It turns out Barack Obama is . . . is . . . a citizen. The White House has released President Obama’s long-form birth certificate to put the growing controversy to rest over his birth. Many of us have been critical of the birther conspiracy theories. However, I am not sure why the White House did not do this earlier since it addresses the allegations fully. It will be interesting to see that, now that Obama has produced the certificate, if the movement for state ballot laws declines. While it has been repeatedly stated that the laws are not about Obama, but we will see.
The long-form clearly states the date and other information. It also includes the name of Obama’s father — a focus of recent suggestions that the reason for withholding the document was the name of a different man or the inclusion of Muslim for religion.
Donald Trump immediately took credit for the disclosure stating, “Today, I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish,” Trump told reporters. “Why he didn’t do it when everybody else was asking for it, I don’t know. But I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue.”
I am not sure why the White House held on to the document. One theory could be that they knew it would blow up in the faces of Obama’s critics. However, it has served to rally critics for years. Those critics are not likely to register with the DNC now. They are likely to move on to other claims against Obama.
Perhaps now that he clearly was born in Hawaii, they will now claim that his is part of the Hawaiian royalty and thus making him ineligible as the holder of a foreign ennoblement.
Here are the two pages: Obama_birth_certificate and birth-certificate-long-form
Jonathan Turley
Mike Appleton
Your opinion is irrelevant. Did you see Doggett get run out of town last year while campaigning. His debt and deficit policies stink!!!
Lloyd Doggett is actually one of the few politicians in Texas with a lick of sense.
Stamford Liberal
unemployment is always tied to the presidential election. Also, interest rates will rise because the dollar is losing its value. That is also tied to the presidential election.
It is the president’s job to create jobs or is it the private sector?
Kris,
“Have you forgotten what happened in November 2010? If the banks do not work with the customer the customer will still blame Obama because he involved himself into the debate. Yes, unemployment has gone down but it will not return to the levels it was when Obama got elected.”
Ah, yes. November, 2010 … where ARE all the jobs the GOP and teabaggers promised …
As far as the banks? Not from where I sit – I see people facing foreclosure every single day and they certainly don’t blame Obama for the banks dragging their feet for months and years and ultimately denying these people loan modifications.
April 2009 – “The number of unemployed persons increased by 563,000 to 13.7 million in April, and the unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons has risen by 6.0 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 3.9 percentage points.”
March 2011 – “In March, the number of unemployed persons (13.5 million) and the unemployment rate (8.8 percent) changed little. The labor force also was little changed over the month. Since November 2010, the jobless rate has declined by 1.0 percentage point.”
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jan/wk2/art02.htm
This from a high of 10.1%.
Bob,
Yes and yes.
That was from the movie “Payback”.
That scene with James Coburn; that was with Mel Gibson right?
Vague memory…
Buddha,
Tell me that song doesn’t sum up this topic completely.
This isn’t about constitutional law, it’s about ‘feelings, nothing more than feelings…’
Buddha Is Laughing
Must be a payback fan
Bob,
I was down with the French Fur Trappers, but “Feelings”?
In the words of James Coburn, “No, no, it’s all right, he’s just killing my alligator bags and shooting holes in my suits. Man, that’s just MEAN. That’s MEAN, man.”
Now I’m going to have to hum the theme to “I Dream of Jeannie” the rest of the day just to keep the evil Morris Albert earwig at bay.
Slartibartfast
Government though with good intentions never solves anything. Instead of a safety net they have created a dependency.
Jim
1, April 29, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Stamford Liberal,
You do not know what you are talking about. You do not live in texas and I do. The 800 million dollars has finally been released because the strings were taken away. Lloyd Doggett was the blame for all of it.
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Now Jim is telling untruths for all of us know Stamford Liberal moved to Texas last week because she inherited an oil field and several hundred head of cattle. She is growing really BIG hair and fully intends to run for Governor and have all teabaggers exiled to Mexico.
Geeze these guys/guy are just full of disinformation … must be the wheelchair.
Good work Slarts!
The birther crowd here is really consistently wrong on the facts.
I think I linked to the Wong Kim Ark case earlier in this thread if Kris and Larry and Jim, actually want to read the actual case that was just referred to.
Kris (or Jim or whatever you’re calling yourself),
The point of a social safety net is not to prevent poverty, but to prevent citizens who fall into poverty (generally by no fault of their own) from being crushed by it. You conveniently ignore the millions of people saved by these programs (and all of the taxes they were able to subsequently pay…) who you would have been content to murder (I’m using anti-choice doctor killer logic here, by the way…).
Stamford Liberal,
Take unemployment recipients. Call them and say I found you a job at McDonalds. Report tomorrow morning. How many of them will complain. See it is not about finding a job but rather the money.
Stamford Liberal,
Government can only work when it realizes that it must require one to earn and not be given.
Stamford Liberal,
The citizens of our state are not entitled to get help. That is your problem: You beleive government helps people and I believe they only hurt the people. Take war on poverty. It has been going on for about 40 years and are we any closer today to solving the poverty question? NO! Your philosophy doesn’t work.
Stamford Liberal,
Have you forgotten what happened in November 2010? If the banks do not work with the customer the customer will still blame Obama because he involved himself into the debate. Yes, unemployment has gone down but it will not return to the levels it was when Obama got elected.
Dingleberry,
With a governor like Perry, and citizens like you and Kris, no wonder TexASS is fucked.
Blouise,
“What Kris wrote is totally untrue. Scott Walker thought the offer of a stimulus money package was a bill demanding payment for packaged stimulants. It’s a common misinterpretation in teabagging circles.”
I know – Perry wanted the money to pay down HIS debt, not attempt to help the citizens of the state.
Teabaggers wouldn’t know truth or fact if they both kicked them squarely in their teabagging asses.