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The [[Obama]] birth certificate controversy is a long running pet grip of Joseph Farah and receives excessive coverage on WorldNetDaily. The website will instantly host any article, which contains any opinion, that could possibly point to the fact that Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States. Despite there being a very high quality picture of his birth certificate on the internet,<ref>[http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg That could belong to anyone named Barack Hussein Obama II born to a Caucasian women and African man on the 4th of August 1961 in Honolulu]</ref> they still believe he is ineligible because: | The [[Obama]] birth certificate controversy is a long running pet grip of Joseph Farah and receives excessive coverage on WorldNetDaily. The website will instantly host any article, which contains any opinion, that could possibly point to the fact that Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States. Despite there being a very high quality picture of his birth certificate on the internet,<ref>[http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg That could belong to anyone named Barack Hussein Obama II born to a Caucasian women and African man on the 4th of August 1961 in Honolulu]</ref> they still believe he is ineligible because: | ||
#He was born in Kenya, his Grandma said so.<ref>This is what we were told she said based on a translation. Even if the translation was true, the question she was reportedly asked was "Which city in Kenya was Barack born"? This is [[begging the question]]. Also her sons name was Barack Obama, so once asked about the Kenyan born Barack Obama she may have assumed they were talking about her Son not Grandson.</ref> | #He was born in Kenya, his Grandma said so.<ref>This is what we were told she said based on a translation. Even if the translation was true, the question she was reportedly asked was "Which city in Kenya was Barack born"? This is [[begging the question]]. Also her sons name was Barack Obama, so once asked about the Kenyan born Barack Obama she may have assumed they were talking about her Son not Grandson.</ref> | ||
| − | #They only showed his birth certificate to a "select few media outlets", not to us, so it could still be fake.<ref>This is irrelevant [http://www.factcheck.org/about/ the website chosen was due to its neutrality].</ref> | + | #They only showed his birth certificate to a "select few media outlets", not to us, so it could still be fake.<ref>This is irrelevant, [http://www.factcheck.org/about/ the website chosen was due to its neutrality and professionalism].</ref> |
#Even if it is real, that certificate is a "Certificate of Live Birth" not a "Birth Certificate", so it proves nothing.<ref>[[wp:Birth_certificate#Birth_certificates_in_the_United_States|Birth Certificates and Certificate of Live Birth are the same thing]]. A longer version of the one on the net is on record, but even his short one says he was born in Hawaii.</ref> | #Even if it is real, that certificate is a "Certificate of Live Birth" not a "Birth Certificate", so it proves nothing.<ref>[[wp:Birth_certificate#Birth_certificates_in_the_United_States|Birth Certificates and Certificate of Live Birth are the same thing]]. A longer version of the one on the net is on record, but even his short one says he was born in Hawaii.</ref> | ||
#Even if he has a "long-form" birth certificate, he lived in Indonesia for some years and gave up his American citizenship. | #Even if he has a "long-form" birth certificate, he lived in Indonesia for some years and gave up his American citizenship. | ||
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WorldNetDaily (affectionately known by its fans as "WorldNutDaily") is an extremely conservative website run by Joseph Farah. Its political leanings are right-wing, pro-Christian, and pro-United States, however, unlike Conservapedia, it pretends to give multiple sides of an issue (which, to an extent, it does: the conservative viewpoint and the ultra-conservative viewpoint). They are best known for distributing Ann Coulter's insipid, poisonous "articles", as well as articles written by noted political pundits [sic] Chuck Norris and Pat Boone.
WND consistently provides a fundamentalist Christian, creationist view of the world, with strongly libertarian economic leanings. Their publishing standards are quite low, and they have printed stories from extremely questionable sources on several occasions.[1][2]
For the record: If you use WND as a source for your arguments in your college class, your professor will look at you like you are crazy (A notable exception is the argument for the existence of idiots). If you then proceed to brandish a response from them backing you up as proof, your professor will start to spasm wildly. Don't do this.
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Obama birth certificate controversy
The Obama birth certificate controversy is a long running pet grip of Joseph Farah and receives excessive coverage on WorldNetDaily. The website will instantly host any article, which contains any opinion, that could possibly point to the fact that Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States. Despite there being a very high quality picture of his birth certificate on the internet,[3] they still believe he is ineligible because:
- He was born in Kenya, his Grandma said so.[4]
- They only showed his birth certificate to a "select few media outlets", not to us, so it could still be fake.[5]
- Even if it is real, that certificate is a "Certificate of Live Birth" not a "Birth Certificate", so it proves nothing.[6]
- Even if he has a "long-form" birth certificate, he lived in Indonesia for some years and gave up his American citizenship.
- Even if he lived in Indonesia without giving up his US citizenship, his father was Kenyan and so does not meet
ourthe constitution's definition of "natural born citizen", because both parents have to be US citizens.
Just to show how crazy determined they are to get that black Democrat out of the White House uphold the Constitution, they claim to have raised more $65,000 to erect billboards around the country with the message "Where's the Birth Certificate?" Interestingly, WND seems to be completely silent[7] on the eligibility of John McCain, who caused a slight stir due to being born in the Panama Canal Zone.[8]
Some facts
In point of fact the nationality of one, or for that matter both, of Obama's parents is simply irrelevant. Anybody who is born on US soil is eligible for US citizenship.[9]
See also
- Brigitte Gabriel - author, contributor
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
- ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/thunderer/article659904.ece
- ↑ That could belong to anyone named Barack Hussein Obama II born to a Caucasian women and African man on the 4th of August 1961 in Honolulu
- ↑ This is what we were told she said based on a translation. Even if the translation was true, the question she was reportedly asked was "Which city in Kenya was Barack born"? This is begging the question. Also her sons name was Barack Obama, so once asked about the Kenyan born Barack Obama she may have assumed they were talking about her Son not Grandson.
- ↑ This is irrelevant, the website chosen was due to its neutrality and professionalism.
- ↑ Birth Certificates and Certificate of Live Birth are the same thing. A longer version of the one on the net is on record, but even his short one says he was born in Hawaii.
- ↑ I searched for John McCain's eligibility, not Obama's, stupid liberal search engine...
- ↑ In reality, they are both equally eligible, and it has been proven, but you don't see them making a mountain out of a molehill for the white guy... hey, just sayin', that's all.
- ↑ Snopes on Obama birth
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