Obama Citizenship

Newsworthies: More on Obama?s Birth, Articles on Background Checking

By Phil

There is some albeit anecdotal testimony that provides prima facie evidence (more on this in a moment) that the informed American voting citizen has reason to at least question Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility for the presidency.

In a December 8th interview with the Honorable Minister Louie Farrakhan:

RK: Minister, I?ll get back to the theme in a second, but we have a chat room that runs live as we go live on the air, and there is some great discussion going on in there right now. ?[Mr.] Thomas? from Germany [asks]: ?Can Obama function as a bridge between White and Black people, as well as the Muslim and Western world??

HMLF: Absolutely. The very fact that Barack Obama has a White mother and an African father, and he grew up in Hawaii; and even though his African father left him at two years old, his mother married an Indonesian, and moved him to Indonesia where he spent four or five years growing up, again, in a Muslim country.

In the Los Angeles Times, Pastor Rick Warren is quoted as saying the following:

In the same speech, Warren described the United States as a land of immigrants, telling his audience: ?I think it?s historic that we have a first-generation immigrant who?s just been elected president.?

Attorney Mario Apuzzo reported yesterday that Obama’s burden of proof on whether he was born in Hawaii hasn’t yet been met…

By now, many of us know about the Certification of Live Birth (COLB) that Obama posted on the internet in June 2008 as proof that he was born in Hawaii. This document was touted by fightthesmears.com and factcheck.org as sufficient proof that he was born in Hawaii. Later on we learned about Hawaiian law in effect at the time of Obama’s birth that allowed parents or guardians of babies born in a foreign country to register the foreign births in Hawaii and to receive a COLB as evidence of that registration. We also learned that only the original Certificate of Live Birth (BC), issued by the birth hospital, provides, among other things, the name of the hospital where a baby was born and the name of the attending physician that delivered the baby. We learned that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (a state agency that happens to detail the difference) states:

In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout).Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.

After learning this information many concerned Americans had doubts about whether the COLB was sufficient proof that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii. But apart from the lax Hawaii law, there is another important point to understand about the COLB.

If one reads the document, one will see that at the bottom it states: “This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.” …

The important words here are “prima facie evidence.” “Prima facie” is a Latin phrase meaning “on its first appearance” or “by first instance.” It is evidence which is adequate, if not invalidated, to confirm a particular intention or fact. It is evidence that is sufficient to raise a presumption of fact or to establish the fact in question unless rebutted. A prima facie case may be insufficient to enable a party to prevail if the opposing party introduces contradictory evidence. In other words, it basically means that on the face of it or on the surface there is enough evidence to prove the alleged fact, unless and until the alleged fact is contradicted.

What does all this mean? Obama has presented his COLB has proof that he was born in Hawaii. That document itself states that it is only “prima facie” evidence of that fact. As we have seen under the definition of “prima facie,” the presumption that the fact exists fails when evidence contradicting that fact is presented. When evidence contradicting the alleged fact is presented, the interested party needs to present other competent evidence to prove the existence of that alleged fact. If he fails to do so, the alleged fact is not proven, even if the opposing party produces no further evidence. …

Obama therefore now has the burden to come forward with competent evidence to prove that he was born in Hawaii. To date, he has failed to come forward with that evidence. Hence, under these circumstances, how can the American people in good faith conclude that Obama was born in Hawaii which makes him a “natural born Citizen” and therefore eligible to be President? How can Obama in good conscious take the oath to be President on January 20th when so many Americans have put forward all this contradictory evidence regarding where he was born and he refuses to come forward with any other convincing evidence (like a certified copy of his original birth certificate) showing that he was born in Hawaii? Obama should do the right thing for everyone’s sake and produce the evidence of where he was born.

Also, as a follow up to an original article I wrote on October 25, here’s a smorgasbord of links regarding background checks:

• The Process Today (FBI.gov)
• FBI security checks called deficient (WashingtonTimes)
• Obama Couldn’t Be Cleared (The American Spectator)
• Barack Obama Denied Security Clearance By White House (UnconfirmedSources.com)
• B Hussein Obama denied security clearance (AlexanderCornswalled)
• Barack Obama Denied National Security Clearance (SecurePuter)
• OBAMA HEARS ?FAMILY JEWELS? INTEL BRIEFING, CLEARANCE CONCERNS (PDF - Homeland Security Today)
• The Many Lies of Barack Obama (ResistLiberalism)
• Obama’s Security Clearance VS Palin’s Security Clearance (FreeRepublic.com)
• Obama Would Fail Security Clearance (PhiladelphiaBulletin)
• “If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers.” (St. Petersburg Times)
• The True Story of Barack Huessein Obama (DerkEiler.com)
• Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 - Subtitle F - Presidential Transition (GPOAccess.gov)
• Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (GSA.gov)
• BUSH GIVES STATE SECRETS TO OBAMA (NewsWithViews.com)

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on December 31, 2008 (boomark / email).