Obama Citizenship

Obama: The No-Bow Bow, Childhood Apartment Memorialized, Turkey Goes Blackface, Citizen Jury Update

By Phil

While the debate rages on over whether or not the President has actually admitted to being a Muslim (apparently important to those who sympathize with the Administration), an even bigger debate is being sparked over the President’s “no-bow” bow.

In fact, this story — which has apparently been making the rounds for the past 3 or 4 days — has prompted a response from the White House.

More specifically, as blogger StartThinkingRight takes note, “One picture is worth a thousand words:”

The blogger goes on…

And here?s the link to the video, so you can watch the whole thing over and over while screaming, ?THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF RESTORING AMERICAN PRESTIGE??

It didn?t take long before the official denial: ?Barack Obama did not show subservient fealty to that king, Mr. Abdullah??

Barack Obama?s handler?s may be right.  At least technically.

From Webster?s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language:

?Curtsy: a bow by women in recognition or respect, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.?

Let?s see: bent knees - check.  Lowered body - check.  Woman?  Well, that?s really pretty darned subjective, given Obama being our first true metrosexual president, and all.

Obama didn?t bow down before Saudi King Abdullah, contrary to the accusations by ?the vast, right-wing conspiracy.?  He curtsied, which is the new metrosexual version of ?a bow by any other name would smell as submissive.?

Many are saying Obama bowing down before the Saudi king shows weakness.  Like everyone didn?t already know Barack Obama was weak?

Jeff Shreiber’s AmericasRight blog comes to a slightly different conclusion.

In better news for the President, WorldNetDaily is reporting that Hawaii is moving to make his childhood apartment memorialized via the National Register of Historic Places:

Hawaii lawmakers have voted to advance a resolution to make the apartment building where Barack Obama grew up a national landmark, yet there is still no move to recognize any island hospital as his birthplace.

The move this week is the first step in designating the 1960s-era, 12-story Punahou apartment building on the National Register of Historical Places.

“It’s very unique that the president of the United States grew up in a modest high-rise apartment building in Honolulu,” Renton Nip, chairman of the board of the Emma Kwock Chun Corp., which owns the Punahou Circle apartments, told the Associated Press. “With his modest upbringing, he has achieved so much. It’s terrific.”

Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu and lived in the two-bedroom 10th-floor apartment from 1971 to 1979, when he graduated from nearby Punahou School. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, rented a unit in the building for 41 years until she died just before Obama was elected president last year.

“By placing this on the register, we get to talk about how Hawaii and its places shaped the character and the philosophy of this unique resident,” said Kiersten Faulkner, executive director of the Historic Hawai’i Foundation.

Placing a site on the National Register of Historic Places is mostly a recognition of its significance without many obligations. The listing comes with investment tax credits and does not limit property rights.

Tourists are not allowed inside to see the apartment itself. They will have to look at the building from tour buses roaming Honolulu’s streets.

“With all due respect, there’s a level of pride we can have in having a native son being the president, but I think even the president would say there are more pressing things we have to focus on,” said Adam DeGuire, executive director of the Hawaii Republican Party.

Properties applying for listing in the National Register are considered by a professional review board and judged based on their age and significance. The program is administered by the National Park Service.

The next most obvious question is, which Hawaiian hospital is going to memorialize — perhaps with a plaque — itself as being the President’s place of birth?

With that in mind, the same article broaches the eligibility issue with respect to Hawaiian Department of Health officials:

The one subject that has been avoided to date has been whether or not the president is, in fact, eligible.

So far, there have been two definitive statements on the issue that have been made public, including one from an Obama campaign spokeswoman talking about the challenges who told WND, “All I can tell you is that it is just pure garbage.”

The other is from Chiyome Fukino, the director of the Hawaiian Department of Health, who issued a statement, “I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.”

As with the court opinions, what is not said is significant. While the certificate on file is “in accordance with state policies and procedures,” there’s no affirmation that the document reflects a Hawaiian birth.

Nor is there any explanation for the image of the Hawaii state “certification of live birth” that has been posted by Obama on the Internet, purporting to document his Hawaiian birth, even though Hawaiian procedures at the time allowed that document to be issued to parents of children not born in the state.

For example, why would an individual with a verified birth certificate also have a “certification of live birth?”

So, could it get worse for the President, at least internationally? How about going blackface??

As EvilConservativeOnline opines:

This comes pretty close to maxing out the weird scale… a Turkish broadcaster in blackface reporting on Obama’s butt-kissing speech today in Turkey. Obama’s speech was long on praise for Islam and apologies for America. I wonder what the response would be if Rush Limbaugh did a show in blackface? 

ScoopThis.org provides a rough translation of the original jibberish: “Welcome, Mr. Obama. You took our hearts with your hospitality. We appreciate your kindness. We will do whatever America asks of us, as friends. Now, we ask the same of you.”

On the common law/citizen grand jury front:

• Sam Sewell of TheSteadyDrip blog has joined foces with AmericanGrandJury.com
• Andrea Shea-King of TheRadioPatriot blog will be interviewing both Mssrs. Sewell and Swensson (of the GA grand jury) tonight
• Alren Williams of InvestigatingObama has archived his interview with Carl Swensson

A current listing of eligibility lawsuits can be found here.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).