Indiana

Birth Pains

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

I went to the post office today to pick up passport applications for my fiance and me; we honeymoon in St. Martin later this year.  While there,  I was reading through some paperwork and noticed something all the people who keep harping on this Barack Obama birth certificate nonsense, might want to check.

The current requirements for getting a passport include proving you’re a U.S. Citizen which includes providing a birth certificate.

This is my favorite section.

When applying for a U.S. passport in person, evidence of U.S. citizenship must be submitted with Form DS-11. All documentation submitted as citizenship evidence will be returned to you. These documents will be delivered with your newly issued U.S. passport or in a separate mailing.

• A previously issued undamaged passport.
• A certified birth certificate issued by the city, county or state.
• A consular report of of birth abroad or certificate of birth.
• Naturalization certificate.
• Certificate of Citizenship.

*A certified birth certificate has a registrar’s raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar’s office, which must be within 1 year of your birth. Please note, some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.

So assuming the President has a passport, which he does because his file was accessed without permission (along with Hillary Clinton and John McCain) the odds are he submitted his Hawaiian birth certificate to the State Department and they signed off on it and would have caught it if it was a fake; so odds are the President is natural born citizen.

And assuming these rules were not in place when Obama applied for a passport years ago wouldn’t his place of birth be in his passport file?  And wouldn’t that information have gotten out by now if he wasn’t born in the United States.  This is the problem with conspiracy theorists, they tend see everything except what’s staring them right in the face.

You want to argue against Obama?  There are plenty of real issues out there. Use health care reform, cap and trade,  spending, deficits; something for real.  Otherwise you guys just look like a bunch nuts in search of squirrels.

And by the way, if the Clintons couldn’t beat this guy, what makes you think you’ll have better luck?

Happy hunting.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).