Archive for August, 2009

Has Obama’s Kenya Birth Certificate Been Found?

Posted: August 02, 2009  11:55 am Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.

The document lists Obama’s parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.

No doctor is listed. But the alleged certificate bears the signature of the deputy registrar of Coast Province, Joshua Simon Oduya. It was allegedly issued as a certified copy of the original in February 1964.

WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.

Last week, a counterfeit document purporting to be Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate made the rounds of the Internet, but was quickly determined to be fraudulent. The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax.

One of the issues Taitz must deal with will be the authentication of the document. Critics immediately jumped on the Feb. 17, 1964, date for the document, explaining that the "republic" of Kenya wasn’t assembled until in December of that year.

Media Matters wrote, "Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn’t a republic until Dec. 1964."

But Kenya’s official independence was in 1963, and any number of labels could have been applied to government documents during that time period.

At Ameriborn Constitution News, the researcher noted that the independence process for the nation actually started taking as early as 1957, when there were the first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council.

"Kenya became an Independent Republic, December 12, 1963, which gives more [credibility] that this is a true document," the website stated.

The 1963 independence is corroborated by several other information sources, including the online African History.

Even the People Daily news agency cited, on Dec. 12, 2005, the "42nd independence anniversary" in Nairobi. "The country gained independence from Britain on Dec. 12, 1963," the report said.

An online copy of the Kenya Constitution, "adopted in 1963, amended in 1999," states: "CHAPTER I - THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, Article 1, Kenya is a sovereign Republic. Article 1A, The Republic of Kenya shall be a multiparty democratic state…"

It was in November 1964 when the region voluntarily became a one-party state, according to an online source.

The region including Mombasa originally was dealt with as a separate independence movement, but it almost immediately became part of Kenya when the sultan of Zanzibar ceded the "coastal strip" to Kenya, according to sources.

Taitz told WND that the document came from an anonymous source who doesn’t want his name known because "he’s afraid for his life."

Taitz’s motion, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requests the purported evidence of Obama’s birth – both the alleged birth certificate and foreign records not yet obtained – be preserved from destruction, asks for permission to legally request documents from Kenya and seeks a subpoena for deposition from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"I filed the motion with the court asking for expedited discovery, which would allow me to start subpoenas and depositions even before Obama and the government responds," Taitz told WND. "I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy and to require a deposition from Hillary Clinton so they will be forced to authenticate [the birth certificate].

"I’m forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond," she said.

"Before, they said, ‘You don’t have anything backing your claims,’" Taitz explained. "Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures."

Join the petition campaign to demand President Obama resolve the question by revealing his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate!

Taitz’s most celebrated case involved a military officer, Maj. Stefan Cook, whose order to deploy to Afghanistan was revoked when he challenged Obama’s eligibility to hold office. That case has now been refiled in federal court in Florida, raising the specter of a class-action claim among members of the military that their orders aren’t valid because of questions surrounding Obama’s constitutional eligibility.

Taitz told WND she plans to file additional paperwork with the Florida court tomorrow, adding the alleged Kenyan birth certificate to Maj. Cook’s case.

The suit seeks damages and a declaratory judgment. Named as defendants are Simtech, Cook’s former civilian employer, and several officials, including Col. Louis B. Wingate and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

WND previously reported a judge in Georgia dismissed Cook’s case when the government suddenly revoked his orders to report to Fort Benning for deployment to Afghanistan.

WND reported when the case originally was filed that Cook’s concern was that without proof that there is a legitimate commander in chief, the entire U.S. Army becomes "merely a corps of chattel slaves under the illegitimate control of a private citizen."

Cook told WND: "As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a ‘natural-born citizen,’ he is not eligible to be commander in chief."

The new complaint says it seeks Cook’s reinstatement with his civilian employer, Simtech Inc., as well as protection from the Department of Defense and president "from further retaliation for plaintiff’s challenge to the president’s constitutional authority."

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WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama’s status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "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."

Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama’s American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

Other challenges have focused on Obama’s citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

Complicating the situation is Obama’s decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.

WND has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

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Chuck Norris kicks Obama: Release birth certificate!

Posted: August 03, 2009  1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Chuck Norris

Dear Mr. President:

First, happy birthday. I do hope Aug. 4 is an enjoyable day for you and your family. Coincidentally, I also will be celebrating this week the birth of someone dear to me, my beloved wife, Gena, whose birthday is on Aug. 9.

Speaking of birthdays, I couldn’t help but hear and read all over the news last week about the fresh attention to your constitutional eligibility and natural born citizen status. I can hardly believe that individuals are now offering bounty – one for $100,000 – for any personal witness or sufficient evidence to your American birth.

For nearly two years, this debate continues to grow despite all your administration’s attempts to diffuse it. And those who are raising concerns aren’t just those on the right, but moderate law-abiding citizens like a retired CIA officer who commissioned an investigator to look into the issue.

Still, your press secretary, Robert Gibbs, continues to glibly brush aside the issue by calling it "fictional nonsense." But, in so doing, he devalues the grievance passage of the First Amendment and insults those who are genuinely concerned and inquisitive by categorizing them all as political quacks. He needs to learn that you can’t model tolerance for certain minorities while belittling and quarantining those who don’t blindly follow your lead.

Believe it or not, I’m not writing you to challenge whether you were born in America, though I see nothing wrong with the American public voicing that constitutionally based grievance with someone in your esteemed position. As one blogger wrote, after all, "We aren’t talking about a 12-year-old qualifying to play Little League here." Or as Ronald Reagan once said, "Trust but verify."

Personally, I must admit that I find it a bit of a groundless stretch not to believe in the birth announcements in two major Hawaiian newspapers in August of 1961, in which the Hawaiian Health Department would have been required to post information they received directly from hospitals: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4." Nevertheless, that proof still doesn’t answer why you refuse to reveal your original birth certificate and end the growing tides of controversy.

I’m writing you because this is no longer a matter merely about proving a presidential prerequisite in the Constitution. Refusing to post a copy of your original birth certificate is an unwise political and leadership decision that is enabling the birther controversy. The nation you are called to lead is experiencing a growing swell of conspirators who are convinced that you are covering up something. So why not just prove them wrong and shut them up?

If the birther movement is truly full of a bunch of conspiracy-fringed kooks or "zombies," as the Los Angeles Times proclaims, then prove once and for all that you are a naturally born citizen by posting your original birth certificate. And all the controversy will fade away like the pains of childbirth.

I agree with CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who was chastised by his own media outlet for demanding the release of your original birth certificate. So why is that such a bad request? We certainly know why CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein thought it was a bad idea: because he previously declared that CNN researchers determined that Obama’s 1961 birth certificate no longer existed.

But Hawaii’s officials confirmed again last week that they indeed have your original birth certificate on file. Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaiian State Department of Health, repeated her October 2008 statement that she had personally seen with her own eyes the "original vital records."

Some claim that even you cannot see or request your own personal birth certificate, because Hawai’i’s disclosure law (Hawai’i Revised Statutes 338-18) states that "it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or issue a copy of all or part on any such record … "

But the law further states that the Health Department "shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record." (Italics mine)

Isn’t categorically satisfying constitutional requirements for a president, or answering the First Amendment grievances of hundreds of thousands of Americans, or ending a national debate or healing a country’s divisions enough "direct and tangible interest"?

Mr. President, as more and more people realize that you are refusing to release your original birth certificate, further questions will fuel the fires of debate or at least hinder the embers from ever being snuffed out. Questions like, "Does it really contain the Hawaiian physician’s name?" Or "Does it disclose something other than his birth place that he wishes others not to see?"

In fact, last week copies of the 1961 birth certificates from twin girls, who were born a day after you in the same Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, give examples of those typical of the time. They include much more information than certificates today, like the baby’s parents’ ages, occupations, birthplaces, race, etc., as well as specifics of the medical personnel presiding over the baby’s birth and the hospital in which he or she was born.

Of course not every U.S. citizen has access to their original birth certificate, but you do, and that’s the only one under debate. As valuable as copies can be, textual critics know that nothing outweighs an original, especially when only it contains the information under question.

So again I ask, why don’t you simply request, release and give permission to make public your original birth certificate?

Mr. President, you promised the American people that you are "committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government." In fact, on July 23 in your prime time press conference, you said that your administration was more transparent than those of previous presidencies: "I think that we have provided much greater transparency than existed prior to our administration coming in."

So again I ask, why not live out that transparency promise by posting your original birth certificate and end the division and debate?

Well, I have a birthday to plan, so I better get going.

Again, happy birthday Mr. President.

Yours truly,

Chuck Norris

Michelle Obama requires over 22 staffers at over $ONE MILLION

Michelle Obama wants to help the poor and I guess in order to do that she needs over 22 staff members that are paid over $1.2 million dollars. Of course, she has NO OFFICIAL DUTIES and all of this is greed and selfishness at its highest level. SHAME ON MICHELLE AND HER HUSBAND. YOUR ARE THE WORST.

Recession, Depression, What, Michelle Worry?

"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, " Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every
whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.   Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.

How things have changed!

If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President
and White House Social Secretary)

4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the
President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy
Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)

10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Direct or of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

14. Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)

16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)

18. Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

21. Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much
help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairsty list" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom travelled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

Expose Obama & ObamaCare

(c) 2009 ExposeObama
Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.

When you told Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid that the American people wanted no part of their health care schemes… they tried to shove it down your throat.

Without even bothering to read the legislation, liberals in Congress twisted arms, called secret meetings, made deals and frantically dashed to sneak ObamaCare past you before leaving on vacation.

But then… to add insult to injury… even after you caught them red-handed… they had the audacity to tell the American people that they want the time to go home and regroup so they can hit us again when they come back into session.

They essentially said, let us go back home and make some more deals… have some more secret meetings… twist some more arms… and we promise, we’ll come back in a month with a version of ObamaCare that you’ll really like.

They must think the American people are fools.

Of course… they probably still won’t bother to actually read the legislation… and it would come as no great shock if they tried to sneak it past again once they rolled back into town.

That’s why we need to send a message to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama… and we need to send it now.

When it comes to ObamaCare… The American people don’t want your Retreat… The American people want your Defeat.

The American people don’t want your so-called health care legislation delayed… the American people want it gone.

The American people didn’t ask you to regroup just so you can could back and hit us again. We’re not going to give you a single solitary inch or let you take a breath. We’re going to press you… we’re going to press our advantage… right here and right now.

Starting today, you will come to know that your attempts to transform America into a socialist country are over. The madness ends… now.

Today is the day you start losing and the American people start winning.

With your help, that’s the message we’re going to send right now.
ObamaCare: Is It The American Dream Or An American Nightmare?

During on of his press conferences, Barack Obama actually had the nerve to blame Republicans for blocking his bizarre health proposals.

Can you imagine that?  Democrats have majorities in the House and Senate, but Obama blames the GOP. Disingenuous? Or just plain dishonest – take your pick.

Obama’s health agenda is in trouble because the American people – that’s you – think it’s too expensive, too restrictive, too much about politics… and too little about improving people’s health and extending their lives.

The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, rained heavily on Obama’s parade. He said the proposal legislation would not reduce costs… and that it would sharply increase costs.

The secret is out: the sham health care proposals Barack Obama and his congressional cronies are peddling will bankrupt our nation, force you into an inferior government-run health plan, and endanger your family’s lives and health.

Remember what Obama said in assuring you about your private health insurance and physician choices under ObamaCare?

"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

When Obama said that, his nose presumably grew faster than Pinocchio’s.

Obama has the disturbing habit of feigning ignorance. And true to form, he did it when confronted with the scary words on page 16 of the proposed so-called health care legislation:

“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y [Year 1].”

That congressional gobbledygook basically means you’ll lose your private insurance – forever – if you change jobs… or your insurer modifies the plan… or if your employer tries either to change insurers or stop offering coverage altogether.

Of course, it also means it would be prohibitive for new private insurers to enter the game. And it means the private insurers now in business can never grow. It means the private insurers will simply fade into history.

So, if you now have a plan that’s the equivalent of sailing first-class, the government will use its power to shove you and your family down below deck into steerage – where you can join the teeming masses stuck with the so-called “public option.”

Here’s a quick description of what health care would be like under that public option: imagine if obtaining essential medical treatment was like going down to the DMV, getting in an endless line, and waiting there… essentially forever. That’s “change” nobody can believe in.

ObamaCare will turn the American Dream into the American Nightmare. We can’t let it happen.
Health Care “Reform” … or Something Much More Ominous?

Do any of the leftist scams masquerading as health care proposals really have anything to do with improving health care?

No more than the government takeover of the banks… and AIG… and General Motors had to do with improving banking, insurance, and the automotive industry

As Mark Levin told his fellow radio-talk show host Sean Hannity; Obama is seeking “a massive transfer of liberty and property from the American people to the government.”

Former Texas Congressman Dick Armey told Fox News that the Democrats’ health care proposals are not about better care… not about greater access to care… and not about lower health care costs.

Instead, Armey said the liberals are involved in a power grab, seeking control over one-sixth of our country’s economy.

What on earth is Obama really up to? Is he merely trying to tear down our America… and build a new one more to the liking of the radical left?

Apparently, he was dead serious when he bad-mouthed the United States all over the world. And seizing health care is only the next step in his relentless march to socialism.

Perhaps the key question is: Do they – Obama and his fellow Marxists - really want to destroy private insurance and private health care in America?

If you believe the answer to that is no, please read the following from the proposed health care legislation:

"The [Health] Commissioner shall establish a grace period whereby, for plan years beginning after the end of the 5-year period beginning with Y1, an employment-based health plan in operation as of the day before the first day of Y1 must meet the same requirements as apply to a qualified health benefits plan under section 101, including the essential benefit package requirement under section 121."

Translating this into English, it means all private health plans in America must be comparable to the government’s public option. Most experts believe that, after a few years, private insurance would have gone the way of buckboards, spittoons, and corsets.

After five years, your private insurance plan - if it still exists - would be indistinguishable from the public option.

Frankly, it’s now or never for us to stand up to the leftists, academic pinheads, and self-important “czars” who are playing Russian Roulette with our economy, our freedom, and our health.

Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Hussein Obama and each and every leader of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Tell them the proposed health care legislation now boiling like a witch’s brew in Congress is a monument to deceit and political cynicism, a recipe for rationing, human suffering, and medical mediocrity. Tell them that the American people want freedom of choice. Tell them that a government-run system will bankrupt our nation and harm its people. And finally, tell them that the American people do not want ObamaCare delayed. We want ObamaCare killed and buried so deep that it can never again rear its ugly head.

Obama’s Real Goal: A Socialistic Single-Payer System…

It’s now clear that all the rhetoric about “public options” and the like is obviously a smokescreen for Barack Obama’s real goal: to establish a European and Canadian socialist “single-payer” system.

That’s where the single-payer is supposedly the government, but is actually the taxpayer – that’s, you. But even though you’re the one who pays, the government takes control over every detail of the care you get – and more often, don’t get.

Every time you take a Tylenol or get a wart excised, some far-away bureaucrat will have determined whether you really have a headache… or if the growth is unsightly enough to justify removal.

George Will brilliantly analyzed Obama’s real intentions in a Washington Post Op Ed:

“The puzzle is: Why does the president, who says that were America ’starting from scratch’ he would favor a "single-payer" - government-run - system, insist that health-care reform include a government insurance plan that competes with private insurers? The simplest answer is that such a plan will lead to a single-payer system.

“Conservatives say that a government program will have the intended consequence of crowding private insurers out of the market, encouraging employers to stop providing coverage and luring employees from private insurance to the cheaper government option.”

How would that affect the overwhelming majority of people who are happy with their private insurance plans?

Will notes:

“The Lewin Group estimates that 70 percent of the 172 million persons privately covered might be drawn, or pushed, to the government plan. A significant portion of the children who have enrolled in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program since eligibility requirements were relaxed in February had private insurance. “

The raw, unchecked power of government – the kind that allows it to fire CEOs of private companies and dictate compensation – would remove any trace of a level playing field… and drive your insurance company out of business.

Once again, George Will hits the nail on the head:

“Government is incapable of behaving like market-disciplined private insurers. Competition from the public option must be unfair because government does not need to make a profit and has enormous pricing and negotiating powers.”

It’s absolutely critical to stop Big Government’s relentless – and mindless – effort to bulldoze a health system that has served our nation so well.

Obama’s Fanatical Effort to Canadianize Our Health System…

Of course, we’ve been told for years that the best single-payer system in our hemisphere is Canada’s.

And many believed it until we started hearing the horror stories.

Invariably, these stories deal with people, often women, who were not near enough to death – or unbearable agony – to qualify for care in Canada.

Many of the Canadian we see telling their stories wouldn’t be alive if they hadn’t been able to pay for needed care across the border… in the United States.

Why does Canada, like its counterparts in Europe, ration care? They do so for the same reason ObamaCare will practice rationing: not enough doctors, not enough hospitals, and not enough money to service the hordes seeking care from good old Uncle Sam.

The bad news is that this health care would not really be government-provided… you’d pay for it with your hard-earned tax dollars. The really bad news is that it probably wouldn’t be available when you needed it the most anyway.

Listen to Dr. David Gratzer, a Canadian-trained physician now practicing in the United States:

“I trained in emergency rooms that were chronically, dangerously overcrowded… all across Canada. I met a middle-aged man with sleep problems who was booked for an appointment with a specialist . . . three years later; a man with pain following a simple hernia repair who was referred to a pain clinic . . . with a two-year wait list; a woman with breast cancer who was asked to wait four more months . . . before starting the lifesaving radiation therapy.”

Gratzer continues:

“According to the government’s own statistics, some 1.2 million Canadians could not get a family doctor. In some rural areas, town councils resorted to lotteries: the winners would get appointments with the only general practitioners around.”

Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.