Editorial: Still president (Daily News Tribune | Waltham MA)

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It is an article of faith in the loopier precincts of the Internet, impervious to evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president of the United States because he is not a "natural born citizen" as the Constitution requires.

All this would be quite harmless, like believing in the Illuminati or alien abduction, except that the extra-chromosome true believers have taken to filing suit in the federal courts basically seeking to overturn the election.

For even the most ardent Obama opponents, this issue was settled during the campaign when the candidate posted his birth certificate on his Web site showing that he was born in Hawaii, and not Kenya as alleged, and Hawaii state officials vouched for the authenticity of the document ...

U.S. District Judge James Robertson .. had enough and .... ordered the plaintiff's attorney to show cause why he shouldn't have to pay Obama's legal fees for filing a frivolous and harassing case. The prospect of having to part with actual cash may serve to get these cases out of the courtroom and back in wing nut land where they belong.

http://www.dailynewstribune.com/editorials/x978987779/Editorial-Still-president

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1. I hope Judge Robertson charges these fools alot of cash! Then, they will stop clogging up the court.

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2. Yeah, the frivolous suits only serve right-wing organizing purposes, and the litigants should bear

the costs.

Even without viewing a birth certificate (original or otherwise), anyone can easily find multiple lines of evidence indicating Obama meets the constitutional requirements. One has, for example, the announcements of his 4 August 1961 birth from both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin, as well as statements from the Hawaiian health director and Republican governor Lingle that the birth records are in order. We know he has a US passport, since he has visited Kenya several times, and that passport could only have been obtained if he were born a citizen or a noncitizen national or naturalized; however the State Department categorized him should be very easy to determine, if necessary, since the passport contains the date and place of birth determined by the State Department. Thus, a number of people at the State Department or at USCIS would know if he were a noncitizen national or had been naturalized. And if his passport file shed some damning light on the subject, that would be public by now, since a number of people viewed it without authorization. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996; under the Illinois Constitution Art IV Sec 2(c), this office (which he held nearly eight years, including a re-election) requires US citizenship. He ran for the US House in 2000; under the US Constitution, Art I Sec 2 par 2 this office requires citizenship. He was elected to the Senate in 2004; under the US Constitution, Art I Sec 3 par 3, this office (which he held nearly four years) require citizenship. So the Illinois and US Senates obviously consider him a citizen: these institutions contain a number of people opposed to his political views. Finally, he was sworn as President before his political friends and foes alike, by the highest judicial officer, who is from the opposite party. In short, for Obama to be a foreign national, a noncitizen national, or a naturalized citizen would have required a conspiracy of gigantic sweep across the political spectrum and over many years

Obama's birth announcements
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/obamabirth.php

Officials verify birth certificate of Obama
Hawaii's health director steps in after numerous requests for the document
By Star-Bulletin Staff and News Services
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20081101_officials_verify_birth_certificate_of_obama.html

Obama’s Kenyan Roots
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 24, 2008
... He has visited Kenya three times ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/opinion/24kristof.html

Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File
State Department Investigating Whether Contractors Broke Law
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR20080320

Constitution of the State of Illinois
http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/conent.htm

United States Constitution
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article1