Barack Obama’s Hawaiian Birth in Question
June 28, 2008 5:52 pm Barrack ObamaThere has been a ton of speculation about the birth certificate Barack Obama has posted on his website. Apparently, the Obama birth certificate is missing an important embossed seal and signature. Here is an example of a Hawaiian certificate:

Hawaii law requires it to be stamped and signed on the back. Here is Barack Obama’s birth certificate:

No seal and signature. Odd! Here is some interesting information from the Israel Insider.
Barack Obama has claimed in writing to have a valid printed document: In the first chapter of his book Dreams From My Father, describing his origins, he wrote about finding a local Hawaiian newspaper article about his Kenyan father: “I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school.”
So where is that birth certificate? It got lost? The dog ate it? No matter. Barack Obama or an immediate family member can plunk down $10 ($11.50 if he orders online) and have Hawaii mail a certified document to him within a week or two. But more than two weeks have passed since the Obama campaign adopted the suspect, uncertified image of a purported birth document published by a left-wing blog Daily Kos, and nothing certified and nothing on paper has since has been forthcoming. Nor has there been any official comment about the issue from the campaign. They may cling to the hope — however audacious — that the one issue that could disqualify their man constitutionally from gaining the presidency will just go away.
I’m fairly certain Obama was born in Hawaii and will produce a birth certificate eventually. Should be interesting to see if McCain makes an issue of this.


Jackie Harris :
Date: June 29, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Simple. Request another sealed copy from Hawaii and compare. If it’s kosher..Great. If is a faker…Eek!
Sparky :
Date: June 29, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
I wish someone who works for the Hawaiian Vital Statistics would come forward and clear all this up with the correct info. Either the original certificate is in the vault, or it isn’t?! It would be convenient if he wasn’t a Citizen since it’s quite obvious he already hates America.
SoldierofChrist :
Date: July 20, 2008 @ 8:25 am
Well, if you are living in Hawaii, then I guess it wouldn’t be hard for you to get off your buttes and be journalist and see if this is true or not. The only thing you have to do is go to The library in Honolulu probably holds old copies of the Hololulu Advertiser newspaper.
Someone who lives there could go in and peruse old 1961 copies for the few days following Obama’s supposed birth. They could look thru the births section. My guess is that no births were listedin the name of either “Obama” nor “Dunham”.
If you are really a pen soldier and a good journalist, you have my email address, email and tell me that you are not another Koolaid check in a spell otherwise be a Journalist and an Investigator, we don’t have much of those people here anymore. And, if I don’t hear from you, just like I expected, a kid with a website.
Dave Lemon :
Date: August 12, 2008 @ 9:42 am
The Obama birth certificate states he was born in 1961. If this is true, why did he just celebrate his 43rd birthday last week? If the birth certificate is true, then he should have been celebrating his 47th.
GARY J. CAVARETTA :
Date: August 25, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
FIRST OF ALL OBAMA’S FATHER WAS A POLYGAMIST. HIS FATHER’S MARRAIGE TO OBAMA’S MOTHER WAS NOT EVEN LEGAL. HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED TO A WOMAN IN AFRICA AND HAD A CHILD WITH HER, AND ABANDONED THEM IN AFICA. HE THEM WENT TO HAWAII AND MET OBAMA’S MOTHER WHO HE MARRIED WHILE STILL BEING MARRIED TO KEZIA OBAMA FROM AFRICA. THEREFORE HIS MARRIAGE TO BARACK’S MOTHER WAS NEVER LEGAL.
HE THEN ABANDONED BARACK’S MOTHER ANN DUNHAM AND BARACK TO GO TO HAVARD UNIVERSITY AND BY THE WAY BARACK’S FATHER WAS OFFERED THE FUNDS AND THE MEANS TO TAKE ANN DUNHAM AND BARACK WITH HIM TO HAVARD, BUT DECLINED. AFTER HE LEFT HAVARD HE RETURNED TO AFRICA TO FATHER 2 MORE CHIDREN AND ABANDOM THEM. HE THEN RETURNED TO THE STATES TO MARRY YET ANOTHER WOMAN AND FATHER A CHILD TO WHICH HE ALSO ABANDONED. BARACK HAS AT LEAST 8 SIBLINGS HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE ANN DUNHAM DIVORCED HIM WHEN SHE WASN’T EVEN MARRIED BARACK SR. WAS A POLYGAMIST, A DRUNK AND A WIFE BEATER. NONE OF THIS HAS HIT THE PRESS AND I SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY!
Michelle :
Date: September 1, 2008 @ 12:48 am
In repsonse to Gary C., the most likely reason all the crap you mention about Barack Obama’s father isn’t publicized is that it doesn’t have anything to do with Barack himself. As he has mentioned frequently he barely knew his father and as intelligent voters we know that you can’t judge a person by their parents, thank goodness! As a result of his father’s faults and failures as a father I believe Barack is empathetic to single-parent families and the children who struggle to build their own American Dream.
ferenc :
Date: September 10, 2008 @ 2:00 am
obama was born in kenya and travels under an indonesian passport. this was reported in a european newspaper. obama can sue them if its not true,
Gail :
Date: September 10, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
I believe he doesn’t remember his own life history. Anyone who’d like to hear real facts on Obama , read “The Obama Nation ” by Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D.. His sister ( Maya Sortoro-NG) said, quote: “My whole family was Muslim,”pg. 60. Another pg. states columist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, asking Obama about his Islamic education. After acknowledging that he once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school in Indonesia, Obama recited for Kristof the opening lines of the Arbic call to prayer, as follows: Allah is supreme(sang 4Xs) I witness that there is no God but Allah.I witness that there is no God but Allah.I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… . Obama then describes the call to prayer ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’. pg. 61-62. So much more info. on his background. By the way -it says he entered the Presidential primary virtually unvetted (pg. 4).So why whine about Palin?
sean :
Date: September 13, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
ALL YOU DUMB ASSES SHUOLD LOOK AT
THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THIS
FAKE BIRTH CERT.IT HAS 11/01 LASER.
LASER PRINTERS WERE NOT OUT IN 1961!!!NO OBAMA NO WAY!!!
Gina Dentata :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 1:46 am
I doubt it highly, but, say Barack Obama was born in Kenya… IRRELEVANT, according to wikipedia, Barack Obama Sr never divorced his previous Kenyan wife, so Barack Obama was born out of wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother and a child born abroad out-of-wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother may acquire U.S. citizenship under Section 301(g) INA, as made applicable by Section 309(c) INA if the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the child’s birth, and if the mother had previously been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year. There are no retention requirements for said child. Case closed. I, however, doubt that there would be any Obama passport records to be snooped into, if a genuine certified Hawaiian birth certificate hadn’t been submitted to Passport Services. The State Dept is sort of picky about things like that.
lawmom90 :
Date: October 5, 2008 @ 7:14 am
This is a very strange issue that I have become very interested in. I researched yesterday and found a website that posted a snapshot of his birth announcement. Also, the site claims that he ordered a short form copy of his birth certificate from Hawaii, presented it to Factcheck.org and they posted a photograph that you can zoom in on. Mr. Philip J. Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and high-ranking Democrat has sued Barack obama in Federal District Court up in PA for proof of his citizenship. So far, Obama’s legal team is engaging in procedural sneaky lawyer tricks to delay ruling on the suit. Mr. Berg’s stated intention was to prevent the Republicans from pulling an “October surprise.” I am sure most of you are already conversant in this, though. Finally, Hawaii apparently does not allow orders of birth certificates by just any “Joe citizen” I would assume to prevent identity theft. So, that’s my two cents for what it is worth.
Fact Checker :
Date: October 5, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
If he was not born in the United States, he cannot become president, period. That’s is why the Terminator can’t ever be president.
Old Fashioned 1946 :
Date: October 6, 2008 @ 8:09 am
I think there is way to much controversy over Barrack Obama. I am old fashioned enough to believe that where there is smoke there usually is a fire. At the very least, SOMEBODY THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO SO, needs to investigate this thoroughly. My guestion is why has this gone on as long as it has and nobody can come up with a document to prove or disapprove his legal status as a born in this country or its protectorates or not!!!!!!!!! This whole country, Democrate or Republican alike NEEDS to be concerned about this. Nobody in their right mind should want a foreigner born man running this country and having the power a president holds in his (or her) hands.
Zack :
Date: October 6, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
“ALL YOU DUMB ASSES SHUOLD LOOK AT
THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THIS
FAKE BIRTH CERT.IT HAS 11/01 LASER.
LASER PRINTERS WERE NOT OUT IN 1961!!!NO OBAMA NO WAY!!”
What an idiot this guy is…the authentic birth certificate above of Patricia Decosta has 11/00 LASER. I guess her birth certifcate is fake also!!
Mark Osborne :
Date: October 7, 2008 @ 12:38 am
When asked by a plaintiff in US Federal court for proof of US citizenship, the Obama campaign had two choices: a) produce the documents or b) file a motion to block the request.
Why on earth would anyone go to so much trouble to avoid producing a couple of documents…if the documents actually existed?
johnwx1 :
Date: October 7, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Who is Barry Soetoro?
Johnwx1 :
Date: October 7, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
IF Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and John McCain was born in Panama, then who does that leave us with?
soupy8728 :
Date: October 8, 2008 @ 11:01 am
The birth certificates clearly state they are “certified copies” at the bottom. Neither of these are “originals”. The first one has the female being born in 1930. Hawaii wasn’t a state until 1959, like it says in the seal at the top of the document. This is also why it says 11/00 LASER at the bottom. They are printed out “as copies” on laser printers and stamped as “certified copies.” With that being said, I’m not defending Barack Obama. I personnally think he is a shady character who hangs out with other shady characters. If he becomes president, God help us all.
Kristina :
Date: October 10, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
I firmly believe the BC is a fake with all the other things about him out there. The reason the dates of 11/00 LASER is because that is when they may have changed the birth certificate look. I live in VA and i have had three different ones!!
berlyhill :
Date: October 11, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
We need to do our part in choosing the right candidate for our country. The number one thing we need to do, however, is pray that the truth will come out before Nov. 4th.
DNC Top Executive "John" :
Date: October 12, 2008 @ 2:23 am
Dear American People,
Hello. I will not be giving you my real information, as it needs to remain secret - at least until after our plan is enacted. I am a Top Executive at the Democratic National Committee. I can tell you this. What you have have been suspecting is true - Barack Obama was not actually born in Hawaii. The document that we have provided him to show as his birth certificate is not authentic; it was created in our experimental laboratories at the DNC’s World Headquarters in Saudi Arabia. This experimental lab - and, this may be quite shocking - this lab is where Barack Obama himself was also created, almost 48 years ago, as part of PROJECT FLAGBURN.
Yes, we had been trying for years, using the latest technology, to create the perfect candidate to enforce our liberal agenda. In the fall of 1960, we were finally successful, in our ninth try, in using recombinant DNA and artificial insemination to inject our carefully-crafted genetic material into an electronic womb (by bubbling Argon gas through radioactive stem cells). As the BARACK9 grew, we fed it nutrients infused with “Memory Cells” culled from the brainstems of famous left-wingers such as Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Ambrose Bierce - guaranteed to transmit our policies and doctrines into its growing brain. We radioactively stimulated the liberal centers of the brain and implanted radio-controlled microchips into its cerebellum.
Here at the DNC, we detest nationalism, pride, the Christian religion, and our troops. We have decided that a hybrid of Communism and Islam would be a much better system for our country. As BARACK9 grew up, we taught it to have these values as well. When the time was right, we entered it into politics, controlling its brain with our “Brain-Control Device”. We also were responsible for 9/11, the financial crisis, and other key events to ensure that George Bush has a low approval rating. Now, the time has come. Soon BARACK9 will be voted in as the head of the most powerful country on earth. You will soon have a President named Barack Hussein Obama, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. As his first act, Barack Obama will issue the following executive orders:
1. All flags will be replaced with pictures of Barack Obama’s face
2. All personal property and land of registered Republicans will be forfeit to the state
3. All churches, pictures of Jesus Christ, and religious iconography will be destroyed immediately. All mentions of the Christian religion will be punished by death
4. Everybody must wear a turban at all times and pray to Mecca 12 times a day
5. Arabic will now be the official United States language
6. The country will be renamed to The Islamic Communist Republic of Ameristan
7. All white people must issue public apologies to minorities for former misdeeds of their race. The jobs and money of Whites will be offered to blacks, muslims, and atheists as punishment.
8. White women will be offered as brides to black muslim men who get first priority of choosing up to ten wives. Whites will be put into forced labor camps for one year to show them what slavery was like
9. All heterosexuals must issue public apologies to gays and lesbians. In order to increase sensitivity to homosexual issues, they will be incarcerated for one month with a homosexual member of the same sex who is allowed to use them as seen fit.
10. Republicans will be branded with a R on their forehead and must kiss the buttocks of a liberal whenever requested to do so
I am only divulging this because there is nothing which can be done about it at this point. We initially saw Sarah Palin as an immense threat to our cause, but we have launched a huge and successful disinformational smear campaign against her which has neutralized her influences.
Prepare for your new leadership to begin on January 20!
DNC Top Executive “John”
seeker :
Date: October 12, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
I don’t understand why, if he really was born in Hawaii, he wouldn’t just produce the real things in court. I mean, if he was born here, he would have nothing to hide, right?
Bruce :
Date: October 13, 2008 @ 2:00 am
Let’s put this in perspective:
I am a doctor. I had to produce undergraduate and medical school diplomas, state licensure, Board certification, fingerprinting, vaccine status, ongoing continous education, etc to obtain a job at a local hospital.
To become president you must be 35 years of age (i.e. show birth certificate), be a natural-born citizen (i.e. show birth certificate), and have a 14-year US residency (I’ll forgo the electric bills).
Essentially, to be president one document will suffice; no college needed. Just a birth certificate!
Could you apply for a job with providing credentials? Should a candidate for the most powerful office in the land be required to produce a document demonstrating qualification.
In the case of the presidency, it is not expertise, academic excellence, nor receipt of paid licensure; just a document that at age 0 days you were thrust out of the birth canal on American soil.
Are we asking too much?
DeBunkTheMyths :
Date: October 15, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
We will all be thrust…out of business, out of homes and out of our country’s basic basics: DEMOCRACY.
Obamanation stands for socialism, communism, disarming the populace to ensure that we cannot combat tyranny and REAL social injustice; and the change he refers to, Castro already did. They are still driving cars from the 1950s.
If you would like WWIII, nuclear style, please vote for Obama. WWIII will happen quite shortly after he gets into office.
This is the hypocrite of hypocrites: he is against the military in almost every aspect of it’s existence, yet it is the very mean by which many pull themselves out of poverty.
Obamanation is only furthering the Democratic ideals of social enslavement. They failed to keep slavery in force, but instead, have done so through entitlement and other programs.
Free money and free cheese with the underlying hatred for others (white, black, asian, etc.) is what funnels these poepl into voting for not losing their benefits.
His whole campaign is based on more entitlement and those who are already on it will vote for him. Those on it and who want more will vote for him. Those who are threatened with being returned to their countries of birth and who are here illegally have already been registered to vote for him. Those who feel slighted by others success will vote for him.
I will not vote for him. I don’t care how poor we become, America is not a Socialist country. If you want something, WORK for it rather than asking a thief to rob it for you from those who do work.
DeBunkTheMyths :
Date: October 15, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
PS: when the entire country is afraid of each other, government promises to step in: call 911.
Sure.
Exapserated in CT :
Date: October 19, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Okay people. The birth certificate is not a certified copy of the original. These are new ones that the department of vital statistics put in plce of the originals. That is fine and dandy. BUT!!!!!….it STILL does not have the stamp certfying that it is a certified prrof of living brith. What is wrong with everyone? I could NRVER get away with showing this to anyone. HUD does not accept a “birth record” pr certificate that doe snot have the stamp.
This man has been allowed to provide this stupid piece of paper that is worthless. Poeple need to DEMAND to see the CERTIFIED copy. Otherwise, we are turning a blind eye to a possible stealing of the election by someone who was not naturally born in the US.
Exasperated in CT :
Date: October 19, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Sorry. I was too upset to correct my spelling.
Kewalo :
Date: October 19, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Born in the U.S.A.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
Shari :
Date: October 22, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
Hey, Kewalo:
Hasn’t anyone told you that Annenberg is behind factcheck.org? Every fact they check ends up in Obama’s favor. You may want to tell all the unfortunate souls you’ve referred there that you were wrong, and they cannot be trusted….just like Obama.
ala alah :
Date: October 23, 2008 @ 7:04 am
The BC is real..it is an Original Form of an exact dulicate of the Original Fake Birth Certificate..So..whats the Problem..Its an Original Fake BC.
Stamps cost extra…
alah to you too..
President Certificates for Sale…
MIKI MARTINS :
Date: October 24, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Obama has made a lot of money. So why oh Why would he leave his grandmother in a little apartment.
Why did the greedy mad not give her a better life.
Just came back as he wants us to believe to see her before she died.
I think he abandoned her a long time ago. We locals know that if we had his money our relatives would be living in a better part of Hawaii.
If its a foresight of how he leaves his grandmother then we can all see how he will leave us if he is voted president. I myself thinks he’s a little selfish and transparent.
And I don’t beleive he has a viable brith certificate. Its the one thing he could get really easy. Playing games and hiding simple things tells you his character already, SHADY!!!!!!
Mccain/ palin 08. At least the old man loves his country and that we can beleieve.
Miki :
Date: October 24, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
Looking at the birth certificates I noticed that the bottom states
” DATE ACCEPTED BY STATE REGISTAR”
This is what mine says as well.
Obama’s state ” DATE FILED BY THE REGISTAR”
Not sure but could this be different because he was born somewhere else and then his birth was filed in Hawaii?? Something worth looking into.
Miki :
Date: October 24, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
MCCAIN/PALIN 2008
STRAIGHT TALK NO BS.
Mr. Mccain is not president Bush and Sarah Palin has more official experience then OBAMA!!!
Obama promises change! His change maybe not what this country needs.
Mccain promises to wotk hard to get this country back on the side of the people. Mccain a war hero has made a career of serving this country! I have faith in him because it is apparent he loves America and will fight for her. God bless America!
Jason :
Date: October 24, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Here are the facts, just for some clarification, right out of the INTCA, regarding his citizenship if he were not indeed born in HI. It can be found here (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf) Pay particular attention to the part that reads “still is applicable.” The previous section 1133.2-1, which contains the current law and applicability in 301(g) and (h) applies today, but not back in 1961. Here is the text of the document… “7 FAM 1133.2-2 Original Provisions and Amendments to
Section 301
(CT:CON-204; 11-01-2007)
a. Section 301 as Effective on December 24, 1952: When enacted in 1952,
section 301 required a U.S. citizen married to an alien to have been
physically present in the United States for ten years, including five after
reaching the age of fourteen, to transmit citizenship to foreign-born
children. The ten-year transmission requirement remained in effect from
12:01 a.m. EDT December 24, 1952, through midnight November 13,
1986, and still is applicable to persons born during that period. As
originally enacted, section 301(a)(7) stated: Section 301. (a) The
following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: (7)
a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its
outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a
citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was
physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a
period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which
were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any
periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by
such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence
requirements of this paragraph.”
Through the years US law has changed the definition of “natural born citizen” but the laws that existed at the time of the individual’s birth apply, with only a few exceptions listed in the document. Apologies for the boring legaleeze, but this somewhat clarify the rules.
It does not, however, explain why the DNC did not do their job and properly vet Senator Barry. Or if they did, why they decided this was a non-issue and drug their feet in pushing his campaign to release the document in question! How many other issues that are law do they turn their back on? To me, this makes a mockery of the very document I swore to support and defend, and I will be deeply offended if it turns out that the Senators birth cert cannot be certified.
I’m also curious to know exactly why he chose now to travel to HI, vice waiting for the end of the campaign. Seems too coincidental to me! Produce, certify with the Dept of State, or step aside! We will not stand for a fraudulent Presidency!
XNihil0Zer0 :
Date: October 25, 2008 @ 1:03 am
Jason you’ve cited the wrong law.
The argument against Obama’s eligibility relies on 3 points:
1. Due to Obama’s mother’s age, citizenship was not aquired at birth.
2. Obama was not born in the US.
3. If Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro he lost US citizenship.
The law that is cited to argue point 1 and 2 reads:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf
a. Section 301 as Effective on December 24, 1952: When enacted in
1952, section 301 required a U.S. citizen married to an alien to have been
physically present in the United States for ten years, including five
after reaching the age of fourteen, to transmit citizenship to foreign-born
children. The ten-year transmission requirement remained in effect
from 12:01 a.m. EDT December 24, 1952, through midnight November 13,
1986, and still is applicable to persons born during that period.
The problem comes down to the validity of Obama’s parent’s marriage. When he was 18, Barack Obama Sr. Married a woman named Kezia who he had 4 children with. When he left Kenya for the United States he did not obtain a divorce. In the US polygamy is illegal. If a person is already married, regardless of where they got married, any subsequent marriage that takes place in the United States in invalid. This is the case with the marriage of Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. in Hawaii, February 1961. Obama was born out of wedlock. As a child born out of wedlock a different law applies if he was born outside the United States. The law reads:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf
7 FAM 1133.4-3 Birth Out of Wedlock to American Mother
(TL:CON-68; 04-01-1998)
a. Claims Under Section 309(c) INA: A child born abroad out of wedlock
or after December 24, 1952, to a U.S. citizen mother acquires U.S.
citizenship if the mother was physically present continuously for 1
year
the United States or its outlying possessions at any time prior to the
child’s birth. This did not change under any of the amendments to
Section 309 INA. Thus a woman who had spent only a very short time
every year outside the United States would be unable to transmit
citizenship under section 309(c) INA even though she might have
qualified to transmit U.S. citizenship under section 301(g) INA if she
had
been married to the father of the child. The 1966 amendment to section
301 INA allowing members of the U.S. armed forces, employees of the
U.S. Government and certain international organizations, and their
dependents to count certain periods outside the United States as U.S.
physical presence does not apply to section 309(c) INA. For this
reason,
the mother of a child born out of wedlock cannot use time spent abroad
as a military dependent, for example, to satisfy all or part of the
requirement of continuous physical presence in the United States for 1
year. Subsequent legitimation or the establishment of a legal
relationship
between an alien father and a person who acquired U.S. citizenship at
birth under section 309(c) does not alter that person’s citizenship.
There is no doubt that Stanley Ann Dunham spent more than one continuous year inside the United States. Her citizenship was automatically transmitted to Obama Upon his birth through Jus Sanguinis. Some would argue that being born abroad prevents you from being a natural born citizen. But there are 2 precedent cases of Presidential candidates being born abroad. John McCain and George Romney. McCain supporters argue that he is a citizen because he was born on a US military base. This is a misconception, He is a citizen because his parents were citizens. Citizenship is not granted by being born on a military base. State Department policy reads:
“Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth.”
A similar situation occurred with Mitt Romney’s dead father. George Romney was born in Mexico in 1907. He did not move to the United States until his family fled from the Mexican revolution in 1910. Yet in 1968 George Romney ran for president. George Romney was eligible to run because he inherited his citizenship through Jus sanguinis.
The third point argues that Obama lost his US citizenship because he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro. Dual citizenship only became recognized in Indonesia in 2006. Before 2006 the Indonesia Nationality act of 1958 applied.
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/2000/10/15/0049.html
Stanley Ann Dunham never became an Indonesian citizen.
An alien wife of an Indonesian national is entitled to Indonesian
citizenship if she so wishes and makes a statement to that effect
within a year of the marriage.
If Lolo Soetoro adopted Obama he did not gain nationality because he was 6 years old.
A five year old child, who is adopted by foster parents of
Indonesian nationality, shall qualify for Indonesian nationality
if the foster parents apply to a court to legitimize the adoption
within one year and request is granted.
Obama would have had to meet all of the following conditions to obtain Indonesian nationality:
1. Have reached the age of 21 or over;
2. Were born in Indonesia or have lived in Indonesia continuously for 5 years, or interruptedly for 10 years;
3. Have a fair command of the Indonesian language and knowledge of Indonesian history, and have never been convicted by a court for a breach of law or for any act against Indonesia;
4. Have the consent of the wife/husband;
5. Are mentally and physically healthy;
6. Pay a fee of not less than Rp 500 and not more than Rp 10,000, which shall be decided by the court, taking into consideration the applicant’s income;
7. Have permanent employment;
8. Have no other nationality or have abandoned his/her nationality which is in conformity with an agreement on dual nationality reached between Indonesia and the foreign country.
Obama did not meet condition 1, 2, 6, 7, or 8 while living in Indonesia. Obama is absolutely a natural born citizen and eligible to seek the presidency.
John :
Date: October 25, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Dont really think that his grandmother is ill. I think he has gone back to find a better copy of that document. The day after Obama left for Hawaii to see his grandmother, Michelle said in a rally that she spoke with him and she is doing just fine. Reports said she gravely ill. I bet she is if her grandson cant come up with that certificate.
JMD :
Date: October 27, 2008 @ 11:29 am
WHERE IS HIS PICTURE AND/ OR HIS FOOT PRINT,? THIS CERTIFCATE IS FALSE, INCOMPLETE, FRAUDULANT, FABRICATED AND EVEN FHONY. NO HSPITAL NAME EITHER. OR THE DR WHO DELIVRED HIM.
Acbuddy :
Date: October 29, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Actually, XNihil0Zer0, that’s not correct, because Obama Sr. and Kezia never got legally married. It was reported a long time ago. Obama Sr. and Kezia merely had a “tribal association” but never had a legal ceremony of any kind. That’s why Obama’s parents got legally divorced when Obama was 2 years old. They got divorced because their marriage was legal and recognized. Then, after the divorce, Obama Sr. returned to Africa and got back with Kezia. But Obama Sr.’s union with Kezia was never a marriage, it was just a tribal thing. That’s why they got divorced, because it was a legal marriage. This was written about over a year ago in several publications.
Navybrat :
Date: October 31, 2008 @ 7:56 am
This is a certified copy made in the modern day to replace a missing doc the inportant thing is the seal is missing it has not been verified. All Hawaiians became citizens at statehood. They needed their births certified and then verified. Only those born after had birth certificate from a hospital. If you were born at home you had to get a certification it then was verified and stamped with the state seal. I do not see the stamp on the one. The Native Hawaiian born in 1930 has her stamp.
AcGrand :
Date: October 31, 2008 @ 8:39 am
Two things need to be cleared up. Some people are saying that Obama Sr. was a polygamist and therefore the marriage to Obama’s mother wasn’t legal, and some people are saying that in 1986 when the citizenship statute for the one-parent American citizenship situation was changed to 2 years after 14 that it applied retroactively to those born in 1986. To clarify:
1) Obama Sr. was never legally married to that African woman Kezia, that was just a tribal union, and they had two kids together (and both Barack’s half brother and half sister in Kenya say he was born in Kenya), the tribal union was not a court-recognized or legal marriage of any kind. So, Obama Sr.’s marriage to Stanley Ann on Feb 2, 1961, was totally legal, and then they got legally divorced in 1963 when Barack was 2 years old. Phil Berg has already gone over this. Later on, Obama got back together with Kezia and then married Ruth Nides in 1967. So the marriage between Obama and Stanley Ann was legal and the “out of wedlock” law does not make Obama a natural born citizen
2) Prior to 14 November 1986, the physical presence requirement in this case was ten years (instead of five) — including five years (instead of two) spent after the parent’s 14th birthday. The requirement was reduced in 1986, but the change did not retroactively make US citizenship available to people born previously who did not meet the old requirement. (Congress’s intent not to make this change retroactive was affirmed in 1988 with the passage of Public Law 100-525, § 8(d), 102 Stat. 2619). The law was sponsored by…TED KENNEDY..HAHAHAHA…Oh the irony
So, Obama, if he was born in Kenya, which it appears that he was, is probably not a natural born citizen, and at the very least, he committed fraud by lying about his birthplace to the DNC and to the country and will be charged for fraud…so even if he’s allowed to be president, the whole country is going to be calling for his impeachment anyway if he lied to the country and forged a birth certificate…no matter what, if he lied about his Hawaiian birth so that he wouldn’t have to deal with the constitutional issues, he will be a laughing stock and so will the USA…
Vote third party…vote for Nader or Baldwin or whomever
Moonatic :
Date: November 1, 2008 @ 5:44 am
I quote here from today’s St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, often called “The best newspaper in the South.”
State officials say there is no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate. Some Obama critics claim he was not born in the United States.
Marjorie :
Date: November 4, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
How come Obama has an Indonisian passport? I thought he was American born - but it looks from the dates of his birth, that his mother took him to Hawaii when he was already born - and wasnt born in the US! So is he entitled to run from Presidency? American citizen, yes, but not American born. According to American law he is not entitled to run for Presidency - like Arnold Schwarzenegger - he can only be a Senator, but he wouldnt be allowed to run for election! Several top lawyers have been investigating this thoroughly and have irrevertible proof that he is not entitled to run - yet it has all be swept under the carpet. If he gets elected and the truth comes out - then there will be a major case of nasties hitting the fan!
James J. kirksey :
Date: November 5, 2008 @ 10:01 am
Now that President Elect Obama has won the election, will the American people ever learn his true natural born citizenship status? We need assurance before he takes the oath in January 2009. Our Congress could and should demand a birth certificate.
Starfighter :
Date: November 5, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
You know, if all the allegations that OB was born in Kenya are true and is a Kenyan national, or that it is shown that OB lost his citizenship in Indonisia and is actually an Indonisian national - Then saying that “…there will be a major case of nasties hitting the fan.” will be the understatment of the year.
It will be a case of an Constitutional Crisis that this nation has NEVER seen before.
It will indicate that the US Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
It has been reported that Wayne Madsen, Journalist with Online Journal as a contributing writer and published an article on June 9, 2008, stating that a research team went to Mombassa, Kenya, and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Kenya Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen.
When Jerome Corsi, senior WND investigator reporter, recently traveled to Kenya to investigate several questions about the candidate, he was told the records were sealed and would not be made available.
Juanita :
Date: November 9, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
GOD help us all !! No matter where he was born, I don’t believe he was born in the USA, in Hawaii or any place else here!! No one will convince me different. The Lawyers who have the proof, will not have their day in court because the Judge through the case out.
Someone needs to do something before Jan 20th!! If not we will be under his Socialist Dictatorship rule after that. Some idiots say now they will no longer have to pay for theirmortages and gas!! Don’t know where they get that idea, but maybe they’re right, cause with his rule only his chosen will own property.
He’s made Millions and talks about “sharing the wealth” but it’s not his wealth he is going to share. He won’t even help his impovished brother. He never helped his “typical white” grandmother who raised and supported him while he was growning up, get into a better apartment etc. The wealth he’s going to share is out of your pockets and mine. I’m not wealthy and live on disability income of less than $700.00 a month, but I don’t want your wealth even if you have it.
I worked hard all my life and I live on what I earned and paid in for. I don’t like the name of my income,
“Social” Security.
We will all see a new way of life if someone doesn’t fource the truth before the American eyes. Those who voted for him don’t seem to care about the truth, but they will once he takes that oath. He’ll take it using a Bible but it won’t mean a thing to him to lie on the Bible, because he’s a Muslim. He always has a “look down his nose snear” on his face, cause he knows he’s pulled the wool over milions of peoples eyes, and by the time they realize it, it’ll be too late for all of us, short of a revolution “war” like nothing you’ve seen before. I’m not a fanatic, but a realist. God help us all!!!
Joseph :
Date: November 18, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Are you people aware of the number of lies that are included in your comments on this article? To make a few corrections:
1. Barack, Sr., was not “a polygamist”;
2. the President-elect did not celebrate his 43rd birthday in August, but his 47th (while having seen hundreds of news reports citing his age as 47, I have not seen one single instance where he was listed as being 43, by anyone, in any medium);
3. OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM;
4. About this one: “Dont really think that his grandmother is ill. I think he has gone back to find a better copy of that document. The day after Obama left for Hawaii to see his grandmother, Michelle said in a rally that she spoke with him and she is doing just fine. Reports said she gravely ill. I bet she is if her grandson cant come up with that certificate”, I think we can safely say John is a cynical and willfully blind wannabe Rovian;
5. “Juanita” appears to be a plant: “The wealth he’s going to share is out of your pockets and mine. I’m not wealthy and live on disability income of less than $700.00 a month, but I don’t want your wealth even if you have it.” She either fails to comprehend that a 3% increase in taxes on the wealthy will in fact move money from Barack Obama’s pocket to ease her hardship, or she is amazingly disinterested in easing her own hardship. With that income, no one, not Bush, not McCain, not Obama could get one red cent out of her by our tax laws, so I don’t think she has a leg to stand on, rhetorically speaking.
While openness is a wonderful thing, there needs to be a little attention to the details of the fact-based statements made on any blog. The outrageous amount of smears, propaganda, bigotry and fear-mongering that seem to filter into fora like this one tell me that someone doesn’t really care about the truth at this publication.
The free press is supposed to be a vehicle for revealing the truth, not falling prey to the sinister manipulations of right-wing political interests.
pickle :
Date: December 3, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
Is that the only thing you all can find on him? get a life you loosers!!
jodi :
Date: December 9, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
the american people definately had the wool pulled over there eyes.. i for one saw it coming.. oh and yes there are alot of other things to my dismay cannot understand why it was all thrown under the rug!!! come on america have u all become so blind u deny the honest truth about obama.. seems alot of shady govt.. came from whereelse .. chicago!!!! .. omg an american president with hussien in his name ..how ironic we just put to death a hussein.. he needs to be impeached before we do see a change, but it wont be a change for the better.. ur rite he promised change , just not what kind of change we’d be getting.. wake up .. pleaze ,, wake up
Peter Barker :
Date: March 3, 2009 @ 10:58 am
Was not aware that Hawaii was a state in 1903. Can someone explain this?
Peter Barker :
Date: March 3, 2009 @ 10:59 am
Oops, make that 1930.
JD :
Date: June 28, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Aside from word “laser” at the bottom right corner, as a graphic designer I noticed something else. The borders, unless Hawaii has them all that way, look like they’re cut and pasted manually. The horizontal border strips overlap the vertical ones. Unless they are, or were, printed that way, it looks like it was put together on a drafting table. I’m probably wrong, nobody would be that stupid.
JD :
Date: June 28, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Mistake on my comment: Laser appears on the bottom left.
JD :
Date: June 28, 2009 @ 8:27 am
One more thing, after looking at the childs name on the certificate. I received an email last summer, that stated he was born with the name Barry Dunham, and changed his name five or six more times, settling on Barack Hussein Obama. The email had a list of names, the fifth name on the list was the name change to Barry Obama, then another name, and then the one he has now. Whether or not the email is true or not, the way there’s so much “transparancy”, I guess we’ll never know.
Scott :
Date: July 16, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
If you look at a larger copy of this on the web you can see the date stamp bleed-through from the back side.(lower center). It reads June-?-2007. You can also see a seal imprint if you have Photo editing software by changing the contrast. I believe it is an original document from the state but definately not a copy of the long form.
Appoggiatura :
Date: July 21, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
No SEAL! Lazer PRINTING! OMG!! It’s a Hoax!!!!!!!
Unlikely.
Some of these comments make me think many of you can’t distinguish between Origial, Copy or Certified Birth Certificates. They each appear quite different and documents even change over time.
I note there are no comments by professionals, who handle legal documents on a daily basis, as I do.
I think this is probably a non-issue.
Stephen :
Date: July 22, 2009 @ 12:34 am
This Honolulu Advertiser announcment of Barack Obama’s Aug 4, 1961 birth was published August 13, 1961 on page B-6. It is available only on microfilm in Hawaii libraries. Anybody in Hawaii can go to the library & check. Of course no matter what proof anybody gives there will always be IDIOTS out there who will say give me more evidence. BTW, Obama never receiced a Scholarship as a foreign student. The White House doesn’t have time to mess with all this crap. It has better things to do like clean up the big mess left by the last Adminstration under President George W. Bush. The first President not elected by the people but selected by the Supreme Court.
E-Man Truth :
Date: July 23, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
Its truly amazing how many stupid people can coalesce to agree on retarded lies, even after reaching adulthood. President Barack Hussein Obama is a citizen because his mother and grandparents are citizens. Learn to read for yourselves and stop reading other stupid people’s blogs. You’ll continue to lose IQ points that way.
Jerry :
Date: March 15, 2010 @ 9:18 am
OK, on the Decosta birth certificate, since when was Hawaii a US state in 1930. I believe they became a state in August of 1959. Thus the Decosta birth certificate is also fake.
c-dog :
Date: May 7, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
Listen here E-Man youre a complete IDIOT! You dont know jack SHIT!! Obama is a fake! His birth certificate is fake otherwise he would have just showed it… Some thing is fishy about the whole thing dont you think?