Obama could have been born in China … or on Jupiter for all I care. It still wouldn’t get me to vote for McCain.

I wrote this last night and am sending it to several news sources. You’re some
of them….

I know there is a lot of ridiculous stuff floating around out there surrounding
Obama’s birth certificate. Because of the ridiculous nature of a lot of it,
everyone is just assuming it’s all garbage. Most of it is. But the stench
coming from most of it, valid or not, is a result of a garbage heap that is very
real as it relates to the topic. The fact is, the Obama campaign has skirted
this issue very quietly for months now. “You’re a loon Hank, let it go.”
Seriously, I’m not one of those crazies. Please, spend a few minutes, expel
your knee jerk reactions, and consider a few facts…

Einstein said, “Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18″.
With that in mind, and the prospect that this might actually be a HUGE story,
I’d ask you to consider that what I’ve written (below), is in fact possible –
and based on varying facts, may even be probable. And if this is true, which
again, read and decide for yourself….it will decidely reflect the greatest
fraud ever perpetrated on or against the American people and political process.
It’s kind of big news. If warranted, please help me “break” it.

Take just 4-5 minutes to read and consider….

Thank you.

P.S. “Hank Rand” is a pen name. As this is potentially a crushing story, I
have chosen to protect my identity. I am a 31 year old sales professional in
Cleveland, Ohio – and will discuss this furter without anonymity, providing it
gets some real credence. Thanks.

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Right-wing, conspiracy-theorist nut jobs!!

I don’t wear tin foil hats. I really don’t care about the font, or the word
“AFRICAN” instead of the widely-used word of “NEGRO” or “BLACK” in 1961. The
borders make absolutely no difference, to me. If you peel back the layers, and
claim to find the word “Adobe” embedded in the electronic document – this means
nothing to me. Frankly, I don’t even know what a “halo” around a word is. The
mystery surrounding Barack Obama’s “Certificate of Live Birth”, is in fact no
mystery at all. The document is authentic, and this cannot be disputed.

But I firmly believe Senator Obama is hiding something, and I urge you to take a
few minutes to consider the facts and decide for yourself if you agree…

After several unrequited requests, the Obama campaign did finally present a
document which they claimed validated his eligibility (per the Constitution of
the Unted States, Article II, Section I) as a “Natural born citizen” to have his
name on the ballot in contention for the office of the President of the United
States of America.

However, contrary to what most onlookers have concurred, what the Obama campaign
supplied was not, in fact, a “birth certificate”. What they supplied was
actually a “Certificate of Live Birth.” There is a major difference between a
“birth certificate” and a “Certificate of Live Birth.” Aside from the level of
detail differentiating the documents (hospital of record, doctor, height,
weight, etc) – in the state of Hawaii, one authenticates natural born
citizenship, and the other doesn’t. This part is important, and again – it has
nothing to do with tin foil hats. Per the State of Hawaii’s Department of
Health, “Amended certificates of birth may be prepared and filed with the
Department of Health, as provided by law, for 1) a person born in Hawaii who
already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health or 2) a
person born in a foreign country.” (For citation purposes, please feel free to
visit their site:
http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/vital-records/index.html ).

Why is this important? The “Certificate of Live Birth” provided by Obama, is in
fact, a derivative of the “Amended certificates of birth” they cite. Why is
that important? Because per the second clause in the above citation, while you
may earn citizenship via such a document, you do not necessarily earn “natural
born” citizenship. “Natural born citizenship” is what is required to be
eligible to be considered for the Presidency, per the United States
Constitution.

So where does this leave us? Well for starters, it leaves many of us….some in
tin foil hats, some not….wondering why the Obama campaign did not supply the
definitive, actual, long-form birth certificate. Contentions are, because one
such authentic certificate does not exist.

“That’s a pretty distant plea, from the far right, wouldn’t you say? I mean he
couldn’t have gotten this far without being properly vetted, right?” That is
the assumption that most people are making. “This isn’t possible. You’re out
of your mind. Get off the internet.” People have made the assumption, but
that’s all they’ve made….the assumption. Fact: Senator Barack Obama is yet to
provide an actual birth certificate to any governing or other body, validating
his eligibility, per the United States Constitution, to have his name on the
ballot as the next, prospective President of the United States of America.

When the Obama campaign, after several unrequited requests, did finally submit
the “Certificate of Live Birth”, in an effort to more formally properly vet and
lend credence to the Senator’s run for the Presidency – which governing body did
they submit it to? Was it to the Board of Elections? No, not there. Was it to
the Federal Elections Commission? No, not there either. Well then it must have
been to the Democratic National Committee, right? Wrong again. The Obama
campaign chose as their advocate-for-legitimacy, none other than
http://www.factcheck.org . Yes, a non-governing, unofficial website. Adding further
mystification and fuel to the “conspiracy whack job” fire….like it or not,
http://www.factcheck.org is a product and entity of the Annenberg Foundation; the very
foundation that coupled Barack Obama with Bill Ayers, and Senator Obama worked
so vigorously to denounce.

“Hey, come on. Now you’re just getting too far fetched.” Facts are facts.
However, let’s get away from the fact that the sole body the Obama campaign
relied on to provide legitimacy to his “Certificate of Live Birth” was birthed
itself, from the very Foundation that partnered Senator Obama with Bill Ayers.
There is still yet another legitimate question, barring that fact: Why a
website?….

Why not the Board of Elections? Why not the Federal Election Commission? Why
not the Democratic National Committee? It may very well be because they likely
chose not to draw undue attention to “proof” that they ultimately knew was
accompanied by zero actual credibility. By handing a “Certificate of Live Birth”
over to a true governing body as “proof”, the burden is then on that governing
body to put their own credibility on the line and provide advocacy for that
proof. Rather, however, given the illegitimacy of a “Certificate of Live Birth”
as being proof of anything at all regarding natural born citizenship, they would
have been forced to effectively say, “This means nothing. And now that you’ve
brought it our attention, and asked for us to put our name on the line as
complicit in validating your ‘natural born citizenship’, we’re going to need the
actual birth certificate. And if you can’t provide it, apologetically, we
absolutely can’t cite what you’ve given us as validation.” So what did they do?
They sent it to http://www.factcheck.org, knowing full well it would be embraced and
credited by the allegedly non-partisan website.

And who stepped up after that and asked questions? No one. Wait, that’s
wrong….the “nut job, tin foil-hat-wearing right wing conspiracy theorists”
did.

In August, “nut job, tin foil-hat-wearing right wing conspiracy theorist”,
lifetime Democrat, former US Deputy Attorney General for the State of
Pennyslvania, Philip Berg, challenged Barack Obama in court – seeking to
ultimately compel him to produce an actual birth certificate. After months of
fighting this, and months of expending time, money and resources by the Obama
campaign – the case was ultimately thrown out. “Well if the case was thrown
out, it must mean it was baseless.” Wrong again. The case was thrown out, not
unlike the one against Ohio’s SOS, Jennifer Brunner, due to the standing of the
party that brought the case, to do so. There was no decision on merit. There
was no ruling. There was only the citation that a citizen could not bring the
charge. But still, the question remained, why did the Obama campaign, or
rather, Barack Obama himself – who the case was brought against, not quell the
charge entirely by simply producing an actual, authentic, long-form birth
certificate….thereby validating his eligibility to be complicit with the
United States Constitution, Section II, Article I, prove his natural born
citizenship, and march comfortably through the rest of a fair, tested, and
properly vetted election process? This time, I have no answer. Do you? Does
he? Many of us are waiting.

He had plenty of time to manufacture and execute and incredible campaign.
Outspending his opponent by estimates of up to 5 to 1, he certainly had
resources. He did find time, amidst this very quiet and clearly extraordinarily
tricky trial that the media mostly would not touch, due to the “nut job” nature
of the theories – to go to the state in question, Hawaii, to visit his
grandmother. When did he have time to make this trip? Not only at the tail end
of the election, but coincidentally – at the tail end of the trial questioning
his natural born citizenship, in fact only a few days after he and his attorneys
watched the clock expire on the court-recognized demand by the Plaintiff to
produce the document. And what came of that trip? Well, “granny” is doing
fine….but interestingly enough, immediately after his one day trip in which he
had time to meet with her, the Governor of Hawaii sealed off all access to all
documentation pertaining to the matter. But alas, no time or resources to
actually hand a piece of paper over to the courts, the Board of Elections, the
Federal Elections Commission or even the Democratic National Committee.

“Well Hank, that law in the Constitution is pretty minor compared to what Barack
Obama will do for us as President.” That’s very, very questionable – to anyone
who truly understands the nature of capitalism and/or national security.
Actually, that’s an unfair statement. I would say, in the opinions of many,
many Americans – that’s very questionable to those who believe they, or Senator
Obama’s opponent, better understand the nature of capitalism and/or national
security, than does Senator Obama. So let’s not ignore the Constitution
entirely, just because potentially a little more than half of the voters believe
he’s the man for the job. Afterall, I may very well be considered able-minded
to more responsibly and effectively spend $100,000.00 better than a bank or it’s
customers….but this doesn’t give me the authority to go in and steal it.

Obama has not yet properly disclosed the one document that would remove all
doubt, and properly vet him for the position he has pursued, by way of the trust
of the American people and the hundreds of millions of dollars of contributions
they have handed over to him, and his effort. He simply, has not yet done this.

He has given a less credible document to a website enabled and hosted by a
foundation Barack Obama worked under, to provide advocacy on the issue. But
that document authenticates the claim the same way hearsay ineffectively would
support a defendant’s testimony. It is still, one removed from the actual
truth. No. In fact it’s even less credible than that. The fact is, the
contention of Philip Berg is that Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya, per a
hospital record that allegedly exists there for Barack Hussein Obama II, as well
as his paternal grandmothers proud citations of having been in the delivery room
in Kenya when he was born. The document Senator Obama provided the website, per
the Hawaii Department of Health, could be attained by someone who was not born
in the United States. It’s effectively moot. This is the Presidency of the
United States of America. This is a matter of upholding a basic fundamental of
the United States Constitution. These are bases of signficant stature. I have
seen many people get many passes, but this simply cannot be one of them.
Whatever may or may not be done in the next 4-8 years, is entirely insignificant
relative to what will happen to our process, and the indiscretion “We the
people” allow to occur by affording someone the ability to cheat the American
people on his way to the most powerful position on the entire planet.

He may not have known Bill Ayers was an unrepentent domestic terrorist when he
sat in his living room and arguably launched his political career. He may have
been 8 years old when Ayers committed these acts, but at 40 years old….he may
not have heard him repeatedly declare that he was not remorseful for his
terrorist behavior. It may have been coincidental that Ayers and Obama both
gave interviews within a week of each other in September of 2001, where they
each discussed the importance of the redistribution of wealth. He might really
have slept through 20 years of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, never once hearing the
race-filled propoganda and anti-American sentiments we all eventually caught
wind of. Perhaps it slipped his mind when he claimed to have no ties to ACORN,
that he led training sessions for them….or contributed over $800,000.00 to
their umbrella for the 2008 election season. Maybe that’s all true.

What part of “natural born citizenship” escaped him though? This one, I have to
hear. And if it’s an illegitimate question, then I would plead with Senator
Obama to retain all the money he’s expending fighting the multiple cases that
have popped up across the country, once and for all provide proof of his natural
born citizenship by way of an actual birth certificate, and….I don’t know,
maybe give what he would have spent on the trials to the middle class he is so
concerned about – while salvaging the integrity of the most important process we
have, in the nation he loves so much.

H. Rand
Cleveland, Ohio