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A Footnote in History
08/26/2009
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It came up during the 2008 presidential campaign and even before that. It's one of those questions that has not been answered to everyone's satisfaction. It remains unresolved.

It is the presidential eligibility of Barack Obama.

It keeps coming up. Joseph Farah, a nationally syndicated columnist, is among those unsatisfied people who still seek answers as to the birth of President Obama. To be eligible to be president a person must have been born in the United States.

Where was Obama born? According to Farah, Obama produced a birth certificate that indicates he was born in Honolulu but it was an unsigned document that provided no information about the hospital in which he was born and the doctor who supervised his birth.

That birth certificate was provided to a few select news organizations and to an outfit called Fact Check.org, which was associated with a former Obama employer, the Annenberg Foundation, according to Farah.

No investigation was conducted on Obama's birth by the U.S. Senate or any other official government agency. Why not?

Obama was declared eligible by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was chairwoman of the Democratic National. But she was not acting in her official capacity but as a party official.

John McCain was not born in the United States. He was born in Panama. His parents were U.S. citizens. McCain submitted all required paperwork to U.S. Senate investigators and was certified as eligible by the U.S. Senate.

Obama wasn't asked for proof of his birthplace by any of the states, nor by the Federal Elections Commission. Congress and the Supreme Court did not seek any proof.

Farah says Obama is stonewalling on giving Americans proof of where he was born. He added that the certificate he has shown is one "subject to fraud." The state of Hawaii reforms to confirm that the birth certificate provided is of official issuance.

Americans who question Obama's eligibility to be president are ridiculed, mocked, jeered, treated with contempt by Obama supporters, Farah wrote.

Perhaps a paragraph or two will be devoted to their issue in future American history books. We may never know where he was born and whether he was eligible to be president.

The doubts will never go away!


©Washington Missouri 2009

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Added: Saturday August 29, 2009 at 05:51 PM EST
Do you believe the earth is flat too?
You know you can find someone that tries to refute almost any fact that we know to be true but this is a bit ridiculous and smacks of pandering to an extreme right group to sell a few papers.
It took less than a minute to find this documet:
http://healthuser.hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2008/08-93.pdf
which is a statement from the state of Hawaii on the subject. They certify that the document you have all seen as Obama's birth certificate is identical to the original document they have on record. End of Story.....
Perhaps now you can move on to identifying that man on the grassy knoll in Dallas.

Unapologetic Democrat, Washington
Added: Friday August 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM EST
A New Low
I have always viewed Mr. Miller Sr. and Ed Pruneau as reasonably intelligent men who simply use the Missourian to express their personal political views. The appearance of this article dispels this explanation. You must draw a line someplace and the Missourian has crossed this line. This issue has been successfully refuted time and time again. This is more than an editorial it is a slanderous attack on the President of the United States. Gentlemen, the election is over and your team lost. Get over it!!
namvet, Union, MO
Added: Friday August 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM EST
Ridiculous
If you're wondering why your circulation is down, it's because of editorials like this. I let my subscription lapse recently, because far too often commentary like this made it into the paper.

Here is something else, Mr. Farah recently said: "[I]t is entirely within the realm of possibility that Madelyn Dunham was his [Obama's] mother..." (rather than his grandmother). Mr Farah seems to have lost his mind. Source: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-obamas-grandmother-was-really-his-mother

Way to go Missourian - picking up on this man's "questions" and promoting them even further.
Clyde Voelkerding, Washington, MO
Added: Friday August 28, 2009 at 05:45 AM EST
I would expect a comment like this from some of your disgruntled readers, but not from the editors. All you have done is to further perpetuate the falsehood.
Tony, St Louis, MO
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