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  • Posted By: hughbie @ 10/06/2008 10:09:27 AM

    Seeing is believing... where is the original? Does Obama have the original but just refuses to release it to the media? Or is it that he cannot produce the original because Obama does not have one?

    BTW, there are no official signatures on the ???New??? birth certificate??? More investigation is needed.

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/14/2008 1:28:06 AM

      hughbie

      The people who wrote this article said they touch the birth certificate and you say that YOU need to see it. I don't have my ORIGINAL copy of my birth certificate, the certified copy I've shown the military has allowed me to serve my country without question. This birth certificate issue is noise and its sole purpose is to cause doubt in the minds of the public. The type of noise that cost McCain his election in 2000 AND 2004. The diffierence now is that EVERYONE KNOWS what the republicans are trying to do AND the economy is a REAL issue..

      The premise of any smear campaign rests on a central truth of politics: Most of us will vote for a candidate we like and respect, even if we don't agree with him on every issue. But if you can cripple a voter's basic trust in a candidate, you can probably turn his vote. The idea is to find some piece of personal information that is tawdry enough to raise doubts, repelling a candidate's natural supporters.

      All campaigns do extensive research into their opponent's voting record and personal life. This so-called "oppo research" involves searching databases, combing through press clips, and asking questions of people who know (and preferably dislike) your opponent. It's not hard to turn up something a candidate would rather not see on the front page of The Boston Globe.

      It's not necessary, however, for a smear to be true to be effective. The most effective smears are based on a kernel of truth and applied in a way that exploits a candidate's political weakness.

      http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/

  • Posted By: oil city @ 10/07/2008 12:53:27 PM

    Maybe the original "original" got lost during the '60s, maybe it got sent in with his original US passport application in the days before xerox machines were everywhere and didn't get returned or filed someplace safe. So what? We've sent for "official" birth certificates for many family members over the years when we couldn't find the "original" ones, for various reasons, and the certified copies are legally the same thing. And there is an "official signature" on the Obama BC -- it's stamped, just like the one on my reissue (from NYC). People will believe anything, of course, anything they really want to believe (Elvis is still alive, for instance). but I would say the burden of proof is on those asserting Obama was not born in the US. The State of Hawaii has officially documented that he was born there, and so is a natural born citizen and can be President. If you have evidence to the contrary, let's see it.

  • Posted By: Babe Klein @ 09/06/2008 9:06:05 PM

    It is a known fact that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, Africa of an African father and a white mother. The United States Constitution clearly states that any person running for the office of United States President must be "Native Born". His color is not the object....we must uphold the Constitution of the United States.

    • Posted By: Nebraska @ 10/02/2008 2:59:08 AM

      How could he have been born in Kenya? Kenya wasn't even a country until two years after he was born.

  • Posted By: liberty8 @ 09/11/2008 12:15:41 PM

    You want to talk about birth cerificates....Let see the one of Sarah Palins newborn....How simple it would have been to produce this instead of throwing your 17 yr old daughter to the wolves as a screen to get the heat off of her about this child. What Mother would do this to her daughter, I know I wouldn't have. What kind of power mongure is she? The worst kind, she will do anything for the Power..Now that is scarey...

    • Posted By: sk8ermom @ 09/24/2008 7:10:37 PM

      you've got to be kidding me.... how stupid of an argument is that. Do you actually believe this? It is widely known that most Downs babies are born to mothers of more mature age.... it's one of the biggest risks with late-in-life pregnancy ... NOT teenage births. Get a reality grip...

  • Posted By: sk8ermom @ 09/05/2008 10:02:06 PM

    For the love of Pete, people - WAKE UP!!!! I don't care if he was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or Timbuktu... that, to me, is by far the LEAST of my concerns about Barack Obama... and believe me, I have MANY. What about the fact that beyond where he actually made his entrance into this world, many formative years of his childhood were NOT in the United States of America, but rather Indonesia, amongst Muslim influence and teachings. Why are we ballyhooing about race, or birthplace or anything else.... is this truly the best we have to choose from for the highest office in the land? Can't we at least get SOMEBODY... black, white, female or otherwise, who was at least born AND RAISED in the United States? Obama's methods and intentions are highly suspect to me, and I am flabbergasted that after only 7 short years following the most horrific attack on American soil, we as a nation are actually considering someone so soft on defense, and inexperienced at foreign policy as Barack Obama. Heaven help us if he is elected.

    • Posted By: Lovly2008 @ 09/10/2008 12:55:23 AM

      Stop fooling yourselves. You are afraid of Barack Obama because you dont want to have to acknowledge Black people as humans. How will you be able to justify your superior attitudes with a Black man as your LEADER? No more excuses people, examine your souls. Besides that other countries will begin to see us as being noble again with Obama as president.

      • Posted By: sk8ermom @ 09/24/2008 7:07:09 PM

        It has nothing to do with the color of his skin.... there are many honorable black leaders I would have embraced .... Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma for example was a decent, honorable, honest public servant... problem is, lots of folks don't like him much because of his conservative views. Obama's ideology and positions on major issues are what I find objectionable... nothing more.

  • Posted By: Lovly2008 @ 09/10/2008 12:48:38 AM

    Now that you've got Obama's birth certificate, would you please aske Sarah Palin for her newborns birth certificate? I think we have a right to know the truth. We dont need any more Presidents hiding false information. And yes, we do have a right to know what kind of person she really is.

    • Posted By: chehil @ 09/12/2008 12:31:38 PM

      I'm with you on this, a birth certificate on this baby is warranted. Some say it's not likely for a person to get pregnant so soon after a baby is born, don't know how a womans body function. I know first hand that a woman can get pregnant right after having a baby. Infact a first cousin of mine did, back in the late eighties. She had a baby the early part of the month, and must have gotten well and you know what happened next. The next month she went for her checkup the doctor informed her that she was doing well and that she was fourteen days pregnant. When I first heard Palin talk about her son and then found out by mistake that her 17 year old daughter was pregnant, my first instinct told me that this small baby was the daughter too. There are too many holes in the story. A mother will be pround the be having a baby no matter what position she's in. Be it a governor or community leader. She will not be ashame and will tell her family. After all she did not know she was having a special child as she points out until the third trimester and that she covered the preganancy up by wearin baggy and big clothes, that sounds so very retarded to me. Only young teenagers will do something like this. For heavens sake, she's a married woman. That's why I beleive this baby is her daughters. Think about the story told about her licking fluids, and wanting to get back to Wasillia some what 40-50 miles away from where she could get to a hospital. I'm willing to bet Palin has even had the hospital staff, or even a midwife paid to keep quite. It amazes me the length people will go through to cover up something.

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/11/2008 9:21:18 PM

    PERSONALLY, the issue of where this dude was born is totally paled by the fact that he's worked 143 days in his current position in the senate....HE"S admitted that the last 19 months, he's spent in hotel rooms and running from town to town.....It's like going to work at McDonalds as a cashier one day, then two days later, your shooting for the CEO position....It's ridiculious to entertain the idea that he is anywher close to being capable of making good, sound, and CORRECT choices for our nation......Let's get real about this thing and talk about the real issue....it's just as Ferraro said...it he weren't black, he would have been laughed out of his crazy ambitons....It's just that nobody is willing to tell the truth~~~

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/23/2008 7:25:22 PM

    Hey ShareNews...got a little info, I thought you might want to research....I've got some info, but you are the best researcher among this forum. So, if interested, I think you will find a new problem for Sen. Soetoro.

    Obama, Ayers, Annenberg, and ACORN: a family affair?

    LOTS of buzz about illegal $$$ floating around.

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: Lovly2008 @ 09/10/2008 12:59:59 AM

      Holy Roller? Well it would take a real racially blinded person, to not see that Obama has been well reared by some parent or pastor. When you learn to take the high road as he does, then you can talk.

  • Posted By: deacondeb @ 09/09/2008 6:29:12 PM

    DEBORAH McCLELLAN HERE AGAIN: I CAN'T BELIEVE I TYPED "HONORABLE" AS "UNHONORABLE". GOOD GRIEF. IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY. OF COURSE, I MEANT HONORABLE!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: lukkiecharm @ 09/08/2008 4:16:50 PM

    Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court , Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083, seeking a Declaratory Judgment and an Injunction that Obama does not meet the qualifications to be President of the United States.
    Check the facts folks..it's public information.

  • Posted By: Therese in NV @ 09/05/2008 8:55:28 PM

    This lawsuit has been addressed in newspapers across the country. However, the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign have been working with major Pro Media outlets to keep a lid on this story. There is also evidence that Senator Obama didn't change his citizenship on his passport until 2006. Even as a US Senator, Barack Obama was citizenship was listed as Indonesia until he started his Presidential Bid. This is not heresay, there are photo copies of this on the internet. That was why the Obama campaign had a fit when the passport records were "broken into and release to the internet and media." These records are public, the Democrats were just trying to keep them under raps.

  • Posted By: Therese in NV @ 09/05/2008 8:37:57 PM

    I am not so concerned about the authenticity of the birth certificate, as I am about the lawsuit in Federal Court in Eastern Pennsylvania. This suit was brought by Democrats, and Former National Head of the Democratic National Convention, not Republicans; outlining proof that Obama was actually born in Kenya and a week later his Parents flew to Hawaii to re-register him at 2 hospitals to obtain the birth certificate. This is not a small claims court or civil court. It is a FEDERAL Court and the court felt there is enough valid evidence for the case not to be dismissed, even though Senator Obama told a recent rally that the case was dismissed. The case is going through the Federal court! <http://www.globalsearch.ca/index.php?content=va&aid=9920>

  • Posted By: GRANDMABEE4@VERIZON.NET @ 09/05/2008 7:12:41 AM

    I think if we the "People" can ask for a birth certificate for Obama, we should get one for McCain and for Palin. Let's stop asking for things that are only required for blacks. Let's unite and make sure the same requirements are for every American. It's time everyone realize that life is a two way street. We all need to open our hearts and our eyes and be honest. The fact remains that all Americans are afraid of color.

  • Posted By: MasterMindY @ 08/22/2008 3:16:50 PM

    Strange, I was born in 74 and my birth certificate was still typed. The one shown here looks computer-generated. While I am lax to buy into conspiracy theories, from my knowledge, that is not an original birth certificate.
    -Scientist in D.C.

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 08/22/2008 3:19:51 PM

      My original is half-handwritten. My dupes are dot-matrix or computer generated with the same unique stamp.

      • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:53:58 PM

        I wouldn't accept a half, hand typed or handwritten birth certificate. There is no telling what they put on it so your birth certificate could be fake.

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:52:09 PM

      If yours was typed you better hope you who they say you are seems like your birth certificate is fake. You need to find citizenship some where before its to late. No one is typing anymore not hand typing anyway, everything is computerized and being updated everyday by computers.

  • Posted By: NotAnObamacan @ 08/22/2008 4:45:32 PM

    Liberals just destroy countries: France, Canada and England just bury their heads in the sand now... they cannot defend themselves. God forbid if they were invaded -- who would they call??? Hmm... it makes me wonder?

    Don't let America slip into passivism. Some wars are unjust -- but then again, some aren't. Are we willing to just roll-over and give into evil. The UN is a joke... If the US was ever to lose their 'Super-Power' status, do you really believe China, Russia or any other great power wouldn't hesitate to take us out???

    Conservatives may kill some, but in the end Liberals kill all.

    • Posted By: ourantispam @ 08/23/2008 12:01:21 AM

      Jeez you are an idiot. Are we able to do anything about Russia and Georgia? Who has put this countries security at risk?

    • Posted By: flippittyflip @ 08/23/2008 12:09:30 AM

      Hey smarty.. It's pacifism anyway.. as in pacific + ism... That may lend more credence to your spouting

      • Posted By: NotAnObamacan @ 08/23/2008 1:00:10 AM

        FlippittyFlip -- If I wanted to use ' pacifism' I would've... but I used passivism... please, look it up... there is a difference! But, I know you're a liberal and it's quite hard to understand alot. But, I can educate you -- or my 14 year-old can bring you up to speed??? Let me know... we conservatives are always looking to help out our fellow dummies.

    • Posted By: Jurr @ 08/22/2008 4:59:53 PM

      Yeah, look what those liberals did to Iraq & are chomping at the bit to do to Iran & Syria. The only conservatives won't kill are fetuses, everything else0 including the planet is fair game.

  • Posted By: ready9 @ 08/22/2008 5:04:35 PM

    Does anyone remeber the "Domino Theory" It was used by our government to argue that if we lost the war in Viet Nam the entire region would go Communist DId It? I dont think so!! The american public, in large, is suspicious of naything it cant accept or relate too. So now Muslims become the new Evil and we use our Military as a new export commodity. The thing is to change how we respond to the world. Not to allow every boogey man to send us into a militaristic whirlwind. Do we need our armed forces, of course we do! But lets begin to completely assess our military responses. Lets not allow our Government to get away with lies. It like if they lie and we invade then well its too late now to correct our original error, our original sin. Stop thrink re-think, assess be honest then respond DID we have to invade Iraq at the moiment we did. No, but we accepted our governments lie because we were attacked, angry (justifiabbly so) and allowed the lies to win becasue we had to get someoen and there they were radical muslims. We have our new foreign evil. When timothy McVey attacked our government building why didnt we declare war on every extrimist right wing militia in this country. Could it be because they are white and a part of this country. Maybe Im wrong, but folks for us to survive the new world, that is here and now we must step and look at things anew That does not mean never using our military but it does mean that just having a great military and using it knee jerk wise does not keep us safe nor keep us a great power After all, arent we supposed to be different than the rest of the world???? Just want you to do some soul searching

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:48:18 PM

      America is already pre-comunist we don't even control our own banks.

    • Posted By: NotAnObamacan @ 08/22/2008 5:11:54 PM

      Oh! I see what you mean: Just go on with the blinders up and hope another 9/11 doesn't occur. O-Yea! Nuclear holocost may not be too far off... just think Bill Clinton. That's all.

      Passivism doesn't work. Remember 9/11.

      • Posted By: raddave @ 08/22/2008 11:19:53 PM

        9/11 happened on Bush's watch, not Clinton

        • Posted By: NotAnObamacan @ 08/22/2008 11:29:32 PM

          Again, raddave... you're an idiot. GWB was the president during 9/11, but Al-Queida spawned/developed under the Clinton Administration... He (Bill) did nothing more than fire 1 tomahawk missle... he was too afraid to do more. He essentially put the blinders up for the next administration -- whom, btw- was better prepared to deal w/ it.

          • Posted By: ourantispam @ 08/22/2008 11:53:57 PM

            You forget that bush has specific intelligence that an attack was coming but chose to ignore it. Also don't forget how the fringe right screamed wag the dog when Clinton did try to do something about bin laden.

            • Posted By: NotAnObamacan @ 08/23/2008 12:55:22 AM

              OMG!!! Which plane was the terrorists on??? Talk about 'wag the dog'... Clinton reduced troop levels and closed bases thru-out the country... now, GWB has to sort out his misgivings... PULLEEZE! Read history idiots... why do I even bother to educate the brainless... God only knows!

          • Posted By: ourantispam @ 08/23/2008 12:00:02 AM

            Go ahead, let bush escape responsibility for his failings. bush was specifically warned on Aug 6th of 2001 that "bin Laden determined to attack". The warning specifically mentioned airplanes
            Clinton had a rabid right wing nipping at his heels screaming "wag the dog" every time he made a move.
            He put no blinders on the incompetent bush. The blinders came from his own inadequacies.

  • Posted By: Roger47 @ 08/23/2008 1:28:20 AM

    The false issue of the birth certificat is a typical right wing red herring. The goal is to shift the campaign to trivialities rather than real issues like the economy and the occupation. George W. was right when he said we won the war--we did when we over through Hussein and his army ran away. What we have had since then has been an unsuccessful occupation. The right knows they have to shift the focus to non-issues because they can't win on the real issues. The economy is a disaster, and we are being lied to about it. The unemployment rate would be 11% if the method of calculating it hadn't been changed to make it look better. The same is true for the inflation rate calculation. Real inflation is also about 11%. However, the richest 3% are getting richer, so Bush says the economy is OK.
    Ask yourself, are you better off than you were before Bush?

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/23/2008 5:45:16 PM

      This "richest" 3% you speak of. What percentage of taxes do they pay??? Ever looked? And what gives you or Hussein the right to steal their money?

      NOBAMA!!!

      • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:46:57 PM

        IF you can't see the corruption of American, i wouldn't believe nothing you say if you passed out flyers.

    • Posted By: Renata81 @ 08/23/2008 10:16:30 PM

      Roger47 you are right on and I am so happy to see someone who isn't deceived about what is taking place in the American economy. I feel that some many Americans don't understand the American economy, the Federal Budget, National Deficit, and Domestic policy. If anyone is truly interested in learning more about the aforementioned issues I suggest they read Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005 (or any edition they can get their hands on) by Alice m.Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill. Rivlin has worked for both the Congressional Budgeting Office and the Office of Management and Budget for several years she is bipartisan. Another good read is Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination by Randy Albelda, Robert Drago, and Steven Shulman, also The Meritocracy Myth by Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller jr. is an excellent pick along with Postindustrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle-Class Prosperity by Kevin T. Leicht and Scott T. Fitzgerald. And if you want to get really technical about how the federal budget works than I suggest the intense work of Allen Schick, The Federal Budget Politics, Policy, Process (however I must warn you that this book isn't as easy a read as the former books). .

  • Posted By: joemathieus @ 08/24/2008 9:24:46 AM

    Here's a big question. I saw no where in this article where anyone checked with had checked with hawaii if the birth itself was real. I see where the cirtificate had been checked for it's authenticy but NOT the actual birth. Fact is until 9/11 birth certificates were easy to come buy. Shoot I can tell you of two diferent places locally to go and get fake ss cards i'm sure they can come up with fake birth certificates.

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:44:51 PM

      Futher in this article it did show for your records that it was checked for it's seal. And the seal was raised so do that answer your lie.

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:37:09 PM

      Joemathieus, Well if that's the case you better hope yours isn't fake.

  • Posted By: Therese in NV @ 08/25/2008 11:51:22 AM

    Additionally, I am just one average american. However, doing about 20 minutes research on the internet was enough for me to legitimately question the authenticity of Senator Obama's birth certificate. Currently, there is another birth certificate signed by medical personnel in Vancouver, Canada that attests to his birth in Vancouver. As his sister, Maya, has two different birth month's on her online certificates. It is highly likely that after both births the children were taken to Hawaii (it was more liberal-less birth verification required during the 1960's) and registered again as american's. Attached is a link to a showing a Canadian birth certificate for Senator Obama with actual signatures. If this birth certificate is authentic, then Senator Obama is Canadian born - Not American. Shouldn't someone actually get to the bottom of this before the Democratic Party makes a huge fool of themselves? <http://www.rense.com/general82/pbb.htm>

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:34:38 PM

      Then want you go to Hawaii and get his original.

  • Posted By: Alegna57 @ 08/26/2008 1:22:11 PM

    If I follow as an international viewer all your effort to disqualify Obama or to discredit him..I only can say one thing and I am sorry I have to say it. There is no country as racist as the U.S.A. South Africa is a genuine racist country..but you all are racist under a mask........

    • Posted By: cocoa49 @ 09/03/2008 2:33:33 PM

      We'll the fact is Alegna57 you reap what you SOW as the scriptures says. You plant a bad seed you reap the same as a harvest.

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