Obama Citizenship

Eligibility Top Choice for Public Record Requests; Columnist: ?Obama Should Resign?

By Phil

As WorldNetDaily has been reporting today, the White House, via the National Academy of Public Administration, began using IdeaScale.com’s Open Government Dialog web site to help gauge the public’s interest in what kinds of data should be made transparent with this Administration:

The entire transparency portion of the White House website on “open government dialogue” has been overrun with citizens calling on Barack Obama to release his elusive “long-form” birth certificate to establish his constitutional eligibility to serve as president.

The forums are open to the public for participation. Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, has been urging those concerned about the issue to get involved.

As WND reported, on Sunday night only 30 percent of respondents in one forum demanded the president release the document. But that number exploded to more than 74 percent after the public became aware of the White House resource.

At the time of this report, more than 175 comments were posted to the forum, titled “Verifying eligibility to be president of the USA,” including the following:

• We need to keep the pressure on! How did BO even get one foot in the White House door without a birth certificate?

• Even if he shows a forged birth certificate ? which he undoubtedly will in time (he and his cronies are in WAAAY too deep) it is common knowledge (records, and his book and many articles) that his father was not a US citizen at his birth ? so … Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen ? period.

• After the campaigning on all the “wonderful” socialist programs then obfuscating on all the plans to implement them, I’m sick of NO transparency. I recall we were promised the opposite. Only a traitor can be elected as U.S. President and simultaneously refuse to abide by his oath of office.

• He can’t show what doesn’t exist! He is a Kenyan usurper and with his minions of baby-killers will ruin our nation!

• If he’s innocent, it should be no trouble for him to produce the long form. The more he delays, the more guiltier he becomes. Trying to make out that the people are idiots who ask, is not going to dissuade this American from demanding the truth.

• It is a foregone conclusion that Obama is not a natural born citizen. No one would work so hard to hide the truth.

• Gibbs “laughing” at the reporter who inquired about the long-form birth certificate had body language of deception all over it. And the fact that the other media laughed as well just goes to show how blind and imbecilic they are. Do they really think that the American people don’t know the difference between what’s on the internet and what they SHOULD be seeing? And yes, I agree that Gibbs isn’t just laughing at the reporter. He’s laughing at all of us who stand for truth, transparency, and the integrity of our nation.

• Instead of asking for a birth certificate, at this stage an impeachment should be in the works.

Only eight people objected to calls for Obama to produce his long-form birth certificate on the single forum while more than 180 postings urged him to do so.

Since the debut of the “Verifying eligibility to be president of the USA” topic, many other forums have popped up in the records management section of the website demanding Obama produce the document, including the following:

• “We the people want to see the real long form birth certificate“ 
• “Show us the long form birth certificate that would contain verifiable details of Obama’s birth“
• “Direct challenge and demand to Obama and his cronies“
• “This will go away of you’ll just prove your citizenship“
• “Prove your natural-born citizenship, Comrade Obama“
• “My son shouldn’t serve under Obama“
• “Presidential birth certificate“

In the “Making government Operations more open” section of the website, the following forums have also appeared:

• “Natural born citizenship“
• “Demonstrate respect for law“
• “Mr. Obama’s birth certificate“
• “Mr. Soetoro, please show us the birth certificate“
• “Where’s the birth certificate?“
• “OMG just show us the birth certificate“
• “Eligibility requirements Article II, Section I, Par. 4“

The list continues for several pages as the entire transparency portion of the website has been overrun with citizens demanding presentation of the long-form birth certificate. Every thread features dozens ? and even hundreds ? of people in agreement that Obama should release the document.

The website TechPresident blasted “birthers” for “fouling” the Open Government Dialogue website today. Micah Sifry called the voters “conspiracy nuts who think the President isn’t legitimately a U.S. citizen” and noted that the website has experienced a big jump in users and comments in the last few days ? something the author claims could be “a possible sign of trouble.”

“Personally, I’ve already been on the site voting down the various ‘birther’ suggestions,” Sifry wrote. “It’s one thing to be tolerant of differences of opinion and have civil disagreement; it’s another thing to let nuts trash a town hall.”

It continues to baffle me that those of us on the Internet who have serious questions about this President’s eligibility are not only castigated with ad hominem pejoratives — “birthers” — but are basically being disinvited from sharing our views on the eligibility situation. Then again, people who generally agree with me become upset when opposition commenters comment perhaps “too much” on my own site, so I suppose the negative sentiments may cut both ways.

It has become exceptionally obvious that the White House needs to do a better job of handling the birth certificate and eligibility situation — unlike its recent performance with the White House Press Secretary that raised more questions than it answered — if it truly wants the issue to go away. Further, the Secretary didn’t do the issue any favors to the Administration when he merely dismissed the alleged certification of live birth and completely ignored the topic of eligibility.

Columnist Ted Rall had some rather scathing comments about the President for whom he voted in his recent column, “It?s increasingly evident that Obama should resign” (excerpted):

Obama is useless. Worse than that, he?s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now ? before he drags us further into the abyss.

I refer here to Obama?s plan for ?preventive detentions.? If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in ?prolonged detention.? Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama?s shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.

In practice, Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street. …

Locking up people who haven?t done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency. That anyone has ever been subjected to ?preventive detention? is an outrage. That the president of the United States, a man who won an election because he promised to elevate our moral and political discourse, would even entertain such a revolting idea offends the idea of civilization itself.

Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed George W. Bush, I won?t follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power. …

In democracies with functioning legal systems, it is assumed that people against whom there is a ?lack of evidence? are innocent. They walk free. In countries where the rule of law prevails, in places blessedly free of fearful leaders whose only concern is staying in power, ?tainted evidence? is no evidence at all. If you can?t prove that a defendant committed a crime ? an actual crime, not a thoughtcrime ? in a fair trial, you release him and apologize to the judge and jury for wasting their time.

It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush?s lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.

Mr. Rall has more details at the link provided. While I don’t completely agree with his sentiments regarding the Bush (43) Administration, at least Mr. Rall has taken the proverbial party-line blinders off and is seeing Mr. Obama for the actions he has promulgated.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).