The Whole Truth and Nothing But
Deborah Venable
02/09/10
I’d
like to think that we are getting closer to the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth about the man that currently occupies the Oval
Office. I can’t believe that we are
though. I know that the subject of the
man’s birth is so off limits that many otherwise credible people refuse to even
touch it – except maybe to scoff at those who would insist that questions need
answering. “Birthers” we are called –
those of us who would ask those questions.
Convenient little term, like “racist” or “bigot” or “homophobe” that
carry negative connotations just with the accusation – not backed up with a
grain of proof!
Many
of us (who ask these questions now) were asking before the election that
catapulted perhaps the biggest fraud in American history into the highest
office in the land. The evidence
existed then as it does now that Barack Obama did not and does not
constitutionally qualify for the presidency.
This wasn’t something that was manufactured by a bunch of nut job
extremists. It also has nothing to do
with the man’s race like too many wish to claim. It doesn’t simply have to do with where the man was born
either. Far too many people have
refused to investigate the ramifications of the specific circumstances of his
birth.
If
his father was who Obama himself has said he was then he could be
constitutionally disqualified from the presidency on that note alone. Barack Obama Sr. was never an American
citizen and as a citizen of Kenya, automatically conveyed (by birthright) an
allegiance to Great Britain at that time and later Kenya on his son, Barack
Obama Jr. Whether or not his mother
(whom he claims as Stanley Ann Dunham) was an American citizen makes no
difference. The definition of “natural
born citizen” has been hammered out in a plethora of cases. There is no wiggle room to fudge the
definition. That the founders saw fit
to include that qualification in the eligibility for president is crystal
clear. Split allegiance is just not
something we can or should ever tolerate in a United States President. Those who don’t agree with this stance
should at least be willing to debate it and see it played out in specific case
law.
If
we couple this with the possibility that a) Barack Obama may have been born
somewhere else than where he says, and b) that there is reason to believe he
may have misrepresented who his parents really were, there is more than enough
reason to question his qualifications.
None of this is made up stuff.
Without reasonable investigation into these allegations, we are simply
left with reasonable doubt.
On
the question of location of his birth:
the streamlined, computer produced document known as the Certification
of Live Birth proves nothing. Those
have been produced for people not born in the state of Hawaii simply by
relatives requesting the form with false data provided. Yes, it is probably an “official” document,
but it begs more questions than it answers.
The newspaper notices that appeared at the time prove nothing either,
but folks like Bill O’Reilly swear that is the end all for them. The newspaper notices appeared simply
because the aforementioned certificate was issued. Period. There was no deep
dark conspiracy to do all this in preparation of a boy who would one day seek
the presidency. It was done simply to
insure citizenship – not guarantee natural born citizenship. Many, many parents have done this. I would suggest that O’Reilly and others
like him need to toss out their decaf and grab a cup of the real stuff!
On
the question of the stepfather, Lolo Soetoro:
he was a citizen of Indonesia and a Muslim and as such could have
conveyed on his stepson both citizenship and religious conviction that would
have also called into question his allegiance to the United States of
America. We have been shown no
documented evidence that Obama never held dual citizenship. If that was ever the case, he is “naturally”
disqualified from the office. I repeat
– no wiggle room on split allegiance.
That
brings us to the reason why many have chosen to turn a blind eye to all the
legitimate questions on Obama’s eligibility – the fact that Hillary Clinton
would have surely found out if he were not qualified. Now I’m sorry, but that is the weakest argument of all. We don’t know that she didn’t do we? All we know is that she and her husband have
been bought off so to speak. She
remains in the limelight enough to run against Obama in 2012 no matter what she
says now. Anyone who thinks she truly
admires her boss is naïve at best. She
has enough skeletons in her own closet that would preclude her from that
ultimate showdown which did not occur in 2008.
I find it easier to believe that she could have doled out just enough
rope to have Obama hang himself. Above
all that, her political agenda did not deviate that much from Obama’s, and why
not let him test the “progressive” waters for her while she observes from a
safe shore?
As
his popularity falls in the polls and his policies are spelled out in an agenda
that most Americans now have a problem with, it is well beyond time for the
American people to have the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this
man’s origins.
Even
he is feeling the need to bring up the subject of his citizenship in an
underhanded way. At the National Prayer
Breakfast as he lectured on policy, he warned against questioning “my faith -- or for that fact, my citizenship!"
Now,
folks, you can fall into the trap of “hands off” the eligibility issue if you
want to. You can call me a fool for
bringing it up again if you want to.
You can be lulled into believing that “birthers” are just a bunch of
extremist nuts like “truthers” or “flat earthers” or holocaust doubters or moon
landing doubters or . . . well, I could go on and on with groups we have been
compared to. I also know that many of
the prominent birthers also fit into some of the other groups. I don’t care about that because, as you
should know from reading practically anything else I have ever written, I am
not a collectivist – I am an individualist.
I would hold these self-evident truths even if no one else did. The simple question that we should all want
an answer to is this: where is the proof that this man’s background qualified
him to become (or stay for that matter) president of the United States of
America?
In
the interest of education for those who have only viewed this subject through
the left-leaning lens of Wikipedia or Fight the Smears, (look up those URLs
yourself) I am providing two links for suggested continuing study on this
subject:
Another
Look At Obama's Origins
by Jack Cashill, published at American Thinker.
The Obama File - published by Beckwith, (who incidentally
sounds like my kind of guy.)
Of
course Joseph Farah continues to question Obama’s eligibility on his high
quality news site, World Net Daily, which enjoys a permanent link on my front
page.
Education is the key to overcoming ignorance that is
extremely dangerous for our republic.
Not the kind of indoctrination that goes on in our public school system
and the halls of higher learning all over the land – those insufferable torture
camps we impose on our children and young people. No. The education we
sorely need is the self-directed, individual seeking of the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.