In the days since the election, Barack Obama has been busy filling his White House staff, selecting Cabinet members, working on plans to address the economy, phoning world leaders and meeting with governors from around the country. It appears as though he will be ready to take the reins as our 44th president immediately on Jan. 20, 2009.
Not so fast, senator. You haven't won anything yet -- and there's an Internet community dedicated to keep it from happening.
The Electoral College will vote on Dec. 15, and the U.S. Senate will count those votes Jan. 8. But several lawsuit filers want the U.S. Supreme Court to have a say. The litigants claim that Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be president. They question the authenticity of his Hawaii birth certificate, claiming that he was born in Kenya and that his mother falsified the document being shown to reporters. (No word on whether the newborn Obama was transported to Hawaii by black helicopter or by a spaceship piloted by ALF.)
As one might guess, the story isn't exactly rocking the mainstream media. But it is causing a wave (more of a ripple) on the Internet.
One of the pushers of the tale is Steve Marquis of Peoples Passion (1).
Obama, however, in an enigma, a man without a past who wears a mask, No one has ever seen even a copy of his birth certificate (the one with the hospital, city, doctor -- you know like the one we all have) His past is peppered with intrigue from the foreign money college loans, hidden college records, papers and associates and especially his lengthy involvement with the terrorist Ayres. He hasn't even made a full discloser of his medical records. His recent visits and connections with relatives who are communist organizers responsible for the bloody anti Christian takeover in Kenya are especially troubling. The constitution requires the President to be natural born to avoid possible personal entanglements in foreign lands. Who is Obama?
It is a very persuasive argument, if you ignore the factual errors, such as the part where no one has been seen the birth certificate. John Aravosis at AMERICAblog (2) sets the record straight.
One of the more interesting conspiracy theories about President-elect Obama is that he was secretly born in Africa, then apparently sneaked into the United States (in a banana crate?), and now is pretending to be a natural born American, born in Hawaii, when he's really a secret Muslim African who can't be president because the Constitution requires the president to have been born in the United States. Only problem? Obama's American birth certificate was made public long ago. Snopes has it. And Snopes also has the birth announcement from the local Hawaii paper back when Obama was born. Very sneaky of the Obamas to have a child in Africa, yet simultaneously place a birth announcement in the Hawaiian paper on the same day, nearly five decades ago -- in the pre-Internet era, no less -- on the off chance that their child might grow up to be president and require an American-born citizenship.
