Hi<br><br>To what extent is this a real problem? To what extent should us non-Americans consider this sort of thing to be real news, or extreme fringe activity that comes from conspiracy theorists who wear tin foil beanies?<br>
<br><a href="http://www.americasright.com/2008/12/berg-to-file-emergency-injunction-today.html">http://www.americasright.com/2008/12/berg-to-file-emergency-injunction-today.html</a> shows an image of an "open letter to Barack Obama" that claims various things, including the following:<br>
<br>• You have posted on the Internet an unsigned, forged and thoroughly discredited, computer-generated birth form created in 2007, a form that lacks vital information found on any original, hand signed Certificate of Live Birth, such as hospital address, signature of attending physician and age of mother.<br>
• Hawaii Dept of Health will not confirm your assertion that you were born in Hawaii.<br>• Legal affidavits state you were born in Kenya.<br>• Your grandmother is recorded on tape saying she attended your birth in Kenya.<br>
• U.S. Law in effect in 1961 denied U.S. citizenship to any child born in Kenya if the father was Kenyan and the mother was not yet 19 years of age.<br>• In 1965, your mother legally relinquished whatever Kenyan or U.S. citizenship she and you had by marrying an Indonesian and becoming a naturalized Indonesian citizen.<br>
<br>God bless,<br>Stephen<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="margin: 0px 10px; overflow: auto; font-family: sans-serif; width: 100%;"><h2 style="margin: 0.25em 0pt 0pt;"><div><a href="http://blog.catholic-convert.com/?p=2532" target="_blank">Interesting Speculation: Is Obama Constitutionally Qualified to Be
President?</a></div></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">via <a href="http://blog.catholic-convert.com" target="_blank">Steve Ray's Blog</a> by Steve Ray on 12/2/08</div><br>
<p>This has become a topic of discussion. The United States Constitution has guidelines on who can be president. It says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.</span></p>
<p>Apparently, according to some, Obama has been unable or unwilling to prove that he is an American citizen according to the requirements of the Constitution. Some feel this could cause a constitutional crisis. I just post this as an interesting news item. Interesting, hum!</p>
<p>To read about one legal avenue being taken, read <a href="http://www.americasright.com/2008/12/berg-to-file-emergency-injunction-today.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></div>
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