Obama Citizenship

Eligibility Update: Sen. Leahy on Obama, COLB Anniversary, Obama an Illegal Alien?, Berg Promises Appeal, Billboard Update, and Why Care?

By Phil

The first of two additions to my “Who is Barack Hussein Obama?” widget on my sidebar (top, right) is some rather old news but worth repeating, as TheObamaFile.com did on June 12 where Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) helped to introduce a resolution in the Senate on April 10, 2008 effectively declaring the President to not be natural born:

Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a ‘natural born Citizen,’ as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for President.

“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy.  “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”

At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.

“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied.

“That is mine, too,” said Leahy.

What’s interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a “natural born” citizen is the child of American citizen parents.

Parents — that’s two. That’s BOTH parents.

Every time the words, “citizen” and “parent,” are used by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, “citizens” and “parents,” is used.  The plural case is the operative case.

It is Sen. Leahy’s opinion — his own recorded words, in a formal Senate Resolution and on his U. S. Senate website — that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief, regardless of his birthplace.

Obama had one American parent –singular — his mother.  His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain.

Obama, himself, “at birth,” was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain — he says so on his own campaign website.  This fact introduces the concept of “divided loyalties,” — the reason the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place — a fact that further underlines Obama’s ineligibility.

The source of this information is Sen. Leahy’s own website.  The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself; the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec. Chertoff’s testimony.

The plural word “parents” is used four times.  When used to identify the parents, the word “citizens” is used five times.  That’s nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the eligibility requirement.  There is NO PLACE in any of these four documents where the singular case of “parent” or “citizen” is used.

Obama is a co-signer of this resolution.  So, I guess he too agrees that one needs two American parents to be eligible for POTUS — except he doesn’t care — after all, he’s the Obamamessiah.  Rules don’t apply to him. [emphases original]

Incidentally, June 12 is also the anniversary of the introduction (from sources unknown) of Mr. Obama’s certification of live birth…

Dr. Ron Polarik reminds us that today marks the Anniversary of the Obama COLB Forgery.   Yes, a whole year has past since Obama committed felony document fraud and posted a false identification document on the Internet.

As battles go, the Obots and the liberal media and blogsphere launched a bigger assault in defense of this bogus birth certificate than the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

It was Factcheck.org and Politifact that mounted a full-court press against the upstart “Birthers,” a name given to them by the liberal “Truthers” who conjured up more 9/11 conspiracies than Uncle Ben has rice.  When the liberal “Truthers,” so-called for the “Truth Movement” they started, went viral on so many Leftist websites that there wasn?t enough Reynolds Wrap in the world to fashion hats for them all.

Now, the shoe — or “tin foil hat” — is on the other foot…er…head.

Like Ron says, “It?s the forgery, Stupid!”

Here is Polarik’s final report — the culmination of over four months of intensive, empirical research, the sole purpose of which has been to determine if the images and photographs posted on the Internet are true reproductions of a genuine document purported to be Obama’s original birth certificate. [emphases original]

“Mountain Publius Goat” reminds us as well that Kerchner v. Obama challenges the President on his alleged status as an undocumented illegal alien:

Kerchner et al vs. Obama & Congress et al — page 18.
Obama May Be An Illegal Alien
79. There exists a possibility that Obama could be an illegal alien. 
80. Obama has yet to adequately prove that he was born in the United States. 
81. Obama has publicly conceded that his father was born in Kenya and a British subject/citizen at the time of Obama?s birth which precluded Obama from gaining any U.S. citizenship from his father at the time of his birth. 
82. At the time of his birth in 1961, under the applicable statute Obama also could not gain U.S. citizenship from his U.S. citizen mother due to her being only 18 years old at the time of his birth. ENDNOTE 15.
83. There also exists the possibility that if Obama had U.S. citizenship at birth, he lost that citizenship when his mother?s second husband, Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen, adopted/acknowledged him as his son and along with his mother took him to live in Indonesia and when he later traveled as a foreign citizen with a foreign passport to Pakistan after the age of majority (18) when he was approximately 20. 
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ENDNOTE 15: A child born in wedlock and abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) INA, provided the citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen are required for physical presence in the U.S. to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child). http://travel.state.gov/law/info/info_609.html. Obama?s mother, born on November 29, 1942, was 18 years old when she gave birth to Obama on August 4, 1961. She was 117 days short from being 19 years old. But she had to be at least 19 years old (14 years old plus 5 years of U.S. physical presence) to satisfy the legal requirement of Section 301(g). Hence, if Obama was born in Kenya, under the Fourteenth Amendment, he is neither a U.S. citizen by birth on U.S. soil nor one by naturalization. (There is no existing evidence that Obama was ever naturalized.) Nor would he qualify to be a U.S. citizen by any act of Congress by being born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent. If this scenario were proven to be true, it can be reasonably argued that Obama is an illegal alien. 
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The full document can be viewed at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/11317148/

MPG’s site includes what will be my second addition to my sidebar with his Obama Citizenship Facts post.

Next, as WorldNetDaily reports, attorney Philip J. Berg is promising an appeal on a case previously under seal but now dismissed:

Berg said in an announcement on his website documenting his challenges that the case under seal now can be discussed after it was dismissed and he’s decided to appeal.

The action cited the False Claims Act and accused Obama of defrauding the United States Treasury “by illegally being a U.S. senator from Illinois as Obama is an Illegal Alien, not a U.S. Citizen,” the website said.

Berg filed the action against Obama and after months of delay Attorney General Eric Holder’s staff confirmed its decision not to pursue an investigation.

The dismissal came from a federal judge in Washington this week.

“A False Claims Act [FCA] case is when a person has knowledge that another party has obtained money from the government based on a false claim,” Berg’s website explained. “In this instance, in order to be a United States senator, you must be a United States citizen for nine [9] years. Obama is not a United States citizen and therefore, usurped the office of U.S. senator for Illinois and obtained payment from the U.S. Department of the Treasury based on his false statements that he was a U.S. citizen and constitutionally eligible to serve the position of United States senator.”

Berg continued: “What a miscarriage of justice! At a closed door hearing on June 9, 2009, because of the status of the ’sealed case,’ sealed because of the nature of the case, that being a ‘Qui Tam’ or FCA [False Claims Action] case, the attorney general through his representatives refused to proceed with the prosecution of Obama for fraudulently serving as a U.S. senator from Illinois for 3 ½ years.”

Berg said he presented “overwhelming evidence” Obama was ineligible to be senator, “and therefore, Obama fraudulently received a salary and benefits of nearly $1 million dollars.”

He confirmed he had cited the apparent conflict of interest of having Obama’s appointee, Holder, involved in the case, and requested a special prosecutor ? but was turned down.

“I am not giving up and am continuing my legal fight to prove Obama is not constitutionally qualified/eligible to be president of the United States. I am proceeding for the 305 plus million people in ‘our’ U.S.A., for ‘our’ forefathers and for the 1.5 million men and women that have died defending our Constitution in the many wars over the years and the 1.5 million men and women who were injured in those wars,” Berg said.

His Berg vs. Obama is pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and his Hollister vs. Soetoro a/k/a Obama is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

And while WND reports that they’ve had a third advertisement company, Clear Channel Outdoor, reject ad copy asking the simple question, “Where’s The Birth Certificate?”, WND CEO and Editor Joseph Farah remains positive:

Farah confirmed the decisions by three companies not to post the billboard question, however, has not yet even dented the billboards available across America for the campaign, and the number erected will be limited only by the donations to the campaign.

Donations, to date, are quoted to be $75,000, and new billboards include the following:

Near the Santa Ana freeway in Los Angeles:

There’s even been a “grassroots” billboard that has gone up along Interstate 5 in Washington State:

There’s also a sign along east-bound Interstate 78 near Hamburg, PA:

Last up, Mario Apuzzo, attorney for Plaintiffs in Kerchner v. Obama, shows why we should care that our Presidents are natural born citizens:

A friend of mine sent me the following quote from Cicero, a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist, January 3, 106 BC ? December 7, 43 BC. It made me think of the importance of having a President that the people can trust. Indeed, it shows that it is more dangerous for a nation to be secretely attacked from within than openly from without.

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself… for the traitor appears no traitor: He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their faces and their garments, he appeals to the baseless that lies deep in the souls of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is to be less feared.” ~ Cicero

Mario Apuzzo, Esq.

See the following links regarding the eligibility saga:

• Obama?s Presidential Eligibility: What You Need to Know
• Obama’s Sealed Background Documentation
• Obama Citizenship Facts
• Citizen Grand Jury Updates and Eligibility Lawsuit Listing

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on June 14, 2009 (boomark / email).