Obama's Eligibility as President in Question

[Nicoleta01]

Obama's Presidental Eligibilty- Evidence Against it Possibly Found​

AP- WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking.

The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama’s legitimacy and qualification to serve as president. When reached for comment in London, where he has been in meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue. Meanwhile, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs scoffed at the report stating that this was obviously another attempt by a right-wing conservative group to discredit the president and undermine the administration’s efforts to move the country in a new direction.

Britain's Daily Mail has also carried the story in a front-page article titled, “Obama Eligibility Questioned”, leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama’s first official visit to the U.K.

In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama’s legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio’s case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship or qualification to serve as president.

This is freaking nuts! How long will people continue to think this mindless gibberish?! Even McCain's election team supports Obama's eligibility. Come on now, it's been over a year, time to give up.

 

[Fig]

HAH! I knew it. How naive must you Americans be to think that this disgrace was an American citizen? And born there?

 

[Big Lutz]

Oh God. You know what it might, and I stress might, have been something to look into in mid 2008. Now. Do you guys want Joe Biden as President? Do you honestly want that idiot as President. That would be what happens if by some fluke Obama were to step down. As bad as Obama is, he looks like Albert Einstein next to Biden. And behind Biden, Nancy Pelosi!

So many of these idiots think "Well we are going to get Obama out of the White House by showing he is a foreign citizen". Yeah, and then look at who you are handing the White House to, and look at who is behind that man!

You want Obama out of the White House, work hard for a Republican Presidential Candidate in 2011 and 2012. But for the love of God do not turn the White House over to Joe Biden.

Edit: For those who are wondering, yes it was a April Fools Joke, from last year.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/occidental.asp

 

[Falconwing]

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You know, if Obama were going to apply for financial aid under an assumed name, he'd have to register with the college under that name...

yeah...

 

[Transfinite]

His real birth certificate has been released.

It's a disgrace that he's still in office after this.

 

[Falconwing]

LOL!

I love how it is written in English.

 

[Fig]

English is one of the official languages of Kenya, everyone knows that.

C'mon, even Wikipedia has it. You'll have to do better than that to defend Barry-the-traitor!

 

[Our Wasted Years]

This man is not a Muslim, he's a Jewish man like me. He follows my teachings very well, he would not betray his country.

 

[Falconwing]

That proves what I've been saying for years. Jesus is not Christian.

 

[Suikun]

Heh, are people still raising a stink over this? Man, so many Drama Llamas these days.

I don't really care either way Politics aren't really my thing. Thanks for the laugh, though.

 

[eyeofchaos]

HAH! I knew it. How naive must you Americans be to think that this disgrace was an American citizen? And born there?

I don't agree with you. Obama has lived here for quite a while. Obama has every right to be President. When he was born in 1961 in Hawaii, Hawaii was a state (albeit for only two years).

And what's wrong with being Muslim? Even though Obama isn't a Muslim, a lot of Kenyans (10 to 20 percent) are. Here's a picture of a Kenyan mosque:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2600111067_8c3457a00b.jpg?v=0

Obama's family has probaby seen mosques like this, but I doubt he has been inside one as a congregant.

According to Wikipedia, Obama is a member of the Luo people from around Lake Victoria in Kenya. Some of the Luo people are Christian; others are Muslim. Obama's family in Kenya might include a few Muslims, since Muslim men can marry Christian women.

 

[ashita]

Not this again....
Just drop it for heavens sake

 

[Lysandre]

Although I do find it suspicious that he has refused to show it, I don't really care. The whole "birthplace" rule is moronic anyway, put into place to keep a secret British spy from getting in and giving power back to the king a few hundred years ago and worthless today. As it is if I had been born a few hundred miles south I could never run for president, and my adopted brother from Guatemala can never try because he lived elsewhere for less than, like, half a year. Yeah, a .5 year old is going to come into the country taught to hate America and, in 40 years, become a better foreign force of destruction internally than anyone who was born here and moved elsewhere for the rest of lives did. Seriously, do you realize that someone who came to America the day after their birth can't be president, but someone who leaves the country from day one and returns from any random country the day before he's suggested as a candidate, legally, can!? With all the anti-discrimination laws we have you think SOMEBODY would have realized how idiotic this rule is and pulled it by now, but we're too busy arguing over how to destroy antique cars and pump the most money into internally screwed up companies that just use it for bonuses of their CEOs anyway >_>

 

[RavenKingSage]

Like the Satanism thread, I'm going to pretend this is an April Fools joke.

If not, then would these idiots PLEASE fucking drop the whole eligibility thing. Ugh.

 

[Falconwing]

Although I do find it suspicious that he has refused to show it, I don't really care.

This is his private life. His history. He doesn't have to share it with anybody.

Though I do have a picture of the guy in school in Hawaii because my uncle went to school with him.

 

[Lysandre]

This is his private life. His history. He doesn't have to share it with anybody.

Though I do have a picture of the guy in school in Hawaii because my uncle went to school with him.

That's... what I'm saying. In response to the question at hand, I do not think that he necessarily WAS born in America, and that it doesn't even matter if he wasn't as we should get rid of the rule altogether.

 

[SSJ_Jup81]

He was born in a US state, albeit a newer one at the time (Hawaii), so I don't get why people won't drop this topic altogether. I mean, John McCain was born out in Panama Canal territory (iirc), and no one seemed to question that.

 

[7487857]

I don't agree with you. Obama has lived here for quite a while. Obama has every right to be President. When he was born in 1961 in Hawaii, Hawaii was a state (albeit for only two years).

And what's wrong with being Muslim? Even though Obama isn't a Muslim, a lot of Kenyans (10 to 20 percent) are. Here's a picture of a Kenyan mosque:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2600111067_8c3457a00b.jpg?v=0

Obama's family has probaby seen mosques like this, but I doubt he has been inside one as a congregant.

According to Wikipedia, Obama is a member of the Luo people from around Lake Victoria in Kenya. Some of the Luo people are Christian; others are Muslim. Obama's family in Kenya might include a few Muslims, since Muslim men can marry Christian women.

Um, I think he was being sarcastic. Chillax.

 

[Transfinite]

Although I do find it suspicious that he has refused to show it, I don't really care.

He hasn't refused to show anything. He released it during his presidential campaign.

And face it, folks. People are only questioning his birthplace because he's not white. If he was a white man, this would not be happening. Though, even if he were born in another country (which he wasn't), he'd still have been born a US citizen because his mother was one.

Jesus fucking Christ, why aren't these same people throwing fits about John McCain being born in Panama? OH YEAH -- BECAUSE HE'S WHITE.

 

[Big Lutz]

And face it, folks. People are only questioning his birthplace because he's not white. If he was a white man, this would not be happening. Though, even if he were born in another country (which he wasn't), he'd still have been born a US citizen because his mother was one.

Jesus fucking Christ, why aren't these same people throwing fits about John McCain being born in Panama? OH YEAH -- BECAUSE HE'S WHITE.

Could it also be because John McCain also didn't win? You can jump to the racist element, and there might be for few, but these nut jobs are not going after Obama just because of his birthplace, they also believe he renounced his citizenship when he was taken to another country to live as a child. Much of this started during the bruising Hillary Campaign, where people who did not want to back Obama was looking for a way to discount Obama and it spread there, thus there was no reason for many of them to attack McCain. Now I am not discounting that some of these people are racist, but it is ignorant to jump straight to racism as a motive.