long-form birth certificate filed at his birth that lists the hospital where he was born and the name of the physician who attended the birth. Also, the White House has refused to disclose to the public his passport and travel records as maintained by the U.S. State Department.

The White House released this week a video displaying Obama's passport, but the name displayed does not match the name on the Certification of Live Birth, or COLB, prominently displayed on websites favorable to Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.

In a thread that drew over 1,000 comments to a Politico.com article yesterday by Josh Gerstein, titled "Don't look, birthers: Obama's passport," was the following comment:

    If you go back to the Birth Registration (not Birth Certificate) that was released by the Daily Kos, Obie's was Obama II (named after his father). If the "II" is part of his actual name (as per Hawaiian birth registration records), how is it that this is missing from the current passport? Something doesn't compute here. Can any of the leftist apologists explain what's going on here, and why their hero's actual name isn't shown?

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Another contributor stated:

    Anyone believes anything this guy or ANY prez says just because he says it is a foolish sheep. Question everything. Don't trust. VERIFY. Why is it so impossible to verify something as simple as his birthplace? When did he change his name back to Obama from Soetoro? How can he be adopted by an Indonesian citizen and not be Indonesian? Where the hell are the real journalists?

Remarkably, nearly two years into his presidency, Obama's legal name remains a mystery.

The American public still has no definitive documentation regarding many basic questions about Obama's past. That includes whether or not he was officially adopted by his Indonesian stepfather when he was in Indonesia as a child from 1967 through 1971, or whether he used a U.S. or an Indonesian passport when he traveled to Indonesia and Pakistan in 1981. Obama made the trip after completing his second year at Occidental College in California. It is still unknown whether he applied for admission or student aid as a foreign student when attending Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

Variations

The Hawaii COLB produced by pro-Obama websites such as DailyKos.com, Politifact.com, FactCheck.com and FightTheSmears.com display his name as "Barack Hussein Obama II," although the presidential passport shown by the White House last Friday lists his name officially only as "Barack Hussein Obama," without adding the "II."

As WND has reported, the Associated Press released Obama's school registration form from St. Francis Assisi School in Jakarta show him listed officially as Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen.

WND has also reported that in a passport amendment submitted Aug. 13, 1968, Ann Dunham,  Obama's mother, identified her son with an Indonesian surname, Barack Hussein Obama II Soebarkah. She asked the State Department to drop him from her U.S. passport, bolstering evidence Barack Obama Jr. became a citizen of Indonesia when he moved to the Southeast Asian nation with his stepmother and stepfather in the late 1960s.

Until Dunham's passport amendment surfaced in State Department documents released July 29, the name "Soebarkah" had never been referenced or documented in any discussion of Obama in the public record.

Natural born citizen

The constitutional question concerning Obama's birth records centers on Article 2, Section 1 and the determination whether or not he is a "natural born citizen," not simply a U.S. citizen.

The threshold for being a "natural born citizen" is sufficiently high that any number of factors may have compromised Obama's eligibility under the Constitution to be president, including whether he was officially adopted in Indonesia, ever held or traveled under the passport of a foreign nation and if he ever applied for student aid as a foreign student.

The White House's display of Obama's passport Friday did not include documentation submitted to the State Department to obtain the passport or any previous U.S. passports the president may have been issued since childhood.

More name mysteries

Obama's autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," offers no definitive answer regarding what name or names Obama is legally authorized to use.

In "Dreams," an additional variation of his name is introduced on page 41, "Barry Obama." On page 91, however, the author insists that "Barack" is his given name, suggesting "Barry" was used only as a nickname, despite the school registration papers from Indonesia listing him as "Barry Soetoro."

A word check of a .pdf file of "Dreams" revealed the name "Barry" appears 70 times in "Dreams," while "Barack" appears 218 times.

The name "Soetoro" does not appear in the autobiography at all, not even in the 14 mentions the author makes of his stepsister, who is always identified only as "Maya," never as "Maya Soetoro," or by her married name, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

Absent the transparent disclosure of Obama's complete birth file from the Hawaii Department of Health, of his passport and travel records by the State Department, and his school records from the three universities he attended – Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School – a definitive answer to how many names Obama is legally authorized to use may remain unobtainable.

[adgal]

Rant of the day coming up (forgive me in advance...I am really upset over my cat and in addition have been travelling all day today...Ryder did NOT do well on the plane..poor baby)

I know I am not an American, but even I am getting incredibly frustrated by all these silly issues.  Obama is not American. Obama is really a Muslim secretly  in league with the terrorists.  Obama actually hates American...yahda yahda yahda.

All of this nonsense does nothing more then detract from real issues...many of which are threatening our entire world not just the US.  Disagree with  his policies..fine.  Disagree with his handling of issues..no problem.  But please, stop with the silliness already!!!  It is getting soooo old and tiresome.  I am beginning to think there is a whole lot of crazy people out there!!!

[teko]

The above was from politico, and then there is this one.


  
Thursday, August 19, 2010NewsSportsGossipEntertainmentNY By Michel Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, August 17th 2010, 1:31 PM

A video featured on the White House website included a surprising glimpse at President Obama's passport, showing further evidence that he was indeed born in the United States.

Seen briefly in a West Wing Week video posted over the weekend, the "Summer Edition" was dedicated to answering questions from regular citizens.

One of the questions, asked by Johnathan Talcott, of Pittsburgh, PA, concerned the President's passport. To answer it, Jordan Whichard, an administration trip coordinator, shows where Obama's passport is kept, and the document itself.

A close-up of the passport reveals only a few bits of information about the President, but they are specific to the question of where and when he was born.

The document shows that his nationality is "United States of America," that he was born on August 4, 1961, and that his "Place of Birth" was Hawaii, U.S.A.

In order to obtain a passport, an American must provide a "certified birth certificate issued by the city, country or state," according to the State Department website. This would suggest that President Obama would have had to show documentation proving when and where he was born in order to obtain the U.S. passport.

"Birthers," who have for nearly two years argued that Obama was not born in the United States, have insisted that he is not eligible to be President. The once-simple conspiracy has since spun into a web of wild theories and elaborate logic.

Some believe he is hiding his true birthplace, and that his certification of live birth (a recognized birth certificate), which his campaign posted online in 2008, is a fraud. They have argued he was really born in Kenya or Indonesia.

Others in the "birther" movement have moved away from his place of birth, and argue because his father was Kenyan, he is not a "natural born citizen," thus negating his election as President.

All of these arguments and claims have either been shown to be false, or incorrect. Officials have stated they have seen records regarding Obama's birth, and media pundits and commentators such as Glenn Beck (who called it the "dumbest thing I've ever heard") and Anderson Cooper have dismissed the "birther" conspiracy.

Some details on the passport, such as the date of issuance and expiration, were blurred out in the White House video, which may very well spin yet another chain of theories regarding the President's birth.

However, a recent Daily News online poll suggests that Americans are coming to terms with Obama's nationality. Ninety-five percent of the nearly 20,000 people who voted said the President was "definitely" born in the United States.

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[teko]

If you look up Obamas passport, it brings up all kinds of sites and has pics too. I will try to remember exactly which site I got this from and post it if I can find it. I will go look in my history. Be back.

[Sarajmt]

Thanks but what I meant is where did you read this?  A website?  Email?  I'd like to see the original article.

[teko]

I think the actual copy of the passport is on the government website? At least that is what I read, but did not go there to see it.

[Sarajmt]

I'm not commenting on the birth certificate until I see the article.  Where did this come from?